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Google MFA and No Way Out!

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

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 [...]

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Blue Widgets – Google and CSS Files

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

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

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?

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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Reputation Defender – Virtual Arm Twisting

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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Is My Website Banned in Google?

One of the more difficult problems to diagnose is has your website been banned or is there something else wrong? I have the unfortunate task of trying to diagnose the problem for one of my sites and I thought it might be educational to let you in on the process.

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Looking at Keyword Stuffing SERPS

It’s curious that this SERP highlights the word in the comments and not in the title or anywhere else in the post. As does this SERP and this SERP. However adding quotes causes this serp to drop out my site, however my 43 people profile still lists (cache). May have to do some more testing [...]

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Google URL Searches

I’m not sure if Google is crazy stupid or crazy like a fox with the way they handle the searches for www.example.com but I see it as an incredible opportunity … For example let’s look at [www.coke.com] if I were Pepsi, RC Cola or any other soft drink manufacturer getting my domain to list for [...]

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Does Google use Whois Information

I received an email last week from one of my readers asking me to explore the question of “Does Google use whois information”, and it seemed like an interesting topic to talk about.

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The Dark Side of Social Media Optimization

Rand came out with a kick ass post on Social Media Optimization for those of you who lean a little more towards the dark side, here are some things to think about.

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Mosquito Ringtones and why New York Times Cloaking Sucks for Usability

Go ahead search for [mosquito ringtone] which do you think is better CLOAKED New York Times Article or a the actual Washington Post article on mosquito ringtones? The only good part is once everyone is cloaking spammer, no one is …

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Alt Tags Back in Black?

I remember the good ole’ days when you could stuff alt tags with whole sentences and it worked like a charm, then it got killed. However recently I’m seeing more and more alt tag stuffing working.

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Superficial Crawling SEO Strategies

On WebmasterWorld people are discussing big daddy strategies, and on SEORountable they are highlighting how this is becoming a problem for directories. No discussion about Google’s new crawling method would be complete without also looking at Matt Cutts on the indexing timeline. While to some extent things are still in flux, I think we’ve hit [...]

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Reputation Management – Case Study, Part I

Since my experiment in reputation management is actually getting much more interesting than I planned I thought I should go back and do a proper writeup.

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How to Create Duplicate Content on Someone Else’s WordPress Blog

Recently on this blog I went through the process of moving from a dynamic URL structure to static looking URL structure (ie example.com?p=100 to example.com/foo/). Along the way I learned a little bit more about how wordpress works and discovered a way to use this to create duplicate content on someone else’s wordpress blog.

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Shoemoney

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SEO’s Without Hats

Unless I’m especially bored or am looking to stir up trouble somewhere I try to avoid white hat/black hat or other ethical debates like the plague. Basically they are time wasters and you’re never going to convince someone to change their mind. I’m sure somewhere someone out there considers me a “white hat”, also Senor [...]

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