The problem of referral link spamming has been around a while now. It’s done by unethical marketers for a couple of different reasons, and so far there’s no easy solutions for it. In a nutshell it’s when someone sends tons of referral links to create fake visits to a blog or web site. As you can imagine most bloggers and webmasters are angry because it makes it just about impossible to tell how many real visitors you’re getting or where they’re coming from. There’s three main reasons for it. Blogs are usually hit by commercial companies who will (more…)
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Referral Link Spamming: What is it?
Posted by Nick Bentley on November 7th, 2011
Posted in Search Engines, Wordpress 
Tags: referral marketing, referrer bombing, referrer spam 
No Comments »Secret Google Codes For Building A High Pagerank
Posted by Nick Bentley on August 31st, 2010
I was going over Jeff Johnson’s blog this morning and found one of his posts about “secret Google codes” and decided to investigate out of curiosity. I found a free ebook by Ryan Deiss about little known search strings for blogs run at .edu and .gov sites. (more…)
How To Improve Your Search Engine Ranking Quickly
Posted by Nick Bentley on August 20th, 2010
Optimizing your site or blog for search engine ranking isn’t that hard. There’s plenty of tutorials on how, but the thing that holds many sites back is their Google Pagerank. It’s kind of like a popularity contest, and the sites linking to yours with one way links (not to a site you link back to, Google can spot that and discounts it) determine how high your site ranks. Most people don’t have any idea how to get a high pagerank site to link to them, but there is an affordable solution. (more…)
Leapfish: Worth Buying Permanent Keywords?
Posted by Nick Bentley on March 23rd, 2010
Leapfish at (leapfish.com) isn’t a scam, but I think they don’t offer any value either. They are a meta search engine which draws results from other search engines. They are portal you can customize for things like local news and weather, which you can do with any of the real search engines as well. The product they offer is buying permanent placement for keywords, which ranges from a few hundred dollars into the thousands. (more…)
The reason why the scam and rippoff sites do so well on the search engines.
Posted by Nick Bentley on February 26th, 2010
If you’ve ever wondered why when you search for “scam” and “ripoff” along with a business opportunity or anyone in marketing, you find places like scam.com and ripoffreport.com at the top of the results, there’s actually a reason behind it. (more…)
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