Jul - 3rd
Best.Nigerian.Scam.EVER! (We gonna send you to jail if you don’t read this email, do you get me?)
Posted at 1:22 pm | Filed Under lackofmeds, nerdiness, scams, WTF
I have seen some pretty off the wall Nigerian Scam letters in the past, but this one has to be one of the most amazing I have ever received. Reading through this is an anthropological goldmine of insight into just how disconnected the scammers in that country are from how life really works here in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sep - 9th
*Proof* That The New SEOmoz Tool Is At Least Half Accurate
Posted at 7:06 am | Filed Under bad research, coding, nerdiness, scams, SEO
There has been quite of bit of controversy over the past few days arising from the new LDA based tool recently released by SEOmoz. While there may have been some very well thought out, compelling arguments against giving this tool any credit whatsoever, I have to tell you that in my opinion no argument, no [...]
Aug - 17th
I Finally Figured Out Who Jason Calacanis Reminds Me Of
Posted at 8:32 am | Filed Under blogthropology, nerdiness, scams, Social Media
In all of the discussions and posts about Jason Calacanis, whenever and wherever he replied to people calling him on his bullshit, it always had the same tired familiar ring to it. His statements have that tone that all scam artists and con men have utilized throughout the ages, professing their innocence despite the preponderance [...]
Jun - 21st
zOMG! Jason Calacanis Lied Again?? Shocker!
Posted at 7:45 am | Filed Under blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, scams, search engines, SEO
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 blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, scams, SEO
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 - 1st
WordPress Hacking, Matt Mullenweg, And Some Screwed Up Priorities
Posted at 7:45 am | Filed Under bad research, blogthropology, lackofmeds, priorities, scams, Wordpress, WTF
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 [...]
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
Mar - 12th
Jason Calacanis: Screw You Google, Now I’ll Sell Links Too
Posted at 8:45 am | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, scams, search engines, SEO, Social Media
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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