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The Paid Link Blog Meme

April 30, 2007

Since it’s been over 48 hours since the last what are your 5 favorite toothpaste flavors meme I think I’m safe to start a new one. However this one’s going to be a bit different.

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How to Be Crafty and Mask Affiliate Links

April 18, 2007

Fine since Matt started this whole thing on hiding links and how people do it in really silly ways like putting nonsense in the onMouseOver WindowStatus I thought why not have a little fun and throw out a nice tip on how to mask your affiliate links.

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How To Shoot Yourself in The Foot With Bad Plan and a Bad CMS Implementation

March 30, 2007

One of the biggest mistakes really large publishers make today is doing SEO like it’s 1999. They throw up hundreds, thousands, and sometimes millions of pages, with the belief that more is better. This has grown exponentially with web 2.0 and blogging apps and cross-tagging, listing and publishing content in multiple spots. Here’s an example [...]

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Dave Pasternack of Did-it.com Spamming MyBloglog

January 30, 2007

I got a tip that our friend Dave Pasternack has taken to spamming MyBloglog now. Pretty nice, one community is his own bio page at Did-it, the other is Did-it.com main site and the third is his CafePress shop. Which is particularly funny because they left out the Did-it.com actual blog, way to go for [...]

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Google MFA and No Way Out!

January 28, 2007

I know Werty showed something similar to this at pubcon, but this is as bad as I’ve ever seen it. 12 sponsored ads on a page and almost no way out but to click the ads. Yes I know there are two links in the upper right but well seems a bit like an MFA [...]

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Are Ajax Applications Immune to Clickbots

January 22, 2007

I’ve been playing with GMail and Google Reader lately and becoming more accustomed to the AJAX/Javascript interfaces. Which got me to thinking how good are they at separating humans from clickbots.

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Writing an Effective Title

January 18, 2007

Writing an effective title is truly an art form, and when you see it done to masterful perfection, it’s a thing of beauty to behold James Timothy NerdVille.net

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Linkbait if it’s Good Enough for Forbes it’s Good Enough for Me

January 17, 2007

I’ve made no secret of my Disney fan status, in fact I have several news feeds set up to catch Disney items. Catching up in the feed reader this morning I came across the following: Top 10 luxury attractions at Disney World

Top 10 luxury attractions at Disney World How to have a five-star vacation at [...]

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MyBlogLog Shameless Whore

January 10, 2007

All right since my whoring shameless self promotion knows no bounds, (and should make for some interesting inbound anchor text) I’m experimenting with myBlogLog. My buddy Jeremy goes for the hot babe approach, my interests are purely research oriented (oh all right I like being the center of attention it’s all about me, me, me [...]

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Blue Widgets – Google and CSS Files

January 8, 2007

With all this talk about Google Crawling CSS files I thought it might be nice to get an idea what’s within guidelines and what’s not.

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Google Reader – The Borg is Watching

January 5, 2007

The blogosphere is buzzing today about the new stats being published by the Google reader, however I’d like to take a slightly more cynical look at things.

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Taco Bell and E. coli O157:H7

December 19, 2006

Since I live on Long Island in New York where some of the Taco Bell E.Coli 0157:h7 food poisoning incidents have occurred the story has been fairly front of mind for me. However I though it might be interesting to share the SERP with some of you from other spots who don’t get some of [...]

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How Do You Save Pages?

December 17, 2006

I’m a big fan of delicious I use it all the time, and I use regularly to bookmark almost everything. However today I wanted to bookmark something in the New York Times I knew I would want next year. The problem is the NEW YORK TIMES IS STUPID and they put things behind the walled [...]

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Ted Leonsis Better Get Back to Work

November 24, 2006

Ted Leonsis didn’t like what Google had to say about him so he decided to change it, in January he started blogging sometimes several times a day even linking to Mark Cuban (heck he said it I didn’t), and here’s what happened:
He added lots of tags to his blog posts, dropping names of famous [...]

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Funniest Thing I Said at Pubcon

November 18, 2006

… So I’m working on this project, and it’s totally white hat, I went out and and I bought all the right links …

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Reputation Defender – Virtual Arm Twisting

November 7, 2006

Have we reached the point where we need virtual tough guys to twist people’s arms to get them to comply to our will? It would seem to be the case if you believe in a new company known as Reputation Defender. They offer two services one designed to protect children the other for adults according [...]

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About.com Nothing but MFA Spam

October 25, 2006

Whenever someone asks me to to define an MFA site I point them to about.com. Last night I was looking up [history of coins china] and came across a perfect example of some About.com MFA Spam on this page. Which also ranks for [chinese coin history] and I’m sure a whole bunch of other related [...]

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