Feb - 16th
Is Google Referrer Spamming Too Now?
Posted at 8:59 am | Filed Under Google, MSN, On The Ball-ness, SEO, lackofmeds, search engines
Yesterday a friend of mine sent me a section of her traffic logs that were showing some odd information. According to what was recorded there her brand new, as of yet unlinked-to website was ranking on the first page of Google for the single keyword, [free]. If she actually had managed to rank for that [...]
Mar - 13th
Google Re-initiates Testing of AJAX SERP’s With Faulty Proposed Fix
Posted at 11:14 am | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, On The Ball-ness, SEO, blogthropology, coding, lackofmeds
Last month I blogged about the fact that I had noticed that Google was playing around with delivering the SERP’s via AJAX. I pointed out that due to the way that referrers work, using AJAX to generate the pages would cause all traffic coming from Google to look like it was coming from Google’s homepage [...]
Mar - 2nd
Robert Scoble Chews Out Lisa Barone’s Ass For Taking His Name In Vain – WTF?
Posted at 11:36 pm | Filed Under On The Ball-ness, Social Media, blogthropology, lackofmeds, psychoblogging
Tonight Robert ‘I Am Thy Lord And Thou Shalt Kneel, Bitches!’ Scoble, a blogger who has some claim to internet fame through his blog Scobleizer, decided that the title of “technical evangelist” that has been often attributed him simply wasn’t enough, and that deity is apparently more fitting.
Lisa Barone wrote a piece talking about personal [...]
Jan - 21st
SERPs Scrapers, Rejoice! Matt Cutts Endorses Indexing Of Search Results In Google!
Posted at 5:39 pm | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, On The Ball-ness, SEO, blogthropology, lackofmeds, nerdiness, the prez
That’s right… today Matt Cutts completely reversed his opinion on pages indexed in Google that are nothing more than copies of auto-generated snippets.
Back in March of 2007, Matt discussed search results within search results, and Google’s dislike for them:
In general, we’ve seen that users usually don’t want to see search results (or copies of [...]
Nov - 21st
Matt Cutts, If This Paid Link Were A Snake It Would Have Bitten You In The Ass
Posted at 8:53 am | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, On The Ball-ness, SEO, Social Media, blogthropology, nerdiness
Wednesday TechCrunch posted an article about a new ad product launched by MediaWhiz. The name of the product is InLinks, and it involves people being able to purchase anchor rich text links embedded into content in a way that is supposed to give it a “natural” feel. Michael Arrington called the product “insidious”. [...]
Oct - 21st
How To Remove Your Website From Linkscape *Without* An SEOmoz Meta Tag
Posted at 3:55 am | Filed Under On The Ball-ness, SEO, Social Media, blogthropology, lackofmeds, nerdiness, psychoblogging, scams, web design
Over the past couple of weeks, one of the biggest concerns about SEOmoz’s new Linkscape tool (which I recently blogged about in reference to the bots that Rand refuses to identify, and then again due to suspicious additions of a phantom 7 billion pages to one of his index sources) has been the complete [...]
Oct - 17th
How To Block The Bots SEOmoz *Isn’t* Telling You About
Posted at 2:05 pm | Filed Under On The Ball-ness, SEO, Social Media, blogthropology, coding, lackofmeds, nerdiness, psychoblogging, scams
Ok, so, looks like Rand and gang finally decided to reveal their top-secret recipe about how they gathered all that information on everybody’s websites without anyone noticing what they were doing. There was quite a bit of hoopla over the fact that when they announced their new index of 30 billion web pages (and [...]
Oct - 10th
Google Allows Ads Mocking Suicide
Posted at 3:40 pm | Filed Under Google, On The Ball-ness, Social Media, blogthropology, lackofmeds, psychoblogging
During the Great Depression, the suicide rate jumped over 21.4%. It was a sad time for all, and the unemployment rate skyrocketed. Many people lost their homes and farms. The shame of not being able to provide for their families was simply too much for some. Last June, “Good Morning America” did a segment [...]
Sep - 15th
Google Fundamentally Changes The Way They Handle 302 Redirects (Welcome Back 302 Hijack!)
Posted at 8:00 am | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, On The Ball-ness, SEO, blogthropology, coding, lackofmeds, web design
For years now, on an on-again/off-again basis, Google has had issues with the way that they treat 302 Temporary Redirects. Going back at least as far as 2004, you can find discussions about websites getting hijacked in the serps, all due to problems arising from the way that 302’s were treated. The issue was [...]
Aug - 1st
Google Lowers The Bar On Customer Service Yet Again
Posted at 12:56 pm | Filed Under Google, On The Ball-ness, blogthropology, customer service, lackofmeds
For the second year running Fortune magazine has named Google (GOOG) as the #1 place to work for in America. Their article last year states that Google “sets the standard for Silicon Valley: free meals, swimming spa, and free doctors onsite. Engineers can spend 20% of time on independent projects. No wonder Google gets [...]
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