CrankyDave

It seems that the SEO community is just a tad bit “cranky”. Some recent comments made by Dave Pasternack has ruffled a few feathers in the SEO world. So much so, that an SEO Bounty has been placed on his name by the folks over at Threadwatch. In his latest assault on the SEO industry, [...]

Recently I came across another instance of the white paper titled Combating Web Spam with TrustRank being attributed to Google and this is simply not accurate. In early 2005 Google filed an intent to use patent on the words TrustRank. On September 5th 2006 Google was granted an extension for their intent to use patent [...]

With the end of the NFL regular season this weekend, I found myself rehashing the Chicago Bears 2006 regular season and simply cannot believe I let this one slip. On October 16th 2006, the Chicago bears defeated the Arizona Cardinals 24-23 in Arizona. This was no ordinary 1 point victory. The Chicago Bears commited 6 [...]

Yes, I’ve been tagged. Seems that Rumblepup decided to call me out. For those of you who may not be familiar with Blogger Tag, it’s a request by someone in the blogosphere for you to share 5 things folks don’t know about you. Actually, it’s been kind of interesting following the trail of “blog taggers”. [...]

There’s a current thread at DCTip discussing whether or not Forum Signature Links are Underrated as a means of link building. In short, no they are not. If anything, they are exceptionally overrated as a means of link building. What they are however, is an opportunity that is most often squandered. Each and every post [...]

I’m sure some of you have read my title and are asking yourself… “Has CrankyDave lost his mind?!?!” No, not me, someone I’d never heard of before today named Danny Wall. I was pointed his PDF document titled… “The New Rules for Google SEO” To save time, you can skip page 1 of the PDF [...]

In the Bridal Forum the subject of a Dollar Dance was brought up in a recent thread at BanglesandBrides.com. It is a wedding reception tradition where the gentlemen in attendance would pay a dollar to the bride for a dance and the ladies would pay a dollar to the groom for a dance with him. [...]

I love Thanksgiving! Lots of food and NFL football all day. If your household is anything like mine, there’s plenty of leftover turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing and gravy. I always cook far more than we need. After all, what’s Thanksgiving without plenty of leftovers? So it is in the Thanksgiving spirit, and all those lovely [...]

Friday is here and I generally expect folks to have a little extra bounce in their step as the weekend rolls in. WRONG! It seems that dmilford has not been having a good week. Darren had a router go bad on him Monday and as of today, the company who supplied it has still not [...]

On August 22nd 2006 Google was awarded US Patent #7096214 for a System and method for supporting editorial opinion in the ranking of search results. The patent itself does not define “editorial opinion” or what exactly an “Editorial Opinion Parameter” is or what it does. One very good synopsis of the information provided by the [...]