Mathew Marlon – alias matt marlon where is he now

Matt Marlon was the CEO was the infamous SEO company which made news when Google penalized their site and their client sites for using deceptive tactics. After the fall of Traffic power Matt has tried running his business in various other names like First Place , Tech Power, Tech traffic, Search engine power etc. It seems now his latest company name is toprankweb.com , according to his former employee’s website www.mattmarlon.info . He seems to be running most of his business from Egypt and very less work in Las Vegas Nevada his home town. It seems his Newest “Brand” is now toprankweb.com supposedly in Salem, Oregon, but really in Las Vegas, NV

i thought he is in Las Vegas but Matt cutts reported here that Matt Marlon is in Jail for Home foreclosure fraud. Matt wrote beautifully that if people are doing one type of scam most probably they are fully into major scamming in all businesses. This became true in case of Matt marlon. So where is he now is he still in Jail?

text link brokers dont send Pagerank or anchor text links any more.

Its very good to see that after Google’s action against a lot of sites selling text link advertisements which passes pagerank and was destroying Google’s search results by manipulating with heavy anchor text now there are no sites which advertise selling pagerank anymore. Google is very tough on these sites.

Especially sites like text link ads and text link brokers were advertising pagerank links all over their site now its not the case anymore with them. If you see there sites

this is what they advertise

text link ads

“Why Buy Text Link Ads?
1.
Text Link Ads are served as static links that can help your natural (organic) search engine rankings.
2. We have an exhaustive inventory of quality niches that can send targeted traffic to your website.
3. Flat price per ad for a 30 day ad run. Never worry about cost per click or CPM rates.

As per text link brokers:

Our Standard link building products
Blog Reviews
Hosted Marketing Pages™
Social Media BookMarking
Advanced Article Marketing
Text Link Ad Inventory
SEO-Friendly Directory Submission
Custom Link Acquisition
Dedicated Link Builders
Link Baiting a.k.a. Viral Content Promotion
Permanent One-Way Links™

If can see none of them mention about pagerank in their advertising.

but their archives say otherwise

http://web.archive.org/web/20070814085014/http://www.textlinkbrokers.com/

I hope this trend continues where there is a delicate balance for all sites and not just link mongers who dominate the search results.

Page specific Google ban / penalty – Does it really exist?:

We have often heard of google imposing penalty for sites or infact ban them completely from the index. Some of the forums had been buzzing on whether Google has any sort of page specific penalty in my experience yes google does have a page specific penalty. Here is a simple check what are possible reasons that could cause a page specific Google penalty

1. Links to a bad neighbourhood from that page. Say you have a grea site and you run a grea forum in that, one day some spammer posts an adult spam post. If googlebot sees this and see that your site is linking to an other highly spammed site then mostly that page will be penalized and stopped from entering google’s index. This is particularly tough when you run a good site and only one page is all adult stuff. Googlebot is designed to understand potential reasons how adult content came into your forum and they will impose a penalty only for that URL. we have seen this in our very own site’s forum.

2. Too many spammy links to sites that google considers spammy will hurt that page.

3. Duplicate content across the web or within your site if you have a particular page that is replicated as multiple versions within your site then it will hurt the duplicate page copy and Google will impose penalty or ban on duplicate version of the page / pages and keep just one copy of the page. Ban can simply be for the duplicate pages.

4. Strong filters applied by google on specific pages can also boot a page from rankings or prevent it from ranking. Google has very strong ranking filters and this could stop a page from ranking or penalizing it for reasons that are in the filter.

5. Hidden links or hidden images /gifs or hidden content can also cause page ban please make sure you do a complete review of that.

