November 2005

Creative Link Building Ideas

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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Spam Document With User Agent Cloaking

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

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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Paid Links, Pubcon and Matt Cutts

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. [...]

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Link Monkey it’s Time to Evolve

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 [...]

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Google, Dictionaries and SEO

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. One of my [...]

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Side Effects of a DMOZ listing

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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