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 - 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 [...]
Jun - 1st
Wordpress Hacking, Matt Mullenweg, And Some Screwed Up Priorities
Posted at 7:45 am | Filed Under WTF, Wordpress, bad research, blogthropology, lackofmeds, priorities, scams
I clean Wordpress installations for people who have been hacked. I can help fix non-Wordpress sites as well, but since often times the way people find me is through the guide I wrote on how to fix Wordpress after you’ve been hacked it turns out that’s what they need me to do for them a [...]
May - 31st
My Mom Needed Me To Let The Plumber In While She Was At Work (True Story)
Posted at 9:54 pm | Filed Under On The Ball-ness, blogthropology, how-to, lackofmeds
I work from my house and keep odd hours, so when a family member needs some sort of worker let into their house during the day I am often asked if I am available to do it. I don’t mind, we all live fairly close together, and it’s not that much of a hassle [...]
May - 14th
GoDaddy’s Suggestion For The Cause Of Their Hacks And Their Community Blog – Can You Smell The Irony?
Posted at 3:52 pm | Filed Under Social Media, WTF, Wordpress, blogthropology, coding, customer service, lackofmeds, nerdiness, web design
Yesterday I blogged about the hacking situation with GoDaddy hosting and a customer service call I had with them concerning some evidence I had found. While it is true that as this has progressed GoDaddy has widened their scope in investigating what the underlying cause of these hacks are, initially they claimed that the issue [...]
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 [...]
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