Black Hat – White Hat

6 month link experiment

About 6 months ago I registered 12 domains.  All .com’s.  All with ‘names’…. things like toddloveslinks.com I made them all into fake “people” pages.  All about ‘Todd’ for example.  I put up fake bio’s, dogs, family pictures, etc… I buried in the back of the sites “Todds favorite...

Site Map Madness

I’ve been playing with sitemaps all week.  I have a burning desired to avoid Google having my sitemaps – even on my white hat sites I’m very concerned. That doesn’t mean I don’t like the idea of having deep links to my sites all in one place. I’d been using my own little command line tool to make sitemaps and putting them...

Net Neutrality – Time for it to be an issue.

Randal over at 14th Colony recently put up an excellent article on Net Neutrality and how it’s not a good thing.  I know many of you aren’t into politics and probably don’t sit up at night wondering what Net Neutrality is. In a nutshell it’s the concept of charging everyone the same rate for access to the net.  Randal gives a great...

Spamming your own web 2.0 social applications, article directories, and blogs!

Many webmasters expend huge amounts of effort to spam (or add links) to popular web 2.0 applications. They find as time goes on that they are banned, or that new and improved ways of stopping them are added.  That means that unless your a programmer yourself and have the time and skill both to make semi automated (or fully automated) solutions for spamming...