http://vsloathe.com Face Stomping SEO Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:16:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just read a very informative post over at seorly.com The author (apparently a snow owl) talks about google bowling, and goes into a bit of depth. http://vsloathe.com/2008/10/23/good-post-at-seorlycom/ Well, it's almost here. Immortal Promoter Thanks to everyone who's given suggestions and advice. The service will be available soon, make sure to pre-register to reserve a spot and get our heavy discount for the first month. http://vsloathe.com/2008/08/07/who-knows-what-the-kaptain-and-the-sloathe-have-cooking/ Forgive me, for I'm late to the party. When changes happen on the SEO scene, I tend to take action before writing about them. Has anyone else noticed the recent trend? Content and on-page optimization seem to be once again playing a huge role in ranking. Six months ago, I ... http://vsloathe.com/2008/05/08/content-is-kingagain/ Since I'm switching jobs soon, I have been interviewing some developers to replace me at my current position. It has astounded me how many candidates don't really know what I'm talking about when I start asking about securing web applications against injection. In light of that, I thought I would ... http://vsloathe.com/2008/03/21/input-validation-something-every-web-developer-should-know-how-to-do/ 18 84 58 A6 D1 50 34 DF E3 86 F2 3B 61 D4 37 74 http://vsloathe.com/2008/01/29/i-suppose-it-will-get-changed-quickly-but/ A happy Friday to all. There is an absolute plethora of misinformation out there about SEO, so as my contribution to the community, I'm going to dispell a few SEO myths. There is no such thing as a sandbox. Yes, that is correct, there is no Google sandbox. If your brand spanking new page is not immediately indexed, it's because you don't have enough links, or Google has not updated its index to reflect your site's inclusion yet. I've had sites that were plastered with ads indexed within 2 hours, and I've had sites white as the driven snow with 50 backlinks from trusted domains take ages to get indexed. Which brings me to my next point: edu = gov = com = info = net = org = ... The TLD of a domain matters about as much as the color pants you're wearing when you get a link from it. It's *trust* that makes a good link, not its ... http://vsloathe.com/2008/01/18/seo-myths/ 42 http://vsloathe.com/2008/01/09/42/ Probably OFN by now, but I came across this on a certain forum that I frequent and absolutely had to write a post about it. http://vsloathe.com/2008/01/09/i-had-to-share-this-its-just-priceless/ I've never put together a real compendium of what my link dropping service is going to be able to do, so I figured I would give a little overview of what the system consists of:  A massive database of URLs, expanded daily by automated spiders and QAed automatically by carefully crafted ... http://vsloathe.com/2007/10/29/some-information-about-the-yet-to-be-named-link-dropper/ Sometimes when I'm listening to Shark Week on the Discovery Channel the smart-sounding doods say that the Great White is the world's most fearsome killing machine. I have irrefutable proof that this is not the case. Imagine, if you will, that you're walking along the poopdeck minding your own business, ... http://vsloathe.com/2007/10/26/ninjapiratevikingraptor-the-ultimate-killing-machine/