Recent content by MustaphaMond

We had a scammer post a video accusing our company of being a scam. We found our way to them and paid them off a few hundred dollars to remove it. A week later, another one showed up on a different account, but obviously from the same guy (or group). We're not doing that again. We've posted a...

Trademarking it has a higher standard than simply using it in the name of your business. The Volkswagen mechanic wouldn't have been able to trademark his business name, but he was absolutely allowed to use it.

Hah! I've certainly been called worse. :)

Actually it does. The Wikipedia link I used explains why, but briefly, if you have to use the name of another product to describe your product, that's allowed. There are two cases of case law that established this. One was a car repair shop that only worked on Volkswagens. Volkswagen wanted to...

That's actually called nominative fair use: nominative fair use.

I do wonder why this isn't feasible to do legit. If the licenses are "per machine", couldn't that be per physical box, and then you use it on multiple VPSs on the same box? Or does each VPS instance count as a machine for licensing purposes?

Do you have anywhere where you've gone into this in more detail? I used to use SENuke heavily for about 6 years, and it was spectacularly effective. I've been out of blackhat SEO for a while, getting back into it, and was going to start with SENuke, but this certainly gives me pause. Where would...

I've actually had pretty good luck having Yelp reviews removed on the basis of the person not having an actual customer experience, but those cases were all a little more clear cut than this -- this is in a pretty gray area. I'm interested to hear what happens too.

I have done it -- multiple times. I can't show you the proof, as it's confidential client info at my company, but I'm happy to share the technique. First off, is this for an individual or a business? It makes a difference, as there are a few more options for an individual. Fundamentally...

No, actually it's $2K just to "arbitrate" -- that won't even take it down. In this day and age, the cost to your company of negative search results is usually SO much greater than the cost of just making people happy (or at least not angry). I think it sucks that unreasonable people have such...

When we looked at rank tracking tools, we ended up going with AWR (Advanced Web Ranking). It had by far the best coverage of global non-Google search engines, e.g., Yandex, Baidu, Sohu, Naver, Daum, etc. If you don't care about those, then go with whatever. AWR seemed like the clear leader for...

I try to get my RSS feeds syndicated wherever I can. I know it helps with initial link velocity for a post, but I'm wondering if there's really any long-term value if the link doesn't stay on the site? I can make the argument that "visibility generates more visibility", so if it increases the...

Really, what's the difference between hiring an outsourcer to go generate "white hat" links for you vs. paying a PBN link provider for some links? That's really splitting hairs. There are cases where the difference is clear -- hiring person A to ask for a free link on person B's site is...

How about getting this forum listed in the Main Menu? I still see a lot of people posting ORM stuff in other topics, and it's hard to blame them when this topic doesn't show in the menu.

That can work too, depending on the site. Very effective on Topix, useless on Pissed Consumer.