Comments on: SEO competitions are the kind of nerdiness we can get behind http://blog.nerdery.com/2009/10/seo-competitions-are-the-kind-of-nerdiness-we-can-get-behind/ Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:40:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: dcgrigsby http://blog.nerdery.com/2009/10/seo-competitions-are-the-kind-of-nerdiness-we-can-get-behind/comment-page-1/#comment-1487 dcgrigsby Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:46:15 +0000 http://blog.nerdery.com/?p=2353#comment-1487 Hah, such an enthusiastic youth! For the record, I'm not suggesting people behave badly. There's value in understanding how Google decides what's relevant. When you take 50 kids that have never thought about this kind of thing before and give them terms that previously didn't exist in Google their sites, collectively, become the internet in microcosm. Lots of learning. Hah, such an enthusiastic youth! For the record, I’m not suggesting people behave badly. There’s value in understanding how Google decides what’s relevant. When you take 50 kids that have never thought about this kind of thing before and give them terms that previously didn’t exist in Google their sites, collectively, become the internet in microcosm. Lots of learning.

]]> By: Joseph Husby http://blog.nerdery.com/2009/10/seo-competitions-are-the-kind-of-nerdiness-we-can-get-behind/comment-page-1/#comment-1483 Joseph Husby Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:22:28 +0000 http://blog.nerdery.com/?p=2353#comment-1483 This is really awesome - I didn't expect such a wonderful writeup from you guys! Personally, I'm very white-hat in my SEO efforts for the "real" websites I manage (www.hostasdirect.com and www.rosevillelutheran.org are my main ones), and would normally consider this a type of black-hat SEO. But, for such an obscure term as "Zompire Dracularius", to offer any meaningful content to website owners with embedded links would just be pure BS. So I decided for this project to resort to "spamming" around to obtain links. And since Dan took time during class to explain your business, I figured I'd give it a shot and turn to the good nerds at the Nerdery! Thanks again for helping make www.zompire-dracularius.com the #1 result on Google! Sincerely, Joseph Husby This is really awesome – I didn’t expect such a wonderful writeup from you guys! Personally, I’m very white-hat in my SEO efforts for the “real” websites I manage (www.hostasdirect.com and http://www.rosevillelutheran.org are my main ones), and would normally consider this a type of black-hat SEO.

But, for such an obscure term as “Zompire Dracularius”, to offer any meaningful content to website owners with embedded links would just be pure BS. So I decided for this project to resort to “spamming” around to obtain links. And since Dan took time during class to explain your business, I figured I’d give it a shot and turn to the good nerds at the Nerdery!

Thanks again for helping make http://www.zompire-dracularius.com the #1 result on Google!

Sincerely,

Joseph Husby

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