SEO Updates

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:

… unless you have the legal budget to back it up.
Google Blogoscoped reported how SEO Inc. dropped out of Google’s rankings for virtually every SEO-related term, including their company name.
SEO Inc. fired back with a cease & desist notice.
Some people / companies will never learn.
After sending the cease & desist, Boing Boing eventually picked up […]

Aaron Wall of SEO Book tackles Ethical SEO in this article.
A quote (from an email he received):

I think when people talk about ethics in business they are concerned about someone cutting into their profits or threatening their profits. It has nothing to do with human rights or suffering (which is wrong). Either way, business […]

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 […]

A service that can be used to help limit the fraud that seems to be growing in the Pay-Per-Click world.
New Service Helps Stop Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Click Fraud
PPC Trax released to the general public to help track and stop PPC click fraud, improve PPC advertisers’ conversion rates and improve PPC Return-On-Investment (ROI).
[ClickPress, Mon Feb 21 2005] […]

Here are a few guidelines suggested by MSN to help you out. First and foremost, MSN readily admits that MSNbot will actively be using Meta tags for part of its web site analysis. Yes, meta tags are still relevant pieces of code (despite all the nay sayers out there), and with this new Bot they […]

The following was posted on 3/22/05 to this thread:
Good Day All,
We are a marketing firm specializing in Online Gaming & Poker and are looking to hire a Senior(if possible) Search Engine Optimization and Marketing Specialist/Manager.
We would prefer to have a local candidate, or someone who comes from Ontario or Canada, but relocation is an option […]