Whistleblower staff is investigating whether the following chicken owner shot his own leg while hunting an opossum. Sandy Hutchens says that the whole story may be a fraud.
Apparently a northwest Washington man is recovering after accidentally shooting himself in the leg while hunting an opossum that had been snatching his chickens.
Allegedly, Larry Tenbrink of Mount Vernon was watching TV when he heard his chickens partying late Sunday. He thought that the problem was the opossum that had already killed more than a dozen of his chickens over the past few months.
According to unreliable sources, Tenbrink grabbed his .22 caliber pistol, headed outside and spotted an opossum the size of a large cat wandering his property. But he accidentally pulled the trigger too early, sending a bullet through his lower right thigh.
According to the sources, the 61-year-old handyman told the Skagit Valley Herald on Monday that he’s back home after a trip to the hospital.
UPDATE: one of our sources has confirmed that the man is real and that he is a chicken owner. The rest of the story may be unreliable.
First we must ask what is spam? One definition of Google spam is pages created deliberately to trick the search engine into offering inappropriate, redundant, or poor-quality search results. This is akin to the definitions offered by Google and MSN.
There are various questions that site owners should ask related to content and optimization techniques. While acknowledging that these are plain questions, it is apparent that they don’t get asked enough. Site owners should ensure that content benefits the site visitors—and is not just thrown together on a web page to contort search engine ranking algorithms.
The varieties of Google spam
Following is a list of 15 ploys considered to be Google spam.
Mirror content
Small type
Doorway pages
Domain Spam
Invisible links
Mini-sites
Page Swapping
Typo spam and cyber-squatting
Link Farms
Cloaking
Keyword stacking
Nonsense text
Invisible text
Unrelated keywords or tags
Redirects
Keyword stuffing
Google, Yahoo, and other search engines claim to take spam very seriously and spend a lot of time trying to eliminate it.
There is a grey line between optimization and over-optimization. It appears that in some product categories, it is normal to use more zealous procedures and those who have a requirement to compete in that space, may have to venture into the grey zone from time to time.
How to report Google spam
There are two types of people when it comes to reporting search engine spam. Some people report every single occurrence they encounter and then there are those who don’t report it because they believe it will only be replaced by another site that will use more subtler processes. Sandy Hutchens Whistleblower believes that while you may not need to report every case, it is important to report from time to time especially in the more egregious cases.
Google spam is not just about specific techniques. The real dilemma has more to do with the purpose of an individual search engine optimizer. Basicaly a spam site is one which uses techniques in a deliberate manner to sabotage Google’s algorithms, to synthetically trend their search engine rankings higher. Sandy Hutchens and the Sandy Hutchens Whistleblower wonders how serious they really are. Sandy Hutchens found the following video on Google.
Google AdWords Spam Explained by Matt Cutts
A cartoon version of Matt Cutts explains why Google spends much less effort policing their own site than they do policing your sites. Sandy Hutchens of Sandy Hutchens Whistleblower notes that this video is not an official production of Google. It has come to our attention that this video on Google spam is a parody created by another agent. However there is some interesting and pertinent Google spam information so we left it up for the edification of our readers.
