• a classic post by Roger/Martinibuster about the sex of linkbuilders… "seems like getting a request from Georgina, Bunny, or Debbie has a better chance than one from Hank, Frank, or Bruce." old but very funny
• new WordPress plugin by Gab for automatic internal link building great stuff and was just recently updated
• Patricks Quantum physics and Pagerank… sorry, this is over my head… but interesting to see what some people spend time with
• Monte still uses indians for linkbuilding (to some extend) … well, some clients were burnt in India, we were burnt in India.. not something I’d vote for, but still nice post
• bit older, but nice analysis on how mainstream media link out … I’ll put all those sites into our common forward links tool now to see which link targets to approach first
• using url search top get thousands of visitors… nice idea</font

101 Link Building Tipps by Aaron & Andy

Backlink Quality by Jim

Link Types by Todd

and then there’ comment and trackback spam again…

• It’s been almost FIVE years now, that some guys called me a trackback spammer for pinging them without linking to them … oh well, we all started somewhere
  

• Blue Hat SEO just released a plugin to do that automatically on a large scale
  

• Just in Time ShoeMoney starts to blog about how to improve his comment and trackback spam fight on his blog
  

• It appears that now in mid 2008 not much has changed in the spamming world since 2003, expect that some bloggers use NOFOLLOW and more of the links get caught in filters and algos… but it appears by just scaling up their bots, some people are still successfull to boost their spammy sites… ATTENTION: Not something I would recommend of course!

ENJOY!

last message from April 18 states

The eBay US team has been working to solve the tracking issue that began on Saturday April 7th.

A fix was implemented over the weekend and early data is pointing to an overall improvement.

Additional data is required to confirm that the fix is complete. We will update you as soon as we have confirmation that tracking is fully restored.

At that point, we will assess the full impact of the partial outage and calculate the make good.

This means they’ll just credit an arbitrary amount of money, based on your past performance… you could as well have referred that $80,000 sale and would not get money for it.

AuctionAds which was invented by ShoeMoney and is now run together with TLA is actually based on the CommissionJunction based AffiliateProgram of eBay – and they sent out a not so happy mail two day’s later

began on Saturday April 7. These issues affect revenue share and ACRU performance. The exact scope of the issue is not fully known by eBay. When the notification first went out eBay thought the fix was going to be forthcoming. We communicated with eBay and made the decision to wait to notify our users until a fix was completed and the lost revenue credited. Unfortunately the tracking issue still hasn’t been fixed, and it doesn’t appear that a fix will be in place shortly. As a result, the credit can not be determined until the problem is resolved.

We understand your frustration in this matter and while it is not a problem with AuctionAds we are extremely frustrated as well. We fully understand that receiving a bonus credit is never the same as knowing what your real stats are. [...]

Now, technical probs happen – shit happens anyday – but how broken can a system be, that a major corporation like eBay is not able to just FIX IT within a couple day’s time?

I mean, the worst thing that can happen is that the archived TERABYTES of clicks need to be migrated, but that wouldn’t take THEM from registering new commissions…

Having been in the software development and OLTP business for more a decade I REALLY do not understand what the eBay guys are messing around here… I feel it’s a big mess!

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