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Site reputation abuse is when a third-party abuses the reputation of a domain to rank a bunch of pages in Google. The SEO community refers to this type of thing as parasite SEO. Google has gone so far as to publish an official policy (documented here) on how this isn’t allowed: Site reputation abuse (parasite SEO) is rampant today. I […] The post The Stupidity of Google’s Site Reputation Abuse Policy appeared first on Lars Lofgren.
Parasite SEO is when a third-party company partners with an established domain, then posts a bunch of SEO content to make a bunch of money. Content often gets published in a subfolder or subdomain or the website. The goal is to leverage the domain’s trust with Google to get rankings and traffic easily. With the right agreement, you can make […] The post The Billion-Dollar World of Parasite SEO: How to Cash In appeared first on Lars Lofgren.
I recently broke down how Reddit mods and users are abusing Google search rankings with affiliate spam. It’s reddit marketing gone awry. The post blew up and got a decent amount of attention. Then I got a front row seat to how deep of a spam filled porta-potty Reddit has become. The State of the Thread When I Posted Here’s […] The post What Happened After I Outed a Reddit Mod for Affiliate Spam appeared first on Lars Lofgren.
I’m going to show you how to cash grab as a Reddit moderator. 5 minutes of work, then thousands of dollars per month for doing nothing. Maybe tens of thousands. With a 100% real example. I’ve edited nothing. When you’re a Reddit mod, you have a TON of power in that subreddit. You can delete anything you want and ban […] The post The Sleazy World of Reddit Marketing, Everything is Fake appeared first on Lars Lofgren.
Great post Lars. I have had my fair share of issues with Godaddy, and then Bluehost. I finally found satisfaction with SiteGround. The only reason GoDaddy is still in business is because of their heavy online and offline advertising. My WordPress website has not yet reached the 100K milestone to be concerned about premium hosting, but it's a problem we'd all love to have :) And thanks a lot for giving a peak into Kissmetrics hosting structure. Overall I took away some valuable stuff from this post.
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A recent article revealed that OpenAI is purchasing tens of thousands of Mac minis and Mac Studios to give AI agents dedicated environments to run, make mistakes, and learn. It’s a smart infrastructure decision for agents meant to operate inside a computer clicking, navigating, using software: they need a full computer to practice on. But […] The post How little does an AI agent need, and how cheap can it get? appeared first on Arduino Blog.
If you follow my monthly roundups, (1) who are you?? please say hi (2) you’ll notice a smaller post this time. September was a busy month for me. Lots of feedback on a small post I published “Anecdotally, programmers dislike ‘reduce’”. I finally wrote up a phenomenon I’ve observed for years. It’s a short post that didn’t take long to write. I got a tremendous volume of feedback—more than anything I’ve ever written. Dozens of messages, hundreds of comments, shoutouts in popular newsletters…I’m even meeting up with old friends because of it! This industry, for better and worse, is moving away from the details. I like the details! I was heartened to see the number of people who care about the minutia of programming—enough to email some random guy on the internet. Cool links from online “What is the programmer interface for garbage collection? There isn’t one. Can’t get simpler than that.” From “Simplicity is Complicated”. Won’t attend, but the Small File Media Festival looks neat. “A lot of the time, the Linux problems are ‘designed by committee’ problems.” Loved this opinion from the Kate and Veronica podcast. “If there’s one thing the current wave of far-right autocrats has managed to do incredibly well, it’s to constantly keep themselves the centre of attention: constantly the thing that is debated, constantly positioned at the centre of the court as the obvious one to make decisions. This is why: patriarchal racist capital needs these ideas and people so it can continue to be the centre of attention. This is the logic of the big-tech-AI-sun-empire: keep everything oriented towards power, at all costs.” From part 1 of “Towards a Lunarpunk Practice”. Hope you had a good September.
Well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well. We're back. Sorry. We've been watching the onslaught of vulnerabilities flood the internet. Every man, dog, and their grandmas (apparently?) are now using LLMs to find and reproduce vulnerabilities - it’
