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A High Rankings Forum member who has been working on a yearlong SEO agreement is now facing new management with his client and they're requesting a refund for services (mostly because some project deliverables weren't actually delivered). Should thi read more »
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20+ Firefox Extensions to ease your SEO, Developer and Designer existence, covering SEO, HTTP, Cookies, HTML, CSS, JS, Debugging, Multi-Resolution Testing and so much more... read more »
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Tellin Ya - I will try to explain here what cloaking is, how it works and why it WILL kill you. Banned cloaked sites are not a matter of IF but of WHEN. And with all the risk, people use cloaking so much instead of fine-tuning other 'tools'. read more »
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With the recent discussions about hackers and crackers, this is an important step in trying to keep a low profile - if you are using open sources applications ...be sure to read up. read more »
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TellinYa 301ed a while back and lost all connection with MSN. Now, he reports, they've finally got 301s worked out. Seems like a long-standing issue at MSN has been resolved. read more »
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Fast Company's article (http://sphinn.com/story/25580) claims that the Influentials theory is nonsense. If FC thought critically Watts' opinions, they’d see that there are many flaws to it. Sphinn is a great example that shows how influencers still read more »
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N-Grams are a way to analyze the semantics of text. Expert blackhat 5ublminial shows how they can be used to filter out autogenned content and what it means for dupe content. read more »
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My previous scraping algo used to get P and DIV tags and take text from them. It was simple, basic and outcome was short and not great. Not everyone uses paragraphs to contain their text slices so had to find an alternative to scrape less and get mo read more »
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Really simple but what if … you see nothing? What if you see only few links but ranking is too high for that apparently low link juice. read more »
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Slightly Shady SEO throws out some great advice on building your SEO team. Nothing shady here! read more »
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A rather easy method of promoting your not-so-white websites. If used wrong it can backfire and turn the WhiteHat's in Red Ones! read more »
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Could this guy possibly think that by enlisting 7 or 8 of his lackeys, it's going to go unnoticed by a saavy community of marketers? Note to Mr. Schefren - stick to the cheeseball landing pages buddy. Your gimmicks won't fly here. read more »
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So Google makes an algo that puts wikipedia at the top of all the results. But questioning the the wisdom of this algorithmic choice is off the table. So they say, "Whoa. Look at that site at the top of all our results. We made them that big with ou read more »
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Anyone care to explain how one website seemingly has seven billion pages indexed in Google?

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:radiux.com

Is this a page count estimate that's just b0rked, or is there something else going on? read more »
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So Yahoo! came to him and told him that 65% of his traffic was from stolen credit cards, they have no way to track where the traffic exactly came from and that they were going to cancel his account. You can read several email's with him and Michell read more »
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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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Little known things behind the FREE services on the web that we use. Explains how big companies use the data we store on the Internet. read more »
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Facebook have offered $85 million to buy Zhanzuo.com, its largest Chinese counterpart, which has an estimated seven million active users and a popular base among students. read more »
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After years of negotiation with lCAAN I managed to get control of .dev! read more »
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I want to see some ballz! I just find nuts... read more »
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It's happening. Watch your tail as they might grab it! read more »
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Tips for social Networking for the socially inept. read more »
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Previously discussed here http://sphinn.com/story/5112 , this trick still works. I would offer my services to help Google with some source code to fix this problem. 4FREE! read more »
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Nick answers the question; why do we blog? In his analysis, he asserts there are 6 types of bloggers, and draws similarities to notable celebrities. I love the simplicity of his model. Which type are you? read more »
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