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Avatar Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 248 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Water Cooler
One of the things that is so remarkable about the internet is that it allows people to spread their views, opinions, and thoughts to large audiences easily. Perhaps too easily? Here I have an example an abuse of that power, and of course how it affe read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 258 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
E-Mail marketing, SEO, and PPC; the trifecta of internet commerce. Here I explore which traits are required for each, and how well they cross over with the different types of marketing. Each has it's own risks, concerns, and methods. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 273 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Search Marketing
PPC and SEO individually both only provide a fraction of the total available traffic. This entry explains how to use both to control the mood of the niche, increasing traffic flow to both organic rankings, and PPC ads. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 308 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Affiliate Marketing
all the traffic in the world doesn’t matter if you can’t convert it into money. People get hung up on Adsense, but there’s dozens of other advertising networks out there that can help. Especially in the current anti-paid link world, it’s important t read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 348 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Blogging
While brainstorming how best to monetize my own blog, I thought up this concept. It's all about using your blog's ability to rank, instead of your actual readers to generate your income flow. It serves to not annoy the readers, while still providing read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 351 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Microsoft adCenter
With the advent of the $50 free click credit, I decided to give adCenter a bit of a run, and here I share the ups and downs as I see it thus far. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 352 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Google SEO
The sandbox plagues the SEO world like lice plague an elementary school. This is a guide on how to try and avoid the Sandbox, so your new site can rank as early as possible, with as little scrutiny as possible. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 355 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: SEM
This article tells you how to increase the productivity of your online store by up to 400%, by simply cloning the site, and targetting to different SEO demographics, and utilizing different affiliate networks. Excellent info for any web store owner, read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 356 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Blogging
Pay per post blogging, in it's current form, cannot survive. Customer confidence is low and penalizations are high.
This is some recommendations for the dedicated pay-per-poster on how to survive. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 361 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Link Building
This article can serve as a warning for whitehats, or a tool for blackhats. Included is how to fake reciprocol links, and fake articles submitted to social news sites, so that you can pull in that extra backlink to your page that will put you over t read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 362 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Link Building
Tags have a LOT of untapped power. This article is about picking tags for maximum exposure, link juice, and getting the largest search engine rank bump for your work. Not as simple as it sounds, but well worth the effort. This is a whitehat AND blac read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 364 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
This article is an explanation of why the Microsoft referrer spam will ultimately prove fruitless, and then several ideas about how to filter it(proving how useless it really is). read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 365 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: SEO
In this, I use the blackhat skills to pick apart a particularly interesting piece of link spam I received for "Tramadol". Included is what the user sees(I love that part), what the search engine sees, and the reasons for both. This guy put a pretty read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 367 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
This post covers 2(theoretical) methods that one can use to steal a domain out from under the nose of an uprepared webmaster, and then covers how to defeat it. A very interesting post(in my biased opinion), that really gets the mental gears turning. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 368 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
This article talks about a few things that affiliate marketers in large do not do, but in almost every case should. Included is how to pack the longtail keywords in whitehat style, bringing in MANY more hits than the standard affiliate site receives read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 370 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.earnersblog.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
This post covers 2nd tier affiliate programs, including an impressive trick or two on swinging in your referrals, and how to make cash off of them. Definitely one of the best reads I've had this week. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 371 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
A lovely VBulletin Javascript injection that is apparently still alive and well in the wild. The injection, purpose, rankings, and precautions taken by whichever Blackhat dropped this link are explored.
And no, I didn't do it. Actually, it showed u read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 371 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mrdollar.net)
Category: SEO
A quick little trick that can be used to hide your backlinks from your competitors, making your site harder to analyze or outrank.
Made for Blackhats, but definitely usable by whitehats read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 373 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Popular Sex/Swingers/Personal/Please have sex with me site AdultFriendFinder.com is now Alexa ranked #69th most popular site on the internet.
Embrace the Irony.
Although, it really does show what a high-powered affiliate program can do. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 377 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Other Social Media
The 2 biggest things on the Web nowadays are Web 2.0, and Spam 2.0. This article runs down the different strategies people use to market and spam the pillars of Web 2.0. Techniques range from the basic "friending" process, to account spinning. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 378 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
Explores the often debated difference between whitehats, blackhats, and grayhats.
Includes a seperation of the different breeds of blackhat out there(Guru, Sufficient, and Newbie) read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 379 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: SEO
Common sense tells us to keep our users happy. This post blows that away, explaining how a network of closely related sites can confuse the reader, and generate more cash than possible from a happy user.
It blends blackhat and whitehat techniques t read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 380 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing
Lately, I’ve been reading up on cloaking, hoping to learn something new. I was disappointed. The quality of information out there is simply sub-par.
This dispells some of the myths associated with this technique, and gives a few tips on how to use read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 385 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: SEO
In today's high speed SEO industry, it's not enough to just create and promote sites. You need a system. This post lays out exactly what you need to completely automate your system. Create sites, Publicize, Buy domains, it's all here.

It's writte read more »
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Avatar Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 387 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: SEO
This Entry Covers MSN/Live, Yahoo/Altavista, Google, and Ask.com search algorithms.

Many people spend a lot of time analyzing search engine algorithms. Myself, and presumably others included. For that reason, I decided to throw up an entry descri read more »
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