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"Should be plenty for lawyers to talk about, so I'm concerned that the SES presentation wasn't more meaty than this report suggests."
For the record, this was an interview I took the initiative of doing with Eric and Mark. They're both on the SES legal panel, but this is not conference coverage. I'm in Montreal, Canada atm.
As to whether or not domains are/not the legal property of their registrants, here's how I view it, by analogy to... real estate (lol).
In common law jurisdictions, the King/government technically owns all land by "allodial" title. The person living on it has title in "free and common soccage" and is, for all practical intents and purposes, the owner. [If you want more info/details, I encourage you to look up the history of real property in the common law; it's quite interesting.]
However, if the holder in free and common soccage should die intestate and with no heirs, then their land "escheats" to the government. The gov't regains full title. And it can then obviously resell/lease/transfer/etc. the property to someone else.
You don't buy most phone numbers - you buy service. It could be closer to an 800- phone number.
Good points there John and Nick - just learned a boatload reading your comments!
Makes sense. Otherwise spammers wouldn't create pages that read like
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I like the idea of optimizing an explanatory page - news to me. You could expand that with press release distribution, and hit up friendly bloggers who get G news distribution.
That said, this is nonsense: "
I told the PR firm that his situation couldn't be cured or "erased" - not even if I charged $5,000,000 up front and I were to hire an entire dedicated team of blackbelt SEOs and PR mavens."
Know how many sites and links $5M buys? Hell, even 500K could cover even the nastiest crap. And most folks won't change their personal names, so one of the solutions is for businesses only...
Sphunn for the discussion. Telling folks that they're buying crap is a big deal, and happens more often than not. Sometimes it's not even worth it. If they're paying a few bucks for directory submission services, who cares? Pick your battles.
Excellent idea and a novel take on what is a best practice for cutting bounce rates, especially on social media traffic. Lovely!
Not very knowledgeable about this, but suppose you served [custom] 404s with links to your money pages... wouldn't that be a simple way of redirecting all that juice/visitors?
@iAN/G1SMD - solid tip that will benefit many. I know i've messed things up before by defaulting to Caps.
Perhaps the answer is just that some folks are still getting away with cloaking .
Pffft NYT is nothing ... Aaron + Giovanna Wall gave my plugin a link the other day n that was t3h |_|ber sw33tne$$ ... @NYT: jkjk, link to me whenevr you want ;D
@ Halfdeck - I like that suggestion; sounds worthwhile to me!
@ Rob/monkey - Didn't know that at all. But, glad to get a mini-tutorial on being a more effective spammer ;) lol.
@Nick - Funny, I've been trying to email you as I'm looking to get the Z-list newsletter started again and was hoping you'd be an editor. The principle is the same - take submissions from non-A-listers, filter through experienced editors, pass on to A-listers who pledge to at least read the posts and consider linking... email me: moc (tod) niamod ym ta bag
That's the point - finding the people who don't have strict comment policies, automatically. Then come back with the real payload. Avoids showing your linkspam targets to report-minded admins as well.
Hater :P. Did you even read the article? The point is about a new technique in comment spam.
Honestly, if you had to criticize noisy posts that are rehashing old stuff, I really think you're
1) Going after the wrong post
2) Going after the wrong author, as I intentionally don't promote those things I write which have limited value.
FYI, I care about Sphinn as much as anyone else here.
Brian, I was agreeing with you the other day about how that post saying links are important should not have gone hot. But I really don't feel you're being fair about this post being a rehash or something widely known. I spoke to experienced BHs about this post and they thought it might have been Google Bowling because of the mashable link ... going on to say that "comment spam is about MASS." I'm willing to bet that a majority of advanced SEOs would not know about 'unique identifiers' in comment spam as you put it.
Besides that, if the signal-to-noise is a problem that means so much to you, and you classify this as noise, desphinn it. Be my guest. But then also go ahead and be more regular with the desphinn on the what's new/hot-in-upcoming pages. And most importantly, why not contribute some original material here yourself?
But then, maybe you have a personal issue with me ... because a post talking about ... unheard of ever before ... content is king ... seemed to be fascinating to you: http://www.internetbusiness.co.uk/14072008/content-is-seo-lyndon/
The flip side is that you have covered topics no one's paid attention to that I can tell, like AdWords phishing:
http://www.internetbusiness.co.uk/27032008/google-adwords-targeted-in-phishing-attacks/
Yet neither you nor your friends decided to submit that to Sphinn. You wrote it up in March, and here I am submitting it in August. http://sphinn.com/story/64250 .
Signal-to-noise is the responsibility of everyone in the community, and you can do a lot more to up the ratio by participating positively and desphinning the average/rehashed stuff than by whining.
Note: I'm not knocking Lyndon there, just saying that particular post wasn't exactly new to anyone.
Commenting here cuz I'm too lazy to reg for another blog - nice case study Rae, and pretty original that. Very interesting approach as well to see how providing tech support BEFORE the sale can be a business model to gain a direct ROI from social media (as opposed to just linkbaiting). Any plans to expand to other electronics niches?
Also, what's happened since you Twittered BB owning the SERPs for their brand name? Any luck cracking the top 10? Planning a SERP domination strategy to gain several spots of your own?
This isn't much of predictions on stories as much as which panelists Kevin recommends. Not very substantial imho.
Well at that point, Lyndon, this site stops being about news and discussion. I'm all for helping newbies too; my point is just that stuff that's been written about a hundred times before needn't be voted hot; when that happens it's more because of the blind voting cliques side of stuff. (IMHO, Cliques are OK, but when they vote based on source rather than content, there's a problem.)
Also, I think that newbies can find that information a million different ways, and certainly in their RSS readers. There's certainly enough people rehashing old tips for the newbies to find the content and learn- heck, that's how I first found out about SEO - googling around about promoting a blog. Ended up at problogger and found links to entrepreneur's journey etc...
The post is a little cranky/sarcastic, but I wasn't having a laugh at noobs. I was criticizing the attempts (often by experienced pros) to make their content go hot when it's not particularly fresh/original, and the voters who support them. We're all responsible for the signal to noise here.
I've got enough links and quality links to my site to rank for seo on google.ca ... and i'm on/off the first page largely, i think, because my content changes as i add new posts. haven't tested scientifically though, so i could be wrong.
point being that you can't optimize just with links.
besides that, you should speak to stephan spencer as to optimizing without touching the code. or look for it in coverage of his presentations.
Loving iBrian and Nick Wilsdon's comments.
Also, I'm still waiting for Stephan Spencer to come in here and share his knowledge on how to really optimize a site without touching the code.
Story: 3 New Uses for Archive.org
Thought I responded to this - Nick, I'd love to meet you in the flesh n have a chat :D.
Story: Domains Are NOT Real Estate, KW Research as I. Property: Internet Law Experts Speak Out!