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I saw this headline in my Google email alerts today and I got really excited: Search Engine Optimization Source Gives Dirt On Industry Secrets. The email alert link took me to a story on webwire.com. I was thinking, “this is gonna be cool, more top guns revealing their experience”.

Here’s the first paragraph from webwire.com:

( http://www.SEOTops.com ) A peek into the sacred world of insider secrets is now open to the general republic with the release of SEOTops.com. SEOTops.com has connections to several inside sources, which allows it to report on topics long before other blogs and websites catch wind of change. - www.webwire.com

Wow! Reading that made me sweat with anticipation, although the use of “general republic” made me a bit suspicious. Still, I couldn’t click the seotops.com link fast enough. Then, the let down, the disappointment, and the anger of a “bait and switch” scam.

Take a look at the titles of the posts on seotops.com blog.

• Dmoz Is it still worth It? March 16
• Are Yahoo getting set for a Microsoft takeover? March 15
• AOL Buy Bebo For $850 Million March 13
• Internet Explorer 8 Review March 12
• Basic SEO Terms Explained March 11
• Google to buy Digg March 9
• Google Sandbox March 9

Basic Terms Explained? Sandbox? Are you shitting me?

And the content of those posts are truly as boring as the titles. Zzzzzzz.

It’s all just ordinary blog blah blah blah. No insider secrets and, in fact, not even average blabbing.

The story title on webwire is not linkbait, it’s lamebait, bait and switch, and it’s an out and out lie.

Conclusion: seotops.com should be called seoshit.com and webwire.com gets a -10 on the bullshit scale.

out.

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• A waste of time.
• Can get you blacklisted
• Full of bullshit
• Clueless Slime
• Witchcraft

What a wonderful industry.

Is your mother proud of you?

“Search engine optimization received no love from the credit card issuer’s small business guide, which published some oddly contradictory advice about being found in places like Google or Yahoo.” - David A. Utter

American Express Credit: “…don’t waste money on so-called Search Engine Optimization (S.E.O.) specialists. Search engines are very quick to penalize sites that try to trick their filtering techniques, and once your site has been put on Google’s blacklist, it will take forever to get off.” - webpronews

I’ve already weighed in on the SEO “profession”: Learn Search Engine Optimization (SEO) In 30 Minutes :: Guaranteed! and Jigsawinc.com Wins SEO CRAP “Expert Advice” Award.

Unknown wordpress blogger: Wordpress Blogger Says SEOs Are Full Of BULLSHIT!

Jeremy Schoemaker: Shoemoney Calls SEOs Clueless Slime!

Businessweek: Businessweek Calls SEO Industry “Witchcraft”

Are you getting the picture?

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I notice about six months ago that most of my links were having no good affect.

I was putting links on some of my sites that point to more of my sites.

But, I was putting the links like this:

• mysiteA.com anchor -> free car insurance quote
• mysiteA.com anchor -> free car wash and wax with quote
• mysiteA.com anchor -> lowest cost collision work

So, the external domain was the same in each link, but the anchored text was varied.  I was doing this on multiple sites over a period of months and I was noticing that my sites were only ranking well for the first anchor in each list.

I called this the “single site, multiple anchor” rule.

In all of my cases, the links were stacked on top of each other like a list. I figured that if they are spread around the page, things might be better, but I never tested that.

Today I read a post by Rand of seomoz.org titled: Results of Google Experimentation - Only the First Anchor Text Counts. Heh, that title sure rang a bell with me.

I suggest that you read Rand’s post and memorize the rule:

“single site, multiple anchors don’t count”.

“single site, multiple anchors don’t count”.

“single site, multiple anchors don’t count”.

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Hey Mark, sorry for refering to you as a “kid”, but at my age anyone under 30 seems very young. I respect what you’ve done online; you’re a world-wide inspiration dude.

“Mark Zuckerberg, the 23-year-old chief executive of Facebook, has found help running the social networking company by hiring Sheryl Sandberg, a well-regarded top executive at Google.

“Sandberg, currently vice president of global online sales and operations at Google, joined the search giant in 2001 and helped to develop its immensely lucrative online advertising programs, AdWords and AdSense. She will join Facebook later this month as chief operating officer, working closely with Zuckerberg, Facebook’s co-founder, the company said Tuesday. - www.iht.com

Anyways, I have some free time Mark, so if you want to partner up with a real cool dude, (me), ummm just leave a comment to this post - I’ll get back to you.

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According to readwriteweb.com, there is a bug in all unix software, similar to the Y2K bug in Windows, that could cause the internet to crash on a worldwide scale.

This bug exists because unix systems store the time as a 32-bit integer in seconds since January 1, 1970. There is a limit to how many seconds can be counted with a 32-bit binary number system. That limit just happens to wind up being the year 2038.

