Archive for the 'SEO' Category

Outsourcing Your Documents to Scribd and Gaining Exposure

Web 2.0 is about sharing stuff. No need to repeat that any more than it’s already been said. But for many “Web 2.0″ sites/services out there, sharing is really the only thing they do. For instance, when you don’t really get anything by uploading a video to Metacafe or YouTube – you just share. But [...]

Wikia’s Outrageous Exploitation of the Human Race

It’s official, Jimmy Wales has gone too far. The founder of Wikipedia is famous for tapping into users to generate content and traffic, building the internet’s largest chain/web of user-generated content and information. From the million+ articles written by users to the billions of incoming links that have given Wikipedia its super-human search result rankings, [...]

Using Bad Word Filters to Boost SEO & Productivity

If you’re a webmaster, administrator, or moderator of any large blog, forum, or other community site, you’ll find that a lot of time is wasted spelling out URIs to various useful links, whether they’re to guides, reviews, downloads, or forms. On a big website with lots of members (especially that kind that don’t use the [...]

Ask: The Algorithm Sucks

Aks.com, the “new” (reborn) search engine poised to take over the world. Champions of personal privacy. Protectors data. Finders of answers, and the future of the web. Or at least, that’s what they’d have you believe. But don’t buy it, it’s all crap.

Ask.com always sucked. From when Jeeves the butler was still young and had [...]

Does Net-non-Neutrality Already Exist?

Net-Neutrality is without a doubt the biggest techno-political debate of the year. The entire issue has spun out of control since mid-2006, and here on the eve of 2007 it has yet to be resolved. The only question is, has net-neutrality already been destroyed and hacked-to-pieces to a greater extent than anyone thought already existed?

Earlier [...]