Nov - 21st
Matt Cutts, If This Paid Link Were A Snake It Would Have Bitten You In The Ass
Posted at 8:53 am | Filed Under blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, nerdiness, On The Ball-ness, SEO, Social Media
Wednesday TechCrunch posted an article about a new ad product launched by MediaWhiz. The name of the product is InLinks, and it involves people being able to purchase anchor rich text links embedded into content in a way that is supposed to give it a “natural” feel. Michael Arrington called the product “insidious”. His whole [...]
Nov - 18th
Google Tries Too Hard To Appear Useful, Starts Making Up New Words
Posted at 12:16 am | Filed Under coding, Google, lackofmeds, nerdiness, SEO
The Google Search feature that Google calls “Spell Checker” can be very handy at times. You know the one I mean… you type something hastily in the box, manage to inadvertently slip in a typo or two, and Google, very helpfully, asks you “Did you mean: {some other word}”. Aside from putting a dent in [...]
Nov - 16th
Yet Another Link Test – Single Source Page, Multiple Links, Nofollowed Middle
Posted at 1:13 am | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, Google, SEO
Last year I performed a couple of tests on what happens if you have multiple links pointing to the same page all from the same source page. Today a reader left a comment from one of the follow-up posts, which had to do with answering the question of what happens if the first link is [...]
