Jan - 30th
Matt Cutts Criticizes Deceptive Ads, Doesn’t Realize Google Is The One Serving Them
Posted at 4:00 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, marketing, scams, search engines
Yesterday over on Daggle.com Danny Sullivan published a post titled, Of Misleading Acai Berry Ads & Fake Editorial Sites. In the article Danny discuses a rising trend of deceptive marketing practices involving fake news sites, the way they rip people off with products they are selling, and the fact that authority sites such as the [...]
Jan - 27th
Google Censors Torrent Sites – Except For The Pirate Bay
Posted at 12:49 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, Google, lackofmeds, On The Ball-ness
Yesterday Search Engine Land reported about Google removing piracy-related terms from it’s Instant Search, which includes the word torrents, names of torrent sites, names of torrent clients, and other file sharing sites such as RapidShare and Megaupload. This does raise some concerns, seeing as how, as SELand’s Matt McGee mentions, torrents and file sharing sites [...]
Nov - 24th
Evolution of a Book Meme
Posted at 11:51 am | Filed Under blogthropology
Today I was tagged 3 different times in a Facebook meme targeted to “nerds”. The premise is that there is a list of 100 books, and “The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.” Apparently, I really am a nerd. I know how these things go, and [...]
Nov - 10th
Hacked on GoDaddy? I’ll Migrate You To Hostgator For Free
Posted at 12:07 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, customer service, Wordpress
Yet again, I am seeing a rising number of sites that are reporting getting hacked at GoDaddy. It is also no surprise to me that people are getting limited responses from them when they try and find out what is going on. The GoDaddy blog mentions nothing recently aside from when they were hacked 2 [...]
Sep - 20th
Close Up Pic Of A Hot Girl With A Beautiful Smile
Posted at 7:00 am | Filed Under blogthropology, nerdiness, smiles
This is a close-up of my friend Rachel, and her amazing smile. Very, very close up: She makes me smile too.
Aug - 17th
I Finally Figured Out Who Jason Calacanis Reminds Me Of
Posted at 8:32 am | Filed Under blogthropology, nerdiness, scams, Social Media
In all of the discussions and posts about Jason Calacanis, whenever and wherever he replied to people calling him on his bullshit, it always had the same tired familiar ring to it. His statements have that tone that all scam artists and con men have utilized throughout the ages, professing their innocence despite the preponderance [...]
Jun - 21st
zOMG! Jason Calacanis Lied Again?? Shocker!
Posted at 7:45 am | Filed Under blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, scams, search engines, SEO
Last Thursday, in response to Matt Cutts stating that he needed more than “arbitrary inurl searches” to sway him (which was in turn in response to a Hacker News submission about Mahalo and the plethora of keyword rich domains they were apparently building out) I wrote a post explaining in some detail how the latest [...]
Jun - 17th
Need Help Understanding The Latest Mahalo Spam?
Posted at 7:30 am | Filed Under blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, scams, SEO
On Tuesday of this week someone posted the following question to the Hacker News website: How long has Mahalo been using keyword domains like this? The link in the story points to a search in Google, [inurl:tip_guidelines mahalo]. The results of this query show a list of somewhere between 180 and 270 sites (Google doesn’t [...]
Jun - 15th
Dear Matt Cutts, What’s Your Take On Addon Domains?
Posted at 2:58 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, nerdiness, SEO
Today Matt Cutts answered a question from “Land Lubber”, Colorado. Land Lubber asks: What’s your take on “addon domains”? Does Google penalize someone for having one or more addon domains on their main website, (or if they’re self hosting)? e.g. 2, 5, or 10 all coming from the same IP address, would that be bad? [...]
Jun - 14th
Rackspace Hacked Clients, Check Your Databases: WordPress “wp_optimize” Backdoor In wp_options Table
Posted at 8:16 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, how-to, nerdiness, Wordpress
Just finished cleaning up a hacked client whose website is hosted on Rackspace Cloud hosting. It is the second one within the past few weeks, although the first one was actually hosting on Laughing Squid, which happens to use Rackspace Cloud. I had discovered that there were a large number of people all on the [...]
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