Jun - 10th
CNN Refuses To Discuss Kucinich’s Articles Of Impeachment?
Posted at 7:48 pm | Filed Under On The Ball-ness, Social Media, lackofmeds, scams, the prez
Last night Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) introduced 35 articles of impeachment against George W. Bush. This would be, to most reasonable thinking persons, newsworthy. CNN, however,
Apr - 8th
Network Solutions: Not Just Thieves and Hijackers, Now Using Tactics That Can Get Your Site Banned From Google
Posted at 11:03 pm | Filed Under Google, SEO, lackofmeds, scams, web design
Network Solutions apparently wasn’t happy just being slimy in the domain purchasing arena (see: WARNING: Do not check domains at Network Solutions by John Honeck for background on that one), and have now moved into the realm of not caring if they damage your existing sites as well.
According to TechCrunch, NetSol is now engaging [...]
Mar - 23rd
New Wordpress 2.3.3 Exploit/Vulnerability - Adds Spam Directory /wp-content/1/
Posted at 3:51 am | Filed Under On The Ball-ness, blogthropology, coding, nerdiness, scams
Ok, so I just had 2 of my WP installs hacked, on 2 different servers. This is not the same thing that Shoemoney reported on a few days back (hidden link injection), and as of yet I have not seen any definitive answers as to what it is. All of my blogs were upgraded to [...]
Mar - 5th
Official Sphinn Standpoint: Infomercials Are *Not* Spam
Posted at 4:48 am | Filed Under SEO, Social Media, blogthropology, lackofmeds, scams
Last Friday, poking around, I came across an article that had been submitted to Sphinn at the beginning of the week entitled “1:1 Interview With Search Marketing Authority and Visionary Hamlet Batista”. In the description it is billed as “a great interview where Hamlet discusses his introduction to SEO/SEM, touching on his immensely successful [...]
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 - 21st
Rand Fishkin Chooses Between Putting Up and Shutting Up - Guess Which He Chose?
Posted at 6:52 pm | Filed Under SEO, blogthropology, scams
I have blogged in the past about how annoying Rand Fishkin’s tactic of avoiding direct questions by obfuscation is. It especially irks me because in order to work it relies on taking advantage of people’s low attention spans, and in making the conversation too painful for most to bear. Often times pursuing winning an argument [...]
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 - 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 [...]
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