Stephan Spencer's Scatterings

The Scattered Wisdom of a scientist turned web marketing virtuoso

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How to Torch Your Links in 3 Easy Steps

Ranking too well in the search engines and want to give your struggling competitors a more level playing field? Then follow these 3 easy steps to alienate those who already link to you and torch your best inbound links... STEP 1: Collect a list of you… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 08/06/2008 | Permalink

Comments (6)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Search Engines, Email link building, link monkeys, spam            

Mechanical Turk – not exactly new

It is interesting that Amazon.com has launched a new program called the Mechanical Turk where people in the world can earn small amounts of money doing tasks that are not suited to computers/artificial intelligence. Amazon bills it as "artificial artific… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 12/29/2005 | Permalink

Comments (2)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Search Engines, Blogging amazon.com, blog_spam, captchas, matt cutt, mechanical turk, search_engine_spam, spam, spammers            

Will RSS overtake email as a marketing channel?

RSS seems unlikely to stage a takeover anytime soon, according to panelists at a MarketingProfs Thought Leaders Summit on email marketing held earlier this year. Rok Hrastnik, owner of MarketingStudies.net and author of the seminal e-book on RSS, "Unl… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 11/16/2005 | Permalink

Comments (4)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Email, RSS Marketing email marketing, forrester research, marketing channel, marketingprofs, rokhrastnik, rss, shar vanboskirk, spam, thought leader summit            

State of the Blogosphere in 5 parts

Well, it’s been six months since his last State of the Blogosphere address, but Technorati’s Dave Sifry has been busy tracking and mapping the latest trends, comprehensive results for which are to be found in his latest five-part blog post series.… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 09/22/2005 | Permalink

Comments (2)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Blogging blog growth, blogosphere, dave sifry, long tail, spam, technorati, trends, weblogs            

Unethical SEO vendors – can you spot em?

You can't just ask a Search Engine Optimization vendor if they are ethical. Of course they will say "yes." So if you are shopping for some SEO help, how do you screen out the baddies? A while back I blogged about how to be objective with your SEO vend… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 05/30/2005 | Permalink

Comments (2)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Search Engines ethics, search engine spam, seo, seo consultants, seo tactics, seo venders, spam, spammers            

Email address harvesting and opt-out: Do the crime, do the time

Most email marketers agree that ethically, email address harvesting and sending unsolicited opt-out messages are taboo and should be avoided. I of course agree. It's always fun to talk ethics, but let's bring the discussion to a practical level. I conten… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 01/21/2005 | Permalink

Comments (1)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Email email_marketing, spam            

Can the CAN-SPAM

With the one year anniversary of CAN-SPAM passing into law now past, I am seeing a number of articles (like this one) all concurring that CAN-SPAM has been totally ineffective in stemming the tide of spam emanating from the United States. In fact U.S. or… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 01/11/2005 | Permalink

Comments (0)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Email email_marketing, spam