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Avatar Posted By: fantomaster 205 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://fantomaster.com)
Category: Domaining
A Happy New Year to all our readers! May your business ventures be successful and may health and well being your life and that of your loved ones! So why not start making it happen by getting a free .com, .net, .org, .info and/or .us domain? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 21, 2007 - 7:13 am
Posted By: fantomaster 216 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://fantomaster.com)
Category: SEO
Here’s a friendly heads up by way of a Season’s gift to our esteemed readers, offering a sneak peak behind the scenes of what’s brewing in the sinister clandestine developer labs of modern bad ass Black Hat SEO: Mosaic Cloaking is essentially compon read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 21, 2007 - 5:40 am
Posted By: fantomaster 246 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://socialnewswatch.com)
Category: Social Media
Since the beginning of the year, I’ve been studying the major social news websites. Reddit, being one of the top ones, was obviously tops on my list. I did everything that seemed to work well on Digg, Propeller, Newsvine, and most other social med read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 19, 2007 - 6:23 am
Posted By: fantomaster 248 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.buzzlogic.com)
Category: Social Media
This concept of never-ending friending has spawned a new breed (or rather generation) of consumer...one that wants brands to befriend them, not market to them.
While it's obvious that these branded friendships can mean cha cha ching to a brand that read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 17, 2007 - 8:07 pm
Posted By: fantomaster 249 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://fantomaster.com)
Category: Google SEO
It’s been a long standing assertion amongst the A-list members of the SEO community that PageRank does not equate with ranking: Too many low PR sites hitting top spots in the SERPs, outdoing their high PR competitors, it’s really hard to come to any read more »
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Avatar Posted By: fantomaster 252 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.boopsie.com)
Category: Mobile Search
The last thing you need is to wade through a hundred search engine results on a display screen the size of a postage stamp! With Boopsie's smart prefix search all you need is the first few letters. "Harry Potter" - In Boopsie, that's "ha po." Instea read more »
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Avatar Posted By: fantomaster 273 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://saloonix.stripgenerator.com)
Category: Water Cooler
GoogleTrophies on a Link Monkey Safari - slashing link selling sites' PageRank left, right and center. See what may be behind it - and the new opportunities it opens for you! (Cartoon) read more »
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Avatar Posted By: fantomaster 273 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://news.yahoo.com)
Category: Google Other
Determined to sell more television ads, Internet search leader Google Inc. is sharpening its focus on the medium with demographic data from the influential Nielsen Co.
Under an agreement to be announced Wednesday, Google will pay Nielsen an undiscl read more »
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Avatar Posted By: fantomaster 275 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://fantomaster.com)
Category: Water Cooler
With our fantOons series of SEO cartoons now into its third year (hurray!), we’ve decided to set up a basic shop over at CaféPress where you can purchase your Dr Search favorites on t-shirts, mugs, steins, wall clocks, tile coasters, mousepads, base read more »
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Avatar Posted By: fantomaster 282 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://saloonix.stripgenerator.com)
Category: Water Cooler
How Google's paid links policy makes Al-Qaeda go ballistic. (Cartoon) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 14, 2007 - 2:40 pm
Posted By: fantomaster 284 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://saloonix.stripgenerator.com)
Category: Water Cooler
How Google spawned a new cottage industry: Negative Paid Linking. And lent a new twist to the old protection racket. (Cartoon) read more »
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Avatar Posted By: fantomaster 285 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://saloonix.stripgenerator.com)
Category: Water Cooler
News from the bleeding edge: How Google kick started link fraud. (Cartoon) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 11, 2007 - 12:03 am
Posted By: fantomaster 287 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://saloonix.stripgenerator.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Google's highly advanced, infallible new method of determining paid links. (Cartoon) read more »
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Avatar Posted By: fantomaster 288 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://saloonix.stripgenerator.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Not buying paid links. Never. Honest!
(Cartoon) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 7, 2007 - 7:30 am
Posted By: fantomaster 292 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://fantomaster.com)
Category: Link Building
What with the ongoing FUD tactics pursued by Google & Co. trashing paid links and junking up the industry forums and blogs with all the buzz this creates, out comes - entirely expectably - a super duper tool claiming to have mastered the technology read more »
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Avatar Posted By: fantomaster 292 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.reuters.com)
Category: Yahoo
Yahoo Inc would be worth far more to shareholders if it broke up its Internet businesses or embarked on a major overhaul, including a departure from Web search, but management is unlikely to do either, according to an analyst note issued on Friday. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: fantomaster 293 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://fantomaster.com)
Category: Bookmarking
Stop press! Here’s a kick ass list of 300+ live social bookmarking sites, including reviews and an outline of their respective features such as topical focus, available (or required) toolbars, bookmarklets, tag policy, and more. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: fantomaster 295 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://fantomaster.com)
Category: Google Other
Operating in (aka: gaming) the social network space, going for effective link building via forums, blog comments, wikis etc. will typically involve setting up slews of different personas and identities - for most of which you’ll need an operative e- read more »
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Avatar Posted By: fantomaster 298 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.random-good-stuff.com)
Category: Google SEO
Cripes - they ARE becoming obnoxiously all-pervasive, aren't they? :) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 20, 2007 - 1:29 am
Posted By: fantomaster 309 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://fantomaster.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Expectably, after the Manchester SEO moot (aka Pissup), all us linkwhoring attendees will probably ramp up our PR artillery, blogging about it and publishing pix left, right and center - as well we should.
And yes, I'm aware that this event has bee read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 12, 2007 - 6:36 am
Posted By: fantomaster 316 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to 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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Avatar Went Hot: September 10, 2007 - 7:26 pm
Posted By: fantomaster 317 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://fantomaster.com)
Category: Networking
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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Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2007 - 7:56 pm
Posted By: fantomaster 331 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://fantomaster.com)
Category: Google Other
The German Ministry of the Interior is calling for citizens to sue Google as the legal owners of video platform YouTube for violation of laws banning public distribution of neonazi material and constituting sedition. Seeing that YouTube has ignored read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2007 - 2:55 pm
Posted By: fantomaster 332 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://fantomaster.com)
Category: SEO
One of the simplest, fastest and most devastating methods of Black SEO consists of hijacking a competitor’s domain and transferring it to some other registrar. Now, this kind of - criminal - service is being offered on the Web for $200 - or is it? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 24, 2007 - 8:07 am
Posted By: fantomaster 335 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo2.0.onreact.com)
Category: Blogging
"While checking the other blogs out there I found numerous blogs that bored me to death by calling themselves “SEO Blog” in their titles… So I collected the 7 funniest or strangest SEO blog names out of the top 100 to show you that a little more ima read more »
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