Mar - 8th
Mahalo.com: Meet the New Spam, Worse than the Old Spam
Posted at 12:23 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, scams, SEO
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 [...]
Mar - 8th
Jason Calacanis Makes Matt Cutts A Liar
Posted at 8:45 am | Filed Under blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, scams, SEO
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 [...]
Feb - 22nd
Apparently Jason Calacanis Knows He’s Spamming – He Just Thinks It’s No Big Deal
Posted at 8:30 am | Filed Under blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, marketing, psychoblogging, scams, SEO
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 [...]
Apr - 16th
Google Decides To Slow Down Search Results And Cloak Their New Tracking URLS
Posted at 12:09 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, SEO, 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 [...]
Mar - 13th
Google Re-initiates Testing of AJAX SERP’s With Faulty Proposed Fix
Posted at 11:14 am | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, On The Ball-ness, SEO
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 [...]
Jan - 21st
SERPs Scrapers, Rejoice! Matt Cutts Endorses Indexing Of Search Results In Google!
Posted at 5:39 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, nerdiness, On The Ball-ness, SEO, 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 [...]
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 [...]
Sep - 15th
Google Fundamentally Changes The Way They Handle 302 Redirects (Welcome Back 302 Hijack!)
Posted at 8:00 am | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, On The Ball-ness, SEO, web design
For years now, on an on-again/off-again basis, Google has had issues with the way that they treat 302 Temporary Redirects. Going back at least as far as 2004, you can find discussions about websites getting hijacked in the serps, all due to problems arising from the way that 302′s were treated. The issue was that [...]
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 blogthropology, coding, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, SEO, 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 I [...]
May - 23rd
Googlebot Creates Pages Instead of Simply Indexing Them: New FORM Crawling Algo Goes Bad
Posted at 8:03 am | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, Cuttisms, Google, On The Ball-ness, 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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