I recently received an email letting me know that blogging superstar Jeremy Zawodny has decided to sell text links on his blog. If you have no idea who Jeremy is, you might be wondering why I’d waste the time to write about it. After all, he certainly isn’t the first blogger to decide to monetize [...]

This site should be on everyone’s blogroll. sem | antics: Link Building, as Defined by Joseph Heller

I’ve received a couple of emails from people saying they tried to register so they could comment, but they never received their password. Apparently I have some WordPress bugs to work out. So for now, I’ve turned off the registration function.

Over the past year, there have been literally hundreds of articles and blog posts written about the topic of click fraud. I’m at the point that I actually get the urge to vomit every time I see a new one. I don’t think I’ve ever read so much about a topic and yet learned so [...]

Yesterday, on the Rockstars show, I mentioned that we would soon be starting some new R & D projects. One of those projects involves the Google Litterbox.

Are you interested in being a search chimp? For the first time, MSN is taking open invitations for its Search Champs program. They’ve asked those of us who have participated in the past to pass the invitation along to anyone we might think would be interested. I figured that if you are actually here reading [...]

Site #1 TLB: .info Date Registered: April 2005 PageRank: 4 Number of pages indexed: 114 Number of Backlinks: 112 Types of Backlinks: Small business directories and some industry related sites. Site #2 TLD: Doesn’t have its own domain. It’s a subdirectory of free web hosting .com Domain Registered: June 2000 Number of pages indexed: 23 [...]

Throughout the years, all search engines have taken turns denying that there is ever any hand manipulation involved when it comes to their stellar search results. At the same time, those of us who have been in the business awhile have all managed to witness what we feel are clear cut cases of hand manipulation.

I got to say, I’m quite impressed. I thought Google would ignore Brett’s robot.txt ban long enough for him to come to his senses and figure out a better solution. But that’s not what they did. WebmasterWorld has been completely removed from Google

While I was browsing through today’s posts at SEW, I came across a post on the topic of affiliate networks and SEO. The basic question presented in this thread is this: Is it possible to structure an affiliate tracking system in such a way that the links used by affiliates end up helping the merchant [...]