http://greekgeek.mythphile.com Adventures in Blogging and Article Writing (since 1993) Tue, 26 Apr 2016 15:56:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/09/dealing-with-the-changing-web/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/09/dealing-with-the-changing-web/#comments Sun, 09 Sep 2012 05:51:16 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2132 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/09/dealing-with-the-changing-web/feed/ 3 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/06/squidoo-for-backlinks-vs-squidoo-for-content-and-why-squidoo-is-like-erotica-fanfiction-and-folk-art/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/06/squidoo-for-backlinks-vs-squidoo-for-content-and-why-squidoo-is-like-erotica-fanfiction-and-folk-art/#comments Sat, 30 Jun 2012 18:15:36 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2082 This should have been a blog post and not a forum post, but I was replying to an excellent post by Spirituality that set me off. In a stupid reversal of what makes sense for a blog vs. a forum post, I will excerpt possibly the most useful part of my TL;DR post and quote […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/06/squidoo-for-backlinks-vs-squidoo-for-content-and-why-squidoo-is-like-erotica-fanfiction-and-folk-art/feed/ 1 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/05/flattery-bots-the-new-blog-networks/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/05/flattery-bots-the-new-blog-networks/#comments Mon, 28 May 2012 17:47:28 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2035 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/05/flattery-bots-the-new-blog-networks/feed/ 6 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/05/fair-use-and-my-web-copyright-philosophy/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/05/fair-use-and-my-web-copyright-philosophy/#comments Mon, 28 May 2012 05:56:42 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2021 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/05/fair-use-and-my-web-copyright-philosophy/feed/ 3 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/04/are-cross-links-between-sites-about-to-get-google-punched/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/04/are-cross-links-between-sites-about-to-get-google-punched/#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:05:12 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=1904 Uh oh. Remember how I noticed the murmurs about content farm penalties back in January 2011, and got scoffed at for suggesting Google was going to be unrolling domain-based rather than single-page-based penalties? Weeeell, I don’t like the sound of this. Something in seoMOZ’s whiteboard Friday vid this week caught my eye: Here’s the part […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/04/are-cross-links-between-sites-about-to-get-google-punched/feed/ 2 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/02/on-pinterest-and-copyright-concerns-yes-that-again/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/02/on-pinterest-and-copyright-concerns-yes-that-again/#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:56:45 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=1858 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/02/on-pinterest-and-copyright-concerns-yes-that-again/feed/ 1 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/11/squidoo-and-facebook/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/11/squidoo-and-facebook/#comments Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:53:46 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=1769 Dear Squidoo: No, I will not be taking advantage of this new “opportunity” to label my lenses for Facebook’s Open Graph (and I think you should come out and inform non-savvy users that Open Graph is part of Facebook — there, that’s better). Why? 1. Facebook is evil. Or, in case you’re laughing at silly old Greekgeek and […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/11/squidoo-and-facebook/feed/ 11 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/09/what-do-you-want/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/09/what-do-you-want/#comments Sun, 18 Sep 2011 04:54:58 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=1549 That headline won’t make any sense unless you’re a Babylon 5 fanatic. (And if you love any science fiction, fantasy, or thought-provoking fiction whatsoever, go find it and watch the first four seasons). Ahem. I had a really good pow-wow with a couple of Squids yesterday, 2muchtrash and her partner. We talked about successes and […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/09/what-do-you-want/feed/ 2 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/09/panda-2-3-hubpages-and-a-suggestion-for-zazzle-members/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/09/panda-2-3-hubpages-and-a-suggestion-for-zazzle-members/#comments Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:59:45 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=1523 By the way, Google reran the Panda algorithm again on about July 25. What this means is that every month or so, someone at Google pushes the “Panda button.” Panda then reassesses the quality of content on each domain versus the amount of junk/spam on it, and gives that site, shall we say, a Panda […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/09/panda-2-3-hubpages-and-a-suggestion-for-zazzle-members/feed/ 3 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/08/what-give/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/08/what-give/#comments Sun, 07 Aug 2011 00:17:20 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=1401 You know the trick: Free Prize inside. Give people something. Rewarding visitors encourages clicks (we’re programmed to reciprocate), and it gives them a reason to read your article. Besides, the internet was built on free stuff  — commercial enterprise was actually illegal on the internet until relatively recently — and it still grows largely based […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/08/what-give/feed/ 0