How To Insult Your Customers In Just 2 Emails
I had a really frustrating experience with an online store during the run-up to Christmas while buying a gift for my better half. I usually try to stick to sites I’m used to (Play.com, Amazon, etc.)...
View ArticleSEOs on Last.fm
“Your musical compatibility is Optimised” If you’re obsessed with music as much as you’re obsessed with the SEO industry then hopefully you’ll like this post… For those unfamiliar with Last.fm, it’s a...
View ArticleThe Ever-growing List of Inbound.org Ask Me Anything (AMA) Threads
On January 16th 2013, Ed Fry announced that Inbound.org would be introducing Ask Me Anything (AMA) threads, starting with the mighty Rand Fishkin, one of the founders of the site. As I type this,...
View ArticleConfusing Google: A rel=”author” Case Study
This post is mainly about what happens when you implement rel=”author” twice on a webpage and the confusion and potential mistrust it carries in Google’s eyes. However it also covers the following...
View ArticleThe rel=”author” SERP Challenge
Update: Someone’s found a SERP with 10 in it. Scroll down to learn more! The other day I was doing a vanity rankings check to see if my recent rel=”author” case study post was ranking for anything. I...
View ArticleHow To Remove Slanderous Google Reviews – A Case Study
Earlier this week, I had to deal with a slanderous review left on my parents’ company’s Google Places (a.k.a. Google+ Local) page. When researching how best to get it deleted, I came across a mishmash...
View Article#SMsceptic: Etiquette Tips For Gentler (Yet More Effective) Twitter Outreach
It’s been a little while since I wrote an #SMsceptic post (i.e. moans about social media), but following a recent first-hand experience and various conversations with colleagues/industry peers/fellow...
View ArticleSEOno News & GB Posts: Part 5
News A fair bit’s happened recently: I’ve joined Cardiff Blogs‘ admin team. Even though I’ve had little involvement with the organsation of the March event (due to illness), I will be involved with...
View ArticleRorschach’s SEO Journal
Given that I work in SEO and that Watchmen is one of my favourite films of all time, I’ve had this idea on the back burner for a while. I have just one request of you though, dear reader/fellow...
View ArticleIntroducing… Whose Line 365
I’ve been busy! I’ve just launched a pet project called Whose Line 365: a blog 365 project where I’ll be sharing a clip of Whose Line Is It Anyway? (both the UK and US versions) each and every day. It...
View ArticleGetting Your Face In Google: My Cardiff Internet Talk
A week ago (on 16th April) I gave a talk at Cardiff Internet, a local monthly internet marketing event aimed at small business owners. My talk was all about rel=”author” implementation and its...
View ArticleWhat’s The WORST Link You’ve Ever Seen? SEOs Share Their Stories!
The mighty Jon Cooper of Point Blank SEO fame recently published a sequel to his Creative Link Building post, the latter/original becoming the most popular article ever to be shared on Inbound.org to...
View ArticleTaking the Plunge: Going Full-time Freelance
Just a quick bit of news… For over two years, ever since leaving Confused.com in 2011, I’ve considered going self-employed as a full-time SEO freelancer. However, the timing never quite seemed right....
View ArticleMy First Ever Online Marketing Campaign (Was An Absolute Failure)
I recently got into a bit of an… umm… ‘altercation’ with a South Wales-based business (who shall remain nameless) via Twitter. They followed me and then sent me multiple copied and pasted @mentions...
View ArticleA Blog 365 Project – 50 Days On
In early April I started a blog 365 project: Whose Line 365, a blog dedicated to sharing a Whose Line Is It Anyway? clip from YouTube every day for a year. As it’s just hit its 50th post, I wanted to...
View ArticleHow I (Briefly) Became An Internet Meme…
A short, lighthearted post while I continue the transition from employment to self-employment… Earlier this week I shared one of a number of professional headshots I’d had done, taken by the wonderful...
View ArticleR.I.P. Whose Line 365 – Only 70 Days Young
In the last 2-3 months I’ve written two blogs posts (this one and this one) dedicated to a recent pet project of mine: a blog 365 project I started back in April called Whose Line 365, sharing YouTube...
View ArticleDear Alan Weiss: You’re Wrong About Social Media!
While holidaying in Spain I read two business books, recommended by @mackfogelson of Mack Web Solutions and @lstigerts of Marketing Gal during a recent #maximpact webinar: The Pumpkin Plan and Million...
View ArticleIntroducing… Morgan Online Marketing
Ladies and gents… It gives me great pleasure to announce the launch of my brand new website: Morgan Online Marketing! A few months ago I went self-employed, and although I have a Hire Me! page on this...
View ArticleInterview with Rand Fishkin about the Moz Rebrand
Around this time last year, I interviewed Rand Fishkin (@randfish) – CEO/founder of Moz – about Inbound.org (which you can read here). I’m delighted to have been granted the opportunity to interview...
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