“Programs will fail, of course. Since they will see times not as being in 2038 but rather in 1901, erroneous calculations and decisions will occur. (It’s true, I checked Wikipedia!)” - Sarah Perez, readwriteweb.com

Sarah Perez of readwriteweb.com seems convinced and offers a few examples:

“We’ve actually seen fallout from the 2038 bug already, back in May of 2006 when the AOLserver web server software crashed. The software was designed so that database requests would “never” time out. Instead of assigning a “0″ to the timeout, the software specified a timeout date one billion seconds in the future. One billion seconds (just over 31 years 251 days and 12 hours) after 21:27:28 on 12 May 2006 is beyond the 2038 cutoff date. The system calculated a timeout date that was actually in the past, got confused, and crashed.” - readwriteweb.com

Her article has links to more 2038 bug evidence.

A reference by wikipedia:

“In May 2006, reports surfaced of an early Y2038 problem in the AOLserver software. The software would specify that a database request should “never” time out by specifying a timeout date one billion seconds in the future. One billion seconds (just over 31 years 251 days and 12 hours) after 21:27:28 on 12 May 2006 is beyond the 2038 cutoff date, so after this date, the timeout calculation overflowed and calculated a timeout date that was actually in the past, causing the software to crash.[2][3]” - wikipedia.com

Hmm, thirty years from now? No sweat, plenty of time.

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SEO is getting easier and easier everyday because the major search engines all but ignore the on-page factors. Nowadays, it’s all about links with relevant anchored text. Popularity, importance, and relevance are all judged by your incoming links.

Proof: People that get an article on the front page of Digg get tens of thousands of visitors. No SEO.

Proof: Usually, at least a few hundred of those thousands will link to the article. No SEO.

Proof: The same phenomenon happens with dozens of small Digg-like social sites. But even without any of them, a page that has fascinating, useful, interesting, funny, or controversial content needs no SEO at all. Just let the word out in a few forums.

Proof: As an experiment, purchase a PR7 link to your homepage and keep it for a few months, your page will rocket to the top of the SERPs.

Nevertheless, while we are waiting to hit the home run, we can do a few things:

Put the keyword in the URL.

Put the keyword in the page’s Title tag.

Put the keyword on the page somewhere.

umm, that’s about it.

Everything else is what you do when you having nothing better to do, (no date and no beer), but it won’t help you in any significant manner.

See you at the top!

Bompa

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The nytimes.com is reporting that a Google captcha training document has been discovered by websense.com online, see below. The nytimes.com is also reporting that the minimum wages in Russia for breaking captchas is $3/day.

This is the text translated:

If you are unable to recognize a picture or she is not loaded (picture appears black, empty picture), just press Enter.

In no case do not enter random characters!

If there is delay in downloading images, exit from your account, refresh the page and go again.

The system tested in browsers:
Internet Explorer
Mozilla Firefox

Before each payment deemed by pictures checked Admin. We pay only correctly recognized pictures!

The payments are made to 1 time per day. The minimum amount to be paid $ 3. To have ordered the payment, send in their application consisting of admin. If the administrator is free, your application will be processed within 10-15 minutes, if it is busy as possible.

If you have any problems (issues) knock Admin.

[end translation]

The Russians are savvy and industrialous.

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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Forums has been hit by pill spam.

TOKYO (MacHouse) - United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is an international organization. The organization is dedicated to allocate funds to increase the welfare of children all over the world. For example, children in impoverished countries are vaccinated and live longer thanks to UNICEF. UNICEF’s website is located at unicef.org. (See Screenshot 01.) Unfortunately, there is a group of people who are trying to exploit this website. - mhvt.net

“An affiliate spam terrorist group circulated about a dozen spam comments around forums and blogs all over the world more than 2 hours ago. (See Screenshot 02 & 03.) The IP address used for this spam comment circulation is 84.1109.108.175. And the targeted website for this series of spam comments is UNICEF’s forums called Voices of Youth, which is located at unicef.org/voy/discussions/. (See Screenshot 04.) - mhvt.net

“So who is financing this spam operation? There are two financiers. They are both peudo-Canadian Pharmacy websites. One is pills-supplier.com, and other online pharmacy store is the website of pillstrade.com - mhvt.net

“Affiliate spam terrorist group”? LOL

That might be a stretch.

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“After being to the conferences, and reading the blogs, joining the groups, reading the forums, and watching the videos, I have to say I’m tired, and it’s time to call BULLSHIT…

…It’s high-school niches all over again, and in the end, half of what they say is bull, and the other have is wrong. I’m not buying it anymore. I’m calling bullshit, and letting every single one of you know who and why.” - icallseobs.wordpress.com

I don’t know who that guy is, I could not find his name anywhere on the page, but I think he is quite angry. I also think that he has a point. In my personal opinion, based on my six years of SEO for my own sites, I would agree that 90% of SEO is bullshit.

Assuming that you have good navigation for your users, just optimize your Title tags, give the page a relevent name in the URLs, and you’re done. If your content is worthy, there’s no need to “optimize” it.

The rest of your job is about promotion, getting backlinks.

Well known blogger Jeremy Schoemaker said something similar:

“I actually despise being labeled a SEO. Why? SEO’s are like the 21st century car salesmen. Most are slimy and have no clue what they are talking about. They tell you you just need to put spammy keywords in your title tag, keyword tag, and write a spammy as hell description meta tag.”

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