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I’m feeling pretty chuffed today. I logged into WordPress this morning to learn that one of my posts on this blog has been nominated by my peers for a SEMMY. What the heck’s that you ask? The SEMMYS are annual awards honoring great content produced across the search and online marketing industry.
Yep, it seems enough of the judges liked my rant about MSNBC columnist Gene Marks to nominate it in the *rants* category. Sure, I wish some of my posts had made it to the more serious categories like SEO, PPC and stuff, but as Matt states on the About the SEMMYs page, they are really just for fun.
Anyway, if you like my rant and think it deserves to win the category, please vote for it when they open the voting next week. I’ll give you a heads up how and when you can do that. In the meantime, make sure you browse all the categories - it truly is a fantastic collection of the best blog posts in Search Engine Marketing from the past 12 months. And it’s an awesome resource for Search Engine College students so thanks Matt and team for putting it together.
Congrats to all my fellow SEMMY nominees!
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Thank you Alhan Keser for your hilarious blog post 10 Ways to Piss Off an SEO.
I come across Number 4 a LOT and it still makes my eyes water. Reminds me of the Top 10 Dumbest Web Site Decisions article I wrote for SiteProNews last year.
The moral of this story? Beware the angry SEO!
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Loyal readers of my blog will know that I don’t give out the Dumbass of the Week crown lightly. I’ve never given it to a question submitter before but felt compelled this week when I received the following question:
Hello Madam,
I am SEO and working more than 55 sites last one year, i want to know the Online Marketing Strateges like google adsence (sic) and adwards (sic) etc. I also how can i get one way links, is free one way links are good or not? like gotlinks.com, backlinkspider.com etc, Till how many keywords i use in title tag, description tag and how can i use h1, h2 in our pages. Pls give me all the information as soon as possilbe (sic).
thanks
iliyas
Hi iliyas
First up, my name is Kalena. I would’ve thought that was pretty obvious from the site name, but perhaps not. I don’t expect to be called madam until I’m 96 and using a walking frame. Or being schmoozed by a door greeter in Walmart. Either way I don’t like it and never will.
Next, if you can’t even spell them correctly, I doubt you will be able to grasp the complexities of Google AdWords and Google AdSense. It takes our students up to 6 months to do it.
And as for “Pls give me all the information as soon as possilbe” - what’s up with that? Not even a triple grande white chocolate mocha donation could compensate for that crap. You didn’t even offer me a short black.
Lastly, if you’ve SEO’d over 50 sites and you still don’t know how to obtain one way links, how to use heading tags or how many keywords should go in your title and meta tags, your clients are in real trouble.
Perhaps you should start from scratch and take our Search Engine Optimization Starter Course?
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Sitting in the big chair marked Dumbass this week is an annoying little SEO outfit from Manchester called Web Propeller.
I ranted yesterday about how they were evil site scraping bastards because they basically steal the content from this blog within an hour of me posting it. I’m not the only one they steal from. They scrape Marty’s content too, as well as Niall Kennedy’s blog and others, listing us all as “contributors” on their blog home page. What’s up with that? As someone commented on my post yesterday, perhaps they should change that title to “unwilling, unwitting contributors”.
Well as luck would have it, they scraped my post from yesterday. So now they are proudly announcing on their own site what evil site scraping bastards they really are. And the kicker? They’ve tagged the post under the category seo problems. Bwa ha haaaaa!
And just in case somebody from Web Propeller notices their stupidity and deletes the post from their site (perhaps while on a break from stealing other people’s content), I’ve posted a screen shot:
Some days, I really love my job. Wouldn’t it be a hoot if they scraped this post too?
UPDATE: ROTFL
UPDATE 2: ROTFLMAO
I think it’s time they changed their catch phrase from “making you rank better” to “making you rank better for your own stupidity”.
UPDATE 3: The penny has dropped. According to a public apology by the scraper himself, Web Propeller is a fictional company and the domain is owned by a company called Creative Suit.
The site scraping was apparently nothing more than an unauthorized experiment by a naughty junior staff member. His boss is plenty mad about it and is asking for suitable punishment suggestions. I was going to suggest they make him use this picture as his screen saver, but figured that was too cruel.
Apology accepted! Maybe site scrapers will think twice now before doing this to anyone else.
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Yep, check it out. A mob called Web Propeller are scraping every single post I write on this blog, within an hour of me posting them. Compare my recent post to theirs. They’ve even stolen my image!
I feel a site scraping bastards Googlebomb coming on! Anyone care to help?
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