May - 27th

If Googleplex Employees Don’t Understand The Webmaster Guidelines, How Can They Expect Webmasters To Adhere To Them?

Posted at 8:43 am | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, SEO, blogthropology, coding, lackofmeds, web design

Last month, in one of my posts, I had decided to include a few images to see how well they might rank for their keyphrases. I had never targeted any of the image searches, and due to one of the topics of the post it seemed like a good opportunity to do so. When [...]

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May - 23rd

Googlebot Creates Pages Instead of Simply Indexing Them: New FORM Crawling Algo Goes Bad

Posted at 8:03 am | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, On The Ball-ness, blogthropology, coding, web design

Last month Google revealed a new crawling method that they were testing out, whereby they were filling out forms on sites that they came across, in order to help facilitate the discovery of new pages. Matt Cutts discussed it here last month. I had noticed the phenomena

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Apr - 27th

You MUST Charge Matt Cutts For Linking To Him

Posted at 8:05 pm | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, Social Media, blogthropology, nerdiness

No, seriously folks. Links have value. If they didn’t have value, then Google wouldn’t care about people buying and selling them. Since they have value, we must avoid even the appearance of impropriety. Not only is it what he wants… it’s Google policy. And even if it weren’t Google policy,

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Mar - 13th

Link Bait Kindergarten: Creative Thinking Must Come First

Posted at 5:58 pm | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, On The Ball-ness, SEO, blogthropology, nerdiness

This Tuesday Matt Cutts published a post, that he had originally written in Dec 2005, entitled SEO Advice: Getting Links, where he outlined some good ideas that can lead to getting more links in to your site naturally. Some of the concepts he touched on were things such as providing a useful service (one [...]

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Feb - 21st

Google Reconsideration Request Language Modified Again

Posted at 4:30 pm | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, SEO, anti-smackdown, blogthropology

Kudos goes out to Matt Cutts, again.
The changes to the language in the Google Reconsideration Request (formerly known as the Reinclusion Request), that were discussed on SEO Scoop back on December 3rd and here on Smackdown again on the 18th, have finally gone through. Essentially, the changes have to do with

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Jan - 25th

Matt Cutts: Industry Leaders Are Incapable Of Performing Editorial Discretion

Posted at 1:01 pm | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, SEO, blogthropology

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 [...]

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Jan - 24th

Hey, Donna… Your Lips Tired Yet From Puckering That Long?

Posted at 11:28 pm | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, SEO, anti-smackdown, blogthropology

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 to [...]

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Dec - 18th

All Humor Aside, Here’s Why Matt Cutts Statement About AdWords Above SERPS Is BS

Posted at 10:24 pm | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, On The Ball-ness, SEO, blogthropology, lackofmeds

Sometimes, as geeks, we forget how the non-geek mind works. Things we take for granted as being obvious aren’t always so to the untrained eye. Yes, when most of us who live on the Internet perform a search on Google, we know without even thinking what is sponsored and what is not. Most of us [...]

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Dec - 18th

Matt Cutts Says: Paid Ads *Are* A Type Of Search

Posted at 10:30 am | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, On The Ball-ness, blogthropology, lackofmeds

As many of you know, Andy Beard has been out of the posting loop lately, due to being preoccupied with moving. Luckily he did manage to get in a much needed review of Matt Cutts post on paid links.
I stumbled across the post last night, and I saw a quote by Matt Cutts that caught [...]

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Dec - 18th

Matt Cutts Comes Through! (Well, Mostly…)

Posted at 7:59 am | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, SEO, anti-smackdown, blogthropology

Way to go, Matt!
Although he said that it could take a while, it looks like the changes Matt mentioned he started the ball rolling on, that DazzlinDonna posted about back on Dec 3rd, “Admission of Guilt Will No Longer Be Required For Google Reconsideration Request“, have indeed gone through. For the most part, [...]

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