So, the idea behind cloaking is to show one page to users and another to visitors, but what happens if that visitors page doesn't work right? Well, chocolati.com, owned by a local Seattle chocolatier, had just this problem: ...
Viggen at SERoundtable forums asked if the search engines ever hired prominent spammers to help their search quality control teams. It's a very logical question, but as far as I'm aware (or Barry is aware), it's never happened. Why would that be? I can think of some great advantages to a search engine's algo team having a...
I just love this post. My favorites: Website Hijacking: This practice should be called Digital Content Re-Assignment. Offshore Link Building: This process should be known as Financially Prudent Methodology for Increasing Brand Awareness....
Want to see a real life monster link spam network? Start at sml338.org and check out their 44K+ links. It's one of those networks that's still relying on blog comment spam (to a certain degree), but also has so many thousands of links pointed together that they can rank on that alon...
Since Mick's been slow to post lately, I checked out Syndik8's other notable blogging personality and found a host of fascinating material. First, Irish has a nifty "case study" on Aaron Wall's network of SEO-related websites: Though all these ...
I figured it's time to clear the air about identifying the Google "sandbox" penalty and comparing/contrasting it to other effects that can "appear" sandboxy. Here are the steps to take to determine if you're in Google's sandbox: Do a site: command at Google (example)If all of yo...
Barry, Donna, PK, Ben & Myself (the moderators from the new SERoundtable forums) are covering sandbox escape strategies in our first ever "Ask the Moderators" series for the forum. Some good responses and good information in the thread. As Barry noted to me, with mod-only threads, the signal-to-noise ratio is much higher than...
Xan Porter (our favorite lady in the IR sphere) points us to some research on the subject of search engines helping new pages and sites to be seen, rather than hiding them (ala sandbox or filthy linking rich theory). ...
Found via Barry. A great debate at SEW on the effectiveness of DaveN's suggested sandbox-dodging technique that's become an all out brawl between big names like Jill Whalen, Ian McAnerin, Mike Grehan and Danny Sullivan on the existence of and qualities possesse...
There's a thread at cre8asite from severidaho on a tool called Instant Booster (man, I'm really linking to the bad 'hoods these days). If you check out the site, it's mortifying... they ask if you can afford to "loose" 300,000 potential visitors...
From a thread at SEW: ok get an old domain, something which google crawls, then put a subdomain on it ... newsite.olddomain.com original and copy the site exactly on the sub as it is in the orginal date last modifed to a few months after the domain was first regist...
Kat was doing some competitive link analysis and came across a page that surprised her. It appeared that the information at the top of the page was shown in a strange, braille format below.... But, as ...
Ian Mcanerin has noted on his blog a test to see if he can get the website www.mcanerin.us ranking for the term "dotus" at Google (specifically ...
At SEW, rumbinder is asking what can be done about an SEC investigation page that pops up whenever folks search for his company. The first piece of advice comes from seomike, who shows rumbinder the 302-hijacking trick and recommends its use to "take down" the SEC page. ...