In Matt Cutts most recent vendetta against (oh please let me participate to the whole dramatization of the Google = Evil policy) paid links we often tend to forget how easy Google bots can nowadays recognize many (paid) links. I will not go into detail, but would rather love to see you use that gray [...]
SEO And The Dangers Of The Semantic Web
April 23rd, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: google, matt-cutts, moneytization, nofollow, paid-links, SE, SEO For Dummies
Can We DoFollow Now Please
December 30th, 2006 · 2 Comments
A really long time ago Google launched nofollow. The concept of nofollow was as easy as it was irrealistic.
Almost two years later visible comment spam is on the way back for users of most popular blog platforms such as Wordpress, Expression Engine and TextPattern. Akismet has become a widely used tool. It is a wonderful [...]
Tags: akismet, comments, dofollow, nofollow, SEO, spam, wordpress
the end of reviewme and payperpost is nearing
December 11th, 2006 · 3 Comments
Not that long ago I posted about Review Me and PayPerPost. It looks like the end for those services is nearing (as I predicted in a comment) as Matt Cutts indirectly states in a comment at SEOmoz.
Google wants to do a good job of detecting paid links. Paid links that affect search engines (whether paid [...]
Tags: affiliate-links, google, jerking-off, matt-cutts, nofollow, paid-links, payperpost, reviewme
Wordpress plug-ins the first
July 31st, 2006 · 3 Comments
Sometimes I help people with plug-ins for their WP blog, so here a first list of the Wordpress plug-ins I regularly use.
Dr. Dave SpamKarma.
Some people use Askimet, the standard spam plug-in for WP. Due to his nature, developped by a commercial company I don’t use it since the past has learned me that open source [...]