SEOmoz can i have an optout / Unsubscribe link please

Sorry to say i am not happy about commercial emails from SEOmoz, When i joined i never found any option where i opt-in for their commercial emails. This is the recent email I got from them

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Ok i dont see an opt out link in this email. When i click on update profile i am taken to the login page where i have to find the email settings and then i need to remove tick to opt out. Why do i need to do this? . I think SEOmoz should ask whether i opt in for commercial emails from them when i register.

i don’t want to receive couple of commercial emails and then run and find a way to opt-out,

Thanks for understanding
Search Engine Genie.

Most recent SEO related Informative Thread in Google Groups.

I have already read this thread in detail but i keep reading it again and again. Just one single thread and it has ton of information from some of the best Search Engine Experts. Especially I enjoy the SEO expert’s friendliness with Search Engines. Most of the forums i see there will be a huge crowd ready to bash Google. But this thread is so much fun to read just because it has real valuable information from experts like Matt Cutts, John Muller, Aaron Pratt, JLH, SEO101 etc.

I recommend everyone to read this thread and understand how a webmaster was able to over come his penalty and get back his ranking in Google. Accept you are wrong and Google is always ready to forgive. We had a client who came to us with a penalized site. They bought links from TLA and Google has detected those links and imposed some sort of penalty. We reviewed the site and recommended client to remove all paid links and file a re inclusion. You know what his answer was?
“Google is the looser since it has banned his site. Google is unlucky because it doesn’t have his company site in their index” . Come on client if not your site Google has millions of sites to index and they are not worried if one aggressive site is not in their index even though it might be world’s best. It took us lot of time to convince him to clean up paid BLs. Finally he did but still he was not ready to give up his Ego and submit re inclusion. We on behalf of him filed a re inclusion and finally the site came back to Good top rankings. He was all praises for us but the truth we didn’t do anything all we did was explain in detail mistakes that was previously done on site and said that it will never be repeated again. Google accepted our words and included the site so lesson learnt if you want Google to send free traffic for your site play by their guidelines if you going to spam them face the consequences.

Read that thread again its better than my voice

Pending Spammers – Aggressive affiliate Marketers

Google and other search engines have weeded out most of the spam out of their search engines. But still one industry that keeps Spamming the search engines using very innovative methods. is the ever aggressive affiliate marketing industry. I know many affiliates still depend on Search Engines for traffic to their spam site will affiliate links all over the place. So how many of us like affiliate.

Personally affiliate sites are a No-No for me. When I click on Search engine results and end up an a affiliate page first thing I do is to close the browser and find an other result. I hate to buy from someone who is reselling the product than buying directly from the dealer.
Affiliates still spam the search engines using methods search engines are never aware of before. Its very difficult to tackle this industry since lot of money is involved in this industry and many affiliate marketers are not willing to find better ways to do online business. I don’t blame all affiliate sites there are some rare sites which do provide Good information while have random affiliate links mixed on their site but most of the affiliate sites don’t add any value for any visitor. Also MFA ( Made For Adsense ) sites are an other disgrace to search engine users. When i click on a result and see a page full of adsense ads, affiliate links i never enjoy the site nor will i want to visit the site again.
i hope search engines completely get rid of all sites that have affiliate links and dont add any value for users this is the last type of death to spam I am looking for in Search engines.

Dont teach how to run business for Search Engines.

So what’s up with the paid text link debate. I have seen enough places where people complain Google is teaching them how to run their website and Business. Is that considered Joke of 2008. SEOs are here because Google and other search engines are here. There is no special technological industry named SEO. This whole industry is here because of flourishing Search engines so why complain them.
Text link advertising is not the traditional way you advertise? You do it for Search Engines. Everything you do for search engines be ready to face the consequences. Want to ride behind the back of a Search Engine make sure you play by the rules. Search engines have the rights to penalize text link publishers/advertisers manually, algorithmically by editorial review anyway they want way as long as it improves the quality of their results. Why complain that Search engine’s are teaching you to run a business while actually you are the one who is teaching Search engines how to run a business. As the Search Engine experts have stated you are free to do anything on your website and the same way Search engines have every right to do anything with their algorithm as long as its for the best for their users. I am part of a SEO company too and I always Bow to any changes Google make if there is a ranking change for our sites or our client sites we try to see what mistake was done and find a solution. We never put the blame on any Search Engine. As long as we are in Search Engine Optimization industry lets be close to Search Engines and play by their rules. If we move a bit away from their guidelines lets face the consequences.

