I know I’ve been really slow at posting stuff recently and the thing I’m posting about here happened a couple weeks ago already but still it’s worth a post. SEOIdiot, a friend of mine who is a very talented cartoonist …
Yahoo Homepage update and what it might mean
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on June 2, 2006
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So, I guess everyone has seen the new layout of Yahoo’s homepage right? I haven’t paid much attention to it initially but then at some point I had to access Yahoo MyWeb from their homepage. Take a simple test: how …
DMCA complaint effects the Google SERPs
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on May 31, 2006
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Came across this today when doing a Google search for “seo company”: In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read …
When keyword stuffing doesn’t work – LinkedIn screwup
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on May 10, 2006
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So I’ve been hanging out at LinkedIn, among other fancy social places, and their revenue model, if you haven’t checked yet, is based on placing AdSense on their pages, among other stuff. Every webmaster who ever dealt with AdSense knows …
Umdum looked at this blog!
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on April 22, 2006
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Recently, Loren Baker of Search Engine Journal anounced the launch of Umdum, a new human edited directory. The even offered free submissions to the readers for a limited time. Well, I missed the deadline for free submissions but thought I’d …
Saying farewell to a great opportunity
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on April 19, 2006
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The Guardian used to have wonderful blogs on their site. They were frequently updated, covered plenty of topics, received an enormous amount of traffic, had many active visitors commenting… The best part about those blogs was the absense of nofollow …
Google still does manual reviews of splogs
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on April 18, 2006
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A while ago, I posted about how Google’s manual review can be detected through your logs. Well, last week I could verify it’s still true – the URL of doom http://www.corp.google.com/~pong/spam/ has appeared in the logs of my other blog …
Blackhat SEO: ego boosting with Google
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on April 17, 2006
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Kinda nice to know: I am #2 in Google for black hat seo consultants and probably the only blackhat SEO in that whole set of SERPs 😉 The rest is all like “Black hat SEO are the techniques used to …
Technorati reports on the state of the spamosphere
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on April 17, 2006
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Dave Sifry of Technorati has posted a new State of the Blogosphere report. Besides other things, it talks about spam in the blogosphere. Here are a few interesting facts: – A new weblog is created about every second. … – …
Spam moved to Moved.to
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on April 16, 2006
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You know those services offering you a subdomain/subfolder for free with a funny domain name like go.to/mysite or getit.at/mysite and the like? Well, getting those cool free names is becoming slightly difficult these days as search engine spammers cast their …
