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water cooler isn't supposed to be able to hit the front page is why....or that's what a mod told me at one point.
I don't really see the issue either way.
I think they're running out of routes except for the route labeled "desperation this way ---> FTC"
Really? Don't you people have something fucking better to do than bitch about this? If all of you were live blogging or doing session recaps instead of bitching about this we might have a bit more info on the whole thing.
If you don't like it you don't have to read it.
101st!
I'm a spammer....out me and I'll wreck havock. Listen, I think every point has been made here, is there actually a need to continue it? Go do some work and make some money or something.
If Rand wants to be holier than thou, then let him. It's not like we don't recognize it. Trashing someone for personal gain after you've portrayed yourself as "Mr Ethical"....well what does he expect?
GUILTY! GIVE HIM THE CHAIR!
This isn't necessarily a confirmed thing, and it's been debated for a while.
http://www.seoco.co.uk/blog/2008/06/02/debunked-only-the-1st-anchor-text-counts-with-google/
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An interesting article...and rather meaningless but a good read anyway.
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I like the idea, a lot of good content gets missed and since it's editorially reviewed it keeps the quality above board. My suggestion though is to not make it too long...hard to read my feed as it is but would sign up.
lmao. ban their IP? If only that was all the "good administrators" would do.
Errr, create widget, submit to directories?
And I bet I could turn that into super black hat fairly quickly.
1. Create dating calendar widget or I mean "software", googlebomb competitor with irrelevant anchor text, rinse, repeat.
2. Create 500 different "geo-targeted" versions of the same widget, auto-submit to all directories.
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>> There are no ethics in seo, only what works and what does not work.
Amen to that.
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Agreed with streko, this is total crap and I can prove it in a multitude of ways. Big sites don't get taken out completely ever. I think they did it to BMW for 3 whole days or whatever so they can claim that they do it.
Normal sites gets completely blasted, not showing up for their name, while "big sites" get one of two pages and I'd hardly call it "sections".
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@Todd, fine, another 3 day ban on a BMW-like site still isn't what everyone else gets. Seeing a BMW-like site get the 6-8 weeks then we'll be even.
>> My advice on this topic is to focus your efforts on building relevant and quality content on one domain
Totally disagree with that. Would you put all apples in one basket? Let's be more fun and go ask the neighborhood drug dealer if he stores all of his dope in the same place. It's the theory of defensible income. As finicky as Google is I don't trust them to go and totally change their rules and tank a site.
I won't even go as far as saying this is gaming the search engines. Providing multiple options for users or targeting a different demograph on different domains is good practive in my opinion.
As far as ethics, that's fairly irrelevant. It's not our jobs to make Google return the most relevant results, and I for one am not going to help them out by submitting spam reports considering their double standards for everyone.
If I can get the top 10 I'll do it everytime. As long as the users is getting something relevant then this isn't against any guidelines anywhere. And as far as Google "catching" you doing this...that isn't going to happen unless your a total clutz.
>> If you disagree with putting all apples in one basket then why aren't the masses and all of the biggest online corporations performing the practice of multiple domains?
Since I don't have time to go through the many many examples, here's two off the top of my head:
From SEO Book: bankrate
Ticketmaster owns Ticketsnow, which sells the same exact inventory.
Ebay owns StubHub, which sells tickets on both sites.
Do some name registrant scraping and you'll see how much "big" companies actually do this.
As for your analogy, I'd rather own the mansion and the houses. I never said you shouldn't have a solid primary domain, but having multiple niche sites selling the same thing is good diversification.
I've seen instances of multiple chained 301 redirects causing problems, but never heard of a large number of single redirects causing any issues. If so I have a lot of work to do.
I think I like Olive Garden. I'm also a lier and a cheat. I agree to disagree with myself.
You know, since we're back to the sphinn name calling BS I figured I'd call myself an asshole.
Asshole.
"Besides, 301 for multiple pages would be a headache (if not impossible) to redirect."
I don't want to misinterpret that, but uh, it's called mod rewrite. unless you manually redirect every page which is like, so 1997.
LMAO...I put in a site that does $30 Million a year in sales and it's worth:
http://www.smartpagerank.com - $1,279
http://www.dnscoop.com/ - $2,841,704
http://www.cubestat.com/ - $25,756
Nice range though.
@ianvisits That's not the point. The accuracy of the tools is the point. If you have another online tool that can magically produce a P&L statement then let me know.
Blogs not branded to a single individual are sold all the time, and this post wasn't specifically talking about blogs anyway. Valuations are based on profit/loss, traffic, etc and none of these tools are going to get you anywhere. Ann says that at the bottom of the post.
Now those stupid "My blog is worth $1billion" buttons are widgetbait, but are essentially just as good (worthless) as the rest of them.
@iBrian a year ago you wouldn't need to run through all those hoops. Send out a massive barrage and see what worked. Now the filters are harder to get through and require newer methods.
Not saying this started last week, but a lot of people have never done a bunch of comment spamming and would maybe like to know how it's done.
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