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Category Archives: SEO Ethics

Black or White? I’m a mad hatter anyway.

Yahoo Censorship

Internet censorship seems to be a rather far-fetched issue until it actually affects you directly and personally. I admit I do things that make a lot of people angry and this time it seems Yahoo! Inc itself decided to get angry with me! I perfectly well know why as my post on Yahoo handcrafting describing [...]

Hard Proof of Yahoo Handcrafting

In my post Yahoo delivers Hand Crafted results too I already hinted on a fact that Yahoo uses hand-job on their results. By the time of writing I only had rumours to rely on, today a hard-proof is at hand. This screenshot published on Flickr by a rather unthoughtful Yahoo employee gives us the following: [...]

SEO and SEDD – the possibility of malicious deranking

When you go through SEO FAQ pages or ask an average SEO guru or a Search Engine spokesperson if Search Engine Ranking of your site can be deliberately harmed by your competitor the answer is always short and definitive: NO, no site can be harmed this way. Work to improve your site and you will [...]

It seems everybody had noticed this already

I was in a funny mood writing this post and now QuadsZilla comes with this question: Is Black Hat SEO Officially Mainstream?. Well things are not just bad, they are real bad indeed. Painting my gloomy picture I assumed two things: Good Will of Mainstream Webmasters/Webowners General Taboo on the use of autogenerated text QuadsZilla [...]

Where are we all being pushed right now?

What recently had been happening with Google SEPR is not even a cause for concern – it is a full scale disaster. The bad data push that crowned the big daddy update seems just the beginning. Google is clearly not capable to deliver what it had promised at the beginning – adequate search results. Where [...]