Blog Index > Posts made during 06/2010

Google Webmaster Backlinks Updated

30 June 2010

Just looking in google webmaster tools for some SEO clients and noticed that they are now showing thousands of pages on my site as links back to their site. The urls are all invalid blog ones: eg http://www.mykeblack.com/blog/index8f62. Read more…

Categories: Google Services

PCI DSS Compliency for hosted payment pages

28 June 2010

I've been dealing with one of our clients today who received a communication from securitymetrics  which told him that he needed to sign up for their services in order for his ecom site to be complient with PCI DSS . Read more…

Categories: Internet Law

SEO advice for www.polyannadesigns.co.uk

24 June 2010

I had an enquiry through this website yesterday from a nice lady who runs www.polyannadesigns.co.uk . She wanted to know how much SEO for her site would cost and if there is anything she can do to improve traffic and sales. Read more…

Categories: Website Updates

Return of the Google Background Image

18 June 2010

I thought we'd seen the last of the background image after the last debarcle last week when many people found it impossible to remove the google background image . However, the link is back on the search page again. Read more…

Categories: Google Services

Another SEO Spammer from India

17 June 2010

Got another spam mail from a bogus SEO company today: You have received an enquiry from the MykeBlack.com website. Read more…

Categories: General

Targeted banner campaigns

15 June 2010

I just read an interesting article on the PC PRO website which reports the findings of a study on online marketing that shows that having targeted banner campaigns leads to a lower conversion rate than non targeted banners. Read more…

Categories: General

Twitter is over capacity

14 June 2010

I have a twitter account that I rarely use, but in the last week, I've had two occasions to use twitter (for work related tasks). On both occasions, I logged in to be presented with a cartoon whale with 'twitter is over capacity'. Read more…

Categories: General

Google Pulls Background Image after 14 hours

11 June 2010

Following yesterday's debarcle with the background image on the google search home page, Google pulled the feature off the site after only 14 hours . Read more…

Categories: Google Services

How to remove Google background image

10 June 2010

I went to my usual homepage this morning - google.co.uk and noticed that there was a garish background image. Apparently, google have decided that everyone needs a background image to their search page . Read more…

Categories: General

June 2010 PR update

09 June 2010

Google has updated the page ranks displayed in the google toolbar recently. Many webmasters have reported a drop in PR, with some sites dropping back down to 0. Read more…

Categories: General
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