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Anybody who has ever put together a killer piece of linkbait has thought about it: how could I get this kind of attention to my landing pages? It's an obvious dilemma. You get a ton of traffic, a ton of links, all of the ranking boost that follows, read more »
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Google is hypocritic cause they sell ad space to text-link-ads.com but ban them from organic results. read more »
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Facebook is starting to pursue social networks that have copied their design or features by suing German site StudiVZ. The Financial Times has reported that Facebook filed a suit in the California Supreme Court against the German company for what it read more »
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Google pays domain parkers by allowing them to run a special AdSense program. Titled “Google AdSense for domains”, this program now reportedly triggered a class-action lawsuit which alleges “that Google committed fraud, business code violations, and read more »
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Yahoo! is now using real-time automated algorithms to select news stories on its famous front page, claiming a 25 to 30 per cent increase in click through rate - and millions of dollars in additional yearly revenue.

In other words, Yahoo! is maki read more »
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This week, Rand discusses good ol' Pagerank. How has it evolved, and is it still the same fickle curmudgeon we all know and loathe love? PR has certainly seen its share of tweaks and updates over the years, but how much does it even resemble what w read more »
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A categorized listing of 105 free SEO tools that can be used for optimizing websites. Each category has an introduction about what the SEO tools do. read more »
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It looks like Google updated the toolbar PageRank again. The Search Status Firefox extensions just informed me about that. Two of my sites, including this none, each lost one point. Did someone else notice changes in PageRank recently? read more »
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The end of the year is a time to reflect on events over the past 12 months. A handful of search engines compiled the top searches for the year in several categories. Recaps from Google, Yahoo, AOL, Ask, and Lycos highlight the trends that came and w read more »
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A long list of submit urls for social bookmarking sites like Digg, delicious, Dzone, Facebook, Furl, Google, ma.gnolia, Mixx, Mr. Wong, Netscape, Newsvine read more »
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For the most recent chunk of our Internet lives, most of us have been on autopilot. When it comes time to look something up on the Web, we "Google" it. We don't do this generically, in the manner that someone may "Xerox" a document on a Ricoh copier read more »
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Are you sick of annoying ads that take up large parts of the screen, pop up, under or anywhere else, move around, blink and flash? You want to learn how to create ads that rock with a few lines of simple JavaScript and PHP code? Then let me show you read more »
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Earlier in the month I asked readers to share their blog earnings for the month of October. As usual this poll was a popular one with 3054 responses. I’ve run this survey previously so will compare the results between this and last time I ran it bel read more »
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One of the highlights of October's Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco was the emergence of 'Semantic Apps' as a force. Note that we're not necessarily talking about the Semantic Web, which is the Tim Berners-Lee W3C led initiative that touts technologi read more »
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Bonnie Brown was working as massage therapist at Google from 1999 to 2004. Before that, she ran a private school for 10 years. Now, Bonnie is traveling and also wrote a book called Giigle: How I Got Lucky Massaging Google. read more »
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A collection of funny pictures that should convince even the toughest IE fan to switch to Firefox. read more »
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This article explains some methods of how to get rid of Google's ugly paid link advertising, such as using a hosts file or the noscript extension for firefox to disable JavaScript for certain sources. read more »
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