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Archive for November, 2007



Selling SEO

Tonight I spoke with a web marketing firm’s sales person and he tried selling me search engine optimization services. The first keyword he showcased consisted of three terms “keyword1 keyword2 keyword3″ and the client ranked first on Google. Anything more than one keyword, I am not impressed.

Here are some of his lines I recalled […]

Buy Links All Day

As an advertiser (not the publisher), you should never be afraid to buy links because if search engines ever start passing out penalties to advertisers who buy links there would be havoc in ruining your competitors’ natural search rankings by building bad links to them. Search engines know this, and simply cannot stop the link […]

GoDaddy is a bunch of incompetents, who would give me a courtesy call when I renew domains to say thank you. But they would not call me when one domain had an old credit card number attached to it, and let it expire so they can make a quick buck on the flip. The irony […]

Zerorank Awards

In honor of all the pagerank penalties that have been handed out by the pagerank updates recently, the ZERORANK AWARDS is born. Some blogs have dropped from a pagerank of 5 to zero with no warning whatsoever for trying to monetize their web properties with alternatives such as sponsored links, sponsored ads, rich media display […]

PR7 link for $200

Not a bad price coming from a website that is “permanently linked from” techcrunch, mobilecrunch, and crunchgear. The website is http://www.crunchboard.com, for $200 you get a unique page url (mostly a php mod rewrite) with a do follow, a back link to your website (you can not choose keyword anchor), description text (up to 2000 […]

Drupal Weekend

In process of learning the nitty gritty of Drupal to turn out a kick ass community site. Already built several Drupal sites, but haven’t fully realized its full potential except extending a couple of core modules to do what the website needed. The restaurant menus website was built during a long weekend when we needed […]

Pagerank is a Joke

I love how people pay so much attention pagerank especially when it has degraded to such a big joke. One site in particular that I have optimized for earlier in the year and haven’t touched in months all of a sudden got assigned a PR 5. Totally unexpected with the way Google continues to assign […]

Golden Unicorn Dim Sum

Today we went to dim sum at Golden Unicorn and it never fails to deliver. The dim sum was tasty and consistent.

Located at the corner of East Broadway and Cathrine Street, slightly further out from central Chinatown (Mott Street + Canal Street). On busy weekends, the normal wait is up to 15 minutes for a […]

Yi vs. Yao

Tonight’s NBA game is going to be one of the few games where two top Chinese home grown players (approved by the Chinese government unlike Wang Zhizhi’s career - where his games were banned in China for non-conformity) meet for the first time as opponents rather than as teammates on the national team. It propels […]

http://seoblackhat.com/2007/10/23/amazon-patents-search-strings/
This has got to be one of the sillier patents issued by the USPTO office. Maybe all the garbage in does mean garbage out.