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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008I 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, 2007Niche social media sites are coming out of the woodwork.
Poetical Spam Subject Lines
Thursday, July 19th, 2007Spam subject lines are poetic.
New Webmaster Central Feature
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007Google’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, 2007Rolling 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, 2007If 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, 2007Rand 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, 2007This 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 [...]
