Category — search

Recently I visited the Affiliate Summit East and got to meet some Black Hat SEOs from WickedFire. I won’t go into a review on the summit in this blog, but I will talk about some interesting conversations I had with the black hats. First of all, I have to admit conferences like these are not great because of the things you “learn” but are great because you finally get to meet the people you read about. There is just something about shaking another persons hand that a blog, article, email, or anything else can’t top.

I considered myself as white hat as it gets. My goal was to grow a “legitimate” publishing business. I had a whole business plan laid out where I would hire staff writers and product blog style content. I figured with my white hat SEO tactics and original content it shouldn’t be tough to start making some serious scratch. Well I was dead wrong and the blackhats have helped me join the dark side. Let me explain white whitehat and blackhat are the same thing.

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As much as I love bashing Google for the BS they pull, there are people out there who are one hundred times more effective, not only in the things they find but in the amount of people who listen to what they have to say. All I have to say is keep up the good fight.

My top 10 favorite SEO Google Haters.

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Google recently anounced on their blog that they will be giving away more data for ad buyers including, search queries, navigation data, and demographics. You can read about it more on this New York Times Magazine.  My opinion on the whole thing is that it is just another attempt for Google to take over another vertical.

Beware the Google Web is growing. Google really is trying to build its own internet.

This is a pretty funny MadLibs letter from Yahoo Employees.

Found this on DigitalPoint had to point it out.

Go search “gay” or “lesbian” on Google and look at the right sidebar, its a rainbow. Google is taking a political stance I guess since California just legalized gay marriage.

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