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Avatar Went Hot: October 15, 2007 - 9:06 pm
Posted By: KangoTraveler 310 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.meangene.com)
Category: Google SEO
I stumbled across this today, apparently this web developer was pissed about having to make more "SEO Changes" to his site ; hilarious! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 7, 2007 - 6:00 pm
Posted By: dannysullivan 319 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
We've had several threads here on Sphinn debating whether Google will hurt a site for selling links. Now an official answer: yes. If you sell links, Google says it might drop your PR score, penalize you in the rankings or potentially ban your site a read more »
78 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 24, 2007 - 8:27 am
Posted By: Wiep 302 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://andybeard.eu)
Category: Google SEO
"For a company such as Google with a stock price based extensively on anticipated growth and public sentiment, it doesn't take a huge swing in goodwill to have a dramatic effect on valuation. Google has just slapped their biggest fans."

Most of t read more »
21 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 24, 2007 - 9:12 am
Posted By: Rhea 302 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
Loren Baker reports a page rank drop for Search Engine Journal as well as sites like Forbes.com, Engadget and the Washington Post. What are you seeing? read more »
14 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 8, 2007 - 5:56 am
Posted By: AndyBeard 318 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.stonetemple.com)
Category: Google SEO
The interview appears to have taken place on September 24th, but was published today.

Covers following of links (mentions javascript being followed)
Robots.txt (pages blocked can be returned in search results, and can accrue PageRank)
Noindex a read more »
31 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 28, 2008 - 1:02 am
Posted By: patrickaltoft 207 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googlespam.blogspot.com)
Category: Google SEO
How can a site with 24 million links from an automated link network be allowed to rank number one for "loans", "credit cards" and "mortgages" 6 months after Matt Cutts was aware of it? read more »
42 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 10, 2007 - 11:00 am
Posted By: lorenbaker 346 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
A look into how hit counter spam and hidden links are ranking a site at #1 on Google for a million dollar term : Payday Loans. read more »
13 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 27, 2008 - 11:37 am
Posted By: PPCblogger 86 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Google SEO
While I don’t expect either of our viewpoints will change, I have to say I find the disclosure that Google will now be taking steps against hoax marketing an amusing bit of hypocrisy. What we have is another in long list of double standards and sele read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: April 13, 2008 - 8:56 am
Posted By: bwelford 131 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blog.marketmou.com)
Category: Google SEO
A great interview with Aaron Wall. Sometimes I find interviews are of lesser value than you'd expect from the interviewee. In this case, you won't be disappointed. read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 1, 2008 - 10:23 am
Posted By: kevgibbo 112 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://training.seobook.com)
Category: Google SEO
Superb, in-depth look into the value of a top Google ranking from Aaron Wall. Must read! read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 5, 2008 - 7:07 am
Posted By: ViperChill 49 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scientist.com)
Category: Google SEO
So, in order to test the theory, i picked two sites that sometimes double as my furry lab animals and set them up so that site A links to site B with two links using different anchor texts. The phrases appeared only on a site A, they were not to be read more »
9 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 26, 2007 - 6:05 am
Posted By: Lyndon 301 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cornwallseo.com)
Category: Google SEO
I will feel left out if I don't blog about this. read more »
12 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 19, 2007 - 10:51 am
Posted By: gyutae 246 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sugarrae.com)
Category: Google SEO
This is a tough post for me to write, but I’m going to write it because it should serve as an example. Let me first give you a little history. Picture it (kudos to anyone who got that intro)… I wasn’t always known as Sugarrae online… I switched to t read more »
20 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: March 12, 2008 - 8:46 am
Posted By: DanielScocco 162 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
At long last, Google owns DoubleClick. In doing so, the company has done something else that many people would have never believed possible. Become an SEO. That's right -- Google's in the SEO business now, selling services through DoubleClick's Perf read more »
16 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 19, 2008 - 2:18 am
Posted By: DarrenSlatten 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google SEO
This is a post I wrote about my failed attempt to get my SEOmoz profile penalized in Google for keyword stuffing. My profile still ranks #1 in Google for [World's Greatest SEO], despite the fact that I repeated that phrase back-to-back, like 250 tim read more »
14 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: April 27, 2008 - 11:41 am
Posted By: DazzlinDonna 116 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google SEO
Explains why (and when) we see sitelinks at #60, what the penalty is likely to be resulting from, and what it may mean for the future of that site. Definitely worth keeping this information tucked away in the brain for possible future needs. read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 19, 2007 - 9:17 am
Posted By: Harith 276 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com)
Category: Google SEO
Here is what Matt Cutts posted today on his blog:
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Thanks for weighing in, everyone. I especially appreciate the well-thought-out comments. Lots of people say that they don’t mind snark, but a lot of commen read more »
33 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 24, 2008 - 1:16 pm
Posted By: northrock 28 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
Twice now I have have personally seen private conversations that Matt has had with web masters appear on the net, personally I’m in two minds on this.... read more »
12 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: March 17, 2008 - 11:41 am
Posted By: Wiep 158 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google SEO
Let's say that on your homepage, you have two links to your blog. The first link is in the navigation, the second link is in the body. That second link's anchor text is NOT going to help the blog page rank for the anchor text used, because Google do read more »
14 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 22, 2008 - 5:21 am
Posted By: NickWilsdon 91 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://nickwilsdon.com)
Category: Google SEO
Matt Cutts, head of Google’s Webspam team, has finally waded in on the issue of fake linkbait. read more »
47 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 15, 2008 - 1:02 pm
Posted By: mvandemar 37 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google SEO
An in-depth explanation of exactly why the Google External Keyword Tool should not be relied upon for SEO keyword research, even though it now shows precise numbers. read more »
22 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: March 6, 2008 - 5:49 pm
Posted By: annie7 168 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
The questions:

So why do you use Google Webmaster Tools?

Do you set up separate account for each site?

Do the tools let Google see too much into your own practices?

Please share your thoughts! read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 20, 2008 - 10:45 am
Posted By: EricLander 62 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Google SEO
A great article here from Michael Gray (GrayWolf) on the borderline hypocrisy that Google practices when dealing with paid linking and search. Worth a read as it contains some solid examples as well. read more »
14 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 12, 2008 - 10:47 am
Posted By: patrickaltoft 70 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoco.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
The SEOmoz Web 2.0 awards page is PR0 and no longer ranks.

"This seems to be a particularly harsh move by Google if you ask me. I mean people have ran awards and given out badges to the winners for years and it is totally white hat." read more »
28 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 10, 2008 - 12:00 pm
Posted By: purpleview 42 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.redflymarketing.com)
Category: Google SEO
An interesting interview discussion with Aaron Wall. Some good questions in there too! read more »
5 Comments     


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