I usually sign-up for most SEO related newsletters. Most of the material is too general or out of date but they are useful as an indicator of mainstream views on SEO/SEM. Over all though, as Mr. Adams would say, they are mostly harmless. However I was quite annoyed at the recent newsletter from Entireweb, entitled “Suicide in Cyberspace – Your Outward Links Can Kill your Rankings”, authored by SEO consultant Ben

Damn, just get back from holiday and find out Graywolf is putting everyone on notice for partial feeds. Then again, as I only have 10 readers you can probably save the trouble of subscribing and we’ll just talk it out over beer. Social Media 0.1?

When you’ve been on the internet a while, you realise that if a service can be spammed there’s a 100% chance it will be. So it was no great surprise to learn about the spamming of InterNIC’s WHOIS service. This isn’t about scraping the WHOIS data, it’s far geekier. People are actually spamming the data Continue reading →