Jun - 24th
How To Completely Clean Your Hacked WordPress Installation
Posted at 10:11 am | Filed Under On The Ball-ness, SEO, blogthropology, coding, web design
Getting hacked sucks, plain and simple. It can affect your rankings, cause your readership to be exposed to virus and trojan attacks, make you an unwilling promoter to subject material you may not actually endorse, and in many cases cause the loss of valuable content. However, once it happens it is usually best to [...]
Jun - 10th
Google Updates List Of Third-Party Ad Providers
Posted at 2:38 pm | Filed Under Google, On The Ball-ness, SEO, Social Media, blogthropology, lackofmeds
Well, that was quick. For those of you not using my Free Google Third-Party Ad Providers Widget, which automatically updates whenever Google changes their list of third-party ad providers, it’s time to update your privacy policies once again.
If you are already using the widget,
May - 27th
If Googleplex Employees Don’t Understand The Webmaster Guidelines, How Can They Expect Webmasters To Adhere To Them?
Posted at 8:43 am | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, SEO, blogthropology, coding, lackofmeds, web design
Last month, in one of my posts, I had decided to include a few images to see how well they might rank for their keyphrases. I had never targeted any of the image searches, and due to one of the topics of the post it seemed like a good opportunity to do so. When [...]
Apr - 27th
Sitelinks at #60 - A Warning Shot From Google
Posted at 2:58 am | Filed Under Google, SEO, Social Media, blogthropology
Last Thursday Barry Schwartz (Rustybrick) reported over at SERoundtable about a discussion going on in a Google Groups thread, having to do with a webmaster who had dropped 6 pages from the #1 spot, but was still seeing sitelinks when he did get to his listing. Barry said that he did not see the listings [...]
Apr - 25th
Introducing: PuzzCAPTCHA Advanced Comment Form Protection, LinkMyPics - The Hotlink Advantage Maximizer… Oh, and Evan Rachel Wood, Topless [NFSW]
Posted at 3:42 pm | Filed Under Google, SEO, Social Media, blogthropology, coding, web design
No, my blog wasn’t hacked by porno webmasters, and no, I’m not converting Smackdown to an adult website (although, to be honest, kids or sensitive people should always approach my blog with caution). I wanted to test some of the various image search algos, and as it just so happens the search [Evan Rachel [...]
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 - 13th
Link Bait Kindergarten: Creative Thinking Must Come First
Posted at 5:58 pm | Filed Under Cuttisms, Google, On The Ball-ness, SEO, blogthropology, nerdiness
This Tuesday Matt Cutts published a post, that he had originally written in Dec 2005, entitled SEO Advice: Getting Links, where he outlined some good ideas that can lead to getting more links in to your site naturally. Some of the concepts he touched on were things such as providing a useful service (one [...]
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 [...]
Feb - 26th
Spammer? Or Budding Creative Marketer?
Posted at 12:13 pm | Filed Under On The Ball-ness, SEO, Social Media, blogthropology
Before I went to bed last night it looked like the nightly spam attack was in full swing at Sphinn again. This morning when I looked, I could see that it was still going on, although it seemed as if the mods had at least deleted most of it. One submission that did catch my [...]
Feb - 22nd
Banned From Sphinn? No Worries, Your Vote Counts Either Way
Posted at 2:02 pm | Filed Under On The Ball-ness, SEO, Social Media
I was perusing Sphinn today, and noticed a submission in the Top 10 list entitled “Google University Bulgaria turns into a PR disaster“. Disaster? Wow, I thought, I had better read that!
Turns out it had to do with a bunch of people registering for an invite only Google event, and then Google rejecting a bunch [...]
