I see that The Enforcer is continuing with his crusade to rid the Internet of WMD (Ways of Making Dollar).
Darren Rowse from ProBlogger relayed a funny email exchange on his blog yesterday - Conversations with an Underground Text Link Seller - and who should pop up in the comments section?
The first comment made me chuckle. […]

So you would have thought that after the Oktoberslapfest that Google would do everything they could to keep web publishers on their side in 2008 wouldn’t you? Well you would have been wrong.
Ladies and gentlemen. Let me present the latest initiative from some of the most gifted minds of our generation.
Stop paying half the planet […]

The season of goodwill is officially over. It’s all kicked off again about that thorny subject for web publishers - paid links.
Just in case you’ve missed it, it started with Ted Murphy revealing that Google Spam Cop, Matt Cutts, had insisted that ALL links within a sponsored post should be no-followed “regardless of whether they […]

Google have officially announced that the infamous “supplemental index” is no more. They removed the ability to view supplemental results a few months back so this isn’t really much of a surprise.
For those unaware of the supplemental index, it was basically the naughty step for webpages that Google didn’t trust or think were much cop. […]

It’s over a month since the first reported signs that something was going on with the Google PageRank metric and it is still dominating a lot websites and blogs. The reaction to Google’s reduction of Toolbar PageRank (TBPR) is wide spread and, generally, vitriolic towards the Big G. Many bloggers and webmasters feel that they […]