It's also a pretty good idea to make sure you don't have any skeletons in your closet that you can't afford to be 'outed'. Egobait exists for one main purpose: to increase visibility (which will hopefully generate links).
Domino's Pizza has been publicly outed as a brand neglecting their Google+ page by the Reuters article that has been republished and reported on quite a bit in the past couple of days. Google+ is struggling to attract brands, and the brands they do...
This of course opens up an entirely new can of worms as you're now paying for links and would be wise to get them nofollowed lest you run the risk of being outed some day should said blogger ever fall out of favour.
Assuming the site outed in The Atlantic, and other sites such as Googleplus1supply, buygoogleplus1, and Blackcatseo, are more than just a quick way to make some easy money off less knowledgeable website owners, could paid +1’s be more difficult to...
In 2009 ESPN intern Brooke Hundley outed married ESPN anchor Steve Phillips as having an affair with her. If you aren’t the marker leader, sometimes the best time to grab traffic and customers from your competition is when they screw up.
The Times was assisted once again by Digital Due Diligence, which recently outed flower companies for attempting to game Google for Mother's Day as well as startup Milanoo – and DDD's Doug Pierce also was a key figure in the outing of JCPenney...
The manual penalty Google handed JCPenney, which was outed by the New York Times for “shady” link building practices in February, is now lifted, according to two new reports. The damage? JCPenney last week reported $376 million in online sales, an...
We’ve all seen a lot of big brands “outed” very publicly recently and many of them are back in the SERPs now as though nothing has happened. When was the last time you got a truly decent link request?
With $1.9 billion in flower sales expected for Mother's Day, it has brought out fresh link buying complaints this weekend in The New York Times (the newspaper that outed JCPenney earlier this year). Happy Mother's Day to Moms everywhere!
JCPenney, which was outed for link schemes in January by the New York Times, and Forbes, which was penalized in February for manipulating PageRank by selling links on their website, actually saw organic traffic increases of 2 percent, according to...
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Also during this timeframe, big brands like JCPenney, among others, were publicly outed and penalized in Google's search results for buying into certain types of contrived content creation and linking schemes produced by "spammers.
In an attempt to spur on the wild horses that has become the JC Penney debacle - namely mainstream brands getting outed for buying links - Blekko have released a 'live link roll' (in the form of an embeddable widget that displays the latest...
Former Google Web Spam team member Hessam Lavi has outed Hugo Boss for using doorway pages. What tricks were used in the past that now can be outed to other clients? Seems outing big name websites for using methods against Google's Terms and...
Does this mean that in the 3 minutes it takes to get a translation they've consented to having their alts outed? You see, teenagers get special protections that adults don't get, and since the Lab has gone so far as to attempt to control...
After ranking in the top three of Google's organic search results, Overstock has now dropped to the fifth or sixth pages on searches for terms such as [vacuum cleaners] and [laptop computers], much like JCPenney suffered after being outed by a New...
Because they have outed and embarrassed those who have covered up the truth" Film director Michael Moore has offered to help bail out Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, and provide him a server to continue hosting his controversial site, not...
Some are worried about very real life problems -- stalking, being unwillingly outed for being gay, bisexual, a fetishist, whatever. There are many places where having your real life identity outed is not safe.
Hell, the responses were everywhere once the story was outed as a hoax. The recent hoax of a 13-year-old ordering hookers on his father's credit card started an interesting conversation about link bait.
You definitely do not want to be outed for this either. You don't want to be outed for providing lousy info. A lot of great speakers were present, and this post will summarize a set of 11 guidelines for putting together a successful social media...
