By now you have possible heard and read about the New York Times story by David Segal, which talks about how JC Penney cheated Google’s ranking system to become the number one spot for several keywords and phrases. David Segal contacted me in mid of January about a “dresses” link to the JC Penney website […]
Continue ReadingNYTimes: The Dirty Little Secrets of Search
Thank you for your visit. If you are here because of the New York Times article, published on February 12th, you can see those links on the right side navigation under “Links”. After a short discussion with Matt Cutts, head of Google’s webspam team, I have decided to remove these links from my blog. This […]
Continue Reading@Facebook Do the username Thing Right, dammit!
Saturday morning. All the world is awake. All the world? Yes! And only because Facebook launched “username” – or as techies call it “Vanity-URLs”. Basically it allows you to have “an online identity” under the Facebook.com domain. If you really want “Your Online Identity”, get yourself a domain name. Something way more useful than a […]
Continue ReadingSEO – Some Play Unfair
I admit. I do SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Why? Because it still works and it is free and brings real traffic. Through my skills I managed to push a website of mine at position #3 or #4 for a widely user query. Thanks to that, the traffic exploded: And the proof, that the traffic comes […]
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