Category Archives: Hall of Shame

Spam Your Way To The Top

Posted on May 13, 2008 by Louise Gorrie

Google algorithms appear to change daily and whilst competing for popular phrases I notice who moves around and am always interested to figure out how a website got to the front page. I’ve been focusing on the term SEO Services … Continue reading →

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Update on the lessons of SEO writing 101

Posted on April 20, 2008 by Louise Gorrie

I know you’ve all been waiting, and even performing your own Google searches on the peeps at My Website Designer, and alas, these searches are returning nil points. I think their site must be fairly new, the archive is only … Continue reading →

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Flight Centre busted trying to trick search engines

Posted on April 14, 2008 by Louise Gorrie

At last weeks SMX in Sydney, two SEO experts stumbled across flightcentre.com.au cloaking their pages. Those naughty people had been presenting the search engines with different content to what was actually on some of the pages. Apparently the situation is … Continue reading →

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Writing for Search Engines 101

Posted on April 10, 2008 by Louise Gorrie

Actually, I lie. It’s not writing for search engines 101, it’s laughing at those who have followed parts of that subject religiously. I happened to stumble across this site this afternoon, http://www.mywebsitedesigner.com.au/ For those of you who are too lazy … Continue reading →

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The laziest piece of spam I've seen in a while

Posted on April 8, 2008 by Louise Gorrie

I’m putting this spammer in my hall of shame for sheer laziness. Here is the offensive email: Microsoft Award Team 20 Craven Park, Harlesden London NW10 United Kingdom FILE REF: HL/5564/06/07/MICS BATCH: MC11/834/5PDH /EU   OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION The prestigious Microsoft … Continue reading →

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Leading Australian Online Marketing Sham

Posted on September 4, 2007 by Louise Gorrie

I’m sitting in webinar being given by one of my competitors. He’s raised some interesting points, one of which I’ve never done before. He advises turning off the style sheet to view your website as google does. I looked at … Continue reading →

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SEO Sydney – A search full of professionals

Posted on July 16, 2007 by Louise Gorrie

A search for “SEO Sydney” reveals an industry littered with charlatan’s using sneaky search engine optimisation tactics. Continue reading →

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Is this 2007?

Posted on June 18, 2007 by Louise Gorrie

Our Hall of Shame uncovers shonky Search Engine Optimisation tactics used by some of Sydney’s leading SEO and web design agencies. Continue reading →

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Crimes against design

Posted on May 23, 2007 by Louise Gorrie

I was just reading over at MarketingVOX how the FTC have banned an SEO firm for life. The company, Netvertise, have been banned from promoting or selling franchises or any other business activity. Apparently they’ve been selling their services by … Continue reading →

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The good, the bad and the ugly

Posted on May 18, 2007 by Louise Gorrie

One of the reasons for starting this blog was to highlight good and bad web design and sneaky SEO tactics. I spend maybe 12 hours a day on the internet so I visit a lot of websites. The good, the … Continue reading →

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