SEO Antics
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Some marketers are prostitutes
Posted by Caitlin Smythe on 28 May 2008 | Tagged as: SEO Antics
So an online marketer makes up a story about a kid who hires prostitutes to play games and eat Oreos in a motel room. He writes it in a reportage style and includes witnesses, comments from motel staff and real locations. The story goes wild on Digg, appears on Fox News, on YouTube and in newspapers. After chinking champagne flutes, the author (Lyndon Antcliff) announces that the story was fabricated for a client who is in no way connected with comedy, journalism, children’s rights or sex work. And the world cries foul.
SEO terminology needs cohesion, or does it?
Posted by Sandra Cosser on 30 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: SEO Antics, Social Media
Navigating SEO waters can be perilous for old sea dogs as well as beginners trying to find their sea legs. The industry is in a constant state of ebb and flow. Nothing stands still and if it does, it’s quickly washed away, only to be replaced with the next trend riding the internet wave. Self-proclaimed industry experts jostle for position, sowing harmony as well as discontent whenever they choose to voice their opinions.
SEO bloat or how keyword stuffing leads to web page death
Posted by Sandra Cosser on 17 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: SEO Antics, SEO Strategy
Sometimes, when you read onsite copy, the blatant over-optimisation makes you cringe. The content is stuffed with so many keywords that if they were feathers you’d be able to fill an entire hospital with eiderdowns. Stoney deGeyter from Search Engine Guide has termed this phenomenon, “SEO Bloat”, but whatever you choose to call it, it brings with it certain death to any web page that suffers from it.
An uncertain future for search, can it “break out” of its limitations?
Posted by Phil Smulian on 31 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Common SEO Topics, SEO Antics
Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Wentworth Miller, you might remember me from such TV classics as ‘prison break’, ‘Prison break season 2’ and ‘Prison break season 3’. I have recently had ear-enlargement surgery. My one true vocation or calling is getting myself wrongfully thrown into high level security prisons and then taking on the gruelling, challenging task of breaking out. Well, actually I have slight interest in some other more sensible activity: I do find search technology quite fascinating, and I’d like to learn more about mass parallel computing and how it enhances the effectiveness and accuracy of information retrieval. In short, is the internet one day going to wake up and become sentient, and automatically inherit the personality of Tim Burners-lee, its father, or worse, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo?
SEO Solutions Architect…trainee
Posted by Dylan Brent on 19 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: SEO Antics
Me being the outspoken, intelligent, suave and all around awesome person that I am, it’s inevitable for some people, (everyone) to be interested in what I do for a living. Doesn’t matter where I am or who the lucky person that asked the question: “Dylan, I’m extremely interested to know what you do for a living” is, I answer all the same. “Well, gorgeous lady that is interested in what I do, I am an SEO Solutions Architect…trainee” The last part is said under my breath and covered by a little grunt. They then reply either one of two things: “Oh…ok, that sounds…cool” or just “…?” and then I explain.
Office birthday
Posted by Brett Pringle on 24 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Articles, SEO Antics
Friday, March 30, the office was closed by 2pm to celebrate James’s 25 Birthday. James AKA “The Steed”, our in house Dev Trainee/Server Admin/The brain to pick everynow and then.
Off to Nag’s head in Noordhoek for lunch and we were treated to possibly the most amazing Cape Town summer day, not a breath of wind and the sun beating down. Due to “the steed’s” fascination with horses, the office decided to get him a little gift, to James’s delight 
