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Re: Tips for Avoiding Deceptive SEO

Mark Robertson — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:56:55 -0000

BTW, I assume that you saw the 1st and 2nd result Dave... ;-) Ouch. Time to do some defensive reputation management SEO....

Re: Tips for Avoiding Deceptive SEO

Mark Robertson — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:55:16 -0000

Hey Dave Solari... Good to hear that you stopped but darn, $3K/mo, wow! No wonder I had a hard time finding examples and wasnt sure if "anonymous" was right... I think you are right, should be more rewarding to do it honestly... Thanks for the comment ;-)

Re: Tips for Avoiding Deceptive SEO

dave solari — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:12:13 -0000

Hi... davesolari here... i thought it would be funny to google myself, and this came up on 6th page.
Your are totally correct. even tho the thumb hijacking has earned me over 3000$ in a month, i had a first strike warning from youtube. Its why i stopped doing it, and have to earn my views the honest way. More hard work, but i guess also more rewarding since its without cheating.

Dave

Re: Tips for Avoiding Deceptive SEO

Guest — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:17:55 -0000

Look at his videos: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=davesolari&am...;

This one (Eugene The Librarian is Fake) is an example of Blackhat video SEO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezQO0lMzLx8&fe...

It seems that Dave is starting to realise that this is not the way forward, since his most recent videos feature correct thumbnails. The effect is immediately shown in the viewing results....

Re: Tips for Avoiding Deceptive SEO

Guest — Sat, 23 May 2009 16:57:30 -0000

Check out the channel of DaveSolari on YouTube youtube.com/davesolari. What he does is blackhat video SEO, pure and simple.
As a YouTube partner, he is able to pick and choose thumbnails. Instead of using it the proper way (picking a descriptive frame from his own video) he hi-jacks frames from the most popular video of the day (e.g. Britain's got talent). With optimised metadata he is able to be listed amongst the official videos through the related items feature. His only interest is getting video views, thereby increasing revenue from Google AdSense.
Should this trickery be condoned by YouTube?

Re: Tips for Avoiding Deceptive SEO

Mark Robertson — Sat, 23 May 2009 14:03:23 -0000

Can you give an example video?

Re: Tips for Avoiding Deceptive SEO

Mark Robertson — Sat, 23 May 2009 13:54:08 -0000

Very interesting "Guest" Ill check this out for sure. NO - Youtube Should not be condoning it - if they even know its happening...

Re: Tips for Avoiding Deceptive SEO

Christophor Rick — Fri, 22 May 2009 03:46:10 -0000

Hi Josh, thanks for the comment.

The problem is partly that there are so many website submissions and so much content that the checking process probably can't be 100% automated. So then at that point you end up running into a situation where say Google probably needs to pay people to look at specific things to determine validity...well how much money are they going to put into that? It's the limiting factor.

What we need is some sort of voluntary set of standards that when followed allows a site to display some badge of honor stating that they only use good SEO practices... I don't recall ever seeing something like this. Maybe it's time for me to look into starting it heh.

Re: Tips for Avoiding Deceptive SEO

Josh — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:43:57 -0000

Great article. I was never sure just how strict search engines would be on it because Even still, there's a lot of searches that come up wrong when I'm seeking information. Maybe there could be a shift from SEO practices to Search refinement/SEO policing instead?