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This is a great find by Matt Keough. While most people were sleeping or preparing for a Thanksgiving dinner, Matt has stumbled upon more air-tight evidence of Google complicity in the black-hat SEO industry. I think everybody who has ever had any trouble with Google over "SEO purity" needs to file this post away in the "Google: Guilty" folder for when push comes to shove. Google needs to be called out on this hypocrisy by all legit practitioners of SEO ... the more frequent and vociferous the critism, the better.
I like these strategies because they lead to practical and attainable results, not just fantastic, shoot-the-moon reputation dreams. The step-by-step or piece-by-piece approach is great for those new to the concept, or for those who have some ideas about what to do but not a unified vision for how to implement the tactics. Thanks for putting this out there, Kurt.
Mike, this is worth exploring further. I hope people find other examples of the comment tag explosion. Comment tags, primarily used by developers to communicate about html intricacies with each other, are gnerally thought in our industry to not affect search engine rankings, despite popular urban legends. I like stuffed-crust pizza as much as the next guy, but when I see an example like what you've just given, I have to wonder just what kind of pizza Google is serving up. I hope Sphinn readers can help to unravel the mystery in the kitchen.
Kurt, this is not good news for people who want to use Newsvine for relevant link-building promotion. I wonder if this Newsvine show of power will require online marketers to be more savvy in their future submission efforts. I'm really curious to learn if others have had this Digg-like SEO elimination. At least they could have warned you, sent a message explaining a problem, or anything to give you a chance to rectify whatever perceived violation existed. We should start an online petition to demand Newsvine explain themselves. What do you other Sphinnsters think?
I like how the video makes it really simple for those busy people whose job doesn't revolve around studying Google and haven't heard about it or bothered to read the explanation from Google itself.
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