Uncategorized – Kate Cousino

Some humor on the topic of SEO spam

I found this amusing. Even reputable companies have been caught out by unscrupulous “black hat” backlinking services which promise quick delivery of thousands of incoming links. Unfortunately, this is the result—spammy solicitations and low-quality, often computer-generated verbiage detracting from everyone’s experience of the Internet.

In SEO, as in most things, if it seems too good to be true, it probably is. The “secret” to SEO is no secret at all: produce high quality content that people will want to read, and get it out where your target audience will see it. A reputable SEO service can help you create a strategy, identify resources, and tailor your content more effectively, but be wary of anyone who promises you instant front page ranking!

Quirks of Ontology

What happens when you have unexamined assumptions about the correlation of language/classification with reality. From Michael O’Flynn:

… the Late Modern expects scientific tracts to lurk within ancient texts. In a word, they lack an appreciation for empirical fact as regards linguistics, translation, and literary criticism and prefer high-flown theories based on wild assumptions about primordial goat-herders.

But we digress.
We should point out that just as fugols are not birds, water is notH2O. …

Read the whole thing. It will have you looking at water–and language–just a little differently today.