Don’t believe all the hype you hear in SMO. Last year one of the most hyped successes in Social Media Marketing (SMM) was the Stormhoek Case study. Hey - that’s a CNN link, so it MUST have been great huh?

Well I was with a prospective client yesterday who has been a wine merchant Continue reading...

See? No lose situation. Continue reading...

After our site got scraped, I found myself in a debate with Matt Cutts on ideas that could minimize the dangers of people stealing content moving forward. No promises from Matt of course, but it has led to some ideas that Matt's team found useful. Continue reading...

I was at a breakfast meeting once, when a solicitor said “I don’t know about you, but I’ve never read any of those long tick box terms and conditions, Have you?

Well… sadly I sometimes do. But I think his approach is better. I think that 90% of all online Terms and Conditions contracts may be Continue reading...

Dave Wallace just ”twittered” that a chess hero ahs died. Fisher died of kidney failure Thursday in a Reykjavik hospital after a long illness.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080118/ap_on_re_eu/obit_fischer

Hitwise has just produced a report showing that Christmas Day 2007 was the busiest day EVER for social networks in the UK. Why were the computers even ON? Because society is changing... Continue reading...

After Network Solutions got caught doing something rather underhand this week, I started to think about all the other scams and tactics that I had seen over the years. Some of which are still little known and others are being used bny the mainstream. I think we should be told how people make their money online. So instead of a "top 10" here's "Lowlife 10". Continue reading...

In the midst of Pubcon, an interesting little link Building experiment was bubbling in the background. It goes to show that not all links are built with clever gadgets, reciprocal link requests or paid links. Continue reading...