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? [...]
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 [...]
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 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:
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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