http://www.seotunes.co.uk Search Engine Optimisation and Music Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:09:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Recently there's been a lot of blathering about "standards" in the SEO industry, due to the amount of shysters and conmen who have latched on to the fact that, as SEO is difficult to quantify and the client rarely fully understands what is involved, it can be quite easy to ... http://www.seotunes.co.uk/index.php/2008/06/25/compare-and-review-your-seo-company-help-clean-up-the-industry/ I've just stumbled across Grooveshark for the first time, and I have to say, I'm impressed! It has an ever-growing user base feeding more and more music into it, which you can pay to download or stream for free, legally. I've found it easy to get some great music out ... http://www.seotunes.co.uk/index.php/2008/06/11/grooveshark-groovy/ I've been getting into Stumbleupon a lot more recently (I know, I know, I'm like 4 years late to the party) and am beginning to see the potential for it to drive more than just "junk traffic" to a site. You can check out my profile here, go ahead and ... http://www.seotunes.co.uk/index.php/2008/06/10/stumbleupon/ With all the porny YouTube clones that have cropped up over the last year or so, I was pretty surprised today when I idly tried both www.youboobs.com and (perhaps even more of an obvious one) www.boobtube.com to find that both are just parked domains (with some fairly NSFW links on them). Someone's missing a trick ... http://www.seotunes.co.uk/index.php/2008/06/06/how-are-neither-of-these-urls-famous-porn-sites-by-now/ What sort of gurantees do you give about your SEO campaigns? It's a fairly safe bet that, with a little SEO experience and work, you can improve a client's traffic. With a lot of SEO experience and work you should be able to improve client's traffic dramatically. Depending on the site ... http://www.seotunes.co.uk/index.php/2008/06/03/guaranteed-rankings-eh/ Those that like Nickelback, and those that don't. http://www.seotunes.co.uk/index.php/2008/06/03/there-are-two-types-of-people-in-this-world/ Anyone else noticed the Google favicon has changed from an upper to a lower case 'g'? Part of a rebrand, perhaps? http://www.seotunes.co.uk/index.php/2008/05/30/google-has-a-new-favicon/ Update: Long term readers of this blog might feel a little deja vu while reading this article, as it was originally posted back in February. I've reposted it because more and more of you have started visiting recently, and I wanted to put it in front of some more eyeballs ... http://www.seotunes.co.uk/index.php/2008/04/23/put-your-positions-where-your-big-mouth-is/ In his post "Why Bother with an SEO Company?", Brent Yorzinski makes the point that "People hire SEO companies for the same reasons they hire attorneys". The more I think about it, the more think he might be on to something. There are definitely several parallels that can be drawn ... http://www.seotunes.co.uk/index.php/2008/04/22/10-reasons-seos-are-like-lawyers/ I've been watching, bewildered, for a while now as Twitter continues to grow in popularity. I signed up a few months ago, even bothering to add the Tweet box to the side of this blog, but watching the way it was used, I decided straight away that I didn't want ... http://www.seotunes.co.uk/index.php/2008/04/18/21-reasons-twitter-is-bullshit/