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<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:33:45 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Propeller Is No Longer Passing PageRank]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/51447</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/51447</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:33:45 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>News Sites</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/51447</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I have just been doing a bit of investigating and I am fairly sure that Propeller is no longer passing any PageRank to the submitted links.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Biggest Ever Google Sitelink Update]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/30265</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/30265</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:38:28 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Google Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/30265</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google has just updated the sitelinks and it is the biggest update ever, hundreds of thousands of new sites have got them.<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Blog Hacked - Please Help a Fellow Sphinner]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/27636</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/27636</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:42:07 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/27636</guid>
<description><![CDATA[My blog has been hacked and I do not no what to do:Since yesterday I have been unable to delete any spam comments, every time I try to change anything I get this:Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/sites/seoco.co.uk/public_html/blog/wp-config.php:25) in /home/sites/seoco.co.uk/public_html/blog/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 275I have just checked my outbound links and the source code and I have found tons of this rubbish:commondreams.org/archive/wp-content/wp-cache-config.php?BuyMenu=buy-cialis&quot; title=&quot;buy cialis&quot;&gt;buy cialiscommondreams.org/archive/wp-content/wp-cache-config.php?BuyMenu=buy-viagra&quot; title=&quot;buy viagra&quot;&gt;buy viagracommondreams.org/archive/wp-content/wp-cache-config.php?BuyMenu=buy-cialis-online&quot; title=&quot;buy cialis&quot;&gt;buy cialiscommondreams.org/archive/wp-content/wp-cache-config.php?BuyMenu=buy-viagra-online&quot; title=&quot;buy viagra&quot;&gt;buy viagracommondreams.org/archive/wp-content/wp-cache-config.php?BuyMenu=comprar-cialis&quot; title=&quot;comprar cialis&quot;&gt;comprar cialisCurrently I can't change the pass word or anything, and it is Saturday so I can't get hold of my designer, any advice or help would really be appreciated.Daveseoco.co.uk/blog/<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Top 5 UK Business Directories]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/15317</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/15317</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:09:21 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/15317</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I have listed my clients sites in loads of different business directories, good quality UK ones are few a far between, here are my top 5.<br/><br/>29 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Site Link Update]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/12787</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/12787</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:53:45 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/12787</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Site links have just updated on Google - Search Engine Journal and Jim Westergren.com are two sites that have only just got them. My site didn't get them and I am gutted.<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[More bloggers being hit with Google penalties]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/10736</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/10736</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 03:06:47 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/10736</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I have been trying very hard to get rid of all of my paid links for my directory Biz Dir in an effort to get back into Big G's good graces, I find myself offering people cash in an attempt to get them to remove my links. I think I have got two more site owners to get hold of and I am clean (one day at a time). A little while back I bought a few paid reviews via Pay Per Post and getting in touch with these bloggers has been a nightmare, all done now, but I have just noticed that two of the blogs appear to have been hit with Google ranking penalties (-40 or so):The 1st is womenmumbles.com, I would bet a lot of cash that this Women did not have the slightest idea that she was breaking the webmaster guidelines, read her blog. It seems a shame because so many high profile bloggers sell links, get away with it and create the impression that it is an O.K. thing to do, this poor women has followed suit and been penalized. The 2nd is yapnwun.blogspot.com, again this blogger does not strike me as the type of person who is going to be reading the webmaster guidelines.I knew what I was doing was wrong with my directory, so I guess I had it coming but these bloggers blatantly do not, is this a fair thing to do?edit: O.K. I have just read Patrick's submission and 1 or 2 of the high profile ones may not be getting off with it scot free, but still a loss of PageRank is nothing compared to a loss of Google rank, it is almost like a &quot;virtual penalty&quot;.<br/><br/>31 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is my directory being targeted by blackhat spammers?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/6689</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/6689</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 03:42:24 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/6689</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The submit page of my directory has loads of porno sites linking to it, it looks like pure blackhat spam, is someone trying to take me out of the game? How do you think the search engines would see this?<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Oh my God Dmoz is Gone!!!!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/6594</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/6594</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 08:59:02 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>AOL</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/6594</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A search for Dmoz now brings up PhilC's article in the no.1 position. Things have been going down hill since they set up the 301 to the www. Has Google really had enough with directories? Or have Aol seriously messed something up?<br/><br/>37 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Worlds Worst Adsense Ad]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/5163</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/5163</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:14:34 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google AdSense</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/5163</guid>
<description><![CDATA[SEO company pays for clicks to example.com<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Manually Penalizing Directories]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/4415</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/4415</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 09:15:58 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/4415</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Many of the big time directories have just been penalized by Google including my own Biz-Dir (over half of the pages have been delisted), directories hit include:AvivaAliveBig Web LinksewebpagesDirectory DumpElegant DirectoryAll of these directories no longer rank for their trade mark names, Rand Fishkin (who condones link buying) does not like directories so he has been complaining to his buddy Matt Cutts and Matt has gone out and manually penalized a large number of the leading directories.<br/><br/>55 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dmoz doing a bit of SEO? All non www. URLs 301'd to www.]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2757</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2757</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 23:09:32 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2757</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Just noticed today that Dmoz have switched from dmoz.org to www.dmoz.org and 301'd all of the non www. URLs, I think the 301'ing is definitely a good move, the amount of times I have seen people link to the www. version. I would have thought that they would have been better sticking with the non www. version after all of this time though. Digg and a few other large sites need to follow their example I think.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Your Stories Never Go Popular Because Your Personal Marketing Plan Sucks]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1482</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1482</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:04:12 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>SEM</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1482</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Good little article from the Wolf, now I know why I am not getting any votes.<br/><br/>30 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[UK Search Engine Optimisation spelling now accepted by Google | SEOptimise]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1085</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1085</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2007 06:10:47 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1085</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Google is no longer treating the phrase search engine optimisation as a miss-spell. I had a bit of a rant about this a month or so ago:http://forums.seroundtable.com/showthread.php?t=1955<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Questions about Paid Links and Cleaning Up my Link Profile]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1080</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1080</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2007 02:05:32 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1080</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I have posted this discussion in the link building category all though it is more to do with link unbuilding.O.K. so when I 1st launched my site I experimented with paid links, a bit like I did with drugs when I was younger. I soon realized that this was not the way to go and removed the vast majority of the PR6, PR7 ones etc. that I was paying for and all in all my link profile for my site is pretty clean, however I would really like some feedback from some of you on a few questions that I have.Paid links that are not being paid for - Back in January some time, this Indian fella who was posting in the forums needed a bit of cash because he was going to university, and said if I could sort him $20 he would stick me on the homepage of his SEO site for a month. I sent him the $20 and I am still on his website now, I don't see him around any more. Am I right in thinking that technically speaking that is not a paid link because it is not being paid for? Or am I just kidding myself?Tag cloud links - So I have paid to be on two of them tag cloud pages, you know the ones I mean Million Dollar Homepage rip offs (stupid move I know), should I go out of my way to get rid of these or is it safe to say that G will just discount these two links?Links that look paid that are not - A directory owner recently delisted three of my listings and I had three sites that were linking back to the directory. This really rattled my cage and I went on a bit of a sick one about it. The directory owner explained that she had been having spam problems and that she had changed the script and lost the database, in order to make things right with me she offered to stick one of my sites on  as a site-wide on her directory for the rest of the year. It was quite a powerful and established directory so I said yes, now she has put of my site in the sponsored links section so it really does look like it is being paid for but it is not, should I get rid of this just to be safe?I would really appreciate any feedback that anyone might have regarding any of the questions.<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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