What Do Mary Rambin And Credit Scores Have In Common?
This debate has been going on across certain Tumblr sites for awhile, but is reaching a tipping point today after Mary Rambin herself addressed the issue on her own tumblr. UPDATE!: That post was just removed! (we have it below!) There is a back and forth between Mary and SoupSoup which can be read in full below. We are currently on the phone with an SEO (Search Engine Optimization) expert in Denver to see what they come up with (if NonSociety is in fact in violation). What does this mean? Well, in many cases a website can receive anywhere from 50% of their traffic from Google. If NonSociety is in violation, and Google cuts them off, this could mean drastic changes for their traffic numbers. The whole argument after the jump...
UPDATE: "There's Something About Mary" has apparently been tracking the google cheats first, and quite awhile ago!
Non Society Violating Google TOS
One thing you definitely don’t want to do if you’re a budding web entrepreneur is get your site banned from Google. You might as well close up shop if you’re unlucky enough to get caught violating their Terms of Service.
Non Society is so desperate for traffic that they’ve put hidden keywords in their source code for such ridiculous keywords as “What Is Your Credit Status” in order to get high Google listing for totally unrelated search terms. This is a major violation of Google Terms of Service.
Shill those boob jobs, botox injections, colonics, and crash juice diets while you still can ladies. Your party is about to end.
In a nutshell, our public forums (Advice Box and QOD) were spammed three weeks after we launched them. Stay tuned for an official response from our programmer.
A little note from me. We don’t need to add keywords for page views. With hundreds of thousands of loyal readers, a handful of gossip sites, and a few nasty rebloggers, we’re doing just fine thanks. Thinking about it now, I really should write a thank you note to Denton for today’s Gawker and Jezebel posts. So many of their readers click once and become daily visitors.
Mary, spammers can’t edit that portion of your source code.
Apparently, i’m not the first one to notice or the first person to warn Non Society either.
Non Society Violating Google TOS
One thing you definitely don’t want to do if you’re a budding web entrepreneur is get your site banned from Google. You might as well close up shop if you’re unlucky enough to get caught violating their Terms of Service.
Non Society is so desperate for traffic that they’ve put hidden keywords in their source code for such ridiculous keywords as “What Is Your Credit Status” in order to get high Google listing for totally unrelated search terms. This is a major violation of Google Terms of Service.
Shill those boob jobs, botox injections, colonics, and crash juice diets while you still can ladies. Your party is about to end.
In a nutshell, our public forums (Advice Box and QOD) were spammed three weeks after we launched them. Stay tuned for an official response from our programmer.
A little note from me. We don’t need to add keywords for page views. With hundreds of thousands of loyal readers, a handful of gossip sites, and a few nasty rebloggers, we’re doing just fine thanks. Thinking about it now, I really should write a thank you note to Denton for today’s Gawker and Jezebel posts. So many of their readers click once and become daily visitors.
Mary, spammers can’t edit that portion of your source code.
Apparently, i’m not the first one to notice or the first person to warn Non Society either.
Vassili Verrecchia Shows Off His Favorite Things In His Paris Home
While his brother, Timothee, runs the NYC office, Vassili takes on the Paris-based side of things. To gain some insight to what inspires such a creative and entrepreneurial spirit, we asked Vass to show off some of his favorite worldly and sentimental possessions in his Paris home. See where Vass's travels have taken him...
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roblowe
January 29, 2009
12:19am
Rachelle aka Stanley is mental abou SEO.... weirdo
partypants
January 29, 2009
3:01am
I read 'hundreds of thousand of loyal visitors' and the only way I can believe it is because I know how fkn tarded interwebs users are. even then...nope, not buying it. If they can provide some solid server logs showing their stats as advertised I will turn in my keyboard and become a unicorn farmer.
ScaryMary
January 29, 2009
5:14am
Hi! I just wanted to say I love that you posted this! I also want to say, for the record, that SoupSoup was not the one who discovered this... though I greatly appreciate him helping to spread the word. I am! First discovery as of January 18th. You can view all my logs and posts regarding the discovery of this Google debacle, along with my correspondence to and from Julia Allison here: [maryrambin.blogspot.com] I love your site, visit often, and will even more now! haha xoxo Scary
Bryce
January 29, 2009
2:16pm
I think it shows very little journalistic integrity to run a story on Jan 28 and credit Soup with the scoop when it was CLEAR that ScaryMary of [theressomethingaboutmary.tumblr.com] discovered the infraction. There is plenty of documentation to support that. If you ran this story on Jan 18, then it would be more understandable, but to run this story this late in the game and not fact check, is a disservice to your readers.
CHRISTOPHER CONFESSORE
January 29, 2009
3:12pm
Bryce. We didn't say SoupSoup was the first, we just used the chat to illustrate the debate. I think you can see above, we've corrected to give Scary credit too.
partypants
January 29, 2009
3:23pm
I'm confused. If they have so many loyal readers and get linked to omgnonstop then wtf do they care if google blocks them?
Bryce
January 29, 2009
3:41pm
You did the right thing Christopher, thanks. I'm sure Scary appreciates it too. Glad to see this story get additional coverage.
narnio
January 29, 2009
7:58pm
one of you explain SEO to me in 3 sentences or less, because i'm not sure you can.
ScaryMary
January 29, 2009
8:33pm
Scary does appreciate it, thank you Guest of a Guest, for showing such integrity. You very quickly added credit where credit was due. Also thank you to my supporters who so chivalrously came to my aid. :)