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Grayhat SEO

Shameless Self Promotion in a Web 2.0 World

February 22, 2006

One of the the common elements of a lot of web 2.0-ish applications is they rely heavily on user generated content. However as I mentioned in my Forums vs Blogs post many people are blogging to keep all of the value of their own work. So why should should any smart marketer give away [...]

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Alexa Get Yer’ Game On

February 14, 2006

In certain circles and under certain circumstances having a good low Alexa rank is a very good thing, in fact it can even line your coffers quite nicely. Now there are some people who sell tools that are supposed to lower your Alexa rank, and I’m not going to comment on whether they work or [...]

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Blackhat and Branding

February 7, 2006

For all of those aspiring blackhat and greyhay SEO’s out there, there are some lessons to learn. Pushing, prodding and poking the ranking algo’s is a good thing, and is something I highly encourage. However deciding where to push, prod, and poke is something you really need to consider. Yes you will get more [...]

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Editing Wikipedia and Ancient Traditions

February 3, 2006

Ever since the ancient Sumerian’s started writing things down in cuneiform on stone tablets thousands of years ago, people have been modifying historical records to suit their own purposes and goals. One of my particular favorites is the story of the heretic king Akhenaten of ancient Egypt, who tried to replace thousands of years of [...]

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Ministry of Disinformation Visits SEO Rockstars

February 1, 2006

On January 31st Google’s top Svengali Matt Cutts visited SEO Rockstars. WebGuerilla (aka Greg Boser) questioned Matt about the “sandboxing” of the domain [linkcondom.com]. Using his super top secret internal google tools (show off) he said it was not an age penalty, there was something else that made it look “wonky”. Yes he actually said [...]

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Corporate Black Hat SEO Terminology

January 31, 2006

So now that more and more companies are getting involved in one form or another of search marketing, chances are at some point some of you may get a call from, and actually end up pitching for the occasional consulting gig. To help you transition from working in your bathing suit to a pinstripe suit [...]

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Link Bait Competition

January 25, 2006

So maybe you think the whole “v7ndotcom elursrebmem“, contest is silly but you’re big on the idea of pulling in a few extra drachmas and getting the accolades and recognition of your peers. If so check out BizNicheMedia who is running a contest [...]

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MSN Premium Advertiser Pages

January 25, 2006

So with all the big deal that Matt Cutts made about buying text links you’d think the Googlers would be able to filter pages out of the SERPS that are clearly paid advertisements like 1,2,3. You can see that they are indexed and [...]

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Domain Parking and Cloaking

January 24, 2006

So I was cruising around last night with “Googlebot” as my User-Agent. I was thinking of something and decided to visit a domain I have with a parking service. I was surprised to see they were using cloaking IP delivery to include links [...]

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Million Dollar Home Page Stats

December 30, 2005

Seeing how it’s almost the end of the year and the Million Dollar Home page is now almost completely sold out, I can share some stats. I had a site I was willing to sacrifice in case it blew up in my face, [...]

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Double Standards for Spam

December 30, 2005

I’ve really been trying to keep things a little more positive here but every so often something gets under my skin and I gotta call a spade a spade. I’ll start off by saying I’m a regular reader of Darren Rowse’s Problogger and [...]

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Six Degrees of a Lesbian Porn Scraper

December 13, 2005

Perhaps you’ve heard of the play or seen the movie Six Degrees of Separation. One of the elements of the movie was that everyone is no more than six people (degrees) away from anyone else on the planet, the trick of course is finding the right six people. This led to the (in)famous game Six [...]

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Wikipedia Makes me Feel Bold

December 12, 2005

When you are doing your research and you come across a short article or stub at wikipedia, do you start to drool at the anticipation of being bold …

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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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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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Bacon Polenta, Second Helping

October 26, 2005

So after Matt Cutts made his infamous Bacon Polenta posting it was discovered that his Bacon Polenta was Google Washed by the DarkSeoLabs team over at Threadwatch. I made note of it here on my blog (Matt Cutts and Bacon Polenta). Now it seems that Google has decided that my post should rank #2 for [...]

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How to Create a Splog

October 18, 2005

With all this talk of splogs and spam blogs and even people selling spam blogging machines, I thought I’d give you a nice little tutorial. Any competent PHP programmer should be able to crank one out before lunch time and you should have it debugged by the time you go home.
1. Sign up for a [...]

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Matt Cutts and Bacon Polenta

October 4, 2005

I’ve been trying to keep away from the regurg’d news but clearly this is one of the more important SEO threads of the year Matt Cutts Blog Google Washed.

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If You’re Hat Ain’t Black You Don’t Know Jack!

October 1, 2005

I was visiting a web forum this weekend and came across post after post of “if I do this to my website what will Google do” or “Google doesn’t like it when webmasters do this“. Yes we were all newbies and one point and asking questions is part of the learning experience, however doing things [...]

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