Jan - 25th
Matt Cutts: Industry Leaders Are Incapable Of Performing Editorial Discretion
Posted at 1:01 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, SEO
For those of you who have missed the stories behind Google making Donna Fontenot jump through hoops and taking her prisoner of war, where’s a brief rundown. At one time Donna accepted money for advertising (fully disclaimed as such), and some forms of those adverts involved the client getting a link back. Google pimp slapped [...]
Jan - 24th
Hey, Donna… Your Lips Tired Yet From Puckering That Long?
Posted at 11:28 pm | Filed Under anti-smackdown, blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, SEO
Donna, I admire you. You sure do have some stamina, the way you’ve had them Louisiana lips of yours puckered so firmly to Google’s evil ass this long. I dumped text link ads. I nofollowed paid links. I javascripted links that might be mistaken for paid links. I canceled my sponsored review accounts. I switched [...]
Jan - 15th
Maybe The Wired Guys AREN’T The Tech Geek Gods We All Thought They Were
Posted at 9:50 am | Filed Under coding, nerdiness, On The Ball-ness
Yesterday, Smackdown noted that Wired put a robots.txt in place in response to spammers trying to use their wiki for spamalicious links. Oddly enough, that robots.txt also blocked everyone and everything, including Google and all the rest of the search engines, from the site. (Caveat: When I say “blocked everyone”, I’m referring to everyone who [...]
Jan - 14th
Wired Says Screw It To All Search Engines After SEL Inspired Spam Attack, Disallows EVERYTHING With Robots.txt
Posted at 1:24 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, Google, nerdiness, On The Ball-ness, SEO
So, it looks like after the mishap this past Friday, where SEL accidentally exposed the Wired How-To wiki to spammers, Wired has instituted their new spam deterrent measures. They seem to have gone just a tad bit overboard, if you ask me.
Jan - 12th
Oh Just Grow A Pair!
Posted at 12:22 am | Filed Under blogthropology, Google, On The Ball-ness, SEO
Danny Sullivan is actually off the hook cause I’m sick tonight, and have no energy to speak of… I was going to do a deeply involved detailed post having to do with cojones growing and owning up to events as they really happened… Instead, I’ll just ask…
