March 26, 2013 – Update: Today we could not get the thumbnails to show even after following the steps below. However, when we created a link using bit.ly, we were able to choose from 10 different thumbnails. After using the Facebook debugger, it may be worth trying a couple of different shorteners to see if that solves the problem. If you’re sharing a link on Facebook, normally you’ll be allowed to select which thumbnail to show along with a short description. However, sometimes Facebook will only allow you a limited selection of thumbnails to choose from. For example, today weContinue reading » Facebook Thumbnail Not Showing – How to Fix
March 26, 2013 – Update: Today we could not get the thumbnails to show even after following the steps below. However, when we created a link using bit.ly, we were able to choose from 10 different thumbnails. After using the Facebook debugger, it may be worth trying a couple of different shorteners to see if that solves the problem. If you’re sharing a link on Facebook, normally you’ll be allowed to select which thumbnail to show along with a short description. However, sometimes Facebook will only allow you a limited selection of thumbnails to choose from. For example, today weContinue reading » Water Slider With a Spectacle View
Okinawa Marriott Resort and Spa is quite possibly the only hotel in the world from which you can see a spectacle from the outdoor pool. According to the hotel homepage: Unfortunately they don’t let you know what kind of spectacle that can be seen from the pool, so I guess the only way to find out is to contact the hotel to ask what kind of spectacle is being offered right now. Yamatokan Shimoda Facebook Update
Just a copy of a status update from Yamotokan in Shimoda. In Japan many people are extremely concerned about their privacy, but I am not sure if the hotel made the right choice by having its employees look like criminals: Example of Google’s Poor Search Engine Algorithm
I want to give you an example of how our biggest blog, Your Next Shoes, is ranking in poorly in search engines; Today I did a google search for “Take a Tour of Kat Von D’s Shoe Closet”, which is the title of a recent blog post. This is the result I get: Currently our blog entry is not to be found anywhere on the first page, and even floost.com is ranking higher than our blog with a simple link to our blog entry. In fact our blog entry does not show up anywhere in the search results. In comparison,Continue reading » Removing Poor Quality Content
My primary reason for starting this blog is that I want to keep track of SEO changes we made to our blogs. Google has disliked our blogs for a long time, and we get little to no search traffic from Google. More on this later, but today we deleted a lot of content to see if this can have a positive impact on our search engine rankings. As Google’s Michael Wyszomierski has stated previously: “Our recent update is designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites, so the key thing for webmasters to do is make sure their sites are theContinue reading »
Generating More Facebook Countefeit Ads
I decided to visit the Facebook page of Coach to see what kinds of ads that would generate for me on Facebook. As you may know, Facebook advertisers generally target the interests of Facebook users. That I have visited the Coach Facebook page indicates that I am interested in handbags (despite being male). Not surprisingly, after visiting the Coach page, I started seeing ads like these: For some reason these ads to not provide the landing page URL, but clicking on them takes you to louis-vuitton-shop.net. It follows the same pattern as the other scam stores I have featured inContinue reading » LoverSunglasses.com – Most Interesting Facebook Ad So Far
It seems like every time I have finished writing a blog post, Facebook decides to show me some more scam ads: I clicked on the advertisement, expecting yet again to find another scam site. However, I ended up on this site: I thought to myself; What is going on? Have the Facebook scammers finally learned how to do web design? A quick search shows that the domain was registered on January 22, 2013: Then I take another look at the website, and realize that they are simply in the process of copying the website of Warby Parker. Google still hasContinue reading » Legalrayban.jp – Dumbest Domain Name Ever?
Today I noticed this Facebook advertisement for legalrayban.jp: For a change, the landing page today is actually the one indicated. Legalrayban.jp was registered for 1 year on January 20, 2013, by Lin WeiTian. The whois contact information lists a Japanese address and a Chinese phone number. As with all scam sites, the design is horrible and anyone should be able to see that the site is dubious at best: The contact information page gives [email protected] as the email address. A quick google search shows that this email is used on numerous other scam websites: I will report this one toContinue reading » Facebook Hoax Back in New Disguise for Graph Search
Today I noticed an old Facebook hoax back in a new disguise following the arrival of Graph Search. It is essentially the same message that proliferated Facebook at the end of 2012 as this Forbes article describes in some detail. The new version of the hoax states: “With the launch of Facebook’s new Graph Search tool yesterday, this is even more important. For those of you who don’t know about Graph Search. There is no question that Graph Search opens up a number of new ways that your content can be discovered and used, including not only content you madeContinue reading »
Trying to Report the Oakley Scam – Failure
As usual, I am a good citizen and decided to report this scam at the Oakley Website. Yesterday I completed the horrible form to report a different website, but today I decided to send an email to the contact address listed instead: Of course, the email address does not work. So, yet again, I completed the form that asks for all kinds of irrelevant information. For example the “name of description of product” is a required field, but is obviously not relevant when reporting a counterfeit website. Not only that, but the comments section only allows for 150 characters! OakleyContinue reading »