This is a plea to all those who would consider themselves Social Media Optimisers, Linkbaiters and Copywriters and perhaps maybe even those who consider themselves SEOs.
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Paid Links debate
September 8, 2007 — Tim NashIs selling Links a crime, Google you decide!
Just a quick post pointing you to two posts the first is a Guest Post I did for SEO Cog on paid Links and the second a Payment blogger post on the same subject.
Both are heated and on the side of Paid Links, I hope they are not rants and that they get the message across. One more thing before clicking the payment blogger link please place your coffee cup down, I am not responsible for damages to your computers caused by my posts 
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Are you really an SEO?
August 23, 2007 — Tim NashSorry for the long delay I’ve not been away and have been blogging elsewhere but have gone through a period where I feel I have had nothing to say about SEO or Drupal. Part of the problem with being one in a crowd is that you need to scream to be heard unfortunately everyone else knows this as well.
Recently I decided to take a break from blogging on Venture Skills blog, not a long one just some time to refocus, while I was away I read large quantity of blog posts and discussions on SEO and I slowly dawned on me that most SEO’s are fakes. Read the rest of this entry »
User agents and referrers – who are you any way?
July 16, 2007 — Tim NashWe rely on knowing who is coming to our site and how they got their our conversion goals are set by this and sometimes our authentication systems rely on them but what are these concepts and how can we abuse use them.
User Agents
A user agent is the client application used with a particular network protocol; the phrase is most commonly used in reference to those which access the World Wide Web. Web user agents range from web browsers to search engine crawlers (”spiders”), as well as mobile phones, screen readers and braille browsers used by people with disabilities. When Internet users visit a web site, a text string is generally sent to identify the user agent to the server. This forms part of the HTTP request, prefixed with User-agent: or User-Agent: and typically includes information such as the application name, version, host operating system, and language. Bots, such as web crawlers, often also include a URL and/or e-mail address so that the webmaster can contact the operator of the bot.
Mini Sites or Large Sites?
July 10, 2007 — Tim NashWe got a question from a concerned reader…
I have a question for you is it better to develop 1 large site or several smaller ones?
I’m preparing to develop a new ecommerce site with nearly 500 products should I create several sites?
Cloaking is ok says Google
July 6, 2007 — Tim NashA recent Google Webmaster blog post finally put the last nail into the coffin with regards to content substitution or to give it the demonic blackhat term Cloaking…
A technique like sIFR still lets non-Flash readers read a page, since the content/navigation is actually in the HTML — it’s just displayed by an embedded Flash object.
Source:http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/07/best-uses-of-flash.html
So its ok for us to write text and then substitute that text with a flash or image file, now to be fair most SEO I think have been doing this with CSS image substitution for some time, but this is the first time that I have seen Google come out and say that its ok to use these techniques.
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Got a question?
June 10, 2007 — Tim Nash
Do you have a question, perhaps you been trawling the forums, and your question has gone unanswered, maybe your not sure how to word your question or your afraid you would be laughed at?
We want to help and will be running a weekly column where we will try to get you the answer, and if we don’t know the answer we will try and find it for you. So what sorts of questions can or will we answer?
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