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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 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 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 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 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 336 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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Avatar Went Hot: August 22, 2007 - 6:29 pm
Posted By: fantomaster 337 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo-theory.com)
Category: Jobs Offered
What’s required from a corporate SEO? Michael Martinez outlines it all - in what is probably the most instructive and all-encompassing job ad this industry has seen to date. A fascinating read even for those who are hunting for qualified talent - he read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 22, 2007 - 5:21 am
Posted By: fantomaster 337 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://fantomaster.com)
Category: Sphinn Zone
The spam brigade has finally struck home!
Yes, it IS rather incestuous if not outright cannibalistic to point to my own blog post about Sphinn right here on Sphinn. However, since I can't upload any screenshots here and as I'm assuming that the spa read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 20, 2007 - 10:29 am
Posted By: fantomaster 339 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://fantomaster.com)
Category: Other
It's obviously the interview season over at fantomaster.com. Now, it's SEO topshot Mike Grehan who has posted his piece on ClickZ, explaining the return of the Nefarious Search Engine Spammer industry. And as always when Mike's signed his name to an read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 16, 2007 - 8:42 pm
Posted By: fantomaster 342 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://fantomaster.com)
Category: Search Marketing
One of the oldest and most renowned SEOs, the notorious “SearchKing” Bob Massa has launched his own blog titled Ask the SEO Guru.
His notoriety resulted from his sueing Google back in 2003 after they had taken down his link broker network, the very read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 13, 2007 - 7:44 pm
Posted By: fantomaster 345 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://fantomaster.com)
Category: Water Cooler
See Dr Search explain why SEO is like sex and air. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 26, 2007 - 7:42 am
Posted By: fantomaster 364 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://fantomaster.com)
Category: SEM Industry
After being offline for almost a fortnight, resolving some hosting account issues, Threadwatch.org follow-up site Threadwatcher is back online. read more »
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