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Random Thoughts18 Mar 2006 09:40 am

This has really nothing to do with SEO, but I thought I’d throw it in for the hell of it. Infact this really isn’t even useful, it’s just cool and neat on how it works.

In the Google FAQ it talks about the rel=”prefetch” command. This command(supported by both new versions of firefox and IE) in a sense forces the user to click on a link. The user doesn’t actually go to the link; their browser just fetches the url. The idea behind this is to make the next page download faster, assuming they do click on it. This is really only useful for splash pages. Ie. Click here to enter pages.

However this command can be used to cheat on Alexa

My Alexa Ranking <-removed because it no longer works. Use the xml.alexa.com url instead
This will link tag will cause almost every visitor to my site to pull the Alexa toolbar API and count it as a visit to my site, whether or not they actually have the toolbar.

Anyone promote on top sites lists?

Fun stuff eh!

Random Thoughts17 Mar 2006 10:46 am

So Google has finally started following suite with Yahoo and began recently tracking click through rates on their organics. This is great news for those of us who understand how they use that data and have spoofed it to rank highly in Yahoo for years.

Thanks Google!

This just goes to prove that every attempt to improve relevancy only gives people an extra tool to fake relevancy. There goes my black hat tendancies, kicking in again.

PS. For those of you who just jumped out of your seats cus you realized what I mean by all this, guess what. Even though it’s completely black hat and there will probably never be a Blue Hat technique written for it, I have never seen it on any sort of forum or public SEO blog. So I get the credit for it being my idea! haha. Patent! Double stamp no erasies.

Random Thoughts14 Mar 2006 10:52 pm

Has anyone else heard of Windows Live Beta? I was looking at it today and I must say it’s looking pretty cool.

http://www.live.com

I was particularly impressed with the image search and the way they organized the ads.

Random Thoughts07 Mar 2006 09:08 am

A quick flash series I thought you’d all like.

http://www.vote4oz.com/episode01.html
http://www.vote4oz.com/episode02.html
http://www.vote4oz.com/episode03.html

Random Thoughts23 Feb 2006 09:07 am

If search engines were 100% relevant…

There would be no search results. You would only need the I’m Feeling Lucky Button.

Every page on the internet would be a stop page. The searcher would use the SE to find exactly what they were looking for on the page of your site the SE sent them to and would no longer need to browse any other pages on your site.

Affilliate programs would not exist because if searchers needed to buy something the SE would send them directly to the people who sell them.

Internet traffic would drop dramatically because hunting for information wouldn’t be necessary.
No new ecommerce sites would emerge to compete because the SEs would automatically send all the people on the Internet to the most reputable online stores.
There would be no need for sites that review other sites

Directories like DMOZ would no longer exist

No sites would link to other sites because the visitor wouldn’t be at your site if it wasn’t exactly what they wanted.

Forums and chat wouldn’t be needed because finding the information would become easier than asking for it.
The web would be dead.

Random Thoughts15 Feb 2006 10:49 am

Sorry I haven’t been posting lately. Been really busy. I promise I’ll get back on schedule with it soon. Until then enjoy your Valentines day!

Random Thoughts05 Feb 2006 08:00 am

I was reading this blackhat forum today, cus I enjoy that kind of stuff, I supose. It was funny. They were talking about new ideas for css spamming. Some were talking javascript. Some were talking about hiding the text behind a picture. All sorts of witty shit that probably took them hours of devising. I just can’t help but laugh and wonder if any of them have ever heard of a marquee.

Look at me hide a bunch of text from the search engines. I can make this as small and hidden as I want. The best part is the search engines actually read this as normal text.

It’s funny how some of these people work so hard to let their spam go undetected using the latest and greatest technologies in webdesign. Yet none of them ever thought about using simple html 3.0 commands that can’t be banned or penalized. Although I’m not a black hatter I enjoy black hat discussion because it’s so much more creative and inventive than the boring repetative white hat stuff. Perhaps Blue Hat will become the non-boring white hat some day?

That will never happen with posts like this :)

Random Thoughts03 Feb 2006 09:20 am

From reading the title you already know what this article is meant to convince you of. So I will keep it short and spare you the rhetoric.

Search engine rankings are a competition. The people who follow the standard promotion techniques inevitably will always lose. This applies especially to common free promotion techniques. This perhaps became the most transparent with Google’s decision to devalue what was coined the DMOZ affect. In short the DMOZ affect was the sites that were listed in Google’s ability to gain a good page rank and inbound links solely because of the large number sites that mirror dmoz. At this point Google has even gone so far as to stop crawling once they realize the directory is a mirror of DMOZ. The same practice has even been noticed on MSN and Yahoo seems to be in the process of following suit.
The question now is how far will this go? At the moment people are loving the benefits of article writing. I personally believe this is the next on the major search engines chopping block. Will the search engines start devaluing links coming from article directories? Maybe, in the mean time here’s a good philosophy to go by.

Do what everone else does and then some more. This is the only true way to be competative. By regularly reading BlueHatSEO.com you’re at least at a good starting point to moving beyond the herd. I wish you all the success you deserve.

Random Thoughts28 Jan 2006 01:34 am

Well BlueHatSEO.com and the concept of Blue Hat has been live for over a week now. I’m really excited about the progress. Five techniques, which I think you may find useful, have already been posted as well as quite a few articles on the subject, which makes me one product SOB. :)

Already Blue Hat SEO is starting to recieve a loyal following that visit and read every day. I will do my best not to let you guys down, but I would really like to recieve some feedback on what I can do to improve your experience. If anyone has any interesting articles or techniques they have discovered feel free to send them in. I’d like to see BlueHatSEO.com turn into a community and the first step would be to encourage comments, article contributions, and feedback.

I appreciate all of you who have already chosen to share this site with friends and I look forward to hearing what you have to say.

Random Thoughts20 Jan 2006 12:47 pm

So at my office today we ordered a total of 5 new IP’s. Three of those are on separate class C IPs. I’m just trying to brainstorm about what I should do with them. Eitherway I’m going to setup two new webservers and a few new voip phones. My biggest delima is how I should organize the sites. I need to interlink among the different servers to best serve my inbound link strategies. If anyone has any ideas I’m open to suggestions.

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