Firefox's Extension for Spam Reporting

Spam reporting is much easier now with Firefox's Spam Report add on. Several sites were found and reported today. It is easy as two clicks. One spam website even offered web promotion and tried to protect their view source but as it was easily uncovered by Firefox Tidy, it revealed a couple of hundred of hidden keywords. Not what I would call website promotion by any means.

An internet search around a few keywords and SEO Metro easily found other sites that had duplicated pages in their sites with just one major keyword change but hundreds of similar pages. These are sites that one would think the owners would know that such tactics are against most if not all search engine's terms of service. Evidently the webmasters consider the risk worth taking or consider that what they are duplicating is not against terms of service. Regardless, the Spam Reporting extension tool on Firefox is definitely worth having as it takes little effort to know report spam sites.

Facebook Lets Members Go Public

Facebook is allowing members the option of going public by letting search engines crawl the pages if members opt-in. The social network is working to boost numbers and popularity as other social networks are growing at a steady to fast pace; Facebook has grown 62.5% since May from 24 million to 39 million users. Next month Facebook says it will have a search box that will allow people to search for their friends and find their profiles.

I believe the CEO for SEO Metro, Gregory R. Roberts, will just stick to Spock.

Chinese Affiliates and U.S. SEO Firms

What begs the question IMO, is the ethical partnership of United States SEO firms with Chinese individuals and/or firms. The question originated with a discussion with a web designer in the northern part of the U.S. discussing how our Dallas SEO firm was hacked and the technique employed which was an underhanded attack, duplicating many pages that were attempted to be concealed within image and graphics folders.

Facts: Our Government is being hacked by the Chinese Authorities and can be referenced from many sources that do NOT need to be mentioned here.

1. Question? Why are our U.S. Companies allowed to do business with companies inside a threatening country?
2. Question? How are the U.S. Companies scrutinized and Chinese companies scrutinized before they can do business?
3. Question? How many of our U.S. businesses been attacked by Communists countries? (There must be statistics, our authorities are not that stupid.)
4. Question? How many times have our government and private companies been attacked by the Chinese in the last two years?
5. Question? What is our government doing to protect OUR interests here in the United States?

Our business is under attack and we are not discounting local SEO agencies that are dear to the Chinese and are partnering with communists.

FACT: SEO Metro is not partnering with any Communist Government!

Yahoo Purchases 5th Largest US Ad Network

Blue Lithium, the fifth largest advertising network in the United States, has be acquired by Yahoo.com, according to Blue Lithium's home page. The report states the transaction will allow Yahoo the ability to speed up its advertising, product and engineering road map along with allowing better measurements of performance-based campaigns on and off the Yahoo network.

Blue Lithium specializes in targeted-behavioral analysis which lets clients deliver the most effective banner advertising to internet users. The advertising network was purchased for a reported $300 million which is much more buying power than our small Dallas SEO company, although we will soon be buying advertising in the near future.