The Marketing of Madness Are We all Insane?
Two hour + video documents the story of the high-income partnership between drug companies & psychiatry that has created an $80 Billion psychotropic drug profit center and the flaws in the drug approval process.
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What is Black hat Seo?
The million dollar question that everyone has an opinion on. What exactly is Black Hat SEO?
The answer here depends largely on who you ask. Ask most White Hats and they immediately quote the Google Webmaster Guidelines like a bunch of lemmings.
So again, what is Black Hat SEO? In my opinion, Black Hat SEO and White Hat SEO are
almost no different. White hat web masters spend time carefully finding link partners to increase rankings for their keywords, Black Hats do the same thing, but we write automated scripts to do it while we sleep. White hat SEO’s spend months perfecting the on page SEO of their sites for maximum rankings, black hat SEO’s use content generators to spit out thousands of generated pages to see which version works best. Are you starting to see a pattern here? You should, Black Hat SEO and White Hat SEO are one in the same with one key difference. Black Hats are lazy. We like things automated. Have you ever heard the phrase "Work smarter not harder?" We live by those words. Why spend weeks or months building pages only to have Google slap them down with some obscure penalty.
If you have spent any time on web master forums you have heard that story time and time again. A web master plays by the rules, does nothing outwardly wrong or evil, yet their site is completely gone from the SERPS (Search Engine Results Pages) one morning for no apparent reason. It’s frustrating, we’ve all been there. Months of work gone and nothing to show for it. I got tired of it as I am sure you are. That’s when it came to me. Who elected the search engines the "internet police"? I certainly didn’t, so why play by their rules? In the following pages I’m going to show you why the search engines rules make no sense, and further I’m going to discuss how you can use that information to your advantage.
Comment Spam – a Huge Problem for Word Press Blog Owners
The blogsphere is clogged with blogs about comment spam, but what exactly is comment spam? The first thing a blogger needs to establish is a clear definition. It is a form of spamindexing – in another sense, it is a form of splogging. This type of splogging hi-jacks blogs to advertise something instead of creating a fake website to promote it. The objective is to build links and increase their web pages rank.
The genius behind comment spam is impressive. Instead of creating a splog, or fake blog, a person will leave comments that includes a link to their website in other peoples blogs all across the Internet. This will raise their websites rank, and turns comment spam into another from of unsolicited junk mail.
Comment Spam is a white hat SEO trick. It is not wrong, but it is not right. Google has taken the first step against comment spam by banning or penalizing both the websites and the host blog. WordPress blogs are hardest hit because most webmasters do not install the module that prevents people from entering a link into the comment. There are default tools, but few blog owners understand how to activate them.
These unwanted and malicious comments affect a blogs rank in both the weblogs and search engines. The blog is damaged as well as the web site. Heres how it works:
Google bases a web pages rank on the relevance of the content to the meta keywords and title.
Google also uses keyword anchored links and the content on the following page to establish rank. To explain this, lets say the blog is about flowers. The link in the reply uses the keywords make money and leads to a website on finance. This means the blog page, and the following website will decrease in rank.
The most common perpetrators are comment spam robots. They hit every available post from a single blog. The sly spam robots pose a major problem because they leave their ad, but they also leave little comments, great post – keep up the good work. This can be infuriating when attached to an editorial or something personal, like a story on spousal abuse.
There are ways of fighting back. Akismet, the spam catcher for WordPress.com and many of their bloggers caught almost 2 million spam attempts in one day.
The first method to try is to install anti-spam plug-ins in WordPress – and activate them. Both the Karma and Bad Word plug-ins need to be installed.
Another method involves skimming the blog, reading old posts and looking for the criminals who would violate your blogging attempts. One technique for foiling their attempts is to follow the link all the way to the affiliate site. Then, report them. Reputable companies WILL ban their affiliate link.
Little can be done for the kids who go through blogs and post comments about porn, or who simply like to swear and curse! WordPress is working hard to stay ahead of this type of spam, though, and it is possible to update the file of abusive words.
CNet, January 9 2006, reported that comment spam is now illegal in the USA. This might have some effect, but only time will tell. Until then, use the plug-ins and stay informed.
William McRea
http://www.articlesbase.com/email-articles/comment-spam-a-huge-problem-for-word-press-blog-owners-56933.html
Rand Fishkin CEO of SEOMOZ: The dark side has it’s benefits
Rand Fishkin, CEO of SEOMOZ.org, talks about the wacky world of SEO and the differences between being white hat or crossing the tracks to the dark side of Spammerville.
Duration : 0:3:54
Sonic the Hedgehog – FINAL STORY PART 1
From http://sonic-cult.org/
Thanks to Sazpaimon and Sonic-Cult for all the cutscenes!
Duration : 0:11:23
Seo – Linking Strategies For Seo
It can be difficult to generate unique content each and every day that you sit down to write your blog. This is where RSS feeds and news stories can provide a valuable source of inspiration. Many blogs simply are commentaries on what is going on in the news, rather than an attempt to announce the news. This is because you simply are not a news provider. When you provide news to your readers in this way it is called “filtered” writing.
The best way to take this reactive position as a blog writer is to always dynamically link your commentary to the source of the news story or the article. You can also link to others commenting on the same subject in other blogs. This gets your name and the name of your product out there and raises your search engine page rankings.
The reason you want to always link your ideas is two-fold. First of all the search engines rank you according to the number of links indexed on your site. The more pages it finds linked to yours, the higher your visibility will be in the web search pages. Second of all, showing your readers that you know how to research and give credit where it is due shows that you are a professional. It simply lends you an air of credibility that your readers can respect. This allows your readers to come away from the experience of reading your blog feeling like they know more than they did before they logged in to read your site. They should not feel like they just read what you have on there in the newspaper yesterday.
Whatever the theme of your blog, your readers will expect every entry to be timely, relevant, and accurately sourced. This is why you should check your links regularly to make sure that they are not broken.
Chris Angus
http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-articles/seo-linking-strategies-for-seo-97923.html
