How I Hijacked a Google Adwords Account

Now before you start get­ting too excited by reach­ing for your gun expect­ing a cap­ture reward after hav­ing read that head­line, there’s no need to panic!
Noth­ing illegal went on here, how­ever tech­nic­ally, I did hijack a Google Adwords™ account and take it away from its top level Admin­is­trator and give it back to its rightful […]

Let’s Con­nect? Thanks, But No Thanks!

I’m pretty act­ive on a num­ber of social net­work­ing sites includ­ing, Twit­ter and Face­book. How­ever it was a rejec­tion on LinkedIn that really felt like a kick in the teeth.

As I go about my daily activ­it­ies I meet many dif­fer­ent types of busi­ness own­ers. Some of these are asso­ci­ates that I work with reg­u­larly, some […]

Page 1 of Google for Only £75 per Month

One of our web host­ing cli­ents emailed me today say­ing that he’d received a cold called from a search engine mar­ket­ing com­pany prom­ising to get his web­site lis­ted on page 1 of Google’s search res­ults pages (SERPS) for “only” £75 per month.
The cli­ent wanted to know if it was a “good deal” or a com­plete rip […]

Get­ting Local Down with Google Local

For some­time now Google, through its Local Busi­ness Cen­ter, has presen­ted in its SERPS (Search Engine Res­ults Pages) a list of nearby com­pan­ies and ser­vices that are thought to be rel­ev­ant to a loc­al­ised search.
To demon­strate what I mean, try search­ing with the keyword phrase “com­mer­cial phở­to­graph­ers in Leeds” (note the geo­graph­ical mod­i­fier phrase for […]

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