Comments for Sebastian's Pamphlets

Comment on Dear webmaster, don’t trust Google on links by John

John — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:45:56 +0000

So… now what? Seven days ago I would have agreed wholeheartedly but now this penguin shit is flipping the SERPs upside-down and seemingly prioritizing the sites that no one wants to link to. Or completely irrelevant sites. Or empty sites.

Now it seems like Google would rather show my unrelated pages instead of the very specific matches that have a decent backlink profile. Whatever - as long as they don’t have to show pages that put effort in to promoting their content!

Alright, that’s my counter-rant. I’m going to go back to staring at numbers until I imagine some patterns.

Comment on Dear webmaster, don’t trust Google on links by Steve

Steve — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:15:48 +0000

I have a site that is Google de-indexed but ranks well in Bing and Yahoo. That site is one of the funnest sites to work on cause I can build links anywhere and not worry about Google freaking out.

Comment on Dear webmaster, don’t trust Google on links by Sebastian

Sebastian — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:00:11 +0000

Yup, they’re driven by fear of failure. If their link rating routine could fail on a spammy link, it’s better to penalize a couple dozen sites applying the throw-bathtubs-with-babies principle than getting their stuff together.

Unfortunately, they also create fear in innocent webmaster souls all across the planet.

Some call that behavior evil. I’m truly not a Google hater by passion, so I call it plain bullshit.

Listen, as long as I can launch a gazillion of spammy links –that actually help the site I’m spamming for, despite Google’s denials–, a competitor can do that to me, falsely assuming that this alone will tank the link target on Google’s SERPs (in fact I’d say thanks for the promotional efforts).

So what does that mean?

(1) As long as Google for some reason can’t devalue the boost effect of my low-life links in their ranking algos, that’s solely their problem, as long as I don’t own their search engine (what should be the case by now, considering all the free advice I’m providing Google with in my pamphlets … #unfair).

(2) As for the negative SEO purposes, see (1). Of course the methods and procedures of an SEO in this business are more diverse.

That’s the ideal world where artificial links launched by either the site owner or others lack impact. In fact Google has created scattered gray zones where spammy links indeed can harm a site’s rankings, just because they couldn’t resist to implement penalties for non-googley linkage (lazy and un-geeky approach). These parts of their algos are obsolete. Instead they should have invested more time into fine-tuning their link judgement (the geek way to get things done).

Comment on Dear webmaster, don’t trust Google on links by Angie Nikoleychuk

Angie Nikoleychuk — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:34:59 +0000

But what better way to spot a site that has an SEO hawking over it than looking at a link profile and NOT seeing any shit links? That would take all the guesswork out of it

Comment on Dear webmaster, don’t trust Google on links by IrishWonder

IrishWonder — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:03:25 +0000

Google is heavily promoting its confession booth reinclusion request self-reporting feature, wonder why? maybe they are just guessing you might have some shady links or they just slap those notifictions right and left randomly hoping people would report themselves helping them “improve their algo”… Some outing-powered algo, it appears.

Comment on My Top 10 Predictions for 2012 by Oskari

Oskari — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:07:55 +0000

Google plus becomes the new skynet and takes over the SERPs?

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Comment on My Top 10 Predictions for 2012 by mohsin

mohsin — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:56:10 +0000

nice drunk post

You aren’t posting much on this blog these days - i guess 2011 was pretty busy for you.

Good Luck for 2012, however.

[Right, best of luck 2u, too]

Comment on Bizarre facettes of war in social media by Paul Duffy

Paul Duffy — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 03:33:12 +0000

I read Gerhard Heinz right through the blog. For me he was probably not miltary trained he was too blood thirsty, often got it wrong particularly after the fall of tripoli.

I do not thing he represented anybody but himself and often used other names to say how great he was. I think it is possible he was a pimply lone teenager or somebody in a mental institution. Whatever his reports could not be relied on. I first became skeptical of his report when he reported ‘helis over …..’ when no helis no yet been deployed. The saddest thing about Gerhard Heinz phenomina was that he had so many people sucked in.