Archive for April, 2009

Lets Call This Hypocrite Day Shall We?

There’s nothing new about this post. It’s been said before. But for those who still confuse ethics with believing whatever line of bull the search engines might be throwing out for their own betterment, I wanted to just put out a little reminder on this fine April day.
One definition of a hypocrite, according to dictionary.com, is:
a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, esp. one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.
Google’s stance on paid links:
…link sellers can lose trust, such as their ability to flow PageRank/anchortext…when I say “paid links” it’s pretty safe to add in your head “paid links that flow PageRank and attempt to game Google’s rankings.”
And yet, [...]

You Know You Want To…

It was a dark and stormy night. The lights flickered as I worked on my computer.
“Damn” I said out loud to no one on particular. “This is the last thing I need…” and grumbled softly to the empty office.
It was slightly later than usual and yet earlier in the year than I was expecting this particular twist in my life to take. Things are always changing, and that should just be expected but this was a little weird and just slightly unsettling. It was a big change and it was forcing me to make alterations to my life I hadn’t expected to have to make.
The lights flickered again as a flash of lightening lit the sky. Sighing, [...]

Link Building for Mind-Bogglingly Boring Sites

Yes, it can be done, if you can stay awake long enough to read a bit…
“you know the scene – very humdrum
boredom – boredom”
The Buzzcocks
There are a few things in life that bore me to tears, those being, in no proper order:
1.Popular literature (yet it sells like mad while no one gives a fuck about Milan Kundera over here.) Yes, I’m talking about John Grisham, and I’m talking about the author who wrote that book about the bad dog. I have a bad dog. I don’t need to read a book about one.
2.Popular music. No offense to most of my friends (hi Melinda!), but popular music sucks a duck’s ass. It sucks it through a bendy straw. It sucks it [...]