Grayhat SEO

Look at this screenshot, looks an awful lot like match.com is trying to put a lot of text down below the fold …
If you don’t believe me try coming up with a reasonable explanation for putting the H1 tag “ONLINE DATING AT MATCH.COM” below the “Copyright 2008″ …

Since I spent the early part of the week discussing how Google Knols will ruin the internet, I thought it might also be fun to discuss potential ways you can use it to your advantage.

Ok listen Netscape it’s embarrasing now. really you guys need step up to the plate and fix this. Looking at the state of things there are more vote bots than regular people casting votes. It’s so painfully obvious it’s not even amusing anymore. Either throw in the towel and pull the plug or fix it [...]

Let’s try some wiki-jacking
Matt Cutts
Marissa Mayer
Eric Schmidt
I’ve got the wiki-nofollow plugin, so I won’t be passing any link juice, but I’m sure some of the people who scrape me aren’t using the plugin. Of course feel free to contribute in a similar fashion to see what happens. Why be jerk and do something like this, [...]

So here’s a question for the Jason Calacanis’s and Robert Scoble’s of the world. Why is an accountant who knows the regulation and codes and takes advantage of tax loopholes that save you thousands of dollars each year good, But SEO’s who take advantages of loopholes and flaws in Google’s algorithm to bring you traffic [...]

Who’s using or has used article syndication sites heavily in the past? Seen any changes in your rankings lately? Are you using Webmaster Central, do sites who’ve syndicated your content show in your backlinks? Try popping some of those URL’s into Google to see if they are in the index, what do you see? Share [...]

So over on the Mahalo Blog they give a nice example of how sites get included, who stays on the waiting list, and who gets banned.
The priceless part is the person who’s site they say doesn’t meet their editorial standards actually gets a free straight link! Jason c’mon you need to think these things through [...]

If you’re going to stuff your footer with #EEFFFF (very light gray) colored text on #FFFFFF (white) background, you probably should go through the trouble of camouflaging the links as well. If you don’t it just looks like a bunch of random blue underlines floating in blank-ish white space.
Not that I’m advocating stuffing your footer [...]