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It's funny that of all the bloggers in this little SEO-blogosphere, it is one of those "evil" black hatters who had to admonish us for our poor grammar. I'm often very surprised at the horrible grammar mistakes in major SEO blogs. I'm not going to point any fingers either, but the "then vs. than" mistake is my personal pet peeve. "Then" is an adverb, and "than" is a ( You know who you guys are — there are many. But when a spammer uses better grammar than you do in his Viagra spam, it's a sign. Maybe you should have him proofread or something Update: A friendly neighborhood grammar Related posts: SEOmoz Mocks and Laughs at Spam Victim I'm friendly with some spammers. Most of them are pretty... How You Can Stop Dirty Feed Scrapers In 3 Easy Steps Stealing is wrong; but some people just don't seem to...
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Is this discrimination based on Hat color? There are many myths and misconceptions going around about Black Hat Seo. Some of them have a foundation in reality, some are a little far fetched. Creating spam is one thing, whereas writing "legitimate content" for a blog is a whole nother animal…
You took it the wrong way. Sarcasm, sarcasm
I have to agree with you there. I am guilty of the then and than problem. I'll be the first to admit it. Could be my Brooklyn accent has taken over in my writing… lol
There's nothing worse than black hat seo being done so badly that the perpetrator tries to pass it off as WH… does that even make sense?
Not to worry my eggheaded friend, just being voluntarily uppity in the spirit of celebrating grammar nazies
"Then" is an adverb, and "than" is a (coordinating) conjunction ACTUALLY, "than" is NOT a coordinating conjuction at all. Remember "FANBOYS" ? There are only seven letters. (link to info about cc's) If anything, I think you can call it a relative conjunction! Love,
Jaimie: "You know who you guys are" Me: Actually, I don't think they (we?) do. And if you are actually talking about me, I'll be deeply mortified. (Just shoot me an email privately when you see typos on my blog and I'll fix them toute suite) White Hat Kingdom not Good Enough for You? » Black Hat Seo Blog[...] Jaimie Sirovich is an expert coder, a knowledgeable SEO, somewhat of a grammar Nazi … and he is tempted by the dark side. [...] No Hat SEO » Blog Archive » White Hat Kingdom not Good Enough for You?[...] Jaimie Sirovich is an expert coder, a knowledgeable SEO, somewhat of a grammar Nazi … and he could certainly hold his own in the darker side of things, if he so chose. [...]
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