Archive for November, 2006

Algorithmic VS Manual SE spam detection

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Search engines try to program all spam detection methods into their algorithm (spam: as in very unrelevant results), but there are many exceptions where they use people to verify if a website is really breaking the rules of the webmaster guidelines (Google quality guidelines).

When does a search engine use manual spam detection?

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Cross site scripting with Googlebot

Friday, November 24th, 2006

There are several forums with a password protected area that only allow searchbots to enter it without logging in. If you want to place a comment or do something else on such a forum you can have the searchbot do it for you.

How can you get Googlebot to hack for you?

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Link building software

Friday, November 10th, 2006

There are several software packages that help you find link posibilities and request the links. I only use link building software to administrate everything my linkbuilding team does. Link building software is useful when you do a lot of manual link requests. Here’s how we use it.

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How to implement cloaking

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

Cloaking is showing search engines other content then human visitors. To use cloaking effectively you need to detect whether your visitor is a searchbot.

In this post I will try to explain…
the process of implementing a cloaking script.

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