I came back last week from a relaxing vacation and found an email in my inbox sporting the following title: "PageRank is Dead."

Upon reading the title, my mind went blank, closing up in an effort to prevent shock. Was this

Are Search Engines the Beginning of the End?

When fiction looks to the future, humans always seem to find a way to engineer their own demise. Particularly, pop culture is rife with plotlines centering around a complex system designed to serve our

Inspired by the popularity of all those "entertaining" and "highly informative" (read also: "turgid" and "loathsome") quizzes that have spread across Facebook like fire on the savanna, and that tell me so very much about my friends and myself, I have created this quiz that asks, "How SEOed

People often ask me, "Jeff, how can I become a spammer?" I don't know why. I wish they'd stop. The following guide is for them (see exhibit A). The rest of you should consider doing the opposite.
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Step 1. Forget website mission, goals, and long term growth.
Embrace deception, egotism, and the soul-less pursuit of any and all internet traffic. Go for the quick victory. If you don't have a website mission, goal or plans for long term growth, this is ok. These things only breed trust and honest success. As a spammer, you want only one thing: to ensnare your traffic. Don't worry about what THEY want, or what they may be looking for. Feel free to refer to them as "victims."

When I was in middle-school, comic books were AWESOME. Looking back, I notice now that in nearly every comic book, eventually there was the villain