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A PR penalty from 4 to 2, because of some changes to the footer. How far does Google go telling us what you can and can't do with your site? read more »
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A useful hands-on article about robots.txt and duplicate content. read more »
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Analyzing Your Competitor’s Backlinking Strategies read more »
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Flickr, once a popular source of dofollow links for SEOs has recently turned its links to nofollow automatically! Whereas you could link to your site(s) before and pass juice, now external links are nofollowed. This raises important issues:

1) Is read more »
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Just like everything else Education has changed. The World Wide Web changed education in the 90’s. And, Web 2.0 and Social Media has Changed Education. We now have what I’d like to call Education 2.0. read more »
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It appears that within the past 2-3 days the popular social book-marking site del.icio.us has started blocking the major search engine spiders from crawling their site.

This isn't a simple robots.txt exclusion either, but rather a 404 response t read more »
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I guess I'm about to find out. Does active participation via voting and comments compensate for the occasional personal Sphinn submission...? read more »
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Last year, I asked a bunch of the link development pros to sit down and do an interview on the topic of developing links in regards to seo. What I ended up with as a result was a six thousand plus word tutorial on developing backlinks. read more »
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WordPress is the most advanced platform for blogging. Yet it's robust enough to handle content management on traditional websites as well. And what's great about it is there are literally thousands of free themes to give your site the look you want. read more »
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Optimizing images for search engine increases your chances of ranking in Google Image Search and generates an alternate source of traffic to your website. There are 3 major places you can optimize an image: the file name, the Title and Alt attribute read more »
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A interesting test to see how the Google new content algorithm works. read more »
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Seattle SEO John Andrews challenges Sphinn members to prove their mettle as marketers, by pushing Sphinn over 500 for the first time. If you're new to Sphinn, welcome! and why not throw your first Sphinn onto this historical post?

Sites like Dig read more »
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