all round good guy.. has a blog link love to matt cutts

DaveN

I guess crosslinking does not count when you are one of the big boys..

while playing around with Ubuntu I ended up at http://sourceforge.net/ now i would not expect to see a very light grey link at the base of EVERY page ( rotating anchor )

IT Product Guide–enterprise IT product reviews

ITManagersJournal–Spot emerging business trends with news and product reviews for enterprise IT.

and the more I browsed the more I found, can some one please tell their SEO this is NOT cool

DaveN

Take a look at a pretty competitive term on Google:

online poker

Scan through and see which one stands out a little.

Got it?

VictoriasSecret.com: The Official Site of Victoria’s Secret
Victoria’s Secret - Shop the world’s most glamourous bras, sexy sleepwear, lingerie
and swimwear. Women’s fashion clothing and apparel, shoes, cosmetics, …
www.victoriassecret.com/ - 31k - 27 Jul 2005 - Cached - Similar pages

So how the hell can VS rank for that when they dont even mention the term on page. Then in the back of my mind I remember a viral game that they launched:

http://www.threadwatch.org/node/3129

Well those sneaky (or accidently sneaky) folks at VS now have a meta Refresh from the “link loved” page straight to their main page.

So what does this tell me, either Google is shit with relevancy OR they can’t handle meta refreshes.

both options are not good imho

We are all aware of CAPTCHA – Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart, but in this day and age when disabilities are a key issue for society should sites be still allowed to use them?

The main reason for a CAPTCHA is to prevent bots from registering on sites to enable email address registration for spam emails, to solicit email spam or online spam of sites such as online polls. But the use of a password system that is displayed as a distorted image or letters that are obscured using random methods such as overlaying, has to prevent certain web users from being able to access websites fully.

A CAPTCHA will prevent a visually impaired user from accessing a protective source. They are not a computer, but a human with special requirements. A visually impaired person would not be able to use their screen reader to register with a site that uses a CAPTCHA….
There has been slow development on audio CAPTCHA’s but this would not be effective and has not been developed fully. But then the audio CAPTCHA will affect another group of disabilities…
Sites using CAPTCHA’s will be the target of litigation for discrimination against people with disabilities.

The W3C WAI, Web Accessibility Initiative, clearly states that the web must be accessible for everyone regardless of disability. All people must be able to perceive, understand, navigate and interact with the site. It is estimated that around 10% of the population in each country is classified as disabled which puts them in a big market share, not to be missed out on. With the Disability Discrimination Act become a greater force in making sure that all buildings are accessible to the disabled it is only a matter of time before CAPTCHA will be under greater scrutiny and classed as discriminatory.

will it ever end, www.account-ebay.com … This is one of the best ones I have seen so far..

Easy way to tell.. remember that they DON’T have your username and password, so they can’t verify it… so always sign in with false data :)

if you get :

You’re now signed in to eBay.

Please click here to update your credit /debit card

its Phishing

DaveN