“Penguin Safe Links” Bullshit Spreading Around

By IrishWonder | October 22, 2012

Crap hats on Facebook

Partial knowledge is a dangerous thing. You have heard of Google’s Penguin update(s), maybe you have even gone as far as reading a few blog posts on the topic, not necessarily even the official version on Google’s blog or Matt Cutts’ take on it, enter the real world… You have a site to rank, what [...]

Topics: Myths and Crap, Snake Oil | 13 Comments »

10 Things Your SEO Doesn’t Know

By Janeth | August 31, 2012

MINUTES spent online2

Google is an SEO’s god.  It’s true and many SEO don’t know it.  Google says add this text, or remove that tag and an SEO will race to see how fast he can please Google.Just a whisper of a new algo change will have SEO’s running to their computer to see if they can discover [...]

Topics: Reality Check | 17 Comments »

10 Email Tips for Prospecting SEOs

By WojKwasi | June 12, 2012

willy-wonka-seo

From time to time (every day), the SEOs of this world get inundated with kind offers from prospective companies proposing to help them do their jobs by alleviating some of the tasks they must undertake in their daily grind. I’ve compiled some useful tips to help any budding spa-*cough* special ops email marketer put together [...]

Topics: Old School Spammers, Other Stuff | 19 Comments »

Penguin Recovery Posts; please just stop

By theGypsy | May 29, 2012

Penguin recovery tweet

I have seen more than a few posts over the last fucking while with shit stating they had somehow (miraculously) recovered from the recent Google Penguin algorithm update. There are also a whack more of them talking about HOW to do so. Either way, I call BULLSHIT. Why? That’s fairly simple. Allow …

Topics: Snake Oil | 27 Comments »

Google Update; Semantic Terminology Framework Utilization

By theGypsy | May 28, 2012

New Google WTFU algorithm update

Recently Google announced, as part of their monthly updates, a new method of semantic analysis they believe will help them in dealing with over aggressive search engine optimization practices. Code named ‘Orca’ (project name; hide and seek) it will apparently be a companion to the now infamous Penguin and Panda …

Topics: Myths and Crap, Reality Check | 17 Comments »

You Can’t Compete With “Psycho”

By King Douche | May 2, 2012

I often get asked, “What IS your goal, King?” “Domination to the point of demoralization,” is my answer. That’s when the bug-eyed, blank stare hits me. The concept of my strategy is so under-estimated, so feared, so rare, that no one hardly ever gets it that THAT is what I’m doing.    Go fucking psycho [...]

Topics: Other Stuff | 5 Comments »

Video SEO Bullshit – I Call Your Bluff!

By IrishWonder | April 30, 2012

Recently I have been researching what everybody else is saying about Video SEO. The topic being new and hot, it is interesting to see how it unwinds. While there certainly are some good bits of information around (including SEODojo’s podcast on the topic with Carla Marshall and Steve Gerenscer), there is plenty of stuff that [...]

Topics: Reality Check | 5 Comments »

Google Presents “Titanic” aka “Penguin” – Coming To SERPS Near You

By King Douche | April 26, 2012

Holy sweet mother of God. There’s adjustments, and there’s EVICTIONS.  Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to Google’s latest algo adjustment dubbed ‘Titanic.”  Why “Titanic?”  Because you’ll be searching for survivors, that’s why.  Well, the official name has now been officially entitled “Penguin.”   Our original “Titanic” moniker was at least  related to [...]

Topics: Other Stuff | 16 Comments »

Ladies and Gentlemen, We’ve Got Legal Juice

By King Douche | April 19, 2012

This week, Matt Cutts posted a 12 second video answering the question “Do Images pass PageRank?” This 12 second video simply responds, ‘yes.’ Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve got legal, paid juice passing. This means that there is a white-hat way to flow juice while paying for it. So, yeah, it’s not a ‘paid link’ but [...]

Topics: Other Stuff | 10 Comments »

Grey Hat To White Hat Disaster

By King Douche | March 18, 2012

disaster

I knew it was going to be rough.   I knew it was going to be bad.  I had no idea how bad.  It’s a total and complete SERP disaster. So, last quarter, I wrote about how I declared Google the winner of the “you better go white hat or else” stalemate.  I did paid [...]

Topics: Other Stuff | 28 Comments »

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