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Now all we need is a nice XSS hole in Google and we can automatically make our sites rank #1 for thousands of keywords. Great idea!
Story: Is Yahoo’s Buzz A Buzz-Kill?
not to mention you can already buy votes for it like on KuzzBill...
seems like they screwed up a lot this time.
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The backlash is ridiculous - it is a great tool and I wish my company had the resources to put it out. Kudos to SEOMoz for providing the search industry information that the search engines wont!
@halfdeck: I apologize that you are going to be the victim of this rant, but I am growing very tired of logical fallacy arguments. The blogger never stated it as fact or a logical conclusion - merely an observation experienced by a large number of people. Even the title of his submission to Sphinn had a question mark in it. The author commonly uses phrases like "seems to be" to make it clear that these are the early stages of uncovering what may prove to be an important facet of Google's ranking algorithms. I hope you feel cool for using the phrase "argumentum ad populem". You could have just used "Appeal to Popularity", but I bet it feels totally rad to use the Latin. Do you do that when you normally have conversations? "Hey, whats up guys, I'm just heading down to the agricola venalicium to pick up some tomatoes."
Story: Easy 1 Step SEO Attack
Why don't we just use all of the sites like RipOffReport.com and Complaints.com to write about RipOffReport.com and Complaints.com?
I would love to see a complaint about RipOffReport.com on Complains.com rank #2 for RipOffReport.com
No. They will ban you for tools that allow you to quick-vote, or automate processes that assist in cheating the system. This is just a unique way to filter their stories to find good ones.
- While I haven't used RankSense, I have had the opportunity to use more tools than I could remember and only a handful ever made the list of those I use regularly. However, I think there are a couple that I consider indispensible.
Pretty rad - although there is still nothing easier than using t1ny.us (whichi ss a 301)
just type http://t1ny.us/ in front of your URL and press enter - it will spit out a nice 301 redirect URL for you.
Story: TinyURL SEO
You should use a tiny url tool that uses 301 redirects, like t1ny.us
Just type in http://t1ny.us/ in front of any url (http://t1ny.us/http://www.sphinn.com) and it will spit out a 301 redirecting URL.
or Keyata - which does traffic-on-investment analysis based on 42 different competitive factors for each keyword. It is really no-frills, so it won't be useful to you unless you are a competent SEO.
Story: Google 'Leaks' Search Volume
Hi folks, this is my article so I thought I would respond to some of your comments here...
@cemper: Yes, the graphic is "fake". This is speculation on my part about what Google's end-game is in the fight against Paid Links. The graphic was really created to show you just how easy it would be for Google to create a poisoning system to take the trust out of Paid Link networks.
@MikeDammann: The incentive to no-follow advertising is clear - you do not risk being penalized by Google and you can horde PageRank. In the current set up, that incentive is not possible because advertisers will see you use the NoFollow attribute and choose not to advertise on your site. If Google were to implement such a tool, webmasters could disclose what they wish to nofollow in a secure, hidden environment only available to Google and the webmaster. Advertisers would have no way to determine whether or not the links they purchased were worth a dime.
@BrianChappell: I think that many of the smaller link-sellers may not know about NoFollow, but the biggest and best sites will certainly protect themselves using this method.
@homelessSEO: You bring up some good points. I do think that too many people are sipping the Google Spam Kool-Aid. You mention, even for a second, a gray-hat technique at an SMX conference and there are hundreds of blog posts written about the controversy. People are scared stupid and this is a risk-free solution for them to have their cake and eat it too.
This would offer webmasters a way to sell links with no known consequence. They lose no PR, they won't get in trouble for selling links, and their advertisers will never know.
I agree that many webmasters do not currently use WT - but if you know enough to Sell Links, you know enough to figure out Webmaster tools. It only takes a fraction of webmasters to use it to cause great disruption - as the actual # of webmasters using the program will be unavailable to the public. The mere perception that a substantial proportion of paid-links are valueless would be enough to stymie what is already an industry of questionable value (at least, link renting is of questionable ROI in many industries).
Story: What should NOINDEX do?
Matt Cutts and the folks at Google should be ashamed for even thinking about this issue. NOINDEX means NO INDEX. Do not put my page in your index. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.
:) Thanks folks - yes, the XSRF is not fool-proof, I threw it together this morning after I noticed that I could cast a vote via redirect w/o ever going through additional authentication.
I will take down the XSRF now :)
I agree that you should use filtering techniques when possible, but a large amount of spam is generated through exploiting holes in web software (ie: Parasitic Hosting). This type of protection would prevent such a problem.
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