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O’Reilly and Link Spam

August 25, 2005

I’ve been making a conscious effort to make things more positive around here, but every so often something is going to get under my skin and get my hackles up. The bru-ha-ha over this O’Reilly link spam thing did it today.
Google Engineer Matt Cutts recommends the following:
As others have noted, if you’re going to sell [...]

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Free Wardrobe Malfunctioning Unicorns Named Jessica

August 24, 2005

Ok so you’re not sure if your aggregator is on the fritz or if GW’s been tripping out on some funky mushrooms. Have no fear all is well just having a little fun with the Yahoo Buzz report, spammers scrambling indeed.
Free Wardrobe Malfunctioning Unicorns Named Jessica

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Blog News : Scrapes, Fakes, And Remakes

August 21, 2005

If you’re a regular reader here you know I’m a big fan of integrating a trend or news blog into your website. I think it’s a great idea for keeping things from becoming old and stale, and a fun and educational way to play some of the “freshbot” games. I’ve been experimenting with different kinds [...]

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Splogs Are a Good Thing

August 18, 2005

Mark Cuban of Ice Rocket has launched a holy war in the blogosphere against what he considers the scourge of the online world, spam blogs or splogs for short. He’s so upset about it he’s threatening to ban all blogs from Google’s blogspot domain, since he feels that’s where the majority of splogs come from. [...]

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MySpace Landing Page

July 11, 2005

This is an extremely unscientific test to see how many people clicked on the link in my MySpace profile. To see how many others have done the same looked at the number of times viewed below, thanks for participating.

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Spam in My Web 2.0

July 7, 2005

Not sure why people are upset about “spam” in My Web 2.0. People have been placing advertising in places people visit since Burma Shave placed its first sign in the 1950’s.
tags: (search engine optimization | seo | sem | search engine marketing | yahoo | spam )

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Spam in My Web 2.0

July 7, 2005

Not sure why people are upset about “spam” in My Web 2.0. People have been placing advertising in places people visit since Burma Shave placed its first sign in the 1950’s.
tags: (search engine optimization | seo | sem | search engine marketing | yahoo | spam )

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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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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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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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