Kevin Rose Explains How to Spam Twitter and Everybody Loves it
CC: Cut here by Phoney Nickle. Kevin “cut teats” Rose, not only infamous for his sexist remarks but also as a failed entrepreneur who pownced his microblogging community is also known for his hate of SEO. In an interview he…
10 Christmas No-Nos for SEO Specialists to Avoid at all Costs
CC: Santa chucks the finger by BoSoxBrent. It’s this dreaded season again and all of us in the SEO industry will have to endure humiliations we have to face each year. To lessen the impact of the Christmas SEO woes…
10 Reasons Why Mixx is Broken and How to Fix it
Yeah, I can recognize the eyes. Seen them stolen again and again on Mixx. I’m fed up: My favorite social news site Mixx is currently broken. It’s not broken in a mere technical sense, it’s broken from the usability community…
Commenting on Dofollow-Blogs as a Link Building Strategy
* Today I will write about commenting on so called dofollow-blogs and whether it makes sense as a link building strategy. Let me explain why: No doubt the power of habit is a thing that makes you perpetrate the worst…
SEO Company, SEO and Search Engine Optimization Google Results Are a Disgrace
cc: Magic movement by Gojca. The SEO industry is outraged about search engine optimization leading figure Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz calling the Google (and Yahoo) results for “SEO company” an embarrassment. The main problem about that post seems to be…
The Most Important Thing on StumbleUpon: Do Not Pose as, Be a Legit User
cc: Whiskeygonebad. The “Social Media Insider” over at the Invesp Blog recently wrote a post about StumbleUpon called “StumbleUpon: 3 Most Important Things To Keep In Mind” about promotion on SU. I found it on Sphinn and while I was…
Broken Social Media: Anti-Social Sites vs Alternatives
cc: broken by confusedvision. Some of the so called social media sites are broken and a waste of time. In fact they are not social at all, they are anti-social. So you not only waste your time using them you…
7 Most Successful SEO Bashings in Recent Web History
One of the best performing linkbait ideas on the Web today is SEO bashing. It’s an ugly but very successful way of gaining links at the expense of others. It seems the less substance an anti-SEO claim has the more…
What the Numerous Digg Bans Can Teach Us about Social Media (Companies)
cc: All artworks by M Domondon. Digg, formerly known as user driven social news has shown its true nature in 2008: Banning some of their most valuable and active users. They did not solely ban the spammers or those who…
No-Go Area Digg: Top 10 Digg Criminals, Perverts and Mad Men
Crime Scene by freefotouk. As a social media fan and Mixx user I’m appalled by the horrendous conditions people over on Digg have to work at: No pay, no regulated work hours and they can be fired any day for…
Blog Suicide: Top 7 Title & Meta Tag Mistakes that Kill Your Blog
Suicide by frozi. I’m shocked! Not only do bloggers waste time with meta tags although most of them are worthless for Google, bloggers hurt themselves using meta tags. It does not get better it seems it gets worse. Lately more…
10 Scariest and Most Annoying Facts about Google Chrome
Privacy Invaders by Lulu Vision. Yesterday I wrote that Google Chrome is not a good idea (it got 100 diggs in 3,5 hours btw. to be buried at 120). I tested Google’s new browser nonetheless and even before I could…
7 Reasons Why Google Chrome, the New Google Browser is a Bad Idea
Help the homeless by balakov. Do you remember the browser wars? No, not Star Wars, the browser wars. In the prehistoric era of the Web we had Netscape Navigators which guided us through the World Wide Wait. Netscape 2, 3…
Top 7 Annoying StumbleUpon Mistakes
Mistakes, by electrospray. OK, I’m nearing my 10.000 “like it” stumbles (only ca. 1000 left) and I’m wondering how I can help people to make better use of StumbleUpon and not repeat the same mistakes over and over. Well, I…
Yahoo Search Results Total Crap Now
SEO 2.0 rankings for SEO 2.0 in the last 12 weeks, Raven SEO Tools chart. Just recently Yahoo updated their Index to offer “more relevant results” which allegedly are “more like Google”. I was amazed to find out that the…
How (Not) to Pitch Me on StumbleUpon
*With more than “8000 pages liked” and 600+ fans on StumbleUpon I guess I’m quite popular by now. Until recently this fact was largely ignored by most people, I did not receive many pitches to vote for stories or to…
Top 10 URL Design Failures of Famous Websites
Famous painting, image by caribb, but no clue in the URL: http://flickr.com/photos/caribb/2355878576/ Do you know what the New York Times, the World Bank, WordPress.com, PHP.net and others have in common? Their URLs suck! A few days ago my list of…
Confidential: 22 Google Laws Leaked
A source within Google has leaked this list of 22 Google laws. These confidential laws are not meant to be known by the public so make sure to spread the news before this site gets shut down. They cover 3…
How to Spot Content Theft on Social Media and Elsewhere
Content theft runs rampant on social media. StumbleUpon and Mixx are heavily targeted by sites which capitalize on stolen content. They use images and sometimes also text with no attribution to the original artist, photographer or writer. They make big…
SEM (Scanning Electron Microscopy) Demand Skyrockets
SEM Lymphozyte. Source.Google Trends is a wonderful tool to find out what the market really demands. I compared SEM to SEO demand to find out that the Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) industry is booming it seems. The demand for SEM…
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