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Another comment on ‘directories:’ If all your title tags and meta-descriptions include how you’re ‘SEO friendly!’ and all that fluff, and your main means of promotion seems to be spammy footer tags in WordPress themes released under Creative Commons (meaning that someone’s not supposed to remove them), you probably pass about as much link value as [...] I think any reasonably competent SEO has the good sense on how to tell if a directory is ‘good’ or ‘eh.’ Unfortunately, many of our clients, let alone non-clients who think they can’t afford SEO advice, don’t have the well-honed sense of smell. Nor should they be expected to — one of the advantages for a [...] 1. We admitted we were powerless over search engine rankings–that our obsession with Googling ourselves had become unmanageable. Understand: I think most major directories, at this point, suck. Consider: DMOZ: Mostly broken, and they’ve reached the volunteer organizational size where bizarrities and politics get in the way of either people who want to volunteer, or any of the volunteers being effective. Yahoo!: Listings are by those who are paying for it. Editorial review is mostly ‘is [...] In honor of Spring Break, we remind you why spam filters and comment moderation are blogger tools to cherish:
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Paid Link Crackdown
It’s all over the place: Google is looking at ways to get bitchy about paid links and hidden links.
I hate hidden links, simply because playing games with CSS to hide links from users is a clear sign of some form of dumbassery occurring.
But paid links are a really messy area. There’s a billion comments in [...]