http://www.seoidiot.co.uk SEO Consultant - SEOidiots SEO Blackhat Blog Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:41:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This September I am speaking at the wonderful Thinkvisibility conference on the topic of "What would a spammer do?" Dom set the topic and chose to ask me when I was drunk (Unfair in my opinion) I have some ideas about what I would like to talk about but wanted to ... http://www.seoidiot.co.uk/what-would-a-spammer-do/ After having a discussion with Matt Davies and others on Twitter today it became clear that many SEO's are now getting increasingly frustrated by the way large brands can buy links without care whereas smaller brands get toasted. The sad truth is that if you are a large brand you can ... http://www.seoidiot.co.uk/paid-links-who-is-safe/ Someone was asking my advice today on how they could get around a problem. They said that they had an automated system where all they had to do to deploy a site was FTP up a few files and folders to each host they used. However the system they designed required them ... http://www.seoidiot.co.uk/projected-cron-jobs/ This post is going to be pretty unusual for me and may well annoy many people but its a lazy Sunday morning and following a few conversations I have had this week I thought I would explain the theory behind building a scalable and distributed link network. Sound useful? OK well ... http://www.seoidiot.co.uk/building-a-distributed-link-network/ Someone asked me today at a client whether they could allow their sales and marketing people to watch the web stats in real time as they sent out their latest email broadcast. So what we set up was a nice big plasma screen in the meeting room, a buffet lunch and ... http://www.seoidiot.co.uk/real-time-web-stats/ Well its been a mental few months over here. So much so that against my better judgement we may be looking at hiring someone. Working with us on a part time or possibly full time basis you will need: - Some SEO experience (Real SEO please not cut and paste agency stuff) ... http://www.seoidiot.co.uk/job-opening/ I am more than excited to say that I will be speaking once again on my favourite topic of automation, this time at SES New York. As a thankyou to people who attended "Automating Twitter' in London and who will attend in New York we will be releasing a free tool ... http://www.seoidiot.co.uk/automating-twitter/ As many will know I tend to try and outsource most of the business and many of the personal tasks I have to do each day. It allows you to build a system that will scale and in a time limited business like consultancy thats the path to real profit. So ... http://www.seoidiot.co.uk/10-tips-on-using-odesk-to-outsource-your-life/ I have had a lot of people asking me questions about my Adsense flat since I posted the pictures a while back. It should go on the market at around £90,000 in a few weeks so we are just getting it ready for sale. New carpets due in, hall to be decorated ... http://www.seoidiot.co.uk/clearing-your-mortgage-with-adsense/ Just wanted to let everyone know that I will be speaking at SES London this year. I am on a panel entitled 'Automating Twitter' with Fantomaster, Pierre, Tracy Falke and Moderated by Cindy Krum. Looking forward to it! Related posts:Automating Twitter Make Goals not predictions in 2010 SES London 2009 http://www.seoidiot.co.uk/ses-london-2010-automating-twitter/