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...

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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...

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Matt Inertia Search Result

Feb 01

I did a search of my name (mattinertia search) on Google the other day and was shocked to see that my WebmasterWorld profile is number one for the search. The other site above me is some rapper guy? So I checked out the WebmasterWorld profile page and it has a PR of two and a lot more the domain is bound to have more trust so yeah… It’s not that surprising. I...

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Don't forget your favicon!

Feb 01

One free tool that often gets over looked by webmasters is the Favicon [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon]. The Favicon is a great way to make your website stand out amongst the lists that social book marking sites (such as delicious) let you populate. I for one have huge lists of book marks and the Favicon has become the thing I look for to identify the link. As...

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