From the monthly archives:

June 2005

Remixing or Scraping

June 30, 2005

So I’ve been reading a bit about content scraping and content remixing over the past few days. From Searchviews.com:
What makes seo spammerscontent remix artists so infuriating is how hard they are to catch. Filters, patches, and blocks can barely keep up with the daily assault. These marketers keep finding more and more ways to alter [...]

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Review of Text Link Advertising Services

June 27, 2005

A few weeks ago Nick over on Threadwatch blogged about people selling text link advertising on Ebay, always on the lookout for good links especially on the cheap, I gave it a shot. Since I’ve used the other major text link advertising networks I figure this would be a good opportunity to give a review [...]

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Black Hat Bloggers

June 27, 2005

According to a Boston.com article it seems that some companies are paying bloggers to go out and make comments across the blogosphere.
The more companies can get bloggers to link to their websites, the higher their sites will appear on Google’s search list. Google ranks its listings, in part, on how many Web pages link to [...]

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Value of a Domain Name

June 26, 2005

One of the more popular questions from SEO’s or webmasters who are at new to intermediate level of the game is, “do I need to have my desired keyword in the domain name“? In the early days of the internet having your keyword in your domain name was important. However as search engine algorithms have [...]

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Intestinal Fortitude

June 13, 2005

When you blog, blog from yer’ gut, not you’re heart or head. Don’t second guess yourself, and don’t be afraid to take chances. I’ve deleted only three posts and all within 5 minutes of pushing the publish button. Some of the one’s I’ve had the most doubt about, have gotten me the most attention/traffic.
BLOG FROM [...]

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FT.com Busted for Having Hidden links

June 12, 2005

There’s a lot of talk about the hidden links that were spotted over at FT.com recently. It seems Ken McGaffin was doing a some link analysis and noticed something a little fishy. Upon further inspection he found some text links that were hidden on some financial pages (ie white text on a white background). The [...]

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Adsense Light Bulb Moment

June 7, 2005

I was reading something from Seth Godin today and came across one of those things we all know, then forget, and need to be reminded of from time to time:
Most blogs have a center well of the “new stuff” and then links and ads along the sides. And it’s pretty sacrosanct that you put the [...]

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