(Disclaimer: there’s nothing really blackhat in these techniques and I used this title more for attention driving purposes – but read on, you may find some useful bits and pieces below) Have you ever wished you knew just how much …
Spying on Competitor’s Traffic Almost the Blackhat Way
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on September 16, 2008
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Your Ads Are Busted!
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on June 22, 2008
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Recently, I got approached by SEOQuake developers (of SEODigger fame) who let me know about their new tool called AdsSpy. AdsSpy is a tool that does the opposite of SpyFu – if SpyFu lets you see “inside” AdWords and who …
Tramadol Dogs Update
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on June 15, 2008
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You may remember a post I did about tramadol for dogs and spam associated with it a while ago. Well so, recently I noticed in my stats that I am getting referrals from Google searches for related terms, e.g. this …
Blackhat Newbie Bootcamp
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on June 6, 2008
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The news has reached me that Bompa, a.k.a. the newbie babysitter of Syndk8, has started a Blackhat SEO Bootcamp – basically, a standalone version of his newbie babysitting at Syndk8. Who is it good for? Clearly, newbies. Those same newbies …
Google Crawling Speed and Search Query Popularity
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on May 19, 2008
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Last night I have been researching something and came across some weird stuff in Google. A lot has been said already about Google updating the SERPs more often for the more competitive markets (e.g. “buy viagra” and such) but I …
Quantcast Closes the Backdoor
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on May 4, 2008
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You know why I used to love Quantcast, among other reasons? Quantcast.com is a PR 6 authority domain, not very old (registered in 2005) but it gained popularity fast and has 1,480,000 pages indexed in Google. Until recently, you could …
Google AdWords Scores Leaking – Why?
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on May 4, 2008
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Last week, everybody was discussing Google’s leaked AdWords score values. I guess enough guesses were voiced already about what those values might mean so I wouldn’t bother posting about it if not for one thing. I believe one more question …
PageRank Changing? Not That I Care…
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on April 6, 2008
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… but I’ve been seeing discrepancies between different tools and toolbar PR on multiple sites – could it be an update?
Proof That Google.co.uk is a Separate Search Engine!
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on April 2, 2008
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You think I’m mad? Lately I have seen so many weird things in google.co.uk that are way too different from google.com that it would lead one to believe these are two separate search engines! 1. Why else would google.co.uk show …
What Happens When You Outsource Your Link Building to Save on It
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on April 1, 2008
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Clearly not linking to this mess but for the sake of a live example: www.musicstaff.com/links.asp On the surface, it’s a legitimate decently looking 1997 site with a legitimate business model. But if you look at their links page… sketchy is …
