Jan - 31st

How Matt Cutts Leveraged The Stack Overflow And Hacker News Communities In Redefining The Phrase “Content Farms”

Posted at 4:52 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, marketing, search engines, SEO, spin

A little over a week ago, on the Friday before last, Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s Web Spam Team, wrote a post on the Official Google Blog titled “Google search and search engine spam”. This post, and the upcoming changes it discussed, were most likely in response to a growing trend of dissatisfaction with [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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? [...]

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Jun - 11th

Was The Google Mayday Update A Complete Failure Then?

Posted at 10:52 am | Filed Under blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, search engines, SEO

Earlier this week at SMX Advanced Seattle, during the You&A With Matt Cutts, the topic of the latest Google update, dubbed Mayday by webmaster last month, happened to come up. According to Ryan Jones’ live blogging account of the SMX Keynote the update had nothing to do with the web spam team. It was an [...]

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Mar - 13th

The Mahalo Paid Link Evidence Trail

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

Matt Cutts asked me in a Sphinn comment the following question relating the my post on paid links on Mahalo.com: Be Sociable, Share! Tweet

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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, lackofmeds, scams, search engines, SEO, Social Media

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 blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, scams, search engines, SEO, Social Media

/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 Be Sociable, Share! Tweet

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Mar - 10th

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

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

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 [...]

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