From the monthly archives:

November 2005

Bad SEO, Baaaaddd

November 23, 2005

Part of what’s wrong with SEO is anybody with a keyboard can claim to be an SEO without cutting their teeth or having a clue what they are talking about. For example look at this post which has been heavily edited from it’s initial posting. Everyone’s favorite bad-boy Nick W chastises them for pushing meta-tags. [...]

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The Clone Wars and Google

November 22, 2005

So I’m trying to get over my convention cooties and have been sleeping on the downstairs couch for the past few nights. As anyone who knows what they are talking about will tell you there’s no better remedy for what ails you than a bowl of soup a big warm blanket and a science fiction [...]

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Creative Link Building Ideas

November 21, 2005

There’s lots of talk on the net right now that reciprocal linking is dead, which I disagree with. I will qualify that answer and say crappy reciprocal lining is dead (see Link Monkey it’s time to Evolve). Lots of people are running around like chicken without heads trying to figure out how am I going [...]

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Video Game Blog

November 19, 2005

I’m sure it’s completely coincidental that the Microsoft XBox 360 goes on sale in less than 4 days and I’ve chosen today to shamelessly plug the Video Game Blog that my brother-in-law is now writing. Not to worry this is a human authored blog filled with lots of snarky sarcasm. It’s his first blog [...]

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Spam Document With User Agent Cloaking

November 19, 2005

I have to say I find it particularly funny when a document about Web Spam from an EDU is using user agent cloaking. A recent document about Web Spam Propoganda and Trust gives a completely different result if you change your user agent to Googlebot (see screen shot below) oh where are those finger wagging [...]

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Matt Cutts on Link Brothels

November 18, 2005

So one of the more interesting panels at Pubcon was the organic site review with panelists, Tim Mayer, Matt Cutts, Barry Lloyd, Bruce Clay and Baked Jake moderating. In the first part of the session they reviewed bargaintravel.com and Matt recommended they stop interlinking all of their sites together. Later in the session they reviewed [...]

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Google Sitemaps Stats … Sorta Data … Sorta Scary

November 17, 2005

I use Google sitemaps on a few different websites I run and noticed something a little funny. When you log into the new console one of the stats you can see is top search queries. Something you should know is these are only Google search queries. In Google’s defense they don’t claim sitemaps is an [...]

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Paid Links, Pubcon and Matt Cutts

November 16, 2005

I went to two sessions today where Matt Cutts was speaking. First let me say whatever they are paying him at Google it’s probably not enough, he really does an excellent job making people feel good about Google, and puts a much better face on things than the people who get paid to do that.
For [...]

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Vegas Baby!

November 14, 2005
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Firefox Rant

November 10, 2005

As I’ve said here many times before I like Firefox it’s my browser of choice, however something that is really becoming a problem lately is incompatible extentions. I’ve had to uninstall quite a few lately as they just didn’t seem to play well with one another, causing all sorts off issues like javascript not working, [...]

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Link Monkey it’s Time to Evolve

November 9, 2005

If you’ve been following any of the Google Jagger update threads on any of the search engine forums some of the common things you’ll hear is “reciprocal linking is dead“, or “I’m dropping all of my reciprocal link pages“.
While this type of knee jerk reaction is understandable, I feel it’s misguided. Reciprocal linking isn’t dead, [...]

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Google, Dictionaries and SEO

November 7, 2005

One of the things toolbars and personalized search will do is reduce algo busting to the equivalent of speaking Latin. However personally I hate personalized search, and don’t think it’s going to be as big as they all hope, so I like to practice a little algo dissection from time to time.
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Under the Weather

November 4, 2005

Been a little under the weather the past few days, but I’m almost over it. Here’s a few things I learned:

It is possible to go more than 24 hours without checking/sending an email.
If you can ignore Jar-Jar Binks Star Wars the Phantom Menace is an OK movie
There is a Spanish version of Judge Judy

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Side Effects of a DMOZ listing

November 2, 2005

Much has been said about having a listing in DMOZ, whether it’s important or not, whether it’s necessary, or how much time and effort it’s worth to get in. I was reviewing a potential clients site and I suspect the DMOZ listing may actually be doing them more harm than good.
The company has been [...]

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