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Not satisfied with fooling Adwords advertisers via expanded broad matching and "free campaign optimization," Google has invented a new way to empty your wallet. read more »
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This post is important. Learn simple Local Business Center procedures to show up in the G-maps category of YOUR CHOICE. Mike Blumenthal discusses first research to reveal workings of Google's map categorization process. read more »
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Did Google create the link? (of course not) So, why are they trying to control what you do with your links?

Check out a different perspective and a remake of Matt Cutts as Uncle Sam! read more »
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If a review requires disclosure and you want to avoid the Wrath of Google, maybe putting “sponsored review” in an image is so much smarter.

Or not... read more »
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You can take off your white hat from now on! read more »
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Danny announced the official hiring of Vanessa Fox and Rebecca Kelley of SEOmoz as new editors at Search Engine Land.

Vanessa is the "features editor" and Rebecca is the "copy editor." It is great to have you guys as part of the team! read more »
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Chris Anderson's Long Tail theory states that, thanks to the Internet's global reach coupled to it's incredible ability to carry information, future success stories in online marketing will come from mastering the millions of small online niche mark read more »
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Standard emails and ditto link proposals, automating processes and publishing dozens of push button pages can improve your link building process, right? Wrong. read more »
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Forum member "Deverill" rants about dealing with a marketing firm's "SEO expert". read more »
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Google just does not care about Internet users and is braking the law. Google promoting SEX and Malware in Google Groups to underage children. read more »
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Most SEO's know that more link equity = deeper crawling & deeper indexing but what most people don't mention is the fact that more link equity = more frequent crawling of already indexed content. read more »
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Rose Sylvia addresses some serious problems with AdWords. read more »
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Vlad has decided to give Google the boot, at least as far as the Googlebot.
He is looking on this as being experimental, to study the differences, and has even come up with some predictions that he might receive less links because of it due to bein read more »
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he he... Stoney is ranting today. Excelllleeennt. You heard it here fist - Google Lies!!

You have to have a listent to the MP3... around 5 minutes of your life...worth it though (didn't Danny just way it was Google the Good today?.. I am soooo l read more »
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Google is “hugely dangerous” and is one of the major preoccupations of News Corp, according to the editor-in-chief of Times Online. Anne Spackman, speaking as part of a panel about the future of newspapers at the Society of Editors conference, said read more »
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"#1. The links that appear somewhere below are not sponsored or paid for in any way. The statement in the sentence prior to this sentence is completely false."

Light-hearted look at the whole paid links debate and what you may want to do to avoid read more »
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From the page: "Google is on a tear, that's for sure, but I see a few potholes ahead that the company could avoid but probably won't. Part of this stems from Google starting to look, in some ways, a bit like Microsoft. Uh-oh.

I think Google has i read more »
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Just a theory, but I think Google's PageRank reduction for sites that sold links came through the hand of SEOs reporting sites of SEOs.

I think we did this to ourselves. Would love comments. read more »
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Matt Cutts on last week's Google Toolbar PageRank Changes : "The partial update to visible PageRank that went out a few days ago was primarily regarding PageRank selling and the forward links of sites. So paid links that pass PageRank would affect o read more »
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Looks like some of us jumped the gun with assumptions about those directory PR penalties. I'm seeing major PR changes across scores of sites right now. Sphinn is now a PR6! read more »
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Or, I guess more to the point would be, who forgot to follow up the report by manually checking before applying the penalty? read more »
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Darren (ProBlogger) thinks we should all lighten the mood around the recent PageRank drops and I couldn’t agree more. So here is my take on it… read more »
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A brief case study on how the magical power of backlinks can overcome just about anything. Watch in disbelief as Google ranks an application error #1 for a highly valuable term. read more »
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With B5 Media being one of the most prominently affected networks yeserday, what their Director of Technology decides to do about it is highly relevant.

Aaron states: "I’ve given yesterday’s Google smackdown a bit of thought over the past 24 hour read more »
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Tad is on a roll

From the page:- "Users who depended on the Google PageRank bar to determine the authority of a site can dump it now. Google PageRank is now only a means of intimidation of webmasters. Google is the new Microsoft. It will use thei read more »
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