SlightlyShadySEO

Avatar Went Hot: June 25, 2008 - 8:57 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 75 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoroi.com)
Category: Social Media
Gab of SEOROI explores how your sites pre-existing distribution and readership effect the impact of your content. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 3, 2008 - 12:48 pm
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 97 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Google SEO
This entry outlines basic precautions for concealing a site network from both Google and fellow SEOs who may be looking for an easy ranking(aka a penalty on your site).
Also covered are the types of niches where these sites can truly take off. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 30, 2008 - 7:55 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 101 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Google Other
This is my attempt at a post about what the future of the SEO and Google will be. I'll be the first to admit that some of the stuff I say is (IMO) pretty out there as far as predictions go, but I'd love to get some feedback from the sphinn community read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 16, 2008 - 5:57 pm
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 114 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Google SEO
Recently I figured out that of all sites out there, YOUTUBE is cloaking. Yes, the same YouTube owned by Google. They are cloaking their "mature" videos so that the spiders are caching the real version, but a real visitor is forced to sign up.
In th read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 27, 2008 - 9:36 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 136 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Google SEO
With Google’s recent “shading in” of many whitehats by killing off even widget bait, more and more people are getting worried. Even for non blackhat sites.
So I've put together some tips for paranoid SEOs to resist the penalization power as long as read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 23, 2008 - 11:53 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 137 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
How much longer will we put up with Jason's blatant flamebait and promotion? How much longer are we really going to let someone pretty much irrelevant to the industry to speak about topics he not only knows little about, but dislikes?
Say it with m read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 15, 2008 - 5:55 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 147 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
Live Search and AdCenter have reached a truly depressing state. With this in mind, I am pleading with them. Please, get better. There are basic and obvious problems. None of them too hard to fix. This is just getting depressing. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 7, 2008 - 10:14 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 153 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: SEO
SEO Standards(to me) seem completely insane. There's too many variations on too many tactics. People aren't going to expose their tricks for a "risk assessment". And beyond that Google's tolerance for different tactics in different niches is complet read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 27, 2008 - 6:35 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 165 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Google SEO
After reading the leaked "Quality Rater Guidelines" I was absolutely amazed at how basic a lot of the things are they have people looking for. Things that EASILY should be detected by the crawlers, not humans. Webmasters have long lived in fear of G read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 21, 2008 - 10:19 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 172 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoroi.com)
Category: Google SEO
Gab shares an incredibly sneaky method for disguising text links. With the recent leak of the Manual Review guidelines, it became obvious that perhaps Google's reviews are not as advanced and omnipotent as it was once thought. This trick seems like read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 18, 2008 - 9:52 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 173 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Clickbooth has been a bit lawyer-happy lately. In response to online criticism, and in an attempt to salvage reputation, they've been passing out cease and desist orders like candy. This details the whole drama, what they [allegedly] did, and how th read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 18, 2008 - 7:15 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 174 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
This is a rather advanced entry. It covers a way to use the user's query to construct a more targeted page, by attempting to understand the purpose of the user's query, and break it apart into it's essential parts. In doing so, it enables us to succ read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 3, 2008 - 12:33 pm
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 188 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: News Sites
Recently, SEO.com attempted to manipulate sphinn.com votes in an effort to get publicity. This is a breakdown of what they tried, how they got caught, and why it didn't work.
This article is the result of a poll I ran on whether they should be outt read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 29, 2008 - 11:55 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 192 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Google SEO
This entry covers why there is such a sudden surge in negative SEO, how it's done (filtering out details), and what few things you can do to protect against it.
All information was retrieved from my own test results(using my OWN domains as targets) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 24, 2008 - 12:49 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 198 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Affiliate Marketing
I cover my recent foray into the wide world of PPC, the stages I went through, and what I determined. Essentially, that there's NO reason to limit yourself to your comfort zone. Experimentation and learning is key. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 19, 2008 - 1:00 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 202 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Link Building
How to organize your link sources to save yourself time, money, and frustration. A central database is an awesome way to do this; when properly optimized, it can make getting relevant backlinks easier than ever before. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 14, 2008 - 1:32 pm
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 207 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: SEO
No niche or topic should be promoted exactly like another. As an SEO, it's our responsibility to evaluate each project in it's own unique light. This post shows some things to examine when figuring out how to promote a given topic. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 13, 2008 - 7:10 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 208 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nickycakes.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Following the hilarity of the Adwords "Ringtone Bandit",
Google is changing the display URL policy for Adwords on April 1st. This is most likely in response to the recent gaming of adsense by a few individuals who are able to completely dominate t read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 12, 2008 - 10:14 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 209 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Google Searching
When Google started, even if they had the resources they do now, they could not have created what they have now. When Google started, search engines, and especially caching content, were dubious at best.
They have now begun not only indexing inform read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 6, 2008 - 7:22 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 216 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Google SEO
Not much is known about manual reviews(concretely). Manual reviews are Google's acknowledgment that anything algorithmic will have flaws. Google is known to employ thousands of people across the globe for it. This is an examination of a detected [pr read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 3, 2008 - 8:20 pm
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 217 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
An in depth log examination is an odd thing. Here I have chronicled some of the incredible tracking I saw in my recent examination, and more than a couple oddities of the internet world. It's more worthwhile of a read than it sounds like. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 31, 2008 - 5:35 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 221 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Google SEO
Everyone has experienced that terrible moment when a site take a sudden dive in the rankings. This guide is designed to make sure you have the best chance at recovering those rankings, and don't make it worse. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 27, 2008 - 6:12 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 225 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Google SEO
When link building, it's important to not only know WHAT is/isn't allowed, but it's important to know WHY, and how to avoid them. This is a guide to the common penalizations within Google, how they're detected, and how to make sure your own site doe read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 25, 2008 - 1:02 pm
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 226 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nickycakes.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
Nicky Cakes brings up some points on the rules of getting votes here at sphinn.
What do we consider acceptable here? While it's obvious that there needs to be protections against proxied accounts, people asking their friends to consider signing up/ read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: January 20, 2008 - 1:45 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 232 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Blogging
Shoemoney has promoted offers even he calls a "scam" (repeatedly), copied linkbait from others, and much more.
And yet he calls SEOs slimy.
I don't normally give into flamebait, and don't normally like to call people out on such things, but I made read more »
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