With SES just around the corner I have just recently booked my flights to New York, I have chosen to Fly Silverjet again, which offers Business Class Flights to New York, I think I paid just under £1000 great value, I just wish the airport was closer like Manchester or Leeds, but here is my main gripe, Unlike most services Sliverjet states they offer :

Welcome to Silverjet, the world’s most sivilised airline. We’re bringing back the values that have been lost in today’s world of mass travel by offering you a private jet experience for an exceptional low fare. Very sivilised.

So what I read into this is that I could be mixed with Business Travellers, Holiday Makers etc, but at the service level which is going to very high.. OK ..

Now my pet hate “BUSINESS CLASS” now BA were clever, they don’t offer “BUSINESS CLASS” they offer “Club World” but on a recent flight to South Africa, I travelled World Business Class on KLM, well I was on business it’s a long flight and I can work on the plane with the other Business Travellers.. WRONG because the 6 month old child and the 2 year old child travelling with there mother made damn sure I couldn’t work, I felt like asking the mother “So what line of business are your children in, hmmm let me guess they are too young to be in a Business, silly me so what the FUCK are they doing in Business Class”

Business Class should have an age restriction !

Gumpy Old DaveN

added if I’m working on the plane, because you are sat beside me does not mean you can READ MY emails or what I’m typing..

yes the Radio show that Mikkel and myself do on Webmasterradio just hit the Million downloads…

DaveN

ok Guy Kawasaki email me about his new site http://alltop.com/
quote from the email :

We recently released a website that is a collection of “single-page aggregations” organized by topics such as Fashion, Celebrities, Sports, Gaming, Macintosh, Science, Green, and Autos. Your feed is at this topic: http://SEO.alltop.com/
Here people can find SEO news from dozens of sites, side-by-side, at a glance. I hope that you will like it ….. blah blah

Ok I don’t know Guy, but friends speak highly of Him thats why he is getting blog space here…

Ok, First off I don’t like it I just don’t feel it brings my anything new, now if you could add a a couple of things I would like it,
the ability for me the user to customise my own page, so I can add feeds into a central point where alltop can then try and get a feel for what’s missing in my central feed, and by giving me new choices built up from what the other user feeds are :

say I have 3 car feeds , 4 seo feeds, 1 designer clothes feed pushed to my central user area, other users with similar matches could offer me “Omega Watch Feeds” or “Mobile phone feeds” or whatever rocks their boats. but the quality is maintain by alltop not just the user base.

Anyway I wish you luck.

DaveN

This is cool I used to have a vertical directory and just got a cease and desist from insurance.com, 2 things jump to mind, one there was no name on the email or telephone number, the return email address went to a non-specific domain not solicitors…

so is this a real C and D or someone trying to get links remove for insurance.com ??

_______________

Dear Sir/Madam

I am contacting you on behalf of Insurance.com, located in Cleveland, Ohio. We manage Insurance.com’s Internet monitoring function for brand identity issues on the Internet.

The following website ( removed ) uses the trademarked name of Insurance.com or one of its subsidiaries on its site.

As owner of the name, Insurance.com (and/or its subsidiaries) owns the exclusive right to reproduce and use its trademarks and authorize any reproduction and use. Insurance.com does not recognize the use of its name in the above-referenced site as authorized. Therefore, your use of this trademark is a violation of its rights.

Insurance.com demands that you cease and desist from using its name in any manner and that you remove all use of its trademark from the referenced website.

Please address these issues immediately. Please contact me with any questions.

Sincerely,

Trademark Administration
Insurance.com

That’s the question posed by Doug over on his new blog Doug’s Mouthpiece - actually I can’t think of any good SEO’s that aren’t Mad or drunk or both :)

DaveN

Not sure what the root cause of this is but today I noticed a few ads that I clicked on in adwords ( note: not my ad’s I was shopping :) ) I got this error :

When I tried the same search using IE8 it worked fine, I have seen it on 2 sites so far today ..

