New Wedding Cake Decoration

By Saturday August 21, 2004

Cake decoration
Wedding Cake Topper

Hmmm, truth in advertising or a just a cynical view of things?



6 Comments
  1. Jim Dermitt says:
    8/21/2004 at 4:36 pm

    Do you sell these things John? I was trying to get the Google bot all figured out and I figured that the thing has a mind of its own. You might want to check out Adtopics. You can have a bot pick random ads for your blog, which you seem to think sucks and say is ridiculous. I was thinking that Adtopics might be the way to go here.
    Here’s some info, not from a bot, but from me.

    Adtopics places control over your advertisers completely in your hands. A control panel shows you all the advertisers on your site & allows you to approve or disapprove advertisers instantly. We also offer a wide range of banner sizes to best fit your site and advertising needs. To see samples of these banners
    http://www.adtopics.com/banner_page.html
    Home http://www.adtopics.com/index.html

    Maybe you can do a feature blog about Adtopics and see if the Google bot gets jealous and has a nervous breakdown, freaks out or something funny like that. Maybe the Google bot will start sending traffic to Adtopics and self destruct in a technical suicide, like on Mission Impossible.

  2. John C. Dvorak says:
    8/21/2004 at 5:59 pm

    I’m about to look at Adtopics….probably for a competitive page. Unsure.

  3. Jim Dermitt says:
    8/21/2004 at 6:11 pm

    I hope it works out for you John. You could automate the entire blog, but people like the personal touch. As you might know by now, I don’t have a lot of faith in these bot schemes. Google has limits, but I guess some people think it is unlimited. There’s no wealth without work, which is truth in advertising.

  4. Jim Dermitt says:
    8/23/2004 at 8:15 am

    THREE POINT PLAY

    1. Manipulating the bot.
    Marketers have adopted guerrilla tactics that manipulate search rankings. Link farms are linking schemes designed to manipulate one of Google’s only publicized algorithms, PageRank. Google started it and more search engines are following suit and using link popularity as an important part of their ranking algorithms. Rarity creates value and higher prices. A glut floods the market and prices fall. Too many cheap words floating around, could send the price of words even lower in trading today. Pork bellies rise, pigs fall. Ham and eggs for breakfast. You gotta break a few eggs to keep the farm going. The chickens are interested, but the pigs are committed. I’m just the cook, so don’t blame me I wasn’t mixed up with Elroy’s secret code.

    2. Green Acres and the evolution of Spam.
    Webmasters and other pigs have gotten busy joining link farms. I read that Google hates link farms and labels the links they generate as spam. Blogs are all little link farms, so this could mean Google labels blogs and the links they generate as spam. So if you took all the links on this blog, put them on one page and called it a link farm, would Google label it spam? Google warns: “Trying to deceive (spam) our web crawler by means of hidden text, deceptive cloaking or doorway pages compromises the quality of our results and degrades the search experience for everyone. We think that’s a bad thing.” Unfortunately, not all websites are created equal. One mans spam, is another mans lunch. What is spam? It was all that canned spiced ham, then it was junk email. The definition keeps changing by word washing. Now it is web links that may deceive the Google web crawler by means of hidden text, deceptive cloaking or doorway pages. The fact that any number of people could alter the Google bot with link farming suggests page ranking can be rigged. It seems to me that Google is ad farming and that is fine. When people start trading links for free, it becomes another story and it is link farming and spamming. Just pay Google for your right to link and everything will be perfect with the Internet, promise. They think that’s a good thing. I would too. I hear Arnold Ziffel had a link farm. Arnold the pig was hilarious, the pig got so smart that he became a Rhodes Scholar.
    “We keep this bottle of whiskey for municipal porpoises.”

    3. Here’s one for the link farm John.
    Caskets On Parade … Playboy Interview Subjects & their Interviewers
    http://www.msu.edu/~daggy/cop/bkofdead/pboyintv.htm#1987

  5. Jim Dermitt says:
    8/23/2004 at 9:29 am

    Pay-per-link
    Preventing customers from gaining access to “unhealthy information online” is also a concern. I’m sure mentioning it here isn’t going to help, either. A force of internet police, thought to number about 40,000, operates filters that block access to sensitive sites dealing with issues like link farming, unpaid word searches and free information on medical issues. New software filters trawl through the emails of the link farmers estimated 80 million internet users, picking up suspicious keywords. One undercover internet operation netted the leader of a link farm site with one million suspicious links, all of which were part of a giant spam conspiracy that did not use email. Web bots for search, news and ad rankings generated millions of emails, making the bots act like automated spammers, by using bot manipulation. Who is sending these millions of emails? Nobody and everybody according to the Internet Link Police. The bots have a mind of their own, easily tricked by spam from link farmers, the new threat to the Net. I’d be interested in knowing if anyone can understand how it works.

    Free links are an everyday problem. I’m going to be selling new links which should help make online ads less expensive. The cost of linking is going up along with oil and everything else. If pay-per-link works the way I think it should, I might be doing an IPO so the rest of you people can get in on the action. I figure the stock should be worth $120 a share and climb from there. In five years I may be bigger than General Motors, just not as profitable. But, hey there’s a sucker born every minute and five links every second . It shouldn’t be too hard finding more suckers. Pay me now or pay me later, just pay me. Links are spam, links are dangerous. My links are safe and cost effective. Here’s a free link http://www.chevrolet.com/ Corvette costs extra, see your local Chevrolet dealer for details.

  6. Manfred says:
    12/9/2005 at 9:56 am

    Hello I want to bye a decoration for cake, whats the price?


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