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Avatar Went Hot: July 5, 2008 - 7:07 am
Posted By: ViperChill 5 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 »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 9:33 am
Posted By: richardbaxterseo 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google SEO
"One of the frustrations of doing SEO for large websites is the fact that Google makes it very difficult to see more than a small part of the search index. Even in Webmaster Tools, Google's index search is built on the same mechanics as its web sear read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 4, 2008 - 2:26 pm
Posted By: Teddie 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.search-engine-war.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
Test results proving Googlebot really has been effectively upgraded to include parsing of flash to find links. Let the flash bombing begin. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 2, 2008 - 2:18 pm
Posted By: Feydakin 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google SEO
Blocking all users outside of the US from being able to see your site would likely be considered cloaking and would be against our Webmaster Guidelines (JohnMu) ......

Wow, now I can't even control who I let in to my house without Google having a read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 6:03 am
Posted By: Gab 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seogadget.co.uk)
Category: Google SEO
[...]Go as far to the back of the index as you possibly can, because that’s where the good bad stuff usually hides. You’re looking out for malformed urls, query strings (like ?=sessionid or ?first_page etc) [...]

Rich goes on to provide a case st read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 7, 2008 - 12:50 pm
Posted By: GlobalFusion 1 day 17 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.businessol.com)
Category: Google SEO
Ray "Catfish" Comstock just released footage of his presentation given at the Online Marketing Summit last February in San Diego. The presentation covers subjects ranging from Google Webmaster Tools, Site Links, Robots.txt, Canonicalization to capit read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 8, 2008 - 10:29 am
Posted By: deadsetchamp 1 day 7 minutes ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchblog.tamar.com)
Category: Google SEO
Google keyword tool reporting numbers, not blue bars. It has changed back but have screenshots - is this a Google blunder or a sign of things to come? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 8, 2008 - 11:32 am
Posted By: mercylivi 1 day 21 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
Reciprocal linking is one of the most disputable SEO questions. The problem is that it is two-fold in nature. First, reciprocal links are natural being the essence of the Internet like linking overall. (So undoubtedly, we can’t do without them.) Sec read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 1:40 am
Posted By: PPCblogger 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
I really hate arguments over cloaking. Like really hate them. But Rand Fishkin recently did a chart outlining the degrees of "safeness" to cloaking that in turn riled up Google's Matt Cutts in comments there. So I wanted to revisit some of the thin read more »
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