Tag Archives: Rap Genius
Rap Genius Rebrands Itself To Genius
When Rap Genius was launched five years ago, its founders had one goal in mind: Annotate the world. But that clearly meant going beyond rap lyrics.Today, after weathering a couple of storms which...
Rap Genius co-founder fired for disturbing comments
Rap Genius co-founder Mahbod Moghadam has been fired for posting disturbing comments on the popular website dedicated to annotating and interpreting rap lyrics. Moghadam annotated the 141-page memoir...
A Repentant Rap Genius Hacks Its Way Back Into Google
The founders of the lyric annotation site Rap Genius received a Christmas present from Google. After the “Rap Genius blog affiliate program” was discussed by Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s Webspam...
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Google destroy’s Rap Genius’ search rankings as punishment for SEO spam
Now, the RapGenius.com does not even appear on the first page of Google results for a search of “Rap Genius”, and some popular queries, like “Justin Bieber- Boyfriend” does not bring up the startup...
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Rap Genius Gets Rapped By Google For SEO Spam
There’s two lessons to be learned from this little episode of Rap Genius getting rapped over the knuckles by Google concerning SEO spam practices. The first is that it’s terribly dangerous to base an...
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