Jun - 10th

Google Updates List Of Third-Party Ad Providers

Posted at 2:38 pm | Filed Under Google, On The Ball-ness, SEO, Social Media, blogthropology, lackofmeds

Well, that was quick. For those of you not using my Free Google Third-Party Ad Providers Widget, which automatically updates whenever Google changes their list of third-party ad providers, it’s time to update your privacy policies once again.
If you are already using the widget,

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Jun - 1st

Free Google Third-Party Ad Providers Widget

Posted at 8:10 pm | Filed Under Google, Social Media, coding, web design

On February 26, 2008 Google updated it’s AdSense program’s terms to include the following language:

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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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May - 20th

With Only 14 Accident Free Days At Google, Should Google Health Come With A Warning?

Posted at 4:12 pm | Filed Under Google, On The Ball-ness, Social Media, blogthropology, lackofmeds, web design

Often times in factories around the country, looking up on the wall you can see a chalkboard or a sign boasting of how many consecutive “accident free” days those on the job have enjoyed. These are placed there as a form of encouragement for workers to be careful, to encourage healthy competition between departments, and [...]

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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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Apr - 27th

Sitelinks at #60 - A Warning Shot From Google

Posted at 2:58 am | Filed Under Google, SEO, Social Media, blogthropology

Last Thursday Barry Schwartz (Rustybrick) reported over at SERoundtable about a discussion going on in a Google Groups thread, having to do with a webmaster who had dropped 6 pages from the #1 spot, but was still seeing sitelinks when he did get to his listing. Barry said that he did not see the listings [...]

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Apr - 25th

Introducing: PuzzCAPTCHA Advanced Comment Form Protection, LinkMyPics - The Hotlink Advantage Maximizer… Oh, and Evan Rachel Wood, Topless [NFSW]

Posted at 3:42 pm | Filed Under Google, SEO, Social Media, blogthropology, coding, web design

No, my blog wasn’t hacked by porno webmasters, and no, I’m not converting Smackdown to an adult website (although, to be honest, kids or sensitive people should always approach my blog with caution). I wanted to test some of the various image search algos, and as it just so happens the search [Evan Rachel [...]

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Apr - 8th

Network Solutions: Not Just Thieves and Hijackers, Now Using Tactics That Can Get Your Site Banned From Google

Posted at 11:03 pm | Filed Under Google, SEO, lackofmeds, scams, web design

Network Solutions apparently wasn’t happy just being slimy in the domain purchasing arena (see: WARNING: Do not check domains at Network Solutions by John Honeck for background on that one), and have now moved into the realm of not caring if they damage your existing sites as well.
According to TechCrunch, NetSol is now engaging [...]

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Mar - 23rd

Birthplace Of Google Gets Hacked: Blog On Stanford.edu Hit By Latest Wordpress Exploit

Posted at 7:51 pm | Filed Under Google, Social Media, blogthropology, coding, lackofmeds, nerdiness

It looks like even Stanford University, where Google was born, has been victim to the latest Wordpress exploit going around.
I was poking around in the serps from the query I showed in the last post, seeing what blogs had been hit,

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