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Black Hat

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

I really miss the days when people used the term ‘black hat’ to indicate fun-yet-illegal SEO techniques that took some style and technical know-how to pull off effectively.
It seems like the n00bz all want to define ‘black hat’ as ‘anything Google says is naughty!’ Of course, that would include things like keyword stuffing, which [...]

Dumb Internet Ideas

Friday, July 25th, 2008

…when any jerk could get venture capital for a web start-up, even without the faintest clue how the service would ever make money?
It’s excellent to see that such big dreams can still be made reality. I genuinely do not comprehend how Cha Cha will ever monetize the mobile search thing they’re doing. They already eliminated [...]

Social Media is Getting Out of Hand

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Niche social media sites are coming out of the woodwork.

Poetical Spam Subject Lines

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

Spam subject lines are poetic.

New Webmaster Central Feature

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

Google’s Webmaster Central added a feature allowing secured communication between the search giant and webmasters. Neato.

Black Hat SEO vs. Dunce Cap SEO

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

‘Black hat SEO’ is a label often erroneously applied to what are really ‘dunce cap’ online marketing tactics.

Political Search

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

Rolling into the three-decade long primary race, we have studies evaluating the search effectiveness of various US presidential candidates already.
One limiter of the study is that it seems to focus purely on PPC spend. I find some of what various candidates are doing from an organic perspective to be far more interesting. They’re all on [...]

Helpful Domain Tip

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

If you’re out registering a dot-com domain, and an available domain seems too good to be true here in 2007, go see if it has any residual inbound links (use Yahoo!) or a history over at archive.org.
If you get a really coherent domain name, chances are it’s been used before. Now, sometimes you’ll be fine. [...]

Dealing with Penalties

Friday, June 15th, 2007

Rand over at SEOMoz did a great job of putting together a flow-chart of dealing with Google penalties the other day.
He was more polite about one topic than I often want to be relative to a site owner claiming penalty: He refers to the alternative as losing rank to competitors. In many cases, the unvarnished [...]

Reliability of Online Reviews

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

This one’s for the Funk King of Minneapolis, Paul Jahn.
There’s a Salon blog post today on the reliability of online reviews. Here’s a choice bit:
Online ratings are beset by one main flaw, something pollsters call “response bias.” Because people are more likely to rate products that have moved them in some way — either positively [...]

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