I’ve just posted this on the Google webmaster forum. I may have to dig out Google Ripper and start talking about this again. Its a bloody nuisance! Dear Google, I’ve just found a couple thousand inbound links that are a pharmacy spam exploit. This may be the remnants of an exploit I reported about a […]
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Google Ripper – SPAM Remover Demo
Well its been too long since I last posted but I’ve had so much going on and I had to put some things on the back burner. I recently had a problem with a malicious script on my WordPress blog and had to write a software utility to help me clean up the mess. I’m […]
Google Trends – wtf?
I was searching on Google trends earlier today when I came across the following. See what’s in the #1 position? I wonder who did that? Nasty… If you can’t read it stand on your head or go here; http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Google_Trends_1_Spot_l_oo_no_n
Search Engine Optimization Using rel=nofollow
Some time ago I was lucky enough to get hold of an ebook called Revenge Of The Mininet by Michael Campbell. In that book and associated tools and utilities provided by search engine optimization guru Leslie Rhode was detailed ideas and strategies about how to control the flow of PageRank through your website. I did […]
Geocoding with Google
I’ve been working on a project using the Google maps API recently. I’ve been using it to return the latitude and longtitude of an address and then comparing it against a geo-coded file in a database. The Google maps API is pretty extensive and fairly easy to use. However, there are some things that you […]
Another Pet Peeve with Google
If you’ve ever done any keyword research online you’ll know how tedious it can be. But we live in a competitive world and due diligence requires that we perform at least a basic analysis before we spend money right? And where do we go to do that? Well, a very large percentage of the population […]
The Death of SEO
I remember reading several articles last year about the death of SEO. The main point of these was that eventually Google will perfect its algorithms and search engine results will be accurate based solely on the content, which will be the most relevant. Well, I expect that G would be the first to admit that […]
Notes On Traffic
There are two types of traffic and three categories. Types of Traffic Paid v Free Paid traffic comes in many different forms. Probably the best know today is called Pay Per Click and you may recognize this term as it relates to Google’s Adwords PPC system. Although Google Adwords is still currently the most widely […]
Website Linking Strategy
I’ve been working on a project to increase Google page rank. While a neccessary part of this is to get relevant, inbound links to the website there is also another strategy that should be employed. This is to contain the page rank within certain areas of the site at pass it, where necessary, to ther […]