I humbly request Search Quality engineers like Adam Lasnik, Matt Cutts not to try and defend what you are doing, keep doing what’s best for your users and don’t worry when somebody tries to curse Google for something they do with their algorithm. If 1000 SEOs join together and curse Google for penalizing paid links what does it show? They want Google to stop penalizing paid links so that they can keep buying links and keep manipulating results its as simple as that. I cannot find an alternate reason for it i am sure its not the reason you are looking for that is best for your users. So keep doing what’s best for your algorithm and users and please dont justify and try to defend your ideas. People who love Search Engines will know how to appreciate it.

Search Engine Genie.

rel= external nofollow and rel=nofollow difference

I have seen many people ask in forums what’s the difference between rel=external nofollow and rel=nofollow,

Nofollow is a co-ordinated efforts from Google, yahoo , MSN to stop crawling links that are considered not trustworthy or spammy. Today many blogs, message boards, forums, news sites use nofollow tag to prevent spam in their comments or other areas of the blogs or forums. Now there is a new tag that is similar to rel=nofollow that is rel=external nofollow, external nofollow works the same as nofollow tag but this tag opens links in a new window instead of the same window. If you want to try just add rel=”external” it will open the link in a new window. it sort of works like target=_blank. Target blank opens all hypertext links in the new window and rel=external nofollow, blocks all link juice and opens the link in a new window.

So if you find a blog that uses this dont get too excited, links from these blogs dont count. Move on and better luck next time

Cloaking still works in Google Blog search – cloaking in Google

I was surprised to see Cloaking still works in Google or atleast in Google blog search, When I was searching today for our blog post which usually features in Google blog search as as we make an entry we came across a really weird site, It showed some snippet in search results which was very interesting to click but when we click on the site it redirects to a via-gra spam site

This is the spammer’s website check the redirected and cloaked URL,

So how will Google stop spamming and cloaking in blog search

Got to wait and see,

Search Engine Genie.

More spam emails offering SEO services – We are not interested,

More SEO spam emails we received offering SEO services,

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Unsolicited SEO spam email 2 -contd

Search engine optimization related spam emails we recieve

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Unsolicited Email SEO spam – search engine optimization spam emails

We receive a lot of spam emails we want to post some of them here,

Here is one

“Dear We are a fast growing INDIA based company.We provide complete Natural Link Building Solution in professional Internet Marketing Services. We have a dedicated team of professionals to serve you in Link buildingand SEO. Our Link Builders who specialize in getting theme based targeted links for Client’s website. We provide you the reciprocal and one way link building with following essential conditions: 1.We ensure that the page where the webmaster has added our link is indexed by Google/Yahoo/MSN.2.We ensure the committed No of links on that particular link page. 3.We ensure that the sites must be related to the theme of the campaign what we are working for.4.We ensure the webmaster to use the proper anchor text(Title)/description provided.to him to place our link at his/her sites5.We ensure that no webmaster receives a repeated Link Request Mail forthe same campaign. We strictly work on performance basis and can assure you of getting quality links for your site as well. We wish you the best of luck and looking forward to a long business relationship with you and your company. we provide a quality work in Link Building and search engine optimization also we are handling web site work, we are working in, PHP, ASP.Net(web application),we have a experienced team in development. if u want to increase the popularity and also want to be in top twenty in search engine.. Kind Regards neha sangal”

Spying on your competitors – Tried doing it – Spyfu claims to help it out

Spyfu a online ad monitoring company claims to monitor competitor ads and keywords and provide us. Is it true according to spyfu

“SpyFu lets you see which keywords your competitors are buying and which ones they optimize their site for. Once you understand the competition, you can beat them at their own game or your can exploit their weaknesses.
We get our data directly from the source; there are no middlemen. Every month, we extract 125 million ads and search results directly…”

Anyone tried using Spyfu before, We want to give it a try and see how it really.

Imagine a real estate company in phoenix area wants to know what an other competitor in the same area spends on his online ads. They can go to spyfu buy the basic CPC keywords for their area and it will give them an insight on how much their competitor is spending on the keywords. To calculate results Spyfu uses google’s ad estimator and their own collection of 2 million keywords and compare them with real competitor sites. Other major sources from where data is extracted include dmoz, Dunn&Brad Street, Hoovers, and Wikipedia.

A spending data for geico looks similar to what they did in their SEC filing. Experts predict a 80 to 90% accuracy with spyfu data,