V7ndotcom Elursrebmem

Posted on Monday, 16th January 2006 | 1 Response
[note: this page is not in the contest] As anyone in the industry will know, there is currently an SEO contest going on, started by John Scott at V7Network and improved on by Greg, Todd & Mike Grehan. Rather than trying to pocket the change, Graywolf has done the respectable thing and is donating any winnings to charity. I decided to help out - luckily I got to (more...)

Google Datacenters

Posted on Thursday, 5th January 2006 | No Comments
For all those wanting to check the rollout of the BigDaddy update, here's a list of 116 Google Datacenters: 64.233.161.98 64.233.161.99 64.233.161.104 64.233.161.105 64.233.161.106 64.233.161.107 64.233.161.147 64.233.163.99 64.233.163.104 64.233.167.99 64.233.167.104 64.233.167.106 64.233.167.107 64.233.167.147 64.233.171.99 64.233.171.103 64.233.171.104 64.233.171.105 64.233.171.106 64.233.171.107 64.233.171.147 64.233.179.99 64.233.179.104 64.233.179.106 64.233.179.107 (more...)

Referer Spam

Posted on Monday, 2nd January 2006 | No Comments
Good to see some of the old techniques still being used: [courtesy of this blog's stats]

Google 2 RSS

Posted on Thursday, 29th December 2005 | 1 Response
On ThreadWatch yesterday there was a thread about rank checkers, and I couldn't believe that some SEOs don't use them. We use our own heavy duty mega serp scraper to fully analyse any industry we are working in. Anyway, Graywolf mentioned how he would love a Google RSS or XML feed - I having been waiting for this for a long time, as their SERPs are so (more...)

Spammer’s Xmas Lists

Posted on Tuesday, 20th December 2005 | 2 Responses
Tony has written the best christmas blog post this year!! He has done some investigating and found the Amazon wishlists for a number of people in the Search industry. Included are: Jim Boykin, Andy Beal, Aaron Wall, Jensense, Matt Cutts, Todd Malicoat, Chris Pirillo, Sergey Brin & Jeremy Zawodny. Funniest items have to be Jason's "SEO for dummies" and Zawodny's "The Clitourist : A Guide to One of the (more...)

Matt Cutts – Private Detective

Posted on Monday, 12th December 2005 | No Comments
Newsflash!! - Matt Cutts, everyone's favourite Google Engineer and PR supremo has been moonlighting as a Private Detective!! Is this his new method of tracking down spammers? Or has he returned to his Government Intelligence roots? Or maybe Earl Grey is just canonicalizing Matt & Newsweek for finding his spam network.