Ode To Spam: Is It All Your Fault?
A lot has been said of Google’s most recent algorithm change, which was designed to kill the content farms. They call it the farmer update. But what started this? Google has always tried to control the...
View ArticleWhy Quora Is The New Twitter
Quora has become quite popular lately in the Q&A arena. There are good reasons for that. One reason I think Quora grew so fast is because it contained a strict “no self-promotional answers” policy....
View ArticleStop The Spam, Please!
There are a variety of forms of spam. One particular type of spam that I find particularly egregious is blog comment spam because I see so much of it. Here are five specific ways I can tell a blog...
View ArticleWhy Good Comments On Irrelevant Blogs Are Still Spam
I recently deleted a comment that had it been submitted to the right blog would have been a great comment. Unfortunately, to me it was spam. So what made it a spam comment? Here, I’ll let you judge it...
View ArticleWill Google+ Fake Names Steal The Show?
Google+ is now allowing pseudonyms. So does that mean we are now about to see an onslaught of fake Google+ accounts designed to trick you into receiving spam? I doubt it. First, the idea is to give...
View ArticleWhy SEO Is Not Dead
Every year, or two or three times in some years, someone will pen an article telling us all how SEO is dead or dying and how Google is the culprit. Well, here’s another one, only this one seems to be...
View ArticleWhat’s A Link Scheme?
SEO Michael Martinez got on his soap box about link schemes recently. It’s understandable. There is a lot of confusion about what a link scheme is, especially among SEOs. So I’d think there is at least...
View ArticleWhy Content Marketing Is In Disarray
Content marketing has gotten a little bit of a bad reputation. In one sense, it’s well deserving. In another, it’s really quite unfair. Spammers and low quality content producers are partly responsible...
View ArticlePanda vs eBay — Don’t Poke The Bear
Panda 4.0 – Google’s latest algorithm change publicized this week – isn’t a “sweeping overhaul” but merely another change Google is making in their continued quest to rid the web of spammy content and...
View Article5 Things That Turn Email Into Spam
Nobody wants their email campaign to end up unseen and unopened. But it’s pretty easy to get there, especially when we make the 5 mistakes that will land your email in the spam folder given to us by...
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