DaveN

I don’t think this is any secret, well I hope it isn’t, thats the 2 worlds are getting closer and closer. This year I have had suggestions like: (which I would like to state I haven’t done any of them):

a) Can you market this idea, we hack into a competitors server, then add a load of gateway pages, get some TLA links, and ping your competitor is gone.

b) We Hack your competitor, and add Robots.txt file to kill the site or No-follow every Internal link.

c) We can Hack site for Links, Edu are easy, Gov’s are more risky so I have to charge $25 dollars extra.

d) We can hack large PR site and put your competitor sites on them to cause dupe content issues.

e) We have large amounts of Data from XXXXXX search engine, users email and passwords.. any ideas what to do with it.

f) We have all the data from this website XXXXXX you want a copy.

g) We can get anything PR4 or below removed from Google within 3 weeks, example sites are …..

h) We can buy links on a network that will get the client banned.

i) Can you blog a month of link buys, where you out sites that are buying links. We will pay you £20,000 you have to mention site xxxxx.co.uk and here is the bought links report.

I remember having a chat with some Webmasters and some Googlers about if your purchased links to a competitors site could you get it banned, the Googlers obviously said why would you do that, you run the risk off helping them rank better, my argument has always been if you spend 10 million on PPC and just move 10 % into competitor disruption you will cost them a lot more if you can knock them from above you, yes you run the risk of making them rank better, but hey they rank better already..

Anyway I see this year has been the worst for Blackhat SEO we have ever seen, so the best Whitehat advice I can give at the moment is take an audit.

a) Who has access to the Site

b) Set up weekly checks, document changes, folder creation, user creation

c) Get your backlinks in order, set up webmaster style consoles with the search engines and archive off the data.

d) Start a record of events, on this date we employed SEO abc company, on this date we use Mr XXXXX for viral campaign

c) Check what’s happening in your industry and log that and form strategic partnerships with your competitors where you can.

e) Don’t trust anyone

DaveN

Take this search term and think about it, 90% of those sites are just using my RSS to create more and more content of themselves, I even get things where people replace keywords in the text like seo and link them back to themselves. which is annoying.

so what can you do, most of these sites tend to run adsense, so a DMCA and email to request the adsense get banned will work.. or maybe push a load of porn terms or terms that we unknown Google hates and see if you can get the adsense banned, But what get’s my goat is when people use my content and sell links off it !! while running adsense, which brings me onto why the Hell does Google allow adsense on sites that sell links ?

surely this is an easy choice of Google, Ban the adsense accounts then it’s the webmasters choice sell links or get adsense money, which would you do ?
DaveN

looks like someone is all upset with the SEO industry well conferences,

with quotes like :

For those unaware, one of the perks of being a conference speaker is getting free conference passes. However, the dirty little secret that no one talks about is that for some of the older conferences, if you’ve been around long enough, you also get your travel expenses comp’d. That’s a pretty good deal compared to everyone else who’s shelling out between $3,000 - $5,000 in travel expenses and registration fees to hear you dispense your pearls of wisdom.

I have been around the Conference circuit to know :

a) Yes I can get a FREE comp ( I have used that maybe 3 times, Once for Dan Horton and Twice of my Wife )

b) I pay for my own Flights : New York SES is Costing me £953.20 GBP in fact I have never had my Travelling Costs picked up, even when I spoke at WMW, SES, SMX

the exact same presentation you gave at the last SES, SMX, Pubcon, Ad:Tech, or Affiliate Summit.

I don’t actually do Presentations very often but I do understand if you went to every conference out there you will see Dupes, it’s impossible to do a new Presentation for every show ( which are like every 2 weeks at the moment lol )

What’s worse is they couldn’t rank a new site for anything more competitive than “Mismatched Size 9 Argyle Socks in Downtown Peoria” if their lives

I tend to work with new start ups and large Corporations they both seem happy and both rank well.

Well fans that brings this post a close. Hopefully we didn’t bruise too many egos, and if we did, you can use your cushy expense account to soften the blow. Feel free to drop a comment and let me know what you think, and don’t forget to send your suggestions or tips to seoserena@gmail.com

didn’t Bruise my ego, but your tagline say’s
“A look inside the dark secrets of the search engine marketing world” which you haven’t dished any out you have just taken pot shots at Danny so far, so can we have some Secrets please ..

and to prove no bad feelings : http://seogossip.wordpress.com

DaveN ;)

I need some recommendations on a :

Dedicated Linux Box in Canada must be Canada IP

Dedicated Linux Box in South Africa must be SA IP - might have this sorted but Option always good.

Dedicated Linux Box in Australia must be Australian IP

DaveN