Aug - 23rd
Breaking News: Google Borks the Earth
Posted at 4:22 pm | Filed Under Google, coding, lackofmeds, nerdiness, search engines
Want to explore the entire planet from your computer? Normally all anyone wanting to do so would have to do would be to trot on over to Google Earth, download and install their application, and off globe trotting they could go. Today, unfortunately, those who do not already have the program installed are apparently out [...]
Jun - 21st
zOMG! Jason Calacanis Lied Again?? Shocker!
Posted at 7:45 am | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, SEO, blogthropology, lackofmeds, scams, search engines
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 Cuttisms, Google, SEO, blogthropology, lackofmeds, scams
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 Cuttisms, Google, SEO, blogthropology, nerdiness
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 - 11th
Was The Google Mayday Update A Complete Failure Then?
Posted at 10:52 am | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, SEO, blogthropology, lackofmeds, search engines
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 [...]
Mar - 18th
Google’s God Complex [PIC]
Posted at 7:30 am | Filed Under Google, lackofmeds, nerdiness
Based on what Google chose to put in the #1 position for this query, it looks like Google is developing a teensy bit of an overinflated ego:
Megalomania, anyone?
Mar - 13th
The Mahalo Paid Link Evidence Trail
Posted at 5:53 pm | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, SEO, blogthropology, lackofmeds, marketing, scams
Matt Cutts asked me in a Sphinn comment the following question relating the my post on paid links on Mahalo.com:
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 [...]
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, scams, 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
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 [...]
