Mar - 11th
Jason Calacanis’ Backup Plan For Replacing Content: Steal It From Wikipedia
Posted at 1:11 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, scams, search engines, SEO, Social Media
/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 blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, nerdiness, scams, SEO
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 [...]
Mar - 8th
Mahalo.com: Meet the New Spam, Worse than the Old Spam
Posted at 12:23 pm | Filed Under blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, scams, SEO
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 blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, scams, SEO
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 blogthropology, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, marketing, psychoblogging, scams, SEO
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, lackofmeds, MSN, On The Ball-ness, search engines, SEO
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 blogthropology, lackofmeds, psychoblogging, scams, SEO, WTF
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 blogthropology, coding, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, SEO, 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 [...]
Mar - 13th
Google Re-initiates Testing of AJAX SERP’s With Faulty Proposed Fix
Posted at 11:14 am | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, Cuttisms, Google, lackofmeds, On The Ball-ness, SEO
Last month I blogged about the fact that I had noticed that Google was playing around with delivering the SERP’s via AJAX. I pointed out that due to the way that referrers work, using AJAX to generate the pages would cause all traffic coming from Google to look like it was coming from Google’s homepage [...]
Feb - 2nd
What Will *Really* Break If Google Switches To AJAX…?
Posted at 11:26 am | Filed Under blogthropology, coding, Google, lackofmeds, SEO, web design
On Friday I wrote a piece on how it looked like Google was testing AJAX results in the main serps. Some discussion followed as to whether, if this change were to become a widespread permanent one, this would affect Firefox plugins that existed (definitely some existing ones would stop working), break some of the rank [...]
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