Google's Silly PR Games

So you cant fail to have noticed Google updated their toolbar PR again over the weekend, much to the dismay or glee of the majority of SEO civilians on DP and other forums who've been either crying like little lassies about meaningless demotions or gloating as though the propaganda they've been fed means anything at all on the battlefield.

HQ did ok if you believe the hype, up from domain 4 to 5, as did we, up from 3 to 4.

...However we just want to point out exactly why this is relatively meaningless to anyone but SEO Civvies. The 3 experimental pages on our main site, were named and titled as the target experimental search terms, that we have been testing since inception, ie..

SEO Power, - SEO Engine Room, & SEO Experiments & Theories. (links to pages)

As our site is now a mighty SEO war machine, as you would expect, all three of these phrases on Google.com show our relevant page in easy top 5 positions,

The phrase SEO Engine Room currently has our page in the #1 position above a domain and site actually called that.

The phrase SEO Power also has the page alternating between #2 and #3, again nudged right up underneath a domain of the same name. These pages were awarded a toolbar of PR4.

The final page however, SEO Experiments & Theories performs every bit as well as it's counterparts in two different searches, SEO Experiments & SEO Theories and is actually in more distinguished company, up there with the very serious Mr Martinez, and others who likely take their SEO experiments far more seriously than us..

and yet what did the Google toolbar Pagerank propaganda machine see fit to award the experiments page in the last skirmish?

...Yep, it's greyed out, which if you believe the thronging civvy hordes means it's supplemental, useless etc.. . Useless our SEO Warriors arses!! Try the searches for yourselves..

Google search SEO Engine Room & Google search SEO Engine

Google search SEO Power & Google search Power SEO (24 million pages)

Google search SEO Experiments & Google search SEO Theories

If you've assembled your Google SERP weaponry correctly "T3h Real Pagerank" is surging through your sites, whether you can see it or not. It's there, whatever misinformation or propaganda you're fed via the Toolbar, so just forget about it, and crack on, or the spoils of SERP war will be coming home with us tonight ;)

Over and out.

Clueless SEO Blog Comment Spammers

Ok Comment Spammer public outing ..final warning time. We're not actually publishing the link, but anyone who wants to will find them easily enough from this, this is the second time this particular company / individual have left this same comment now over at Blog HQ.

In the great tradition started by the Hobo about the SEO clueless numpties at SEO Services India and their continual blog comment bothering, we now have another contender for the SEO Clueless awards.

They search Google blogsearch for their term of the day, arrive on the site unaware that we have them under close surveillance with our hi-tech spec ops equipment Woopra Live Analytics they drop their dirty package and flee the scene of the crime all in 20 seconds.

Yes, again, they're Indian, and this is their lame comment.

"Your blog is very informative n helpful .. thanks…..keep it up"

..The funniest part is this, from their site:

"No SEO professional will purposely violate [sic]nay[/lol] law:
This includes the continued and deliberate violation of

• -Trademark
• -Copyright
• -Service mark
• -Laws associated with spamming"

Well there arent really any LAWS that we know of per se, but there are rules and just good practices, and how about we give you a free SEO tip?

...DON'T DO THIS, ON SEO BLOGS, OR PREFERABLY ANYWHERE.

...it may work on some of the public but you're pushing your luck at HQ or here, and indeed anywhere with half a clue, as all they have to do is insert your comment in Google and they can see your last day or two's work immediately..

In the meantime our SEO India invasion continues unabated, and we're already above you for your money terms, so be warned, next time we'll Hobo you right up and outrank you for your own name with a post just like this..

Clueless SEO Humour

More SEO Humour firstly in a "name them and shame them" kind of way today, from the SEO Clueless section of the SEO Consultants site, and in particular their Clueless Link Exchange Directory made us chuckle ..designed to catch out hapless "SEOs" (if anyone using automated link exchange software anymore really has the front to call themselves that anymore) who specially requested a link exchange on this particular page:

http://www.seoconsultants.com/links/s/p/a/m/

... All have been gratefully received and kindly granted their wish of a place in their specially created Hall of Clueless SEO Numpty Shame ... if you see yourself in there you can apologise nicely and ask to be removed.

however, if you keep it up here, however instead of just deleting your nonsense we may do the same kind of outing shortly.. ..I mean honestly you wouldn't go up to invading Roman Legionaires as they hacked their way into your strongholds and ask them if they wanted to swap Mama's spaggetti sauce recipes would you? - No? .. well knock it off then. ..you have been warned... ;) and secondly this



from Quality Nonsense is quite amusing, - not new by any means but we don't think most of the desperados & spammers who pass through this deserted outpost will have seen it before, (and theyre nofollow so they definitely won't have read it)

SEO Civilians probably wont understand at all but SEO Warriors should get the drift.

...you have to click the image and go through to the original blog post because on theirs the different parts of the pie chart all go to the relevant places. It's actually so old (in SEO years anyway) that it now shows as a sitelink on their site if you search for "Quality nonsense" as well..

It'll be funny when that happens here, our irreverent sitelinks would be a sight to behold :)

Viral Ibiza Video

Hahaha, HQ were chatting about making fit seo videos and seo for video generally a bit the other day, and were also approached about this Living TV thing in several capacities one way and another, we and also know a few of the people featured in it, and a lot more friends have been involved as extras, for the trailer etc but didnt actually want to be in the series, and so we were obviously curious to see what Living would do with it.

so seeing this on Youtube tonight raised a smile, its a semi-amusing viral, and from what we've seen of the first clips on Living, it may well be the best bit of the series ; )