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Just send a cease and disist email to the website owner. Give them 24 hours. If no reply or they dont respond with 'its done' or 'will be done' just contact their hosting provider and rinse and repeatm cos they have to tell the website owner to remove any libellous content.

Natwest are a farce! Had same thing here with mailing address saga. Only took them 4 attempts to get it right including twice telling me it wasn't possible to do. I complained about the money i'd spent ringing them about it so she instantly credited our account wiht

PS On this subject, sara hasn't really got into using forums but my daughter Kathryn will be doing because she's doing more of our online promo now so she will be taking over posting in forums, perhaps slowly to start with as she has less business experience, so as and when she does get aorund to it, it will be her posting under Fone Alone and not Sara.....she can make the coffee instead!! I trust since we want to keep the same username but switch the actual user that won't be a problem?

No. Sara is my business partner (in Fone Alone) and she created some forum accounts (here and elsewhere) but doesn't go on forums regularly like me so when I think to do it I will go in and update the sig links every now and again. I know what keywords I want to link to what pages for our websites so it's just easier for me to do it. I have already asked steve to remedy it

A few months ago my son got sudden chest pains. As a 23yr old he had (of course, as they do!) been lying in bed all morning doing zero, and they just came on and it was a crushing type of pain.

He called me up and I suggested painkillers which didnt work, so we hopped over to A&E and the doc said it must be something "muscular skeletal" (she coudlnt be any more specific) and sent him away with nothing.

You just never can tell when something might be serious or not and when you pay your taxes, dont think twice about your health and wasting their time. It could be the wrong decision one day. And if you end up with an ambulance driver who decides to stick to his tea break..... well.....

My son had had an operation just 1 week before which caused excessive bleeding afterwarads, so we had that to consider as well which is why he got seen to quite quickly once we got there as he looked like he'd done ten rounds with Mike Tyson anyway, what with all the bruising and swelling on his face. But none the less, I guess the docs know what to look for, and he just didnt show any of the more serious signs, so to have stuck you on ecg, etc, you must have been reasonably poorly even if it didnt turn out to be serious.

Treena already ranks No. 1 in search results (SEO) for her main keyword.

Well I could give a reply to that Steve, but i'm not gonna say anything

In real life, paying clients don't really want to know the ins and outs of SEO. No more than you'd ask a mechanic exactly how he was going to change that head gasket. It's only the DIY'ers and people who sell SEO who get into these conversations. People who are prepared to pay for SEO are usually prepared to let you get on with it.

I have sent loads of reports of keyword research and every single one comes back and just tells me to "sort it". They don't even want to begin to understand it and why should they? They are experts are what they do after all.

If I hire anyone from any area of expertise I don't question their techniques or get them to prove to me how they do it and I think they'd also be pretty miffed if I started asking them for proof of their expertise! I don't mind explaining the basics SEO, but I know it will mostly zip right over their heads.

Unfortunately there are people dabbling in it who are not good at it. You only have to se what they're claiming they're ranking on Google page 1 for, to know they don't really understand it.

I only take on what I feel competent with. If it was out of my league i'd pass it on. People should recognise where their level of expertise ends and know when to sign post the customer on to someone who can achieve their requirements. I think the customer would appreciate that but unfortunately those pound signs are too tempting for some unscrupulous people and those who are wearing rose-tinted seo specs and think they are experts at it, so they promise the Earth and bag the order, client gets suckered in, loses money and makes nothing out of it -loses more in fact, in lost potential sales; so fingers burned, and it's tainted the industry and SEO is now like the building trade - cowboys everywhere.

I think people make their mind up based on various factors, and i'd go as far as to say it's not just portfolio of achievements. It's integrity, honesty and their position in general. If the customer doesn't understand a case study you've given them or doesn't identify with the achievements of your other portfolio of clients, then it's a trust issue to overcome.

But just who really are these SEO companies, the people who do it? They pop up on forums with a website and a portfolio but if you check them out, you'd be lucky to find them on LinkedIn. They're not established business people who have built up a reputation. They could just as easily disappear and pop up again somewhere else under another name and nopbody would be any the wiser. Which is what I guess a lot of these 'scam' seo copmpanies do; the ones that are taking folks' money and getting them to Google Page 1 for 'dancing green bears' or 'mycompanyname surrey'

Yes you were right there, Steve!

The figure you're referring to i presume is the broad keyword at around 300 searches per month / 30 = 6.8 daily.

No. If you read back through my posts, you will see that I was not referring to broad match, but to exact match. That was the whole point of my replies.

I didn't get them from the free keyword tool by the way, but that's irrelevant. Only Google reveal Google's own data so not sure where your Google data is coming from.

'russia world cup' will have been searched on before; they have played in the worldd cup before and as its a generic phrase in those realms, so it can quite well have been searched on in relation to previous world cup tournaments, ie when people are looking to see if they qualified, when they went out, etc. Obviously it will have jumped up recently due to the announcement.

Of course, we all know that a keyword today can be low today then jump high tomorrow if something happened relating to that keyword. So the keyword 'tsunami' will have been a lot more popular 26/12/06 and onwards for 2007, than it ever was before that fateful day. And it will have subsided over time. Google can only ever tell you roughly what those searches were previously, but not sure about your data, but mine isn't a mean average as you seem to describe.

From Google.