Click Sentry Blog http://www.clicksentry.com/blog ClickSentry SEO, Link Building, Marketing and Super Duper Blog. Tue, 18 Jul 2006 07:20:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 en All Quiet on the SEO Blog Front http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/all-quiet-on-the-seo-blog-front/ http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/all-quiet-on-the-seo-blog-front/#comments Tue, 18 Jul 2006 07:20:30 +0000 jason SEO News SEO Linking Blogging Google Yahoo! http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/all-quiet-on-the-seo-blog-front/ Usually, posting on the SEO blogs goes in spurts. As many of us have a few minutes, we post something of substance or something that is completely meaningless. Lately, it seems pretty quiet around the SEO neighborhood and I think I know why. It is time for many of the people in the search marketing world to get back to the basics. For a long time now, it has been too easy to manipulate the search engines like Google and Yahoo with artificial link schemes like those found at DigitalPoint and LinkVault, among others. Many people have stopped doing what they know they should be becuase these tools have made things too easy. I think a lot of people out there are taking inventory and cleaning up their shops a bit these days and getting back to brass tacks. What the hell am I doing here?

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]]> http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/all-quiet-on-the-seo-blog-front/feed/ Black Hat vs. White Hat vs. Green Hat http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/black-hat-vs-white-hat-vs-green-hat/ http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/black-hat-vs-white-hat-vs-green-hat/#comments Mon, 01 May 2006 17:35:34 +0000 jason SEO News SEO Blogging http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/black-hat-vs-white-hat-vs-green-hat/ The world of SEO is a very interesting place. It was not that long ago that SEO did not have a name. But, today SEO has become an entire industry unto itself. There are a number of different fields in SEO just like there is in the car business. In the world of car sales, you have new cars salesmen, used car salesmen, car brokers, leasing companies and a myriad of other types, all looking to make a few bucks. Each is going about their deal in a different way, but ultimately, they are looking to make money at the end of the day. SEO is much the same. You have your White Hat SEOs who are out there trying to make SEO a legitimate business. Not sure why they are worrying about doing this. It seems the harder people try to make SEO pristine and clean, the more people try to game search engines like Google and Yahoo. Then you have your Black Hat types that are simply looking to circumvent as many systems as they can and profit from it. Spamming, bypassing CAPTCHAs, you name it, these guys are out to win. Thinking about jacking up someone’s bulletin board is not a concern, if the software were secure it wouldn’t be a problem. Then you have your Green Hat types. This might be the “best” group in the bunch. Mixing both White Hat and Black Hat practices to achieve their goals. This post of course is completely meaningless. I spent most of my weekend having a great time with friends and drinking everything from beers to fine wines. So, what does all of this mean? Not much coming out of my braid today makes any sense. Cheers.

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]]> http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/black-hat-vs-white-hat-vs-green-hat/feed/ The Status of SEO http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/the-status-of-seo/ http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/the-status-of-seo/#comments Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:34:36 +0000 jason SEO News SEO Blogging http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/the-status-of-seo/ Seems to me that the SEO world is busier than ever these days, or maybe it is just me. I used to spend a lot of my time in the webmaster and SEO forums, chatting with other SEO types about all things webmaster and marketing. These days, I spend my time launching more and more sites to capture a bigger piece of the big money pie that is out there. I feel like most others are doing the same. I know many of my friends are super busy trying to attack the SEO world every day and time for chit chat is just not there anymore. But, I wonder, is this just me or is this where other SEO types are as well. One thing is for sure, it is all about the Green Hat.

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]]> http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/the-status-of-seo/feed/ Dog Poop Girl Revisited http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/dog-poop-girl-revisited/ http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/dog-poop-girl-revisited/#comments Tue, 14 Mar 2006 00:35:17 +0000 jason SEO News Blogging http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/dog-poop-girl-revisited/ South Korea is on the leading edge of internet defamation and attacks that have driven some to suicide. This is for real. You may or may not have heard of “Dog Poop Girl,” not her real name, before. She was a South Korean woman whose dog pooped on a subway car one day and who did not clean it up. Unfortunately, for her, someone with a camera phone snapped some pictures of her, the dog and the poop caper. Now South Korea is looking into ways in which they can mitigate defamation and libel attacks that come from the internet.

