Google Consultant – Should this job title be allowed?

Aug 27

One thing that I keep seeing more and more of are industry professionals associating themselves (wrongly) with Google. Whether this is in the form of calling themselves Google consultants, representatives or even going as far as claiming they have “special relationships” with someone who works at Google! It looks like a pretty good way to deceive people into...

Read More

Watch Out For Google Re-Sell!

Apr 26

Here’s a quick post which i felt was nessecary. The post relates to a company called Google-Resell and an expose published on the Mirror website this week. I’ve taken the liberty of highlighting the important bits below: If a sales rep from an outfit called Google Re-sell calls and offers to improve your website’s Google traffic, you’d be...

Read More

How Clever is Google?

Apr 23

Here’s a post i dropped at Seoers.org on the subject of how clever Google really is. If you believe some people they see all, know all. If you believe others they don’t know diddly squat about most things. When you look at the SERPs you can certainly see why as there are plenty of examples where spam sites are kicking arse. The reason I asked this question...

Read More

Google versus the UK Music Industry?

Mar 12

If any of you listen to music on YouTube then you may have noticed a reoccurring problem in the last few days. YouTube were forced to remove all music videos from the view of UK audiences by yesterday, in compliance with PRS (Performing Rights Society) requirements. YouTube have been unable to come to an arrangement with PRS, who collect royalties on behalf of UK...

Read More

Music on YouTube, the Joy of Playlists and the Death of Music Ownership

Feb 17

For a while now I’ve been spending a lot of time using YouTube to find music that I don’t own, or even tracks that I just can’t find anywhere else! In fact, for a while now most of the music I play is coming straight from an on-line source; whether this be YouTube, MySpace, Last.fm, Beatport, FaceBook, The BBC etc… You get the point anyway! But one thing...

Read More