Nov - 22nd
Google Says “Fuck It” For The Christmas Season, Removes The Ability To Report AdSense Violations
Posted at 3:57 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, Google, lackofmeds, marketing, scams, search engines
It has to be tough policing a program like AdSense. It must be exceptionally difficult during the holiday season, when the payoff to running scams grows so much more. It is so tough, in fact, that this year as the holiday shopping season grows near, with Black Friday just a few short days away, that [...]
Oct - 8th
Brandlink Communications, TheBloggess, PR Fails, and Fallout
Posted at 12:51 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, customer service, freedom-of-speech, Google, lackofmeds, marketing, SEO, Social Media
Before reading the rest of this post, if you are not already an avid fan of TheBloggess, and have not read about the PR company vice president who called her a “fucking bitch” due to him being clueless who it was his company was pitching, then you should start here first: Brandlink Communications. Go ahead [...]
Jan - 31st
How Matt Cutts Leveraged The Stack Overflow And Hacker News Communities In Redefining The Phrase “Content Farms”
Posted at 4:52 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, marketing, search engines, SEO, spin
A little over a week ago, on the Friday before last, Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s Web Spam Team, wrote a post on the Official Google Blog titled “Google search and search engine spam”. This post, and the upcoming changes it discussed, were most likely in response to a growing trend of dissatisfaction with [...]
Jan - 30th
Matt Cutts Criticizes Deceptive Ads, Doesn’t Realize Google Is The One Serving Them
Posted at 4:00 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, marketing, scams, search engines
Yesterday over on Daggle.com Danny Sullivan published a post titled, Of Misleading Acai Berry Ads & Fake Editorial Sites. In the article Danny discuses a rising trend of deceptive marketing practices involving fake news sites, the way they rip people off with products they are selling, and the fact that authority sites such as the [...]
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: Be Sociable, Share! Tweet
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 [...]
May - 24th
Win A Date With Pedobear? WTF??
Posted at 10:35 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, lackofmeds, marketing, Social Media
I was checking out a link a friend of mine Stumbled on tonight, when I see this ad for what looks like a teen dating site. Like most of the adult version dating sites that you see plastered all over the internet these days, the banner ad featured profile pics of the girls you could [...]
