My experiment sites are currently pending analysis, so I thought I’d stick in a more general article today. As I consider myself something of the black sheep or somewhat estranged cousin of the mainstream SEO industry(understandably), I figured it would be a good idea to put this out there. Whitehat SEO, while not at a [...]
Ok. So after the dramabomb that was yesterday, I thought I’d drop a more traditional entry. The guide here is going to be essentially for people that are constantly worried about the big G getting wise to their tactics. Especially with Google’s recent “shading in” of most whitehats by killing off even widget bait, more [...]
That’s right. I am officially pleading with Microsoft. Microsoft, we all NEED you to get better. There is too much competition within your bowels amongst the blackhats, and you are simply a source of confusion or ignorance for many whitehats. And right now, you don’t get enough searches to satisfy either. Right now, as the [...]
I’m going to take my turn kicking the dead horse that is the “seo standards” because quite honestly, I’m absolutely amazed that this is even being proposed. The entire concept of SEO standards is both wrong and impossible for so many reasons, that I will probably have to skimp on a few to preserve some [...]
Over the past bit I’ve been mentally going back and forth over some complicated and personal issues about the future. And I found myself examining my various methods of income, and thinking “how will these be in the future”. Blackhat is by far the most interesting in this respect. Matt Cutts himself has stated that [...]
Ok. This is a debate that’s been raging in my mind for a few days. Google seemingly has almost multiple personalities and abilities. On the one hand, they are completely naive. On the other hand, they are capable of bringing down massive networks in a matter of seconds. So how much credit should they be [...]
Alright. So recently I was examining a niche that I previously succeeded in, and decided “Why not? I’ll throw up an adwords campaign in the same niche”. Well people, that solidified the belief that PPC and SEO need to be done together, as I’ll explain in this entry. It’s pretty amazing to me how many [...]
Alright. So whether or not Google likes to admit it, almost every site examined or banned for linkspam/cloaking is a manual review. I’ve seen cloaked domains indexed since 2002, and I’ve seen them get banned in 2 weeks. What’s the difference between the two? Link spam. Pissy admins have been the beign of the blackhat’s [...]
Alright. So in the past I’ve covered the basics of scraping and content generation. But today we’re going to look at a more whitehat way to utilize scraped data. While technically this has some copyright issues attached, they’re rarely caught, and are most often traceable. The ethical scraper can always source his content. This really [...]
Alright. So I’ve talked about link velocity before, but I’ll re-hash it quickly for those who missed it. Link Velocity is essentially the rate at which a site is gaining inbound links on a day to day basis. For anyone on an aggressive link building campaign, you eventually saturate your potential links. You have few [...]
