Mar - 13th
The Mahalo Paid Link Evidence Trail
Posted at 5:53 pm | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, SEO, blogthropology, lackofmeds, marketing
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, SEO, Social Media, lackofmeds, scams, search engines
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 [...]
Mar - 11th
Jason Calacanis’ Backup Plan For Replacing Content: Steal It From Wikipedia
Posted at 1:11 pm | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, SEO, Social Media, blogthropology, lackofmeds, search engines
/sigh
Ok Jason, we get it, you’re desperate. But stealing content from Wikipedia in order to replace what you deleted? Come on!
I am flipping through Mahalo.com today, just seeing if
Mar - 10th
Dear Jason Calacanis: This Isn’t An “Absurd Microscope”
Posted at 8:43 am | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, SEO, blogthropology, lackofmeds, nerdiness, scams
Jason Calacanis replied to my post from yesterday. In it he discusses how he is indeed deleting many of the spammy pages that I had pointed out. Some, like the duplicate content doorway pages, he continues to defend. Either way, progress is being made.
However, he still kinda kills it by tossing in at the end [...]
Mar - 8th
Mahalo.com: Meet the New Spam, Worse than the Old Spam
Posted at 12:23 pm | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, SEO, blogthropology, lackofmeds, scams
Last week, after Matt Cutts gave Jason Calacanis a warning about Mahalo.com’s spammier pages (and probably a few stern looks as well), Jason changed a few items. He had them rename their spambot from “searchclick” to “stub”, thinking a less obvious name would throw off anyone looking into the spam situation. Very briefly they added [...]
Mar - 8th
Jason Calacanis Makes Matt Cutts A Liar
Posted at 8:45 am | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, SEO, blogthropology, lackofmeds, scams
Last week at SMX West, during the Ask The Search Engines panel, moderator Danny Sullivan asked Matt Cutts why he didn’t ban Mahalo.com for spamming Google. Matt stated that he had talked to Jason Calacanis, Mahalo.com CEO, about the issues, and warned him that Google might “take action” if Jason didn’t make some changes to [...]
Feb - 22nd
Apparently Jason Calacanis Knows He’s Spamming – He Just Thinks It’s No Big Deal
Posted at 8:30 am | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, SEO, blogthropology, lackofmeds, marketing, psychoblogging
Last month Jason Calacanis wrote a rather sarcastic post aimed at Aaron Wall, which I am assuming was written in response to Aaron’s post, “Black Hat SEO Case Study: How Mahalo Makes Black Look White!“. In it Aaron discusses how sites that are composed largely of nothing more than auto-generated pages wrapped in adsense can [...]
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 [...]
Jan - 22nd
Why The Renewed Interest In The Linkscape Scams And Deception..?
Posted at 5:15 pm | Filed Under SEO, WTF, blogthropology, lackofmeds, psychoblogging, scams
Yesterday a friend of mine, Sebastian, wrote a post titled, “How do Majestic and LinkScape get their raw data?“. Basically it is a renewed rant about SEOmoz and their deceptions surrounding the Linkscape product that they launched back in October 2008, a little over 15 months ago. The controversy is based around the fact that [...]
Apr - 16th
Google Decides To Slow Down Search Results And Cloak Their New Tracking URLS
Posted at 12:09 pm | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, SEO, blogthropology, coding, lackofmeds, web design
Today over at ReadWriteWeb Sarah Perez wrote an article on how Google was gaining ground on their share of the search market. In the article she talked about the latest buzz from Google Analytics blog having to do with changes to the way Google.com handles clicks in their serps, which were a implemented as result [...]
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