SEO Blog Team,

Payperpost blogging no more for link juice and pagerank

Google in their december update make most of the pay per post blogs pagerank zero or a reduced pagerank to fight those sites from manipulating the search engines by writing posts and providing links so that it passes Pagerank and link juice to the site for which the content is posted and inturn manipulate google’s search results.

if you go to payperpost.com most of the blogs listed there are PR0, it seems google is aware of those blogs and imposed their powerful PR0 penalty on them. Google is looking into all possible areas of exploitation on their algorithm, So probably they will be killing almost all sites which sell excessive links from passing any link juice or pagerank,

Cross linking 1500 sites – Isn’t that seriously insane

When I was reading through some of the posts in webmaster central official blog, I came across this particular post by Matt cutts,

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/12/information-about-buying-and-selling.html#c9006371411647145471

“Michael Clark, cross-linking between your own sites can be perfectly fine, especially if the links are relevant and you have a small number of sites. At a site review panel, an audience member once claimed that he had been deindexed by two major search engines for only cross-linking. Tim Mayer from Yahoo asked how many sites he had. The audience member sheepishly replied that he had 1500 (!) sites. I definitely wouldn’t recommend heavy cross-linking if you’ve got that many sites. That’s a lot of sites no matter how you slice it.
“

Isn’t that insane crosslinking 1500 domains. We are afraid to cross link even 5 domains just to make sure google don’t think that we are spamming the Search engines but this guy has cross linked 1500 domains and complains that his sites got booted. Mattcutts has confirmed in the same post that cross linking to a small limit is perfectly fine especially if the sites are on topic and they don’t have duplicate contents.

Google’s April fool 2008 Joke project virgil

Google plays with people’s mind again with their new april fool joke named project virgil, If you can see from this URL http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html google has plan to send people to space. LOL that is a very cool joke . They claim to form a human colony in mars with the help of virgin airlines I am sure people dont fall for google’s april fool pranks anymore

Remember their previous prank like the Lunar job or the pigeon rank instead of pagerank

From their FAQ that was very well written statement,

How are you planning to reach Mars?

During the first couple of decades Virgle will use standard technology of the day – chemical rockets to ferry cargo and crews to Mars. As the bootstrap plan stands today, in order to reach Mars (once the tri-module is assembled in LEO) the Virgle 1’s cruise stage will start a burn for insertion into a lunar trajectory and then back toward Earth for final insertion into a modified Hohmann Transfer Orbit. This multi-day round trip will use a variant of the Oberth effect, the Krasnokutskaya periapsis maneuver, to increase the final Earth-to-Mars transfer velocity through a periapsis delta-v burn performed at the closest lunar and subsequent Earth approach, with the additional delta v gained on account of the potential energy from the mass of expended propellant. The total useful mass sent this way to Mars will be 569 metric tons, meaning (obviously) that it will take four launches to complete the assembly. The design does allow for easy reconfiguration for varying payload capacities and transfer duration times. This round trip is also a final test and verification of the cruise configuration, assuring mission support that all systems are running within their nominal values. The design also provides for several orbital abort modes, decreasing significantly the probability of any mission losing a payload, human or otherwise.

Google update April 2008- Update Dewey names by matt cutts of Google

Google’s web spam head Mr.Matt Cutts has asked for feedback on new changes being rolled out in Google. Google has done a major update to its index and it seems lots of sites are affected. I personally see none of our client sites affected in any of the ips mentioned . One DC to look out for is DC 64.233.167.104 , When I checked I dont see much difference does anyone figure out what’s happening.

Here is Matt’s post

“Hey all, I asked a few people to look into this and they weren’t seeing many large differences in rankings between these datacenters. The issue with discussing on this thread is that specific urls/queries aren’t allowed. If anyone wants to mention a search where they see large-scale differences, feel free to send feedback to Google in the usual way. I’m going to pick a random-but-pretty-unique keyword so that I can look up reports. Let’s use “dewey” as the word. So if you want to mention a search where you think the results are very different at one data center compared to other data centers, use the spam report form at ihttp://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html\ and make sure to include the word “dewey” in the “Additional details” text area. Or feel free to point out differences in other ways: do a blog post, leave specifics on the Google webmaster help group, or whatever way you want to point out specific searches that look different to you.
The usual rules of thumb apply: you probably won’t get a personal reply, but I’ll try to get someone to check out reports that get sent in. There shouldn’t be much difference between data centers, so I’m curious to find out what queries people seem to be seeing different results on. “

Dewey what a weird name for an Update, I hope people never forgot the great updates like Google florida update, Austin update, Jagger and more.

