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v2interactiveon Why do spam emails often contain gibberish?

I always assumed it was to validate email addresses and filter out bounce backs. The above is a very interested theory and publication.

v2interactiveon Outed for Buying Links for SEO – Travelsupermarket.com (2013)

Not only that, the majority of their links are dead or have no PageRank as if Google already hit them (the inbound links).

v2interactiveon Outed for Buying Links for SEO – Travelsupermarket.com (2013)

How is this outed? They blatantly confessed to violating Google's Webmaster Guidelines?

v2interactiveon Stopping web scrapers with HTML character codes?

I believe this could negatively affect SEO

v2interactiveon Ask HN: job or no job?

v2interactiveon First Google result for tupac has spam title

To confirm, review the cached page: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...

v2interactiveon First Google result for tupac has spam title

Obviously and SQL injection for SEO purposes.

v2interactiveon Who exactly is crawling my site?

*not that I am aware of.

v2interactiveon Who exactly is crawling my site?

Your assumption is wrong. Ahrefs is a backlink compiling bot that tracks, documents and records in/outbound links. They do not sell services directly.

v2interactiveon Google 'down,' let's do an experiment

Back up for me. Comcast support was a JOKE.

v2interactiveon Google 'down,' let's do an experiment

Comcast

Atlanta, GA

v2interactiveon Aol prog days - remembering the youth and fun of AOL

i hope others might remember such awesome feelings. please excuse if this is not valid for HN, but i assumed many of you could relate.

v2interactiveon SEO's: A letter to Google about recent search change.

Thanks for your feedback. However, the Google Guidelines appear to be contradicting and ever changing.

It's not a complaint, it's a valid argument to shed some light upon their eyes. Sorry you don't share the same passion but claiming to 'bother people' is a bit much.

v2interactiveon Is it still possible to make a living as a web developer?

Yes. You can.

You're going to need to work on customer service, collection, sales, development, UX, etc, etc.

There is a LOT you must master.

I just reached the point of depending on being a freelancer for my income. After 4 years of 'practice', I feel I have mastered it.

v2interactiveon Apple: We're responsible for 514,000 American jobs

Oh, so now he's an economist as well? Interesting.

v2interactiveon Geocities - "Under Construction" gif archive

What is up the the guy at the end with the bulging crotch?

v2interactiveon Ask HN: What website project are you working on?

http://www.mybroadwaydreams.com small joomla project i'm working on for a broadway foundation

http://www.v2interactive.net working onmy design firms webpage in joomla to meet web 2.0 standards

v2interactiveon Big Websites Start Running Bigger Display Ads. Big Mistake.

And they neglect the fact that not everybody has wide display or high resolutions. From my google analytics, i still see people using 800x600. Wow.

v2interactiveon Optimize Your Sleep For Better Health and More Free Time

I think it's almost impossible for hackers... or programmers, designers, etc.. to get a regular sleep schedule. I don't know about you guys, but I do some of my best work on Tuesday mornings around 3AM OD'ing on coffee.

v2interactiveon Pirate Bay Acquired For $7.8 Million

I wish somebody would post the pics the cops took of the servers again. Some crazy hardware, I can't believe they're getting bought out for 8M.