From the monthly archives:

December 2006

Craigslist Spam

by Greg December 28, 2006 Search

I came across three different posts today talking about spam on Craigslist. What I found most interesting about all the stories is the fact that no one seemed to get the SEO connection.
The increase in affiliate related spam everyone’s seeing is due in large part to Google’s infatuation with the Craigslist domain. Google routinely [...]

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Stupid Things We Say – Part 2

by Greg December 27, 2006 Search

Last St. Patrick’s Day, I had a couple of cocktails and wrote a post called “Stupid Things We Say.” That post contained some examples of really stupid press releases that were distributed through PR Web by companies in the SEO space. At the time I wrote it, I was just trying to kill some [...]

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Jimmy Wales – Google Killer

by Greg December 24, 2006 Search

Can Jimmy Wales Really Kill Google?
I doubt it. But it’s been fun reading some of the ridiculous posts that are all over the web right now. The first one I came across this morning was a post by Isabel Wang titled:
Wikipedia Founder Launches Human Powered Search Engine; Goodbye to SEO?
Jimmy is going to kill [...]

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Blog Tagging

by barbara December 24, 2006 Uncategorized

I really enjoyed reading all the recent blog taggings. I was waiting for someone to add…”if you don’t forward this to 5 friends right away you will lose all Google positions for 5 years”.
I wasn’t tagged, but I figure I’ll throw in 5 things people might not know about my SEOH. Things that [...]

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Frog Talk Part 2 – Gord Speaks on Behalf of Searchers

by Greg December 21, 2006 Search

While we’re busy arguing organic vs. ppc from a marketer’s point of view, Gord was putting together a great post about actual search user behavior. Definitely worth a read.
Look, David Pasternak can ring the funeral bell for organic all he wants, but the fact is, it’s not his call. It’s the user’s. Yahoo has actually [...]

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