Jan - 15th

Maybe The Wired Guys AREN’T The Tech Geek Gods We All Thought They Were

Posted at 9:50 am | Filed Under On The Ball-ness, coding, nerdiness

Yesterday, Smackdown noted that Wired put a robots.txt in place in response to spammers trying to use their wiki for spamalicious links. Oddly enough, that robots.txt also blocked everyone and everything, including Google and all the rest of the search engines, from the site. (Caveat: When I say “blocked everyone”, I’m referring to [...]

Jan - 14th

Wired Says Screw It To All Search Engines After SEL Inspired Spam Attack, Disallows EVERYTHING With Robots.txt

Posted at 1:24 pm | Filed Under Google, On The Ball-ness, SEO, blogthropology, coding, nerdiness

So, it looks like after the mishap this past Friday, where SEL accidentally exposed the Wired How-To wiki to spammers, Wired has instituted their new spam deterrent measures. They seem to have gone just a tad bit overboard, if you ask me.

Jan - 12th

Oh Just Grow A Pair!

Posted at 12:22 am | Filed Under Google, On The Ball-ness, SEO, blogthropology

Danny Sullivan is actually off the hook cause I’m sick tonight, and have no energy to speak of… I was going to do a deeply involved detailed post having to do with cojones growing and owning up to events as they really happened…
Instead, I’ll just ask…

Dec - 18th

All Humor Aside, Here’s Why Matt Cutts Statement About AdWords Above SERPS Is BS

Posted at 10:24 pm | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, On The Ball-ness, SEO, blogthropology, lackofmeds

Sometimes, as geeks, we forget how the non-geek mind works. Things we take for granted as being obvious aren’t always so to the untrained eye. Yes, when most of us who live on the Internet perform a search on Google, we know without even thinking what is sponsored and what is not. Most of us [...]

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 - 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 [...]