Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Viral / Link Bait
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Excerpt: QuadsZilla's latest link bait experiment is going to read like a who's who on viral marketing (if it works). It's a bit cheesy, but cheesy tops the Digg front-page every day. Mr. Black Hat may just rank for "viral marketing" and "link bait" soon ... I'll hav ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Black Hat SEO, Security
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Excerpt: I guess I think like a hacker, because I thought of this before seeing RSnake's post about finding vulnerabilities with Google Code Search.If you want to find lots of PHP-based web applications that are likely vulnerable to HTML injection, try this search out:lang:php (print\(|echo)\s\$_(GET|REQ ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Spam
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Excerpt: If shoemoney can write how to stop spam, I can write how they're keeping it coming! Don't get me wrong. I hate spam -- except when it makes me laugh or impresses me. And as the days go by and more people read this blog, I've noticed that an increasing number of spammers ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO
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Excerpt: It's clear to me that advertising using someone else's trademark to promote a competing service or product is a violation of the law. However, using only those words that are generic strategically in a title (and/or copy) is not. This opens opportunities to ride on the coat tails ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Black Hat SEO, Spam
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Excerpt: I'm a sinner! I violate Google's TOS daily. But the guy standing next to me on Yom Kippur made me look like Jill Whalen! He was a spammer -- and a pretty devious one at that. Some of it was muffled by the sounds of unfed stomachs growling for forgiveness, but I manage ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO
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Excerpt: Hacking up old web sites sucks. Many were built without regard for search engine optimization concerns. Just thinking about fixing the architectural problems sends chills down the spine of the web developer. However, a few great enhancements can be performed without disturbing site ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Google
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Excerpt: What's more annoying than knowing your site has 1000s of supplemental search results?Not being able to conveniently view them to see what's wrong ... The Google hack mentioned here enumerates the supplemental pages of a domain, and seemed quite useful to this end. Perhaps Google ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Spam
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Excerpt: The NY Bar has a new set of rules for lawyers floating around. Apparently, they got wind of the blatant cheeseball spamming lawyers are employing to solicit clients on the internet. I'd cite examples, but they'd probably get me sued :( They responded in spades, though: 1. & ...
