Dec - 18th
Matt Cutts Says: Paid Ads *Are* A Type Of Search
Posted at 10:30 am | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, On The Ball-ness, blogthropology, lackofmeds
As many of you know, Andy Beard has been out of the posting loop lately, due to being preoccupied with moving. Luckily he did manage to get in a much needed review of Matt Cutts post on paid links.
I stumbled across the post last night, and I saw a quote by Matt Cutts that caught [...]
Dec - 1st
Newbs, ‘Science’ Spinning, ‘Teesway One Nine Nine’, And A Saturday Meme
Posted at 10:51 am | Filed Under On The Ball-ness, blogthropology, coding, lackofmeds, nerdiness
One of the sites I own happens to involve electronic poetry. On that site, on the bottom of the pages, I incorporated a news feed. Nothing fancy, just shows a few stories, their headlines, links, and brief snippets. Occasionally, for news stories with very few results, someone will stumble across my site when researching the [...]
Nov - 22nd
Microsoft Starts Covering Their Ass On Rogue Bot Intrusions
Posted at 12:08 pm | Filed Under MSN, On The Ball-ness, SEO, blogthropology, coding, lackofmeds, scams
A quick update to the Microsoft Rogue Bot Fiasco. It looks like now they have correctly DNS’d the IP range that they are sending these bogus requests from. Previously, all of the IP’s (which I first mentioned were all coming from the 65.55.165.* block) reverse DNS’d to names such as bl2sch1081901.phx.gbl. They have apparently changed [...]
Nov - 13th
Microsoft Needs To Quit Fucking With My AdSense Scripts
Posted at 3:13 pm | Filed Under MSN, On The Ball-ness, SEO, blogthropology, coding, lackofmeds, scams
A few months back I discovered that I was being hit with massive amounts of referrer spam. It was a little odd, because the phrases weren’t made to look like I had links coming from some sleazy little viagra or porn site… no, these were made to look like I was ranking for all kinds [...]
Oct - 26th
Ok… Who’s The Smartass That Spam-Reported YouTube?
Posted at 11:39 pm | Filed Under Google, SEO, blogthropology, lackofmeds
Or, I guess more to the point would be, who’s the dumbass that didn’t follow up the report by manually checking before applying the penalty? I mean, c’mon now… you guys aren’t going to going to try and still claim that this whole mess is about penalties, after screwing up the PageRank of a company [...]
Oct - 7th
Guys, Rand Didn’t Do It For Linkbait…
Posted at 12:50 pm | Filed Under SEO, blogthropology, lackofmeds, scams
At least, not in the way most people seem to think. That’s just not the way it looks to me. This is probably the 4th or 5th time now I’ve seen the recent Rand fiasco speculated upon as being typical link bait (very nice read Li, by the way). Personally I thought the motivation behind [...]
Oct - 5th
Hey, Rand… Since It’s Not Wrong…
Posted at 1:49 pm | Filed Under SEO, blogthropology, lackofmeds, scams
Why don’t you out the sites you advised to purchase links? I mean, you clearly stated:
I’ve encouraged some of our clients to purchase links in the past and I suspect I’ll do so in the future (though we generally try to be extremely careful about it).
Oct - 5th
We’re Saved! Rand Fishkin Gonna Tell Google How It Is!
Posted at 8:56 am | Filed Under On The Ball-ness, SEO, blogthropology, lackofmeds, psychoblogging, scams
So, in the wake of Rand screwing up yet again, a bright shining ray of hope has at last emerged. No more must we webmasters huddle in fear of Google spanking us for doing what we have full right to do anyways. No more will people like Michael Gray, Rae Hoffman, or Andy Beard need [...]
Sep - 21st
Why Rand Is Wrong About The ‘Twelve Attributes’, Part 2 - The Touchy-Feely Version
Posted at 4:25 pm | Filed Under On The Ball-ness, SEO, blogthropology, lackofmeds, scams
Oh, golly gee whillikers! It looks like I stepped on a toe or two! My bad. Time out! Take backs (sorta)!
For those whose delicate sensitivities interfered with seeing what I was saying, here it is again, without the commentary.
Sep - 21st
Why SEOmoz Needs A “For Entertainment Purposes Only” Disclaimer
Posted at 7:28 am | Filed Under On The Ball-ness, SEO, blogthropology, lackofmeds, scams
Note to all the more delicate members of my audience: you might want to consider reading this instead: “Why Rand Is Wrong About The ‘Twelve Attributes’, Part 2 - The Touchy-Feely Version“. All others, please feel free to continue here.
Some people have mentioned to me that they think at times I might be a little [...]
