SEO life: I work with my wife everyday, here’s how
I'd like to start by saying I love my wife, and we are best friends and partners, truly. She is also one of the most talented and ambitious people I know. We truly enjoy, appreciate and compliment one another. We [...]
Fake SEO Terminology #humor
Neutral / Whitehat Exponential Keyword Discovery Regulated Content Intervals Algorithmic Discovery Approach Indirect Variable Pageview Inverse Keyword Extraction Symmetric Slawski Search System On-page Action Analytics Knowledge Graph Indexing Backlink Interval Timing Link inequality Functional Search Query Horizontal Keyword Shifting The [...]
How to pronounce my last name: “Coombe”
Like many folks, I have a last name that is very commonly mispronounced and misspelled. Let's end this right here and now. Listen on this nifty SoundCloud embed: This post is also relevant to my brothers last name: Tom Coombe [...]
A story of a really shady SEO named Dave.
Enjoy the story of the really shady SEO consultant named Dave from Vegas aka "Vegas Dave".
Design: Cassette Tape Illustration
Just doing my best to keep my Photoshop skills sharp. Did this project in about an hour this evening. Inspiration was taken from a cassette tape I saw earlier, I really miss them sometimes. Had a lot of problems with [...]
Rant: Google Algorithm Update Annoucement Channels
If it is one thing I get, it is a lack of transparency. I get that Google keeps a tight lid on trade secrets, algorithm updates, and everything in between. I also get that for whatever reason Google does not [...]
Security Through Obscurity: Hiding WordPress from Bad Robots
WordPress is probably the most popular website framework on the planet Earth. In the security community it is also known as one of the most exploitable frameworks for a number of reasons. There are pretty much 2 main types of [...]
Bypassing Facebook’s Identity Verification
If you have ever tried to login to Facebook from a new device, Facebook might prompt you to prove that you are the account holder by identifying photos of your friends. Recently I needed to gain control of an account [...]
Should I accept a backlink from my crazy neighbor who sells movie posters online?
I was talking with my crazy neighbor blogger, who would like to remain anonymous. He wears sweatpants about 350 days out of the year, smokes Marlboro Lights, and has a network of websites that sells movie posters (which I beleive [...]
Google Inbox: Confusing, Unintuitive, Redundant, and Meh
You just cannot reinvent email, period. Most people just want the basic features of email: from, cc, bcc, and attachments. Maybe some MIME/rich media. Recently I decided to give Google Inbox, Google's latest app (or Gmail's latest app) a try [...]
Is Google+ a permanent Google fixture?
Ok lets see here. Google+'s existence is and has been a fun debate, for sure. Larry Kim and Google+ battled this out on social networks, amongst others last week. It has also been the source of much debate pretty much [...]
A tale of a backlink that never mattered
Just wanted to preface this post by saying that this is basically me "thinking out loud" and should definitely not be taken as SEO advice or anything close to factual information. Iย don't have droves of data to back up [...]