I first got to know Gary Stock because of his Googlewhack site (a “googlewhack” is a pair of words which, when typed into Google, return exactly one web page). As co-founder of Nexcerpt, he’s a good guy to know in general. Recently Gary got a spam email with my name in the subject field. It looked like this (reproduced with permission):

Subject: Google’s Matt Cutts talks about buying links.
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 21:39:24 -0500
From: “Johns D. Gideon”
To:
Here’s a funny Google song.
AskJeeves has crawled thousands of pages, while indexing none of them.
Among the top five search engines, Microsoft Corp. Among the top five
search engines, Microsoft Corp.
The webmaster should add text links for the site navigation or he should
change the whole navigation from image links to text links. Getting
listed on Google is possible. The more clearly you structure your text,
the easier it is for search engines to process it.
He also said that the links to your web site should look natural.
There are dozens of web page factors that can influence your search
engine rankings. If you want to have rankings, your web site must have
both.
Back to table of contents - Visit Axandra. in claims to be the world’s
widest Web search. Google finds only one backlink to the web site.
Yahoo’s global usage share remains stable. What are paid links?
You then just have to wait until it comes out of the sandbox.
Google seeks to stop Microsoft from suing new hire. Whether you Googled
for Paris Hilton, a stock tip or a gift for Mom, you’v
Getting listed on Google is possible. What does this mean to your Google
rankings? They usually won’t bring you visitors that are interested in
what you have to offer.
Google to open research and development center in China. This
distribution partnership is probably only the start.
Has your web site been dropped from Google and you don’t know why? That
will help search engines to classify the page.
The whole web site doesn’t contain links to related web sites.
This week, we’re taking another look at keywords and search engine optimization.
You cannot see it at all in the picture above. Otherwise, they wouldn’t
be listed on the first result page.
Google doesn’t expect that new web sites have a large number of links.
But most of all, it wants to be successful.

You know you’re doing something right when you get included as gibberish in spam emails.


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