Random Thoughts


Random Thoughts01 Jul 2006 07:05 pm

Across several of my site’s forums there has been a new trend of some script automatically joining them and putting their blogspot spam in the website url. They are gaining links from having their links in the members list script. These seems to be only happening on phpbb boards. Looking at the averages most of these sites are gaining between 300-800 links from this technique. So i got curious, how many possible links can you gain from this spam if used to its fullest. This of course can’t be told by looking at how many phpbb scripts are out there, or how many memberlists are indexed, it must be done manually.

The answer is 53,203.

damn not bad! but before you decide to start spamming the hell out of every forum consider to temporary factor of these links. Not only will they not transfer PR to your site, but they will count for very little for a very short amount of time. This may not be worth it in the long run, becauseit is believed Google takes into consideration the “link growth” of your site. A huge peak, then a huge drop may actually hurt you. The only real solid potential I see of this is to get blogspot accounts indexed, and yes i would also recommend about 300-800 links per domain to get them indexed quickly and fully.

Good job spammers, you’ve bested the internet again :)

Random Thoughts27 Jun 2006 03:03 pm

Cool new tool by Microsoft called AdCenter Labs. You get to type in a url and it will predict its demographics. According to Microsoft Google and Yahoo is a girls search engine! So to confirm my hetrosexualness I have recently decided to switch to MSN as my primary search engine. :)

A few oddities I found:
Women.com - 61% Males, 39% Female This doesn’t make a damn bit of sense to me.

BlueHatSEO.com - 55% Male, 45% Female Hey I don’t discriminate unlike other seo sites I know.

ShoeMoney.com - 61% Male, 39% Female The other seo site i know :) Hey Shoe Money Come over to my site, I got chicks here! lol

Random Thoughts11 May 2006 05:08 am

I wanna start a section of comments about funny webdesign bloopers we find around the net. There’s gotta be hundreds.

I’ll start us off:
http://www.geraniumlake.com/main.html
This is hilarious. This is a website for a flower shop out of Portland Oregon. When they were recording the background music for the website the employees continued talking in the background. They even start bitching about customers!

Random Thoughts28 Apr 2006 11:37 pm

It’s not very often when you get to witness a brand new business idea take off from a seedling in the frontal right lobe of the brain and hatch into a profit maker and die right before your eyes. For anyone who has ever gotten to witness the birth and death of a business first hand, you can appreciate the simplistic beauty behind it. Here is an unedited transcript between a buddy and I that I would like to share, so everyone may partake in the beautiful rise and collapse of an empire.

WARNING: Strong language and sexual dialog. This dialog should be taken at entertainment purposes only.
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Random Thoughts14 Apr 2006 09:32 pm

An SEO company cold called me today. It was great; she showed me how she got one of her clients a #1 spot in Google! The #1 spot was for a term that gets searched for on avg. 8.6xday but that’s irrelevant. She also spilled all of her secrets to SEO success on me, so I may share with you.

Top SEO Secrets <----Get a pen
1-Put a picture of a lady that looks half business woman and half house wife on the top of your site. She stressed this point
2-Put a picture of a guy with a cell phone. It doesn’t matter where, just as long as you have a picture of a guy with a cell phone.
3-Put a W3C logo and link on your site.

I’ve been doing it all wrong!

If I may make a quick side note. I did NOT take this lady’s words out of context to make them ridiculously funny. She really did believe these three things determined who was first in the SERPS.


Let the traffic roll in!

I told her I desperately needed some SEO for one of my sites named BlueHatSEO.com. She took a look at the site and noticed my guy with the jacket. I assured her that it would be promptly changed to a half home wife half business woman, just as soon as I could. She was relieved. I asked if she could get me ranked #1 for “blue”, #1 for “hat”, and #1 for “SEO”. She told me she certainly could but I wouldn’t want to rank for those terms. Instead the smart thing to do would be, to have her “keyword technician” do some math and find the term that would be most beneficial to my business.

I don’t know. I kind of liked the idea of ranking #1 for SEO, but I guess ranking #1 for “cottagebaconmix” would be more beneficial to my business. :)

I’m not going to crap down this lady’s neck too much; cold calling is a shitty enough business to be in after all. For god sakes though have some pride! Don’t let someone with a website with “Advanced SEO Tactics” in giant blue letters right across the top keep you on the phone for 45 mins asking questions like what is Google, because they probably don’t need your help as much as the next person on your call list. Though it was pretty hilarious hearing her freak out when Rob kept tapping the Mario Bros. themed hold button really fast.

So this was a crappy post with no real point to it except prove that I’m a jerk to telemarketers. Please listen to me SEO companies. Don’t cold call people! If you want customers, rank for terms they are going to use when trying to find you. Honest, if you asked your knowledgeable friend what a good SEO company would be and he responded, “I don’t know, search for SEO company and go with whoever is on top.” You honestly couldn’t say that would be bad advice.

Random Thoughts06 Apr 2006 10:36 am

Wow, when did BlueHatSEO.com get a page rank 4? I could of swore it wasn’t there yesterday. HaHa…all well whatcha gonna do? It’s not like any sites link to me anyways. I wasn’t even aware I was in the search engines.

If anyone is in the market for a PR4 link I’ll sell you one for a measily 300k dollars. Or you can just leave a comment :)

Random Thoughts03 Apr 2006 10:41 pm

With only about 1,200 visitors/day to this site I’m no mover and shaker but since my post about an Alexa Cheat my Alexa ranking has been rising. HAHA. Com’n people start sending your friends so I can be in the English Top 100. Kidding Kidding, don’t crash my site :)

Can you tell which day I put up that rel=prefetch link?

FYI! Incase anyone has been keeping track; I have reached my 50th post! Not bad for the site only being about 2 months old. Although I am still really wishing I could get some more authors in here to give their insights. It would be nice to hear some other people’s thoughts.

Random Thoughts03 Apr 2006 02:37 am

I found an interesting post on The Pyramids of Google. It gives a link to the Alexa traffic log for GoogleSyndication.com. Which is the domain that Google adsense posts the links. This is actually pretty shocking. It shows the top sites that send Googlesyndication.com traffic. In other words what sites send the most traffic through adsense. They are mostly chinese sites! I don’t understand how that is even possible. Crazy stuff though.

Random Thoughts24 Mar 2006 11:28 am

He figured it out folks!

This is truely a great day. Once again on the contribute page:

  1. debt elimination Says:
    I must admit, I’ve had a rough time with my credit. Life isn’t easy when you’re drowning in debt. Big kisses to all the shopaholics! Kell

Well Debt Elimination(if that is your real name) I will tell you this. There is nothing more fustrating for me than rough times with my credit. Life isn’t easy when your drowning in debt (wait a minute. I think I’ve heard that somewhere before). Well I must say that I am extremely excited for our bud brownie muncher in Amsterdam. I think the least I can do is give him a link on the main page.

Random Thoughts23 Mar 2006 07:27 am

On my contribute page, http://www.bluehatseo.com/contribute/ You’ll notice a bit of spam from someone still trying to figure out their blog comment spammer.

  1. Use Keyword Here Says:
    Personally, I never use more than a single link in the comment I post because doing so can trigger spam catchers if the user has that plugin activated, whereas a single link will not.

If your worried about creating trouble for yourself while testing spam software, leaving the default data isn’t necessarily the best option. Maybe a simple hello or I loved your site so much I want to give you a hand job will suffice.

Turns out the dude is from Amsterdam. Perhaps he wasn’t testing, he’s just too damn stoned to figure it out.

Shoot me an email if you need some help with your site promotion Marley!

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