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Search Engine Marketeers Are the New Script Kiddies

Went Hot: August 23, 2007 - 1:25 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 683 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://justinsomnia.org)
Category: SEM

On August 8th, my blog, hosted at justinsomnia.org, disappeared from Google, completely, utterly without any warning or known provocation (e.g. black hat SEO), sending the traffic to my blog plummeting..What follows is a description of the hack and my eventually successful attempt to figure out who did this to me.

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from stugots 683 days ago # - show/hide this comment

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This is a great article, and it should be mandatory reading for every blog owner.

from qwerty 683 days ago #

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That post was discussed at reddit yesterday. And I felt the need to point out that not all SEMs are evil. If you want to have a look, the discussion is at http://reddit.com/info/2hgpz/comments and my ID is rgladstein.

Overall, I think it's a good article, but it always bothers me when people lump all SEMs together and label us as evil.

from dannysullivan 682 days ago #

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Yes, he's condemning all search marketers rather than one particular person who hacked his blog.

from Asia 682 days ago #

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You know Danny, since I was a wee little girl, I always looked up at you as the father of SEO so theoretically, this is really all your fault.

from Adrian 681 days ago #

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As I said in the comments of the blog posts, it's more Script Kiddies playing at being SEO's, than SEO's playing at being Script Kiddies.

Good post generally, just a shame he's trying to tar everyone with his brush.