URL shortening, and URL shortener services, are evolving rapidly into a real hype. And while they do make sense with Twitter (due to their 140 characters per tweet limitation), they are not all that harmless from a SEO perspective.
In my prior post I talked about why it is a systemic property of making-money-quick programs to not provide a noteworthy oportunity for making any real money. Now making these considerations is not rocket science. How come there are so many who fall for this shit in spite of everything?
- Thousands of Dollars a Month Posting Links on Google from Home?
- The Email Harvest
- Quick Ways To Make Money Online Work, But They Never Work For You
- Slow Is Smooth And Smooth Is Quick - Making Money Quick Takes Time
In a recent comment, Twyla asked:
There are so many Make Money programs online that are scams. Are there any online programs that are not scams? Most people don’t mind putting in the work if they can at least reap an average profit.
Now there’s a lot coming to mind about this…
- Thousands of Dollars a Month Posting Links on Google from Home?
- The Email Harvest
- Quick Ways To Make Money Online Work, But They Never Work For You
- Slow Is Smooth And Smooth Is Quick - Making Money Quick Takes Time
Inspired by What “Be Yourself” Really Means, a cool contemplation about an advice that is usually both, thoughtlessly given and taken.
Ever needed a list of your plugins for pasting it into an email or a document? Or into an (Excel or Word or OpenOffice) table? I did, and with all the plugins I have installed, I concluded that writing it all down manually would seriously suck. Read the rest of this entry »
Cheerio, dear performance-conscious WordPress user. I present you the continuously evolving, streamlined WordPress Tweaks Bundle, and its accompanying WordPress Tweaks Composer online tool.
Read about it at the WordPress Tweaks homepage, or about the technical background of it in the rest of this post.
… or you may be surprised of side effects, not all of which are amusing on second thought. Look what I discovered today…
This is a post I wanted to write ever since mid summer this year, but never found the time to complete it. It presents another (and hopefully fresh) angle on the change in Google’s page rank algorithm, the new nofollow semantics, and their consequences for webmasters.
- Welcome To The Machine (Or 8 Easy Steps To Nowhere)
- Obama's SEO Counterstrike
- Is SEO Mass Internet Destruction?
- SEO Page Rank Sculpting My Ass – Nofollow Meta Game Over
This is almost scary! Week 2 is nearly over and still not a single spam comment in the queue!
- Spam Gratitude
- These Dumb Spammers!
- The Rise Of A New Spam Generation?
- Spam Blocking Technologies - A Quick Glance
- New Spam Blocker Paying Off Already
- The Quest For Best Spam Blocker Software Continues
- Best Spam Blocker Utility Kicking Ass
- Best Spam Blocker Still Kicking Ass
- Yahoo Wants Me On The 1st Page Of Google?
For a week or so I’ve had a spam blocker utility in place that simply rocks the casbah. Yessss! I had only 3 (!) spam entries in my spam queue this morning! The only 3 in the entire week!
Guess who cooked up this thing! Yepp! It was me! 
- Spam Gratitude
- These Dumb Spammers!
- The Rise Of A New Spam Generation?
- Spam Blocking Technologies - A Quick Glance
- New Spam Blocker Paying Off Already
- The Quest For Best Spam Blocker Software Continues
- Best Spam Blocker Utility Kicking Ass
- Best Spam Blocker Still Kicking Ass
- Yahoo Wants Me On The 1st Page Of Google?
