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Once upon a time it was enough to just break your homepage into pixels and sell them all for a million dollars to become the coolest linkbait on the net. Not anymore. With the amount of clones created for the original Million Dollar Homepage everybody is bored to death with that simple concept (isn’t it the beauty of linkbait - really talanted link bait cannot be copied or stolen). Now, it takes a bit more to stand out of the crowd.

When Michael Gray a.k.a. GrayWolf mentioned he was really awesome it looked pretty catchy but it still was sort of a repetition of an old school “somebody.isgay.com” trick. Now, when I saw Jon Henshaw mention Paul Dixon’s Flyer Wall, that was indeed a cool concept! This guy not only offers you a link but actually designs you a flyer to go with it - very stylish, if you ask me. The idea seems to be picking up too - the current Alexa rank is a bit over 303K.

She would never say where spam came from
TOS don’t matter cause it’s gone
While the sun is out
Or in the darkest night
Noone knows
She spams and goes

Good bye SERPs relevance
Who could spam the hell out of you
When you change with every update
Still I’m gonna spam you!

;-)

Checked G’s buy Viagra SERPs a couple hours ago and it said “Results 1 - 97 of about 147,000 for buy viagra“. The rest were in the omitted results, and #2, 3 and 4 were subdomains of the same domain. Checked them again just now and it’s a totally different picture:

Results 1 - 100 of about 41,100,000 for buy viagra

Out of the 3 subdomains in results 2-4, only one is left now. Hmm?

.. or what happens if you let it run unattended.

The real Scoble’s blog

The other Scoble

Spot the difference, as they say

The guy did a very modest job of the misleading similarity though, I guess if I had a name like that I would have (ab)used it a bit more

So I see people slagging off .edu links a lot recently. I also know that people like to generalize, jump to conclusions and seek cureall solutions. So I think to myself, fine, very fine, the less competition non-creative spammers pestering those .edu sites for links the better

I haven’t been commenting on nearly as many blogs recently as I used to in the old days but I came across a post today that I really had somethng to say about. This was a blogger I’ve never seen before but he had some interesting points so I thought I should say something about it. Well, I was interrupted by somebody and then had to surf away from that page though I have saved the URL of the blog’s home page hoping to get back to it later.

No friggin chance! When I got back to the blog’s home page it took me forever to be able to browse to the post I was interested in because: 1) there was no sidebar with archive links or whatever to that matter; 2) there was no such thing as “recent posts” or the like; 3) there was no link to the next page of posts from the home page and the home page featured like 5 or 6 posts and the post in question has been done like 10 days ago and the blogger seemed to be a very active dude posting like 2-3 posts a day. i tried using one hack I normally use in these cases, namely clicked on the last post on the home page and started clicking my way to the previous  post to that one, then to the previous to that one, etc., but after clicking like that for like 10 minutes I gave up.

Then these people go off and start asking friggin questions about their blog posts not ranking and shit like that, and Matt Cutts goes on explaining about those posts moving off the home page etc. and yet everybody believes blogs are the new SEO but nobody friggin bothers to ask themselves a question: why would my friggin posts rank if my friggin blog navigation sucks??? I am not going to point my finger at anybody in particular as there are shitloads of bloggers like that and even some good buddies of mine have blogs where navigation sucks but heck dudes, next time you choose the layout for your blog, even if you don’t give a f#ck about your blog posts ranking anywhere think of this: it might be IrishWonder or somebody even more important and famous losing their patience and not leaving a comment on your blog just cause your navigation sucks!