Mar - 13th

The Mahalo Paid Link Evidence Trail

Posted at 5:53 pm | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, SEO, blogthropology, lackofmeds, marketing

Matt Cutts asked me in a Sphinn comment the following question relating the my post on paid links on Mahalo.com:

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Mar - 12th

Jason Calacanis: Screw You Google, Now I’ll Sell Links Too

Posted at 8:45 am | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, SEO, Social Media, lackofmeds, scams, search engines

By now Google has to be getting more than a little embarrassed about the behavior of Mr. Jason Calacanis and his site, Mahalo.com. Aaron Wall did a very well written piece explaining how Mahalo Makes Black Look White and the spammy techniques they were employing. This isn’t the first time Aaron has blogged about Mahalo [...]

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Mar - 11th

Jason Calacanis’ Backup Plan For Replacing Content: Steal It From Wikipedia

Posted at 1:11 pm | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, SEO, Social Media, blogthropology, lackofmeds, search engines

/sigh
Ok Jason, we get it, you’re desperate. But stealing content from Wikipedia in order to replace what you deleted? Come on!
I am flipping through Mahalo.com today, just seeing if

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Mar - 10th

Dear Jason Calacanis: This Isn’t An “Absurd Microscope”

Posted at 8:43 am | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, SEO, blogthropology, lackofmeds, nerdiness, scams

Jason Calacanis replied to my post from yesterday. In it he discusses how he is indeed deleting many of the spammy pages that I had pointed out. Some, like the duplicate content doorway pages, he continues to defend. Either way, progress is being made.
However, he still kinda kills it by tossing in at the end [...]

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Mar - 8th

Mahalo.com: Meet the New Spam, Worse than the Old Spam

Posted at 12:23 pm | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, SEO, blogthropology, lackofmeds, scams

Last week, after Matt Cutts gave Jason Calacanis a warning about Mahalo.com’s spammier pages (and probably a few stern looks as well), Jason changed a few items. He had them rename their spambot from “searchclick” to “stub”, thinking a less obvious name would throw off anyone looking into the spam situation. Very briefly they added [...]

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Mar - 8th

Jason Calacanis Makes Matt Cutts A Liar

Posted at 8:45 am | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, SEO, blogthropology, lackofmeds, scams

Last week at SMX West, during the Ask The Search Engines panel, moderator Danny Sullivan asked Matt Cutts why he didn’t ban Mahalo.com for spamming Google. Matt stated that he had talked to Jason Calacanis, Mahalo.com CEO, about the issues, and warned him that Google might “take action” if Jason didn’t make some changes to [...]

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Feb - 22nd

Apparently Jason Calacanis Knows He’s Spamming – He Just Thinks It’s No Big Deal

Posted at 8:30 am | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, SEO, blogthropology, lackofmeds, marketing, psychoblogging

Last month Jason Calacanis wrote a rather sarcastic post aimed at Aaron Wall, which I am assuming was written in response to Aaron’s post, “Black Hat SEO Case Study: How Mahalo Makes Black Look White!“. In it Aaron discusses how sites that are composed largely of nothing more than auto-generated pages wrapped in adsense can [...]

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Apr - 16th

Google Decides To Slow Down Search Results And Cloak Their New Tracking URLS

Posted at 12:09 pm | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, SEO, blogthropology, coding, lackofmeds, web design

Today over at ReadWriteWeb Sarah Perez wrote an article on how Google was gaining ground on their share of the search market. In the article she talked about the latest buzz from Google Analytics blog having to do with changes to the way Google.com handles clicks in their serps, which were a implemented as result [...]

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Mar - 13th

Google Re-initiates Testing of AJAX SERP’s With Faulty Proposed Fix

Posted at 11:14 am | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, On The Ball-ness, SEO, blogthropology, coding, lackofmeds

Last month I blogged about the fact that I had noticed that Google was playing around with delivering the SERP’s via AJAX. I pointed out that due to the way that referrers work, using AJAX to generate the pages would cause all traffic coming from Google to look like it was coming from Google’s homepage [...]

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Jan - 21st

SERPs Scrapers, Rejoice! Matt Cutts Endorses Indexing Of Search Results In Google!

Posted at 5:39 pm | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, On The Ball-ness, SEO, blogthropology, lackofmeds, nerdiness, the prez

That’s right… today Matt Cutts completely reversed his opinion on pages indexed in Google that are nothing more than copies of auto-generated snippets.
Back in March of 2007, Matt discussed search results within search results, and Google’s dislike for them:
In general, we’ve seen that users usually don’t want to see search results (or copies of [...]

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