Snake Oil
Let the LDA Google Games Begin
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
Let the LDA Google Games Begin The LSI myth is all grown up! Here I go again… and seriously, I just can’t fucking help me’self. Ya know? I’ve spent many years defending the flame against those dumb ass people pretending to be SEOs. In particular, the ever popular ‘Dave Bait‘ that is Latent Semantic Indexing/Analysis. [...]
My SEO Copywriting (Not-So) Secret Weapon
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Peer into Google’s predictive algorithm with Google Sets. Looking for creative ideas on what to write for a given topic? Use Google Sets and get some *great* ideas. Can you make a piece of content that uses all the words in a set but still reads perfectly? How well do you think this content would [...]
SERP Scoring Algorithm
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
I don’t excel at much. What I do excel at is the ability to spend a whole lot of brain cycles on a SERP Scoring algorithm for my SERP checker that, in the end, will provide, at best, a cursory glance at a ‘score’ for all 3 major search engines. I need help from the community to code-up [...]
VERIFIED SEO and Charles Preston- An Open Challenge
Friday, March 26th, 2010
*Final Update* Shutting down a site as soon as the community questions is a sign of a scam. The same way search engine submission is a scam, in our industry at the moment, SEO Verification is a scam. There is no real body or authority that is geared to give you that stamp. For a [...]
Opting for the Cheapest SEO Services?
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
Don’t Bitch About Your Results. This post is served best as a “double-scoop” on top of Goosh’s Hit & Run Snake Oil Salesmen. And, the opening parlays are much the same: The Email Subject: Great Organic Traffic Results, NO COST (actual email: names have been scrubbed) I have SEO & link building services company, have [...]
The Hit & Run Snakeoil Salesmen Are Back
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010I thought this tactic had long since died but it has reared its ugly head again – the “SEO” Cold Call Lie. You know how it goes: Salesman: Hi Sir, I’m calling today about your website Owner: Oh, yes? Salesman: How would you like to put your website in front of thousands of potential visitors [...]
SEO myths & crap; LSI and Google
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Hiya kids… today we’re talking some bullshit of the highest order; a situation that almost epitomizes the misinformation that hounds the SEO world. This one is a long standing oddity that I’ve personally gone off on in the past. (most recently here) To make a long and redundant story short (I shit you not, more [...]
Instant SEO Books of Bullshit
Monday, February 8th, 2010
There is just so much Bullshit clinging to the sides of the SEO industry that it makes me want to scream but the real frustrating part is that the bullshit sticks and that for me is the major issue. I have people coming to me all the time asking for SEO services and “they read [...]
