Category Archives: SEO

en.grand-pianos.org – follow up thoughts on spam

Posted on November 5, 2009 by Carps

An insight into someone else's crushingly dull existence So I blogged about en.grand-pianos.org trying to spam my blog 3 or 4 times every day. Turns out I’m not the only one who’s noticed them trying it. And if you search … Continue reading →

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Colombia Journal Hacked – Google News Spammed

Posted on October 15, 2009 by Carps

Yup. While I was idly looking around to see if I ranked anywhere for tube8.com on the back of some traffic that wended its way here, I noticed the following results cropping up in Google News…. Continue reading →

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Another “SEO is all about scamming” piece of bullshit

Posted on October 14, 2009 by Carps

We’re due for another round of slurs about SEO (it’s every two years or so). This time it’s Some Other Dickhead who equates SEO with spammers. Continue reading →

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Vox.com spammed to death?

Posted on October 13, 2009 by Carps

Yep Continue reading →

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Tube8.com – a Study in Online Business

Posted on October 12, 2009 by Carps

Tube8.com is (in case somehow you’re unfamiliar with these things) a pornography website. Now I have no direct personal experience to speak of (*cough*) but it’s apparently quite a successful online business. Continue reading →

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Paid Links Illegal?

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Carps

OK – so that’s a misleading title, but new rules published by the Federal Trade Commission mean that anyone blogging on a product or service in the US must disclose any commercial relationship with the provider from December 1st this year. Continue reading →

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