Mar
23
Spam Whining at WebmasterWorld?
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Amazing - a homepage quality whinefest.
I hope we agree on that site full of links/google search results is a pure spam site, if so, WHY does google adsense sponsor such sites, there are 10000 sites like that which a sponsored by adsense, dont they want good search results any more, be cause the more they support those site, more there will be in the serps.
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum89/5761.htm
The most irritating thing is that those scraped sites are so repetitious. It’s so nice to click on a site and find something original - those are an eyesore cluttering the search results.
Mar
23
Mambo Search Engine Friendly
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Still needing to choose a CMS for another site that has to be search engine friendly and still loving some of the things Mambo does, I came across this freebie for search engine friendly URLs at the forums on the developers’ site.
http://forum.mamboserver.com/showthread.php?t=4057
I still don’t know if it deals with custom page titles and meta tags, but there may be another plug-in to deal with that. I believe there’s a new build out since I was looking last summer, and there may be new features built in.
Drupal has some nice features, and I don’t know if the problem still exists with the newest version that’s been released, but the session ID’s are something best not to have to deal with.
That new site has been held up for far too long, with content ready and waiting to be uploaded.
Mar
21
This came in by Google News Alert:
So ya, background can be checked, and I’m personally grateful to have reached the point in life where I couldn’t care less. BUT…
What’s terribly sad is that people can malign other people, even tell outright lies about them - and there is no way to counteract that which is found by Googling (or in private forums or venues, which still maligns, FYI).
Yup, of course there’s a personal application - among others.
It’s gotten back to me that some things have been said that are anything but the truth; in fact they’re quite the opposite - they’re diametrically opposed to facts, realilty or truth. OK, let’s call it what it is and say it’s outright lying - which I believe is malicious in intent, to put it mildly.
Deliberate? Of course. Do I care? Of course - not because of any expected reason, or that anything is public, because naturally it hasn’t been. The person isn’t that honest. But it’s maligning and damaging nevertheless.
What DOES bother me is that some people can reach a point of propogating their image of importance and prominence to the point that what they say is believed, even though they are, by reason of background, history and empirical evidence, nothing more than common liars.
There are too many people around nowadays who have managed their image and reputation to one of “respect and esteem” when the reality of the matter is that they are nothing more than pond scum who know how to market themselves well.
Mar
20
I’ve deliberated about whether to post this publicly, but it has to be done. Too many people are being hurt by all that’s been going on, and it simply isn’t fair to stay silent on these things. Most of the domain hijackings that have been posted about at the various SEO forums have involved 302 (Temporary) Redirects. This was found this weekend, and is, rather than a 302, done using Meta Refresh.
The site involved is now at #6 - parenthood.com and while the URL with the redirection is what shows in the search result, the content is that belonging to the site being linked to. Searching for a unique phrase in the page title we see that same situation in spot #1 at Google
Looking at a search for site: we can at this time see that there are at least 500 innocent sites (or pages) involved:
site:www.parenthood.com “+www.parenthood.+com/links_clickthru.html?”
Trying another search, at this moment if we do another search at Google
inurl:parenthood.com/links_clickthru.html -”www.parenthood.com
Then we can see 6,520 though as opposed to the first set, the ones I tried clicked through to the targeted sites.
Trying a search done another way
There are 1,180 pages brought up by the search. Clicking on one of them that is a complete listing with description on the search page - which links to within the parenthood.com site itself, we come to this page:
When we are redirected, we come not to the top of that page, but a spot toward the bottom of the page - and what do we find there but sponsored links. We’re also greeted by a popunder banner courtesy of www.undertonenetworks.com
That one was physically on the site; however, the ones that have a URL_only listing appear to arrive at the correct site when clicked on. BUT - we dont know how it’s actually affecting the Google listings of those sites unless we check them out.
Going a step further, if we click on the “more results” link - we get a different assortment
We can see 7,940 pages involved on the site.
There’s always the question of whether things like this are being done innocently, without the linking party being aware of the consequences to the sites linked to, or whether it’s done with deliberate intentions and full knowledge. We can only guess at intentions, until we go through any particular site and try to reason out what the motives and the extent of their knowledge are. For the most part, unless it’s glaringly obvious, as it sometimes is, we can only guess and hope for the best.