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I think my blog PR was slapped to zero for no other reason than mentioning PPP & competitors. Based on other's experience, because my blog is smallish, I know there is no way to find out for sure. Oh well... read more »
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Hot Political Topic + Well Publicized Blog Contest + Flimsy Cyber Securty = Winner Not Announced! Weblogs 2007 voting almost had ballots stuffed by zombie 'bot. The 'bot appear to have affected two categories: Best Science Blog and Best Technology read more »
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Last week's Page Rank dust up changed many people's Page Ranks. But it didn't change everything, and bloggers can still learn a lot about improving their SEO by examining search results. read more »
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Here's your chance to eavesdrop on PPP Posties reaction to Advertisers asking them to remove paid links from their posts? Getting reincluded by Google may not be easy. read more »
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Twitter is often seen as a tool for personal interaction only. Caroline explains how to use it to promote your business. read more »
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Who says PPP and Google don't agree on paid links? Of course they disagree. But, it turns out they do agree that payment can come in forms other than cold hard cash. read more »
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When I read Tamar Weinberg and other quality SEO blogs were banned from Blogrush, I asked myself, "Did 'The Tampon Blog' make the cut?" Behold the screen shot! :) read more »
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Sploggers have always tried to build links using trackback spam. The newer splog/scraper sites are looking less sploggish; keep an eye out and delete those trackbacks. read more »
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Social networking is a great way to build community and blog traffic. Unfortunately, many of the widgets load slowly, and make you risk losing traffic. Steve solves the problem for Wordpress blogs. read more »
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I know Jill said she'd puke if she read another Blogrush post. But what I saw on my Blogrush widget made me snort milk out of my nostrils. So, I'll risk making her puke. read more »
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Remember the story about the stingy PR5 blogger who wouldn't give out links to the PR0 blog when the PR0 blogger asked? Everyone seemed to side against the PR5 blogger-- but few read the underlying article. Sure, PR is a stupid way to decide who to read more »
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Josh Spaulding discusses how to improve the SEO of a web site using one of his first sites as an example. None of this is news to people who work in SEO, but the video could be useful for showing others the sorts of entirely white hat things profess read more »
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I received a PM at Sphinn, which was great to get! Unfortunately, I found it very difficult to read on my firefox browser for the mac. The text overflows past the right edge and bottom of the display box, there are no discernible scroll bars and I c read more »
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Alexa rank, so meaningless. And yet, it feels so much better to have a good rank rather than a poor one. Now, you can learn the secret of attracting visitors who all have toolbars installed and you can have John Chow's smiling image appear on your read more »
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I've been trying to learn how to increase StumbleUpon traffic without spamming. I'm no expert, but I tried to glean from many of articles, and translate the advice into concrete "to do" tips. read more »
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People are discovering AdBlocker Plus, so I figure it’s time to make it easier to insert ads that don’t get blocked into a Wordpress blog. I looked for a Wordpress Ad Plugin that let me create and insert a banner of simple text-link type affiliate a read more »
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Some dodgy publisher are cloaking paid links to show "nofollow" to the Googlebot, but follow to the advertisers who paid for the links. This is almost certainly a violation of the contractual agreement between the publisher and the advertiser. This read more »
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