Archive for August, 2008
Effects of being flagged as badware in Google
Just a quick note further to my post on wordpress and badware risks; the blog that this happened on had all of its PageRank withdrawn, which has just been reinstated. This indicates to me that there is a likely PageRank penalty of 6 months from the date that a site is flagged as badware. Of [...]
Read More..>>When linkbait becomes dull
All due respect to ShoeMoney but is this really the most interesting thing he can come up with these days? Surely even Calacanis is bored of saying SEO sucks by now?
Read More..>>I am… retarded?
A month on from its launch, I’m still consistently amazed by the poor execution of Orange‘s recent advertising campaign. There are a number of these adverts to be seen on billboards everywhere, which generally consist of cod philosophy statements such as: People are just better together. I am who I am because of everyone. Bleugh. [...]
Read More..>>Domain Predators
This seems like quite a new but seemingly pervasive spam problem I’ve been getting recently as a result of having my details on several whois databases. I receive random emails from several different companies quite a lot now, which is definitely happening more than it did last year. Here’s just one example from ‘dcinchq’: We [...]
Read More..>>Link Sponges
As a new addition to the made-up world of SEO parlance, I’d like to propose the term “Link Sponge”. I may be wrong in thinking there isn’t a phrase for this already, but here’s the definition: Link Sponge – a URL that is used to prettify an otherwise ugly URL, then 302 redirected to a [...]
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