vbulletin SEO

When it comes to SEO for vbulletin, there are a few simple approaches you can take that most vb admins simply do not understand:
1. Duplicate content
I’ve already listed some of the serious duplicate content problems that vbulletin has, and how to address them.
However, despite being given a SEO perspective, some vb admins think they are […]

How to make money online

Someone in one of my forums asked how they could legitimately and profitably make money online.
I answered: Seeking a solid scam free/completely LEGITIMATE way to make lots of $$$ on the NET.
I didn’t even begin to address advertising revenues and income from internet and webdevelopment skills, because I’m presuming this is still too much for […]

Aged domains vs branding new ones

One of the big mistakes I’ve made recently is to take some older domains and try to launch new content on them for news portals.
Even though the domains are like 3+ years old, they haven’t had much of a search history on Google. The result is that they are effectively being treated the same as […]

Windows XP - anyone seeing weird behaviour past few days?

Anyone else had any problems the past few days with Windows XP programs?
McAfee crashed a couple of days ago on an update, and after the PC restarted McAfee wouldn’t load up.
I contacted McAfee, where a technician told me it was a known conflict with Zonealarm.
I unstalled Zonealarm, uninstalled/reinstalled McAfee and it worked fine again.
However, WS_FTP […]

Need links? Follow the breadcrumbs

I posted before that I was going to follow the breadcrumbs another SEO had left for searching for cheap links in a certain sector.
However, something I’ve always done when pushed is to follow the breadcrumbs for links left around from SEO activity.
For example:
1. Following advertisers
If you see a site selling links in your vertical, do […]

Using SEO to fight scams

I had someone turn up at Platinax, warm themselves up to members - and then invite others to be “mentored” by him - by paying $1k to join what appears by all accounts to be a pyramid scheme.
The scheme is entirely based on reselling rights to resell rights for a bunch of junk ebooks and/or […]

Would be nice if you could select UK sources in Google News UK

On Google.co.uk search, you can opt for “Web” or “UK” only results.
Wouldn’t be nice if you could do the same on Google.co.uk’s News section?
That way, if I’m searching the news by keyword - ie, “Ford” - I would be more likely to find something about Ford cars and the UK car industry relating to “Ford” […]

Getting free tips from a SEO dumbass

Some dumbass from a big name SEO company just emailed my contact address at one of my sites. He’s looking to build links to targeted pages for websites owned by one of the UK’s biggest banks.
Sure, I don’t mind a link purchase approach - but I don’t expect fucking pennies for links on an aged […]

Invest in site inventory for future use

One of the great things about having clients is that they provide a financial platform you can use to reinvest in different areas.
That means building and promoting sites in your target vertical - but also reinvesting some of the cash into building and promoting sites into other verticals you may want to get involved with […]

How to make a Call To Action work better

The number of links a user has to click between visiting a site and fulfilling an action can have a serious impact on conversions.
I don’t have any live stats on this, though I expect the PPC stats trackers are keenly aware of this.
The difference is that it’s all too easily overlooked in SEO.
For example, when […]

Link building and link profile building tips for Google

Okay, I know I don’t have many blog readers, and I don’t usually throw too many tips out, so here’s a little treat on which links work at present and link profiling:
Different types of links
1. Sitewides
Google appears to naturally distrust sitewides, so these work best if the target site has a lot of trust already. […]

Quality indicators for Google SEO

I’m looking to push some of my own sites more seriously, in terms of adding value and raising traffic.
Here’s some of the potential quality indicators that can be used for Google rankings:
1. Unique IP
2. SSL cert
3. Privacy policy
4. Full contact details - email, postal, & phone
5. 10 year domain registration
6. robots.txt
7. W3C validation
It’s fair to […]

BBC shows live torture pics - not

Another heads-up on the dangers of too adventurous automation…
The BBC have a page showing the most popular news stories for Scotland in the week.
Unfortunately the automation process of assigning pics to stories seems a little screwy - the story on the payrise for nurses simply has a pic of an empty road.
Meanwhile, a picture of […]

The Dangers of Romantic Candles

I wanted to make the bedroom romantic, so over the past couple of months I’ve developed a collection of dozens of scented candles.
They’re spread about the bedroom furniture and laminate floor, and when all alight the room is very romantic.
Last night my trousers were thrown off in a moment of passion - then moments later […]

Ouch! Delisted from SEOmoz!

[EDIT: It was only temporay, due to the changes being implemented, such as the introduction of YouMoz and similar. Either way, no offence or disrespect intended by Rand, and he’s been happy to ensure Britecorp were back on the SEOmoz recommended list. :) ]
Rand previously had my company Britecorp on his list of recommended SEO’s.
After […]

Adding value for monetising websites

Today I got to thinking a lot more seriously about revenue generation options for monetising websites.
Although I’ve pretty much doubled my Adsense earnings over the past month, it’s still not a huge amount.
And today it really hit me how meagre the revenues are relative to other earning options.
The main reason I have websites is to […]

Think about Link Equity and Content Value

Link Equity
SEO’s used to talk a lot about preserving PageRank - I used to think of PageRank as like water, and building a good site archtecture was about funneling this into the right sections of the site in the right manner.
PageRank as a useful SEO term is pretty much redundant, but Aaron Wall now speaks […]

Secret hideout found on property website

So while having lunch I decided to idle time surfing a few property websites.
Found myself looking at Irish property for comparative research, when I happened to note an interesting location on one of the pages:

Someone should inform the Garda about this? ;)
More seriously, though, there are some nasty little formatting errors on the page […]

Losing out by not using PPC?

The backbone of my business is SEO, but I’ve come to realise that I am completely missing out by not having embraced PPC.
For example, I started my first real affiliate program recently. I can sit and wait for leads via SEO. Or I can push traffic in via PPC and generate instant revenues, and tweak […]

Someone’s using my brands - time to look into Trademarks

I just tried to sign up with Google Talk in order to chat with Aaron Wall via IM.
A username is required, so my first attempt was for iBrian. Sorry, not available.
Okay, no big deal. It was popular enough to see the .com registered.
So I tried platinax. Sorry, not available. Huh? Platinax is my own unique […]