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 [...]
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 [...]
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 - 15th
Dear Matt Cutts, What’s Your Take On Addon Domains?
Posted at 2:58 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, nerdiness, SEO
Today Matt Cutts answered a question from “Land Lubber”, Colorado. Land Lubber asks: What’s your take on “addon domains”? Does Google penalize someone for having one or more addon domains on their main website, (or if they’re self hosting)? e.g. 2, 5, or 10 all coming from the same IP address, would that be bad? [...]
Jun - 11th
Was The Google Mayday Update A Complete Failure Then?
Posted at 10:52 am | Filed Under blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, search engines, SEO
Earlier this week at SMX Advanced Seattle, during the You&A With Matt Cutts, the topic of the latest Google update, dubbed Mayday by webmaster last month, happened to come up. According to Ryan Jones’ live blogging account of the SMX Keynote the update had nothing to do with the web spam team. It was an [...]
Mar - 18th
Test of WordPress’s Default Slug Redirect: 301 or 302?
Posted at 10:06 am | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, nerdiness, SEO, Wordpress
Just a quick test to see if WordPress by defaults redirects slug changes using a 301 or 302 redirect. The original url for this post is: http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2010/03/18/test-of-wordpress-default-slug-redirect-301-or-302/ and I am going to change it to: http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2010/03/18/wordpress-redirect-302-or-302/
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:
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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