Comments on: Getting Competitive: Think like a Dirty Bastard™ http://www.johnon.com/32/dirty-bastards.html I think there's an opinion on that subject lying around here somewhere.... Wed, 22 May 2013 02:54:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: » Hey Affiliates - Screw You! (pass it on) - John Andrews - johnon.com http://www.johnon.com/32/dirty-bastards.html#comment-128905 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:16:39 +0000 http://www.johnon.com/32/dirty-bastards.html#comment-128905 [...] on ME to negotiate out of the mess that I had nothing to do with in the first place. When I think like a dirty bastard, I imaging all sorts of cute ways this could be used as an anti competitive  tactic in the [...] […] on ME to negotiate out of the mess that I had nothing to do with in the first place. When I think like a dirty bastard, I imaging all sorts of cute ways this could be used as an anti competitive  tactic in the […]

]]> by: » Modern SEO as Competitive Webmastering - John Andrews - johnon.com http://www.johnon.com/32/dirty-bastards.html#comment-84766 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:36:10 +0000 http://www.johnon.com/32/dirty-bastards.html#comment-84766 [...] Not everyone likes competition, which is fine, just as not everyone likes rain and not everyone likes growing pains, yet those things (like competition) are essential ingredients of life. Just because you don’t like them, you can’t safely ignore them. I wrote “Think Like A Dirty Bastard” to remind people that they need to assume a perspective of a competitor to “see” their weaknesses. Now that SEO has matured in this age of one search engine, we don’t need to imagine the Dirty Bastards anymore. They are hard at work attacking us, and we can see they are proud of it if we read Internet Marketing web sites comments like this one: There are two kinds of link work: offensive and defensive.  Offensive involves getting high quality links pointing to your target website.  Defensive involves getting good links pointing to your competitors’ sites removed. Defensive work as I practive it involves emails or snail mail letters to webmasters suggesting removal of links or pointing out that the site they are linking to might not be what they think.  Also, letters to executives at search engines. Not only defensive links work good and effective practice; it is obligatory for an SEO consultant who has his or her client’s welfare in mind.  The point is not to have more or better links; it is to have more and better links than the competitors. [...] […] Not everyone likes competition, which is fine, just as not everyone likes rain and not everyone likes growing pains, yet those things (like competition) are essential ingredients of life. Just because you don’t like them, you can’t safely ignore them. I wrote “Think Like A Dirty Bastard” to remind people that they need to assume a perspective of a competitor to “see” their weaknesses. Now that SEO has matured in this age of one search engine, we don’t need to imagine the Dirty Bastards anymore. They are hard at work attacking us, and we can see they are proud of it if we read Internet Marketing web sites comments like this one: There are two kinds of link work: offensive and defensive.  Offensive involves getting high quality links pointing to your target website.  Defensive involves getting good links pointing to your competitors’ sites removed. Defensive work as I practive it involves emails or snail mail letters to webmasters suggesting removal of links or pointing out that the site they are linking to might not be what they think.  Also, letters to executives at search engines. Not only defensive links work good and effective practice; it is obligatory for an SEO consultant who has his or her client’s welfare in mind.  The point is not to have more or better links; it is to have more and better links than the competitors. […]

]]> by: unavailable_after: usi ed abusi http://www.johnon.com/32/dirty-bastards.html#comment-46521 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:27:05 +0000 http://www.johnon.com/32/dirty-bastards.html#comment-46521 [...] C’è pure un Dirty Bastard SEO che ha esposto una tecnica per utilizzare il tag unavailable_after per scopi poco “nobili”. In pratica, l’idea è quella di piazzare l’unavailable_after (con la data controllata da uno script) all’interno dei siti dei clienti: se questi, in futuro, decidessero di non rinnovare più il contratto con la SEO agency, ecco che il tag funzionerebbe come una sorta di “bomba ad orologeria”, che quando azionata fa sparire le pagine dalle SERP di Google. Un modo un pò troppo evil per non farsi scappare i clienti, che ne dite? unavailable afterCondividi Postato alle 22:04 di Giovedì, 2 Agosto 2007 | Commenti RSS [...] […] C’è pure un Dirty Bastard SEO che ha esposto una tecnica per utilizzare il tag unavailable_after per scopi poco “nobili”. In pratica, l’idea è quella di piazzare l’unavailable_after (con la data controllata da uno script) all’interno dei siti dei clienti: se questi, in futuro, decidessero di non rinnovare più il contratto con la SEO agency, ecco che il tag funzionerebbe come una sorta di “bomba ad orologeria”, che quando azionata fa sparire le pagine dalle SERP di Google. Un modo un pò troppo evil per non farsi scappare i clienti, che ne dite? unavailable afterCondividi Postato alle 22:04 di Giovedì, 2 Agosto 2007 | Commenti RSS […]

]]> by: john andrews http://www.johnon.com/32/dirty-bastards.html#comment-167 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 03:44:15 +0000 http://www.johnon.com/32/dirty-bastards.html#comment-167 Hi Ben. Sorry, I wasn't clear. By traceable, I meant that it is fraud, with an obvious intent to interfere with someone's business. Such a tactic is prosecutable. There is little if any plausible deniability. Given a case like that, it's not difficult to subpeona IP records and such, including making a general mess of things for all parties involved. Sure you can cover your tracks, but is it worth that much maintenance? That's all. Your point is well taken, though. Hi Ben. Sorry, I wasn’t clear. By traceable, I meant that it is fraud, with an obvious intent to interfere with someone’s business. Such a tactic is prosecutable. There is little if any plausible deniability. Given a case like that, it’s not difficult to subpeona IP records and such, including making a general mess of things for all parties involved. Sure you can cover your tracks, but is it worth that much maintenance? That’s all. Your point is well taken, though.

]]> by: Ben Wilks http://www.johnon.com/32/dirty-bastards.html#comment-164 Sun, 27 Aug 2006 11:22:39 +0000 http://www.johnon.com/32/dirty-bastards.html#comment-164 John, the TW post is mine. "Seems like a pretty high maintenance anti-competitive tactic that would be easy to trace if discovered." {think like a dirty bastard here for a second} would you really make it traceable? or might you use someone elses domain (perhaps a compeditor??!?) This post is really another example of the bullshit Search Engine's deal with on a daily basis. John, the TW post is mine.

“Seems like a pretty high maintenance anti-competitive tactic that would be easy to trace if discovered.”

{think like a dirty bastard here for a second}

would you really make it traceable? or might you use someone elses domain (perhaps a compeditor??!?)

This post is really another example of the bullshit Search Engine’s deal with on a daily basis.

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