Recent Posts Tagged With 'risky linkage'

• As if sloppy social media users ain’t bad enough … search engines support traffic theft

  Posted on Monday October 26th, 2009 at 14:18 in google, yahoo, spam, msn, twitter, social web, search quality, risky linkage, uri shortening

  Prepare for a dose of techy tin foil hattery. [Skip rant] Again, I’m going to rant about a nightmare that Twitter & Co created with their crappy, thoughtless and shortsighted software designs: URI shorteners (yup, it’s URI, not URL)....

• Search engines should make shortened URIs somewhat persistent

  Posted on Wednesday October 7th, 2009 at 12:29 in google, SEO, yahoo, msn, crap, twitter, social web, redirects, risky linkage, uri shortening

  URI shorteners are crap. Each and every shortened URI expresses a design flaw. All –or at least most– public URI shorteners will shut down sooner or later, because shortened URIs are hard to monetize. Making use of 3rd party URI shortener...

• How to handle a machine-readable pandemic that search engines cannot control

  Posted on Friday June 19th, 2009 at 15:59 in google, SEO, blogging, web development, microformats, nofollow, cloaking, paid links, search quality, x-robots-tag, risky linkage

  When you’re familiar with my various rants on the ever morphing rel-nofollow microformat infectious link disease, don’t read further. This post is not polemic, ironic, insulting, or otherwise meant to entertain you. I’m just raving ...

• Opting out: mailto://me is history

  Posted on Wednesday May 27th, 2009 at 14:00 in Internet Marketing, fun, spam, crap, link building, reciprocal links, paid links, risky linkage, spam report

  Today I’ve removed all instances of the thunderbird icon from my computers, and from my memory as well. I’m finally done with email. I’ve forwarded1) all my email accounts to paid-links@google.com, and here’s why: Sebastian&#...

• You can’t escape from Google-Jail when …

  Posted on Wednesday February 27th, 2008 at 05:50 in reciprocal links, webspam, paid links, risky linkage, spam report

  … you’ve boosted your business Web site’s rankings with shitloads of crappy links. The 11th SEO commandment: Don’t promote your white hat sites with black hat link building methods! It may work for a while, but once you find y...

• Act out your sophisticated affiliate link paranoia

  Posted on Tuesday November 13th, 2007 at 01:09 in web development, e-commerce, nofollow, cloaking, robots.txt, redirects, paid links, search quality, crawler directives, x-robots-tag, risky linkage

  My recent posts on managing affiliate links and nofollow cloaking paid links led to so many reactions from my readers that I thought explaining possible protection levels could make sense. Google’s request to condomize affiliate links is a bit,...

• Text link broker woes: Google’s smart paid link sniffers

  Posted on Tuesday November 6th, 2007 at 10:44 in link building, anchor text, paid links, risky linkage

  After the recent toolbar PageRank massacre link brokers are in the spotlight. One of them, TNX beta1, asked me to post a paid review of their service. It took a while to explain that nobody can buy a sales pitch here. I offered to write a pitiless ho...

• A pragmatic defence against Google’s anti paid links campaign

  Posted on Friday October 26th, 2007 at 09:39 in nofollow, cloaking, paid links, search quality, crawler directives, risky linkage

  Google’s recent shot across the bows of a gazillion sites handling paid links, advertising, or internal cross links not compliant to Google’s imagination of a natural link is a call for action. Google’s message is clear: “cond...