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  • On the post: 'Internet Lawyer' Charles Carreon Has A New Best Friend And He's An SEO Expert Who Hates Anonymous Critics

    alanbleiweiss ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2013 @ 11:03pm

    Re: "Internet lawyer"

    hahaha And their "claim to fame" regarding their "Social Media" services?

    A chart showing EXPLOSIVE growth in a client's Facebook page. From launch they skyrocketed to a whopping 121 likes.

    My god, they're amazing at how well they do at their work! No wonder Charles entrusts his online reputation to them!

  • On the post: 'Internet Lawyer' Charles Carreon Has A New Best Friend And He's An SEO Expert Who Hates Anonymous Critics

    alanbleiweiss ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2013 @ 10:59pm

    Re: "Internet lawyer"

    Oh - and just for giggles, on one page of their site:

    "HTPcompany.com is #1 for SEO Company, Internet Marketing Company and #4 for Marketing Company. So I have some proof of what I am talking about. However I am always learning."

    Of course, they DON'T rank for any of those. At all. So it's possible their hack craptastic, myopic bullshit methods might have worked years ago. You know - before Google actually began figuring out how to slap idiots like that down. But no longer.

    And the final kicker in their scammy spammy bullshit?

    Yeah A closing line on one of their pages:

    "Please phone us to discuss advertising on 121,000 different web sites."

    Talk about a bullshit hacktastic spam path to "SEO"! Epic.

  • On the post: 'Internet Lawyer' Charles Carreon Has A New Best Friend And He's An SEO Expert Who Hates Anonymous Critics

    alanbleiweiss ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2013 @ 10:51pm

    Re: "Internet lawyer"

    Anyone who creates a crappy bullshit based article using a crappy blogspot post is not someone you should trust to do your SEO.

    Anyone who claims "it is less expensive to hire a good SEO company to push down the negative and perhaps false articles and complaints" is full of shit and someone you shouldn't trust to do your SEO.

    Anyone who's "SEO" site includes a claim "We rank on AOL" among their accolades is someone you shouldn't trust to do your SEO.

    Anyone who touts big brands as proof that they are good at SEO is also waving a false flag of proof, since those big brands usually only need adjustments rather than full blown effort given that as a big brand they carry a LOT of built-in cache' regarding authority and trust already. So if all they do is claim a handful of big brands, while failing to specify WHAT they've done for them (especially since I know the ACTUAL company that provides SEO for at least one of the brands he claims they've worked with on their site), is someone you should probably shouldn't trust to do your SEO.

    Anyone who claims "keyword density" as one of their services is someone you shouldn't trust to do your SEO.

    Anyone who has a page URL that includes "pick_the_best_search_engine" and has a page title that includes "Best Search Engines, Company Reviews", but then just embeds videos from Google talking about how search engines work is someone you shouldn't trust to do your SEO.

    Any company that suggests you should pay attention to the PageRank of sites (the TBPR variety) is someone you shouldn't trust to do your SEO.

    Any company that suggests techniques to rank on AllTheWeb, Teoma and AltaVista is someone you should not trust to do your SEO.

    Any company that says to use linkpartners.com and linksmanager.com is someone you should DEFINITELY not trust to do your SEO.

    Any company that claims " Only an idiot would use Home as the anchor text of a text link." is someone you should not trust to do your SEO.

    Any company who suggests there are times when you would "need a lot" when referring to reciprocal links is an outright hack company I wouldn't trust with a thousand foot pole.

    In the case of a Carreon, the SEO effort required to successfully "push down" the negative content (to at least the 3rd page of results) and then be sure that effort will successfully KEEP it pushed down, is more likely to cost in the order of $250,000.

    You may be able to push it down a couple notches for much less, but so what? if it's still on the 1st page of results, the very next article, or link or even just a few updated comments on an old entry are enough to bring them right back up at that level.

  • On the post: 'Internet Lawyer' Charles Carreon Has A New Best Friend And He's An SEO Expert Who Hates Anonymous Critics

    alanbleiweiss ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2013 @ 08:40pm

    Re:

    If you click through to Tom's Blogspot profile, there's a link to his web site

    From the site:

    Our Founder

    In 1987, Tom Forrest, the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of HTP Company began in the software industry. When the Internet began to take root Mr. Forrest formed the technology focus of the business which is today considered a worldwide leader in its field of search engine optimization, Internet advertising, software development and web design. Mr. Forrest has a BS degree studies in business and engineering from Illinois State University, an MS Degree in computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and has taken graduate studies in business and engineering from UCSB. Mr. Forrest has nearly twenty (20) years of successful sales, engineering, management, and marketing experience in the software and Internet industries.

