CrankyDave

Did Coca Cola buy links? Janeth over at WPW pointed to a post that seems to indicate that may be the case. Last Thursday (July 3rd), Coca Cola Brazil launched the drink i9 – Hidrotonico, the Brazilian version of Powerade. As a part of the i9 marketing strategy in blogs & social media, Coca Cola [...]

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Some of you already know I have a passion for gardening and cooking. It’s how I get away from the daily grind and I truly enjoy the time I spend in my gardens and kitchen. I am absolutely by no means a chef. I just love to cook. A current thread at WPW titled Tomato [...]

I do love pickles! No Chicago hotdog would be complete without a dill pickle spear and a Bloody Mary would fall flat without a tasty dill pickle spear. I have to admit that even though I’m a gardener and grow my own cucumbers, not only for salads, but to make and can pickles, I can’t [...]

I found myself searching around… again… because of yet another discussion about reporting paid links to Google. I don’t know why I allow myself to get into these discussions… again… but I did. I also don’t know why I decided to search for “tattletale ethics” but I did and found an interesting article… Tattletale Ethics [...]

Merchants Protecting Consumers from Credit Card Fraud In 2006 consumers used their credit or debit cards to spend approximately $160 billion at fast food restaurants alone. That’s a lot of transactions. Total online sales were projected to reach more than $250 Billion in 2007. Credit card fraud amounts to billions of dollars a year. But [...]

There’s no shortage of chatter when it comes to Google and their stance on “paid links”. They have made it clear that pages that contain “paid links”, which they’ve chosen not to define, must be identified for a machine, spider, and/or algorithm, or they will suffer if they do not tag those links with machine [...]

There’s been many discussions on the value of web directory links of late. Directories being devalued and pages being removed from their index. Do directory links still have value and can they drive visitors and potential customers to your site? In a word, yes. It’s important to realize that not all directories are created equal [...]

Is there such a thing as writing naturally for SEO purposes and benefits? Seems like a silly question doesn’t it? Well, I guess it just surprises me a bit when the subject comes up, gets debated, and usually ends up with someone checking the keyword density and arriving at a ranking conclusion based entirely on [...]

It seems every time I turn around I find yet another reason as to why SEO is a dirty word. Not surprisingly, that reason is exactly the same as almost all the others. Take a look at this thread titled SEO for Google on WWS. A straight forward very basic question asked by folks new [...]