Comment Spam Working Like a Charm for Local SERPs

This is not an outing post so I’m not naming any names or domains, it’s just a quick case study into what works these days for some SERPs. The whole SEO industry has been sweating over penalties for advertorials and …

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You Can Stick Your Link Removal Request Up Your Arse

Getting link removal requests has been nothing new for the last 9 months but it’s not every day that you would see somebody as clueless as this sending them out. This just hit my inbox: Attention Site Owner – Several …

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Evil Recipes for App Domination

Been reading this post by Rishi Lakhani and it gave me some ideas (heck at least something Inbound is good for lol). Firstly, I suddenly felt the urge to go check the authorised apps in my own Twitter account. I …

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Be Careful What You Write When Spamming Me

Got this in my comments some time ago: Rueben Gaarder *******.INFO *****@gmail.com Hello Web Admin, I noticed that your On-Page SEO is is missing a few factors, for one you do not use all three H tags in your post, …

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How to Get Your Site Banned in 3 Easy Steps

Every SEO worth their salt should have three things handy (apart from their brain and imagination, of course): A high authority, high PR site A spammy, banned site A clear understanding when to use each This is probably not the …

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Ways to Scale Content Creation

Content. The keystone of post-Panda SEO. Your thin affiliate sites are not good enough any more, nor is your contentless link spam. You hear every newbie and seasoned SEO alike saying it on every corner: C-O-N-T-E-N-T. And you subdue. You …

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My Reply to Google’s Updates

Did this a while ago (right after G hit us with 3 updates in 10 days – all those Panda refreshes, Penguin refreshes, EMD…) but thought I’d post it here now. The effect that Google often reaches with all these …

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Spam Zeitgeist

Akismet Spam vs Ham Is it me or is there a clear drop in spam in 2012 presumably? The reasons being? People relying less on comment spam due to whatever reasons, including recent G updates? Akismet getting worse at catching …

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No, This Site Will Not Exchange Links

After the umptieth email from less-than-apt linkbuilders asking if I would like to exchange links, I need to vent. These days, too many people call themselves SEOs. Technically, majority of them would be really called linkbuilders – but they are …

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Scrapebox/Hrefer Ruby Alternative in 5 Minutes

A huge part of a linkbuilding campaign’s success, regardless of the hat color and the kind of links being built, is a proper selection of resources. You come up with your platform footprints or whatever other qualifiers, you come up …

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