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Story: How Google Took Over the Internet And Caused Mass Hysteria with PageRank

from SendTraffic 387 days ago #

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Thanks Hugo. That was definitely the theme I was trying to imply: Does it matter? No. :)

Story: Don't Be Evil: Google Assigns Dollar Value to Search Results

from SendTraffic 386 days ago #

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They were photoshopped to protect the sites mentioned.

Story: How to Dominate Sphinn in 4 Easy Steps!

from SendTraffic 387 days ago #

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If I comment, maybe it'll rub off.

Story: Takin' it to the Streets: How new SEO insights are born

from SendTraffic 400 days ago #

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Good summary of the logical steps taken when concieving new ideas and concepts in SEO.

Story: Takin' it to the Streets: How new SEO insights are born

from SendTraffic 399 days ago #

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I agree. I have always envied SEOMoz for their openness and information sharing. :)

Story: 20 Ways to Get Legit Paid Links Without Getting Penalized by Google

from SendTraffic 407 days ago #

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Some really creative ideas. Just one issue: there was a lot of focus on PR and quantity when relevance and quality should always be sought. I know its difficult to mandate that in these cases, but maybe a more focused aproach to those tactics might help. For example, if you need links from SEO sites, create an SEO themed Wordpress template and those that setup SEO blogs will link back (both from interest and via footer links).

Story: Yes, Virginia, Google Will Hurt Your Site For Selling Links

from SendTraffic 410 days ago #

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I am confused about something. Matt Cutts has been noted as saying that if you label the links as "paid" or "sponsored" that you are clearly stating that it is paid advertising and that you are ok. The Stanford Daily clearly has their links in the footer of the homepage labaled as "PAID ADVERTISING". Yet they have been cited for breaking the rules and have thus been docked 2 PR points in this recent update.

So is this a penalty that has now been imposed or has Google devalued links across the index and thus those links now pass on a lower PR score to the Stanford Daily and thus its own PR is now lower?

By the way, what ever happend to Google explicitly denying performing hand jobs on sites? Yikes!

Story: Search Engine Optimisation For Absolute Beginners

from SendTraffic 451 days ago #

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I'm sorry but 90-95% of SEO is not links. On-page SEO, code, server, and navigational optimization is very important. I like to say that link building is 49.99% of SEO--meaning that doing everything else right is still essential.

Additionally, a Title tag is not a Met tag.

Story: Busting the Myth of Inbound Links Hurting... Again

from SendTraffic 484 days ago # - show/hide this comment

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At the 2007 NY SES, Evan Roseman, a software engineer at Google stated that it is indeed feasible but still highly unlikely that a competitor can hurt you by pointing hundreds or thousands of "bad links" to new, unestablished, and untrusted domains.