Linking because I laughed
June 10, 2007 by DazzlinDonna · 3 Comments
Despite the fact that I am about to link to a post that is nearly 2 months old (gasp! the horror!), this post made me laugh today, so today you get to laugh at it too. I don’t care if you laughed at it 2 months ago. Laugh again!
MSN support rep on link exchanges and penalties
October 16, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 3 Comments
A buddy of mine shared some correspondence he has had with MSN in regards to a site of his that has been apparently penalized in MSN SERPs. Not banned, mind you, just penalized.
Google uncovers spammers hacking sites
August 14, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 1 Comment
Back on July 27, 2006, Neonblitz asked SearchEngineWatch members for help in discerning why a client’s site was showing up with some porn related phrases when searching for the domain name in Google. Those phrases were nowhere to be found on the site, yet it appeared as if they were, when looking at the description in the SERPs.
Strident Search Defender outs spammers
July 17, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · 1 Comment
Kudos to MikeSwede at DP for pointing this out. Microsoft’s research department put out a technical report that lays out common search spam techniques and provides lovely examples that out the spammers. Much of it is focused on splog/doorway page spam. It’s a fun read, if only to be able to see some of these in action. Oh, and they also kindly point out which of these rank well in Google. LOL. Check it out.
Google is seriously f’d up
June 17, 2006 by DazzlinDonna · Comments Off
Have you had your site’s pages de-indexed? Hmmm…maybe it’s because a world-class spammer has filled Google with BILLIONS of bogus pages – and Google has been stupid enough to be duped into indexing all of them!
