In the war of inbound outbound links between Search Engine and black hat SEO many facts get twisted or covered . Every day black hat link sellers guarantee you how safe they are but are they ?
In our series of reviews of social media follower applications, we have tested in the last few weeks Catfood follower. Our testing result in good results, but are we convinced that Catfood is a good alternative to Hummingbird? Should we be satisfied by the Zero cost social media software and dump the $200 software? [Read more…]
When I posted the last article about Twitter’s policy of suspending people who do mass follow and un-follow, I received an overwhelming response from readers. The largest response regarded the use of automated applications, especially Hummingbird. Comments regarding Hummingbird were mostly attacks on the software for being a commercial product which sells for $200 compared to other products that are free. Unfortunately, we did not find any other real technical reasons that would support these attacks.
Is it fair for people to trash a business just because it is not giving something away for free? Should I start giving away my custom web design and my custom SEO for free?
Some entrepreneurs believe that their limited knowledge of the market, of the potential client and a few SEO rules is enough to label themselves as a SEO Guru. They call themselves SEO copywriters and engage in writing their website content. They spend a few hours borrowing content from some other similar websites and finalize the process by sprinkling keywords randomly into their content. Finally they wait and hope for the best. [Read more…]
One of the most controversial practices widely used to build up influence on Twitter is now cause for account suspension. Using third party software to systematically add a large number of social connections each day, then break those connections with anyone who doesn’t reciprocate, will put you at risk of suspension, according to Twitter’s Doug Williams. [Read more…]
One of the practices widely used to build up influence on Twitter is using third party software to systematically add a large number of social connections each day, then breaking those connections with anyone who doesn’t reciprocate. Such a practice allows people to grow their list of followers fast and automatically without any close monitoring.
Some social media companies sell the dream of building an influential account for someone in few weeks without contributing any real content by using the above techniques for monitory compensation.
The question that comes to my mind is, when you are building these lists automatically and when you can build them that fast, are you monitoring whether you are adding real people or just hoaxes? [Read more…]
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