Archive for March, 2005

Wordpress.org caught spamming

Posted by Satyajeet on 31 March, 2005
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Apparently the guys at wordpress.org have been quietly hosting at least 168,,000 articles on their website.that are specifically targetting high paying adsense keywords The articles are written by a third-party site Hot Nacho, a startup that pays freelance writers to generate 300-800 word articles about specific topics.
Now all copies of wordpress that [...]

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A Back Road Loophole For Getting into Google?

Posted by Satyajeet on 10 March, 2005
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Interesting article By Alexis Dawes
A Back Road Loophole For Getting a Top Google Ranking
By Alexis Dawes
While everybody wants their site to receive a top 10 ranking in Google, it’s just not possible for everyone.
And this is especially true if you’ve got a brand new site. New sites that have been crawled by the Googlebot are [...]

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Best Adsense placement to maximize clickthrough

Posted by Satyajeet on 10 March, 2005
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Seth Godin has a nice post where he has illustrated the “hot spots” where people focus when they are looking at googles search results..
These are the results of a new eyetracking study on Google search results from Enquiro
The same can be concluded for regular pages..
Here is the image depicts the result of this [...]

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First Google’s Autolinks, Now Cloaking.. whats next??

Posted by Satyajeet on 9 March, 2005
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Well First they went the microsoft way by starting the autolinks feature, now they have broken their own cardinal law..Cloaking….
Threadwatch had a post where people reported the cloaking and page stuffing that google had engaged in.
What takes the cake is that that were cloaking based on the user-agent and not IP..
Never thought that the [...]

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