Smackdown!

Oct - 26th

Ok… Who’s The Smartass That Spam-Reported YouTube?

Posted at 11:39 pm | Filed Under Google, SEO, blogthropology, lackofmeds

Or, I guess more to the point would be, who’s the dumbass that didn’t follow up the report by manually checking before applying the penalty? I mean, c’mon now… you guys aren’t going to going to try and still claim that this whole mess is about penalties, after screwing up the PageRank of a company [...]

Oct - 25th

Single Source Page Link Test Using Multiple Links With Varying Anchor Text – Part Two

Posted at 12:37 am | Filed Under SEO, blogthropology, coding, nerdiness, web design

Back on October 9th, I blogged about a test I performed that demonstrated only the first link on a given page will count as far as ranking purposes go. In the thread where the test originated, pops (of TOONRefugee cartoon blog) asked what would happen if the first link were nofollowed. Since I had no [...]

Oct - 9th

You May Be Screwing Yourself With Hyperlinked Headers

Posted at 11:22 am | Filed Under Google, SEO, coding, web design

If you are like me, then you probably link your header images to your homepage. It is natural behavior these days to click on the header of a page and expect to be taken back to the beginning. However, a recent experiment I conducted over on SEO Refugee, and a comment by Wit, has me [...]

Oct - 7th

Guys, Rand Didn’t Do It For Linkbait…

Posted at 12:50 pm | Filed Under SEO, blogthropology, lackofmeds, scams

At least, not in the way most people seem to think. That’s just not the way it looks to me. This is probably the 4th or 5th time now I’ve seen the recent Rand fiasco speculated upon as being typical link bait (very nice read Li, by the way). Personally I thought the motivation behind [...]

Oct - 5th

Hey, Rand… Since It’s Not Wrong…

Posted at 1:49 pm | Filed Under SEO, blogthropology, lackofmeds, scams

Why don’t you out the sites you advised to purchase links? I mean, you clearly stated:

I’ve encouraged some of our clients to purchase links in the past and I suspect I’ll do so in the future (though we generally try to be extremely careful about it).

Oct - 5th

We’re Saved! Rand Fishkin Gonna Tell Google How It Is!

Posted at 8:56 am | Filed Under On The Ball-ness, SEO, blogthropology, lackofmeds, psychoblogging, scams

So, in the wake of Rand screwing up yet again, a bright shining ray of hope has at last emerged. No more must we webmasters huddle in fear of Google spanking us for doing what we have full right to do anyways. No more will people like Michael Gray, Rae Hoffman, or Andy Beard need [...]