Francis Lee: Search Engine Optimisation & Marketing SEM, SEO blog

Ok, maybe the title is abit harsh, but there is no doubt that Rim’s Mobile email device BlackBerry does contribute to workers losing touch with their friends and family. There has been many studies that proves that the Blackberry completely removes down time, however it also means that workers has longer working hours. Read more »

Well, I have a few words I really want to say to you, and this has been on my mind for quiet some time now. You know all those times when you tail gate me, when you cut into my lane without indicating, run red lights, ignore everyone’s safety by speed and everything in between. Read more »

Just when I thought I found the answer to looking up Supplemental result pages within the Google Index, the giant search engine decides to completely remove the notion of “supplemental results” from their index. This doesn’t actually mean that they have removed all supplemental pages, they just removed the “label” of supplemental results from their index, where by giving us as webmasters no indication of whether or not our pages are seen as low quality or not. Read more »

Well I’ll be damned, the missed call marketing company DC Marketing Europe was fined $150,000AUD on the 24th of July 2007 for breaching the Australian Spam Act between June and July of 2006. I for one have fallen victim to these extremely annoying and costly spam calls and have cursed the company behind it many times. Well now its time for us to rejoice as these spammers have got what they deserved. Read more »

I have recently been riddled with supplementary results related questions at work and from clients, mainly after the recent Google update (Buffy) in April I believe. Unfortunately, Google also decided to remove the supplementary results checking command which we have all depended on for quiet some time. For those who can’t remember what it was here it is again. Read more »

Just wanted to say thanks to the people linking to me, actually means alot to me, even though I haven’t been posting much recently, its great to see that people actually still read my relatively senseless and sometimes boring posts. I will make more of an effort to post about SEO and related topics, after I close off some of my ventures =)

Is it just me or has comment spam increased recently, worse of all they are starting to read like read comments. I am actually getting comments which does not contain any links within the comment area and says things such as “I agree” or “Nice” or “cool”. Its as though they actually read my blog post! Read more »

I have recently noticed that I open up a new email account for every new venture I under take. My initially thoughts were to keep each venture separate by all means, so that it doesn’t affect each other what so ever. My thoughts basically came from the old saying “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket”, and following that seemed like a great idea at the time. Thats until I started losing track of where my emails were, the password as well as the login name. Read more »

Mdwebhosting, my Australian web host decided to suspend my account for little to no reason one day (the 10th of June) to be exact. Atleast I thought it was for no reason at first, and I didn’t really have time to fix the problem due to a million things happening in my life. Fortunately, I had all my passwords and resource information on my Gmail account (thank god for Gmail) and was able to login to find out the reason why my account was blocked. Read more »

I got an email at work regarding a very funny experiment you can do with Google Maps. Just follow the following steps and you’ll get a very funny instruction from Google Maps. This funny experiment with Google Maps cant get you from New York to London in under 63 steps! Read more »