Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Black Hat Cloaking Explained

Search Illustrated: Black Hat Cloaking Explained

Have you ever clicked on a promising search result, only to find that the web page you land on has nothing to do with what you expected, or even worse, is a page of porn or other spam?

If so, you may have been the unwitting victim of black-hat cloaking. Today's Search Illustrated shows how this bait-and-switch tactic is accomplished:

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Monday, August 13, 2007

Mainstream Webmasters: eCommerce Resource, Webmaster Forums, Affiliate Tools - Do it Yourself Social Media Marketing (1 of 2)

Mainstream Webmasters: eCommerce Resource, Webmaster Forums, Affiliate Tools - Do it Yourself Social Media Marketing (1 of 2): "The Concept Social media marketing is a method of promoting your brand (be it yourself, a product, a service, or a company) by strategically making your presence known across various social media networks (such as Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Myspace, etc). This may seem overly elementary but “making yourself known” is the kicker because each category of social media has a different, sometimes intricate method for effective promotion."