On December 6, Google’s Matt Cuts sent out this cheeky tweet: “’There are absolutely NO footprints linking the websites together.’ Oh, Anglo Rank.” This was effectively an announcement that Google had busted the paid link service; when Search Engine Land’s EIC Matt McGee theorized that the network was “torched,” Cutts confirmed that Anglo Rank had […] Continue reading → The other day I met a little girl playing Minecraft on the computer. I found that rather intriguing as I thought she was very young (she told me she was 8) to play a game of such complexity and sophistication as Minecraft. Even more surprising was when she told me that she plays it for quite […] Continue reading → Googcology Are you sure you want to play in Google’s sandbox? Google Sandbox is a theoretical purgatory where a certain business under manual penalty sits until a review. Unfortunately, many companies are playing around in the Google sandbox and most of them are sitting there because of bad black hat link strategies. For example, Dave […] Continue reading → I watched the video on TED the other day called “Want to be happy? Be grateful”. It’s worth watching and it got me thinking. I wanted to see whether there was a correlation between my happiness and being grateful for various things – and there was! For example, almost every day I tell my […] Continue reading →