    They apparently have several offices around the world. Including one in India, likely the source of the overwhelming majority of their hacked "SEO" - the crap they probably churn out that's likely as craptastic as the "opinion" piece Tom puked up fro Charles.

  • On the post: 'Internet Lawyer' Charles Carreon Has A New Best Friend And He's An SEO Expert Who Hates Anonymous Critics

    alanbleiweiss ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2013 @ 11:06pm

    HTP Company FAILED REPUTATION

    http://www.yelp.com/biz/htp-company-agoura-hills-2

    hahaha brilliant.

    Can't even manage their own reputation, let alone Charles Carreon's.

  • On the post: 'Internet Lawyer' Charles Carreon Has A New Best Friend And He's An SEO Expert Who Hates Anonymous Critics

    alanbleiweiss ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2013 @ 08:35pm

    And yes, it's guys like Tom that make me, a true SEO professional, want to vomit. All over my feet as I run away screaming after seeing shit like that out there.

  • On the post: Lawyer Suggests That Prenda Law May Have Only 'Released' Movies It Sued Over As A Honeypot For Lawsuits

    alanbleiweiss ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2013 @ 02:02pm

    and the rabbit hole that became a sink hole is now a black hole, from which one can only pray the Prendites never climb back out of...

  • On the post: The Internet Is For Baseless Legal Threats: Popehat, Greenfield And Volokh Triple-Streisand Edition!

    alanbleiweiss ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2013 @ 10:04pm

    Re: Re:

    actually the bloggers can use Google Webmaster Tools to submit a request for deindexation of their content.

    Except that would be sad because then we'd have less fodder for our entertainment.

  • On the post: Righthaven Copyrights 'Sold' Back To Stephens Media For $80k To Pay Legal Fees

    alanbleiweiss ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2013 @ 01:08pm

    Every once in a while throughout a lifetime, I am encouraged that good results can eventually come from utter injustice. Carreon, Righthaven... And it's now looking like just maybe Prenda will get theirs as well...

  • On the post: Prenda Law Tries To Close The Barn Door After The Horse Has Lawyered Up

    alanbleiweiss ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2013 @ 07:02pm

    Re: I can see it now...

    "Your honor, as our actions show, as soon as we finally realized, after much denial and avoidance, that our unethical actions would no longer be tolerated, we immediately put a stop to them. This clearly shows our newly found desire to not be thrown in jail."

    There I fixed that for you.

  • On the post: Judge Wright Orders Second Prenda Hearing, Tells Everyone They Better Actually Show Up This Time

    alanbleiweiss ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2013 @ 08:20pm

    Re: So Salt Marsh does not have to appear?

    Salt March and Alan Mony are just dopplegangers to Alan Cooper. No need to throw more fuel on that line. Wright already has enough evidence to just focus on the criminals.

  • On the post: Judge Wright Orders Second Prenda Hearing, Tells Everyone They Better Actually Show Up This Time

    alanbleiweiss ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2013 @ 08:08pm

    Re: Re:

    as supermarket shelves empty of all their popcorn stock, manufacturers will ramp up production, temporarily improving farmer revenue. Farmers will base this coming year's crop volume on this data.

    When the dust of the case settles, there will have been an overproduction problem and supermarkets will end up reversing their increased purchase efforts.

    Manufacturers will then, in turn, have to lay off thousands of workers as the popcorn bubble bursts.

    Eventually, farmers will have no choice but to sell off the over-produced corn however they can, and take massive financial losses extending out into next year's crop.

    Others impacted will include corn oil producers, cannola oil producers, cardboard manufacturers, cardboard recyclers, 3rd party contractor trucking companies, and a host of others.

    In the end, the government will have to step in and tax LOLcats to compensate for the popcorn industry bail-out.

  • On the post: Team Prenda Does Not Show Up In Court; Judge Is Not Amused

    alanbleiweiss ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2013 @ 07:07pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

    "I think he may have taken the word " practice" in the term " practice law" a little too literally"

    hahaha almost spit up my coffee on that one

  • On the post: Team Prenda Does Not Show Up In Court; Judge Is Not Amused

    alanbleiweiss ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2013 @ 05:48pm

    Re: WE'RE not amused, either, Mike.