Forum discussion and ramblings as always here webmasterworld.com/google/3615693-3-30.htm

Google webmaster central full audio transcript raw unedited version

Hello Everyone,
Atlast we are done with audio transcript from the Google webmaster central live chat audio which was recorded last friday when webmasters around the world had live chat session with Google. we have posted that here its about 11,000 plus words which is equal to 20 plus 500 words article. Google did a great job and we were able to record the full audio ( transcript here ) as well as the full Q and A session as well as full chat log. The audio came out to be of very poor quality since it was recorded with a Mobile phone and the mobile phone was placed near the laptop computer through which we were monitoring and listening the session. Laptop’s speakers messed up the audio but still we were able to get the transcript read which you can read it here. Please read the disclaimer and NOTE before proceeding on reading the transcript.

Feel free to link to the document, don’t copy it.

Search Engine Genie SEO Blog Team,

Getting indexed in MSN checklist – MSN indexing criteria

So some of your have problems getting indexed in MSN that is why you are here, Here is a simple checklist how to get good indexing by MSN live bot, MSN’s search engine crawler. Few posts back we had a posting about MSN live bot hitting us hard which is actually good news for us so how did we do it here is a small checklist you can do to get the same love from MSN search engine crawler.

1. As always we say good backlinks are similar to guaranteed paid inclusion into any search engines. There is no exception for MSN search engine get good links get listed in leading directories like Dmoz, yahoo directory etc your site is sure to indexed.

2. Submit your URL through webmaster.live.com a platform like google webmasters where you can validate your site and submit your URL,

3. Create a good html sitemap and link it from your homepage most of the search engines including MSN live bot like to crawl a site not too deep unless you have very good site. SO make sure most of your pages are accessible from the top level important pages like the Homepage.

4. Get listed in Dmoz like google MSN too loves Dmoz a listing in dmoz will guarantee a listing in MSN search.

5. Sometimes MSN live bot have problem reading your robots.txt, make sure you don’t mess too much with your robots.txt file it could cause problem for MSN live bot in crawling your site.

6. Check for canonical issues. MSN live bot still has some problem with canonical issues. Make sure you just use one version of the site either www or non-www. You can redirect either one to the other one.

7. MSN has problem with affiliate links so if you are part of an affiliate or offer affiliate services make sure your links coming in our going out have any problem with MSN live bot crawler.

8. Also if you made major changes to your URLs like changing shopping cart then you need to wait since it takes time for MSN bot to pick up new URLs. if you don’t see good crawler activity try submitting a sitemap.

9. Make sure your site is not banned or penalized from MSN search. A penalty will definitely affect your website crawling by MSN search crawler.

Search Engine Genie Blog Team.

Yahoo sitemap – how to submit yahoo sitemap to yahoo search

There are some people who have trouble submitting their sitemap to yahoo or don’t know where to submit their sitemap. Yahoo accepts the standard sitemaps.org xml protocol. Sitemaps created with sitemaps.org protocol is much standard now and is accepted by yahoo, google and MSN search engines. They also accept urllist.txt through their site explorer.

Go to site explorer https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/mysites authenticate your site by following yahoo’s authentication process and submit your sitereemap there, You can also submit your blog or your site as a feed to yahoo,

“What kinds of feeds do yahoo support?
You can provide the feeds in the following supported formats. Yahoo do recognize files with .gz extension as compressed files and decompress them before parsing.
RSS 0.9, RSS 1.0, or RSS 2.0,
Sitemaps, as documented on http://www.sitemaps.org/
Atom 0.3, Atom 1.0
A text file containing a list of URLs, each URL at the start of a new line. The filename of the URL list file must be urllist.txt; for a compressed file the name must be urllist.txt.gz.
Yahoo! supports feeds for Mobile sites. When submitting a feed that points to content on the mobile web, please indicate the encoding of the content—either xHTML or WML. (From the Manage Sites page, click the arrow to the left of Add Feed to select feed type.) Submitting mobile feeds directs our mobile search crawlers to discover and crawl new content for our mobile index. “