Prepare for a dose of techy tin foil hattery. [Skip rant] Again, I’m going to rant about a nightmare that Twitter & Co created with their crappy, thoughtless and shortsighted software designs: URI shorteners (yup, it’s URI, not...
Topics: Google, MSN, Risky Linkage, Search Quality, Spam, Twitter, URI shortening

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With childish attacks on his colleagues, Derek Powazek didn’t do professional Web development –as an industry– a favor. As a matter of fact, Derek Powazek insulted savvy Web developers, Web designers, even search engine staff, as well...
Topics: Crap, SEO

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Trying to avoid an $11,000 fine in the Federal Trade Commission’s war on bloggers:When I write about praise search engines, that’s totally paid-for because I’ve received free search results upfront.Copyright © 2009 Sebastian`s...
Topics: Blogging, Crap, Google, MSN, Technorati, Twitter

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URI shorteners are crap. Each and every shortened URI expresses a design flaw. All –or at least most– public URI shorteners will shut down sooner or later, because shortened URIs are hard to monetize. Making use of 3rd party URI shorteners...
Topics: Crap, Google, MSN, Redirects, Risky Linkage, SEO, Twitter, URI shortening

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I’m so sick of the universal answer to all SEO questions. Each and every search engine rep keeps telling me that “creating a great and useful site with compelling content will gain me all the rankings I deserve”. What a pile of...
Topics: Crap, Fun, SEO

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