    "WE'RE"? Who the eff is "we"? Seriously. The volume of discussion across this site, the PopeHat site, Ars Technica, Fight Copyright Trolls is pretty much validation of the interest in this topic.

    Jump to Twitter and read the activity all day today on the #Prenda thread and it's confirmed.

    This is the most interesting, entertaining and quite relevant cases to ever come along regarding copyright & copyright trolls, and how they go to the lengths they go to.

  • On the post: Deep Dive Analysis: Brett Gibbs Gets His Day In Court — But Prenda Law Is The Star

    alanbleiweiss ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2013 @ 08:27pm

    Much better than I originally hoped for! Very exciting times all around. And outstanding coverage!

  • On the post: Team Prenda Does Not Show Up In Court; Judge Is Not Amused

    alanbleiweiss ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2013 @ 05:09pm

    Living just a few miles from the court, I was tempted to go, but then figured only Cooper, Peitz & Gibbs would be there and Wright would just issue bench warrants all around for the rest. Fortunately the #Prenda tweet stream kept me sufficiently entertained and the little bit of live tweeting that was done helped round it out.

    Can't wait for all the full write-ups later today/tonight!

  • On the post: SimCity: The Backlash

    alanbleiweiss ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2013 @ 03:55am

    Re: Succession wars

    so many ways to respond to your notion of "only an idiot"...
    I don't own any other online-only games. I've been a SimCity owner previously - and never before had any in the series been online-only.


    Personally, I'm not a "gamer". I don't read gamer forums. Nor do I follow gaming news or visit gaming sites. I don't buy games I've never played before without doing research. Every previous version of SimCity I've owned was thoroughly enjoyable and each new version was better than the last.

    So in that respect, there's no justification for calling someone like me an idiot. I had, until this week, considered myself reasonably aware enough of the SimCity franchise.

    Now however, because EA has chosen the maximalist route, and failed to properly disclose this issue in their marketing spin, I have learned.

    Yes, I've learned after spending the money.

    No, I'm not completely unhappy, because what I have played when I've so far, in the horrific launch cycle, has been as good as all the other previous versions in many ways.

    And even if I'm forever relegated to playing this online, I'm more than confident I'll get countless hours of enjoyment out of it. Hundreds if not several hundred. So what, that works out to pennies per play.

    And yes, from now on, I'll be more aware and cynical of other situations that might lead to this.

    But an idiot? please. Take the thoughtless inconsiderate teenage troll attitude and shove it.

  • On the post: Bev Stayart Loses Yet Another Battle Against Levitra, Cialis And Search Engine Results

    alanbleiweiss ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2013 @ 12:28am

    Re:

    crap wish there was an "EDIT" option here. MIKE! We need an "edit" option for the little mistakes we make. "VisualCV" not "VisualVC"...

  • On the post: SimCity: The Backlash

    alanbleiweiss ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2013 @ 01:56am

    I hadn't even known the game was still in existence until recent news about it. That news had NO mention it was "online only". When I viewed the preview trailers, NO mention of online only. Pre-paid for it. First couple days trying to download then play it blew wads.

    Have had a couple good sessions, though a mixed bag of continual play vs. being knocked off the server.

    If the server you're on when you start a city is busy when you return, SOL baby. Start a new city. wow.

    I do expect it to get better but the online only thing? for $60?

    And the online petition is now up to 47,000 signers. So yeah, a sliver of hope on that concept. WTF should I, a paying customer, have to be online to play? Oh right. I must be a criminal because I own a computer. So I must be protected from being tempted to join the piracy.

  • On the post: Texas Legislator Introduces Bill That Would Allow Legal Papers To Be Served To People's Social Media Accounts

    alanbleiweiss ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2013 @ 01:14am

    So. As an Internet marketer, I can access several services that let me "auto-post" to any of my various social media accounts. Without me actually logging in or visiting or checking.

    How would that affect this? Blow it out of the water.

    Now - let's talk about slippery slopes.

    To ensure privacy, such serving would be required to be posted as a private message to the account holder.

    Since account holders shouldn't just "friend" anyone or "follow" someone back without first seeing who their public persona makes them out to be, that would require a NEW law. One that authorizes the server company (on behalf of the court, law office or sheriffs department) to gain access to your private account through a back door required to be set up by the social media companies for this very purpose.

    There you go. We just now entered into the toxic slime of privacy invasion.

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