SEO Spam Emails

SEO Spam Emails

Something that frustrates me is the onslaught of SPAM SEO emails from companies and individuals phishing for one’s information. I often receive forwards from clients sending me these emails asking me to look into the claims, or suggesting that we must be missing...

Secure Google Search Impacts Analytics

Last month Google announced the launch of a secure beta version to help all of those searchers out there who are uber-concerned with security and privacy. The secure version currently only works for standard searches and has not yet been rolled out to image search and...

Is Google Under Attack?

It’s 9:20 am PST on Monday November 24th, and access to Both Google AdWords & Postini, appear to be down. It seems strange that both Google services would be down without any formal notice stating a maintenance outage. I first noticed the problem shortly...

Protecting Your Google AdWords Account from Fraud

At some point, most people have had some sort of encounter with internet scams, viruses, spyware or other security problems. Hackers and scam artists are a pervasive reality in today’s world and making assumptions about security is unwise. A pay per click...

To trust or not to trust…

I’ve had people ask me why I dislike using Internet Explorer so much. I suppose part of the reason for my distaste is the behaviour Microsoft has displayed in the past and present. Forcing the use of their software has never sat well with me, particularly when...