http://seoblackhat.com Tired of useless Top 10 Lists for ranking in Google? Looking for effective and insightful info? SEO Black Hat Blog offers articles on Blackhat SEO, Linkbait & Link Spamming. And if you need to escape White Hat SEO Whiners, check out he Private Black Hat Search Engine Optimization Forum. Mon, 14 Feb 2011 05:32:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Lie was told here by Udi Manber, and repeated by Matt Cutts. And I quote: 'At Google we do not manually change results. For example, if we find for a particular query that result No. 4 should be result No. 1, we do not have the capability to manually ... http://seoblackhat.com/2011/02/04/google-lied-about-manually-changes/ Since the majority of people can’t seem to figure out how clickstream data could be used as a Search Engine Ranking Factor, without even scraping the actual page, I’ll give you a hint. Actually, a pop quiz. Here’s what you know: User 1 Visits: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=gyhwesaa Then immediately visits: http://www.amazon.com/JL421-Badonkadonk-Land-Cruiser-Tank/product-reviews/B00067F1CE/ Later User 2 visits http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=gyhwesaa&x=15&y=19 Then immediately ... http://seoblackhat.com/2011/02/02/clicksteam-for-dummies-how-the-ranking-factor-works/ Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen the hypocrisy coming out of Google reaching new all time highs. The mud slinging out of the Google camp is a signal: Google is running scared. Bing has gotten better. A lot better: and Google has gone from ignoring Bing to character assassination. The ... http://seoblackhat.com/2011/02/01/bing-is-just-better/ I know I haven't posted in forever, but this is just too great to pass up: Not only has this heap of grievances failed to deter DecorMyEyes, but as Ms. Rodriguez's all-too-cursory Google search demonstrated, the company can show up in the most coveted place on the Internet's most powerful site. Which ... http://seoblackhat.com/2010/11/27/anti-pr-seo-made-profitable-by-google/ This was pretty surprising to see: Dear ePassporte Account Holders, Please be advised that, at 12:00 PM PDT today, September 2, 2010, we were notified that effective immediately, Visa International has suspended our banking partner's (St. Kitts Nevis Anguilla National Bank) ePassporte Visa program. The ePassporte e-Wallet program continues to be up ... http://seoblackhat.com/2010/09/07/epassporte-dropped-by-visa/ Like really, how did they know? . . http://seoblackhat.com/2010/07/22/its-google-reads-my-mind/ An article on dirty tricks in design. One interesting tidbit plucked from the comments: You could pick pretty much any element of the Ryanair website, but a particular favourite of mine, if you could call it that, is the way they subtly force you to buy travel insurance. The question ... http://seoblackhat.com/2010/07/13/dark-patterns-dirty-tricks-designers-use-to-make-people-do-stuff/ SEOktoberfest 2010 Trailer. Take a look! http://seoblackhat.com/2010/06/23/seoktoberfest-2010/ What the fuck is wrong with facebook and their?: Our systems have detected that [email address] is no longer a valid email. Facebook requires all users to maintain an active contact email. Please enter and confirm a new contact email below: I fucking validated it 5 times now including 2 days ago ... http://seoblackhat.com/2010/06/18/facebook-please-update-your-email-address/ Don't you hate assholes that go around touting how they are morally superior to you? Like priests that tell their flock how to follow God's Path while molesting teenage boys on the side. Or like a company that says "Don't be evil", and then shows every day that evil is ... http://seoblackhat.com/2010/06/11/the-hypocrisy-is-truly-amazing/