Dog poop girl is infamous in South Korea. The young woman was riding on the subway with her small dog. The dog defecated and she did not clean up after her pet. Someone caught the incident in pictures shot with a mobile phone. The photos were posted on the Internet with a brief description of what took place and shortly thereafter “dog poop girl” became the most-searched phrase among South Korean Internet users. The country is debating what needs to be done to protect privacy and free speech on the Internet while punishing people who commit libel and defamation in cyberspace. South Koreans were shocked by the incident but they were also stunned by the Internet witch hunt that soon followed. South Korea is the most wired country in the world and Internet witch hunts have been conducted with such ferocity that people have committed suicide, left the country in shame and taken new identities after being the subject of a cyber attack. The campaigns play on one of the most sensitive issues in Korean society — the feeling of shame. The close-knit nature of the society also means the campaigns can strike targets quickly. With most - more available

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]]> http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/dog-poop-girl-revisited/feed/ Rel = No Follow No More http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/rel-no-follow-no-more/ http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/rel-no-follow-no-more/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:54:01 +0000 jason SEO Linking Blogging http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/rel-no-follow-no-more/ In case you have been living in a cave, you don’t care or you don’t have a blog, then you have surely noticed that search engines like Yahoo! are showing links to sites that have the “link condom” or rel=”nofollow” attribute on them.  This has been going on for some time now and there is just starting to be some chatter here and there about it.  It is kind of a shame and a blessing at the same time. I think that the blogging community, aka the blogosphere, has really benefitted and showed the rest of the web how things should be. You link to something because it has value and is probably related to what you are writing about. Since traditional webmasters and SEO types became aware of Page Rank and how it can affect a site’s rankings or juice, linking out has become more and more guarded. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why Google stopped showing realtime toolbar PR (I am sure there are a bunch of reasons).  Removing some of the incentive webmasters have to link out to other sites and resources on the web. Of course there are going to be sites that are unrelated to yours that you link to, but is this a bad thing? I don’t think so. A vote is a vote and now that the webmaster community at large is more educated with regards to how search engines like Google use the power of links and anchor text to help something rank, I think we are all better off. This is why I think forgetting about the nofollow attribute is a good thing. But, there is also a downside.

Of course, this means that comment spam is going to become more and more of an issue in the near future.  Clearly, many of these types have been aware of the apparent lack of use of the nofollow attribute for some time as comment spam seemed to pick up a bit about two months ago for me. Clearly, the brilliant minds behind these schemes knew about this before most of the world.

I for one am glad to see the nofollow attribute fall out of favor.  People should be free with what they link to. If you like it, link it. My 2 cents.

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]]> http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/rel-no-follow-no-more/feed/ Technorati Tag Test #3 http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/technorati-tag-test-3/ http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/technorati-tag-test-3/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2006 03:16:37 +0000 jason Blogging Wordpress http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/technorati-tag-test-3/ Well, it appears that neither the Simpletags Plugin, nor the Ultimate Tag Warrior Plugin will work with the bSuite Plugin, which is a bummer. I wish the UTW one worked as it has some crazy features and is the mother-of-all tagging plugins that I have seen.  But, bSuite has some great stuff that I would rather have…so, I am going to post via the Performancing.com FireFox extension for now. I believe the tags that this generates work fine with bSuite and that is fine with me. So, here goes nothing.

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]]> http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/technorati-tag-test-3/feed/ Testing the Simpletags Plugin http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/testing-the-simpletags-plugin/ http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/testing-the-simpletags-plugin/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2006 02:58:10 +0000 jason Blogging Wordpress http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/testing-the-simpletags-plugin/ Trying to get the bSuite plugin, which has some really great “recent” features and a tagging plugin like Simpletags to work together. I have been using the Ultimate Tag Warrrior plugin, but it doesn’t seem to want to cooperate with bSuite. bSuite is not able to discover the tags for some reason, so it is time to try Simpletags.

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]]> http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/testing-the-simpletags-plugin/feed/ ClickSentry Goes WordPress 2.0 http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/clicksentry-goes-wordpress-20/ http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/clicksentry-goes-wordpress-20/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2006 02:43:16 +0000 jason SEO Blogging http://www.clicksentry.com/blog/2006/clicksentry-goes-wordpress-20/ Ok, so I have not been blogging here that much in the past few months, but that is not to say that I have not been keeping abreast of all that is SEO. As a matter of fact, I have simply been overwhelmed with things to do. I have really had a bit of an epiphany and that has translated into unlimited amounts of work. But, I do like to write, even if nobody likes to read what I write. I did manage to change our blog platform over from the lackluster Blogger.com setup to the brand new Wordpress 2.0, which has a built in Import Wizard which makes the changeover a breeze. Just make sure that you have the CURL module for PHP enabled on your server. Otherwise, the only other thing you need to know is your Blogger.com login. I should be posting here 4 to 5 times a week now, so brace yoself. ;)

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