I’m a big fan of Bigmouthmedia, when I first got into Search many years ago with a brand new website for Just search and the hope of one day being on the first page for “SEO” Bigmoutmedia were ranked the first page and have been as long as I can remember. There was also Oyster-web, originally staff members of bigmouth but they have not ranked anywhere in years “wonder what happened to them?”
Anyway Bigmouth are always at the forefront as they have been for years but they have had a rocky time the past few years.
2006 – Bigmouth was suspect-idly banned for Excessive Hidden text spamming. I don’t really have a comment on the subject but there are some resources below where you can read up on it and form your own opinion.
- http://www.threadwatch.org/node/6276 – Post by Aaron Wall
- http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?threadid=10212 – Original thread about Bigmouth Listings
- http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.bigmouthmedia.com/ – Web Archive of old Pages
2009 – Again chatter in the blogsphere around whether Bigmouthmedia had there site hijacked via a 302, either way there home page came out of the index for a short period. Resources below:
- http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/big-mouth-media-penalty.html – Dave Naylor
- http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/did-bigmouthmedia-302-hijack-themselves-out-of-google/ – Blogstorm
6th July 2010
I logged into Google today and did my tedious daily check of Just Search results, as the recent shift has dropped us some listings (Still first page for SEO 🙂
What I found is bigmouth media has a shortened listing – I.e. No title, description just a plain listing like either the site hasn’t been spidered in months or something similar.
Now my first thoughts would have been has the site gone down or a robots.txt file has a wrong instruction, but this doesn’t seem to be the case. We recently at Just search had our server go down Google bot spidered the site when it was down, however due to our link portfolio we were spidered again very quickly and we still showed some form of description. It was a very strange affect as Google displayed some results with the full listing and some with the cached listing from when the server went down.
This looks like something similar for Bigmouth as when carryout a “Site:www.bigmouthmedia.com” it does give a full description.
Conclusion
2:00 hours later (09:43) – This could be something crafty Bigmouth are doing to drive some natural links their way, again any publicity is good publicity, however I’ve written the post and showed link love to the resources, but for this post there is no reason to actually link to bigmouth, sorry 🙂
I am getting their results fine (2nd) including their site links when I enter search engine optimisation on http://www.google.co.uk
Hi Andy; it 13:17 and I now get the full result as you said, it might have been a bug in Google? I thought they were after some link bait again 🙂
Haha I think you need to relax a little bit more 😉
By the way can I ask how much you get involved with the day to day of Just Search as we currently have a quote on the table from you guys and we are still undecided?
Hi Andy, I’ve been part of Just search since day dot, helped train the current SEO staff, I am top level and so I’m the last port of call for strategic advice, but what I will say the head of SEO is very, very good and the seniors are also highly skilled, I’ll have a look at the strategy JS are suggesting and ensure it’s the right plan for you.
Thanks for this Neil.
I have a call sheduled with one of your team later and hope to get something in place that meets as many of our needs as possible.
“however due to our link portfolio we were spidered again very quickly and we still showed some form of description.”
You mean making all your clients link to you from your footer?
Hi SEO Bad, to be fair client links are such a small part of our link portfolio and they are only irrelevant footer links, it works generally for referrals from clients ranking well. But most SEO companies do this, web design companies do this, it helps but if a client is unhappy to advertise JS then we simply remove the link.
from their footers!
SEO Bad it is like an artist signing the bottom of their painting. And thats all they’re doing, signing their own work of art 😉
I posted the above yesterday, and weirdly it looks like some glitch in Google (I’m still investigating) but if you do a search for “Search engine Optimization” (With a Z) you get the same affect with both:
1) http://www.bigmouthmedia.com
2) http://www.justsearching.co.uk
However typing in “SEO” doesn’t show the same glitch ?!?