A couple of weeks ago, Rand Fishkin of SEOMoz posted a piece entitled, “You’re Not On The List“, designed to educate the public as to “why so many {directories} have little to no value”. This was following their release of a list, available only to SEOMoz Premium Members, of what SEOMoz had tagged as being quality directories. Basically it was designed to convince people that they would benefit from paying to have access to SEOMoz’s list, because the directories not on the list suck so badly.
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Supplemental Results, Paid Links, and Priorities Slightly Out Of Whack
I was hanging out over at Matt Cutts’ blog today, where the subject at hand was SEO Tip: Avoid Keyword Stuffing. The discussion centered around a site that was blatantly stuffing keywords on its pages, and happened to get banned by Google. The conversation turned, as conversation tend to do, to other penalties sites suffer, and how not all sites that were penalized actually deserved them.
My attention was caught by a comment by Aaron Pratt, of SEO Buzz Box, having to do with the penalty of Supplemental Pages:
Even Google Can’t Believe Someone Could Lose $13 Billion Overnight
So I was checking to see if I still ranked from last Thursdays post about Google losing $13 Billion in after hours trading. It looks like Google (GOOG, Google Inc.) themselves couldn’t believe someone could lose that much overnight.
Bush Scheduled To Get Colonoscopy From Nationally Renowned Neurologist
It was announced today that on Saturday President Bush will undergo a “routine” colonoscopy. It was determined at this time, due to the bizarre events surrounding the president’s desire to axe Big Bird and invade Sesame Street, that perhaps it would be best if this procedure were carried out by a qualified neurologist.
Google Loses $13 Billion Overnight – Bad Check Fees Adding Up?
Hot on the heels of Google AdSense checks reportedly bouncing, and as Google heads to Washington to defend it’s recent Doubleclick acquisition (which as we all know, is part of their attempt to buy the whole Internet), it now looks like Google has managed to lose $13 Billion… overnight. (Thanks to Nathan Weinberg of InsideGoogle for reporting on this.)
Jiffy Lube – Drive In, Get Screwed
I know, not exactly new (the video is from August 2006), but still worth spreading the word about.
I love the way at the end the guy tries to pretend he is not in charge. 😀
Google AdSense Team Thinks I’m Special!
So, I received an invitation today from the Google AdSense Team. Very attractive subject line, I must say:
Google AdSense Survey – Win $1,000
Followed up, of course, by a direct stroke to my ego:
Digg Flaw Gives Out Digg Login Info!
Let’s hear it for sensationalism! On Digg today, I came across the following headline: “Google Flaw Gives Out MySpace Login Info!”. It’s referring to an article by Loren Baker, and a story he wrote about how Google is collecting login information for other services without using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), which would
Official Witch Hunting Season Opens
So, apparently Google has recently changed their guidelines to include a nice little tidbit about Why should I report paid links to Google? Matt Cutts did discuss this on his blog before, but making it official Google policy is something else altogether. Does anyone else sense the oncoming bloodlust
Google’s New ConSextual Advertising Program
So, according to the FishSEO blog, it looks like Google has decided to continue to allow companies to monetize their parked adult themed domain names. I, for one, am thrilled (as I am sure most other advertisers of non-adult themed businesses are). Now, in addition to getting traffic to my finance related sites from domains like www.getmorewidgets.com and www.thepsychicofsedona.com, I can look forward to what I am sure will be well converting traffic from people who happen to land on high quality sites such as, get ready, www.jerkfest.org.
