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Derek Powazek outed himself big-mouthed and ignorant, and why that’s a pity
With childish attacks on his colleagues, Derek Powazek didn’t do professional Web development –as an industry– a favor. As a matter of fact, Derek Powazek insulted savvy Web developers, Web designers, even search engine staff, as we...
Full disclosure @ FTC
Trying to avoid an $11,000 fine in the Federal Trade Commission’s war on bloggers: When I write about praise search engines, that’s totally paid-for because I’ve received free search results upfront. Copyright © 2009 Sebastian`...
Search engines should make shortened URIs somewhat persistent
URI shorteners are crap. Each and every shortened URI expresses a design flaw. All –or at least most– public URI shorteners will shut down sooner or later, because shortened URIs are hard to monetize. Making use of 3rd party URI shortener...
The “just create compelling and useful content” lie
I’m so sick of the universal answer to all SEO questions. Each and every search engine rep keeps telling me that “creating a great and useful site with compelling content will gain me all the rankings I deserve”. What a pile of bull...
Vaporize yourself before Google burns your linking power
I couldn’t care less about PageRank™ sculpting, because a well thought out link architecture does the job with all search engines, not just Google. That’s where Google is right on the money. They own PageRank™, hence they can ...
Opting out: mailto://me is history
Today I’ve removed all instances of the thunderbird icon from my computers, and from my memory as well. I’m finally done with email. I’ve forwarded1) all my email accounts to paid-links@google.com, and here’s why: Sebastian&#...
Avoid catch-22 situations - don’t try to store more than the current screen values
Enough is enough. Folks following me at Twitter may have noticed that suffering from an unchangeable, seriously painful all-red-in-red Twitter color scheme over weeks and weeks results in a somewhat grumpy mood of yours truly. I’ve learned that...
Dump your self-banning CMS
When it comes to cluelessness [silliness, idiocy, stupidity … you name it], you can’t beat CMS developers. You really can’t. There’s literally no way to kill search engine traffic that the average content management system (CM...
Why storing URLs with truncated trailing slashes is an utterly idiocy
With some Web services URL canonicalization has a downside. What works great for major search engines like Google can fire back when a Web service like Yahoo thinks circumcising URLs is cool. Proper URL canonicalization might, for example, screw your...
The hacker tool MSN-LiveSearch is responsible for brute force attacks
A while ago I’ve staged a public SEO contest, asking whether the 401 HTTP response code prevents from search engine indexing or not. Password protected site areas should be safe from indexing, because legit search engine crawlers do not submit...
Sorry Aaron Wall - I fucked up
My somewhat sarcastic post “Avoiding the well known #4 penalty“, where I joked about a possible Google #6 filter and criticized the SEO/Webmaster community for invalid methods of dealing with SERP anomalies, reads like “Aaron Wall i...
Avoiding the well known #4 SERP-hero-penalty …
… I just have to link to North South Media’s neat collection of Search Action Figures. Paul pretty much dislikes folks who don’t link to him, so Danny Sullivan and Rand Fishkin are well advised to drop a link every now and then, an...
Dealing with spamming content thieves / plagiarists (oylinki.com)
When it comes to crap like plagiarism you shouldn’t consider me a gentleman. If assclowns like Veronica Domb steal my content and publish it along with likewise stolen comments on their blatantly spamming site oylinki.com, I’m somewhat u...
BlogCatalog needs professional help
A while ago I helped BlogCatalog to fix an issue with their JavaScript click tracking that Google considered somewhat crappy. The friendly BlogCatalog guys said thanks, and since then joining BC was on my ToDo-list because it seemed to be a decent se...
MSN spam to continue says the Live Search Blog
It seems MSN/LiveSearch has tweaked their rogue bots and continues to spam innocent Web sites just in case they could cloak. I see a rant coming, but first the facts and news. Since August 2007 MSN runs a bogus bot faking a human visitor coming from ...
Microsoft funding bankrupt Live Search experiment with porn spam
If only this headline would be linkbait … of course it’s not sarcastic. Rumors are out that Microsoft will launch a porn affiliate programm soon. The top secret code name for this project is “pornbucks”, but analysts say that...
Gaming Sphinn is not worth it
OMFG, yet another post on Sphinn? Yup. I tell you why gaming Sphinn is counter productive, because I just don’t want to read another whiny rant in the lines of “why do you ignore my stuff whilst A listers [whatever this undefined term mea...
