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Chop Content Thieves Up and Feed Them to the Ducks.
Avatar Story Found By: aimClear 1615 Days ago
News Source: http://rosedesrochers.todays-woman.net
Category: Social Media
Little is more infuriating than content scrapers. Rose DesRochers links to 8 WordPress plugins and articles to stab ripoff splogs and stupid spammers in the heart. Read more
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Google Recommends Screwing Affiliates for Better SERP Positioning
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Moderator Story Found By: Sebastian 1614 Days ago
News Source: http://sebastians-pamphlets.com
Category: SEO
I’ve worked hard to overtake the SERP positions of a couple sites allowing me to link to them with an affiliate ID, and now the allmighty Google tells the sponsors they must screw me with internal 301 redirects to rescue their rankings. Bugger.
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Seven easy steps to speed up your site
Avatar Story Found By: matt608 1616 Days ago
News Source: http://www.cristianr.com
Category: Social Media
These simple Optimization tips speed up the loading time of your site. Everyone should do them. Read more
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Stop Digging Where There Are No SEO Potatoes
Avatar Story Found By: amyk 1615 Days ago
News Source: http://www.closed-loop-marketing.com
Category: Sphinn Zone
I came to the odd realization recently that many of the basic tenets of SEO actually tie in interestingly well to some common euphemisms and metaphors: ’Burning Your Candle at Both Ends’, ’Making a Mountain Out of a Molehill’ and… Read more
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Making Firefox Sexy Again
Avatar Story Found By: SEOHonolulu 1615 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seo-honolulu.com
Category: Vertical Search
Remember when your install of Firefox was fast, smart and sexy? I rediscovered how to bring the sexy back to my browser and stay productive without sacrificing usability and speed. Read more
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What Can Black Hat SEOs Do if Google Actually Gobbles up GoDaddy? ::
Avatar Story Found By: fantomaster 1615 Days ago
News Source: http://fantomaster.com
Category: Domaining
Should Google actually go for buying GoDaddy, as the search market grapevine is anticipating, the impact on black hat SEOs could be huge. Here’s a list of viable options allowing you to hedge your bets. Read more
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Gaming the Social Networks as a Black Hat ::
Avatar Story Found By: fantomaster 1616 Days ago
News Source: http://fantomaster.com
Category: Social Media
When it comes to gaming the social networks black hat style, there’s really no infamous secret sauce involved in gaming the social networks, so no need to cough up money for expensive e-book reports trying to sell it to you. Simply follow the rules… Read more
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Hitchhikers Guide to Linkless SEO
Avatar Story Found By: TheNanny612 1615 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seoish.com
Category: Link Building
An excellent post, and quite funny, by Patrick at SEOish. He states, "Links are unnecessary to attaining traffic." Check out his reasoning behind this. Read more
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Five Reasons to Aim Low When You’re Just Learning SEO
Avatar Story Found By: thejenn 1615 Days ago
News Source: http://www.searchengineguide.com
Category: SEO
One of the first bits of advice I give to those who are new to search engine optimization is to stop trying to rank for highly competitive phrases and to focus on the long tail of search. While some in the SEO world think aiming low is a cop out,… Read more
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The 5 Types of Blog Posts that Experts Write
Avatar Story Found By: matt608 1616 Days ago
News Source: http://www.pureblogging.com
Category: Social Media
If you want to be an expert in something, it takes dedication and a lot of work. If you want to be known as an expert in something, you also have to know how present yourself as one. Bloggers who are known experts write in way that enforces that image.… Read more
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In A Web 2.0 World, You Need Friends
Avatar Story Found By: nathania 1616 Days ago
News Source: http://experts.internetbasedmoms.com
Category: Social Media
It seems so obvious, but a great reminder here: since social media is, um, SOCIAL - you gotta have friends, evangelists who will help you build your brand and get your message out in a viral fashion. Read more
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Webmaster, Affiliate Marketing & SEO Forum Survival Guide
Avatar Story Found By: thegyppo 1615 Days ago
News Source: http://www.earnersblog.com
Category: Affiliates
Web Forums are a great place to learn from other Webmasters, buy & sell products & services. They are also a great place to waste a load of time.

So which ones should you read? Which sections should you avoid? Read more
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When Is a Number 1 Google Rank Worthless?
Avatar Story Found By: Bonnie 1616 Days ago
News Source: http://www.best-earning-strategies.com
Category: Searching
The first website I created (in 2003) is about job interview strategies. It’s ranked Number 1 in Google for the keyword phrase “job interview strategies.” Isn’t that great? No. Other than some bragging rights, this accomplishment is virtually… Read more
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How to SEO-sanitize a WordPress theme in 5 minutes
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Moderator Story Found By: Sebastian 1626 Days ago
News Source: http://sebastians-pamphlets.com
Category: Social Media
This article comes with one blatant lie, many technical tips, and a number in the title which seems obligatory these days.

In fact it’s kinda "first aid SEO for WordPress" checklist with copy+paste code. Read more
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Remove Wikipedia from the Organic Listings
Avatar Story Found By: Xim 1625 Days ago
News Source: http://www.corysessions.com
Category: Social Media
Wikipedia is dominating search rankings across the board, and in more categories than any other single organization. It has really grown out of control. They literally show up for everything now (rank position #7 in Google, 4 in Yahoo, 11 & 12 in MSN… Read more
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The SEO Learning Life-cycle
Avatar Story Found By: Xim 1653 Days ago
News Source: http://www.seobook.com
Category: SEO
Aaron Wall discusses the general progression SEO marketers take going from Newbie SEO to Seasoned SEO. Read more
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Google Webmaster Blog: Server Location, Cross-Linking, and Web 2.0 Technology
Avatar Story Found By: Xim 1655 Days ago
News Source: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
Category: SEO
Greg Grothaus and Shashi Thakur throw out some thoughts about how Google views localized search in relation to your webserver IP address, comments on site cross linking and optimizing for Web 2.0 technologies. Read more
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Seth Godin Interview About Squidoo
Avatar Story Found By: steaprok 1655 Days ago
News Source: http://www.highrankings.com
Category: Social Media
Check out this pretty cool interview by High Rankings Jill Whalen with Seth Godin about Squidoo. Read more
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