SEO Updates

Aaron Wall interviews David Naylor (otherwise known as “comments spammer”) in a Q & A series on Search-Marketing.info. Interesting or frightening? You judge. I particularly blinked at answers such as:
We tend to run 2 or 3 different programs at a time and live by the sword, whether it be blog spamming, scraper sites, content driven [...]

This isn’t about SEO in general, but more focused on blogs and how to build (good) links networks and get some viewage along the road. Aaron Wall from SEOBook hands out a few pieces of advice, as well as links to posts and resources illustrating the point:
With blogs you can just whinge on about whatever, [...]

While browsing news from the past week, I found an article written by Cari Haus on WebProNews.com, titled “The Biggest SEO Scam of All”. Intrigued, I decided to read, and here’s what I found:

I spotted this press release on ArriveNet today; while said release is dated from June 28 (I’m a little slow to catch up with all I read at times), the advice it gives probably deserves some attention, as it’s easy to overlook some “details” that can indeed slow be a problem in terms of search [...]

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JenSense reports that Adwords advertisers can now negative filter publisher sites:

AdWords advertisers now have the ability to add AdSense publisher websites to a new tool called “Campaign Negative Sites”. This means that advertisers who have one or two websites they wish not to have their ads appear on (whether they are competitor sites or just [...]

Google, currently the most popular search system, is today rolling out its new advertising program. The L.A. Times reports that Google intends to capitalize on the $9.6 billion online ads generated last year with its new program:
Advertisers will be able to search Google’s database for websites relating to specific subjects, then bid on how [...]

Great article over on the ClickZ network that talks about Google’s new patent filing:

Google reveals in the filing its ranking algorithm is organized to thwart overly aggressive marketers. It confirms something search marketers have long suspected: Google watches how fast new links to a site appear as a way to detect and penalize search engine [...]

Duncan Riley outs a comment spammer (Amy Cross of realtrafficsite.com) over on blog herald:

Duncan Riley> Whilst digging for my last post I also discovered an SEO who is not only using comment spam on blogs as a tool, but is actually soliciting for new comment spamming scripts using Freelancing sites.
(Drum roll please) And the SEO [...]

I was reading Eric Ward’s website the other day and I’m really intrigued by what he does and the way he goes about it. He’s pretty well knonw as an SEO/linking guru and on his site he talks about his philosophy of linking, how it should not be automated and should reall invovle a lot [...]