MrThePlague

Confused about the best uses of robots.txt, nofollow, URL removal tool? Wondering how to keep some of your pages off the web? Our webspam lead, Matt Cutts, talks about the best ways to stop Google from crawling your content, and how to remove conten read more »
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Great list of interview questions for SEOs. read more »
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Wordpress is frequently underestimated in terms of it's sheer SEO power. Here, I cover the reasons that it tends to do excellent in Google. Understanding WHY it does so well is the best way to take advantage of it's architecture, giving your sites t read more »
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Seth Godin is offering a free eBook on increasing traffic. read more »
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Tuesday’s tip of the week is more of a warning then anything else. I felt it was needed to make this exploit public as soon as possible because I do not condone in hacking any website. This method was being used for two things, one to deface the web read more »
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"Why the hell is this about blogging? Doogie packed a powerful learning experience sitting @ his computer typing on a blue screen after each episode. No web for Doogie to post his compelling content. Today Doogie's blog would would be front page Dig read more »
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Today, Google's Webmaster Tools have been updated with new diagnostic features that alert site owners to problems Google may have extracting content from pages. In addition, they've added Video Sitemaps. read more »
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Without further ado, I present to you The Simpsons: Lessons on Blogging read more »
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If you’re debating whether we are in another tech bubble, this should help… read more »
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Here is my idea of a smoothly migration from IIS/ASP to Apache/PHP, including lots of code snippets. Grab any Unix box from your hoster's portfolio and start over. Win! read more »
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I just received this SPAM from Joost :-)

"Most of you probably know my Greasemonkey script for Google Webmaster
Tools, that shows you the anchor text of that backlink, and the PR of
the page that link is on. I have now made that same script wor read more »
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Both discuss page rank reduction, site hacking and how you can stop it. They also talk about subdomain changes, especially related to Google. read more »
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For those who could not make it. Utah Web Services highlighted the best information from the best sessions for you. read more »
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Oh Did I mention the year 1969? During the Session at PubCon 2007 Las Vegas, I had an oppurtunity to corner Matt Cutts and did a small Interview. Matt Cutts Discusses How if Google dint set the Crawl date, it will show the date as January 1, 1969. read more »
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A personal account of how Matt Cutts of Google has what it takes when it comes to black hat SEO, and the Vegas story to prove it. A lesson on how anything can and will happen in Vegas. read more »
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Tad gives us the 15 most important differences between SEO and SEO 2.0.

"They are 15 because 10 were just not enough..." read more »
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A RIDICULOUSLY good read from Wiep.net...

"In the style of SEOmoz' Search Engine Ranking Factors, this page includes the opinions of 17 well respected, international SEO and Link Building professionals on nearly 40 factors that possibly influence read more »
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SEO observations of www.SearchEngineLand.com from Catfish read more »
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Matt Cutts informed us that Google will very soon begin treating subdomains and subdirectories the same in this fashion: there will be only 2 total urls from a domain in any set of search results, so no more getting 3, 4 or however many spots via su read more »
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A social media marketer has two options: They can be a power account or they can pitch to power accounts. Pitching to power accounts can be fast and easy. So here is a list of 50 niche social news sites and their power accounts. You could contact a read more »
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Google Webmaster Tools seems to show Googlebot actively seeking duplicate content across similar domain names. read more »
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This is a gift from me, XMCP, to you, the reader. Yahoo Directory costs $299 to get a site reviewed, and $299 for each year of inclusion. And I have a list of ones that have expired, and are already listed! So I'm passing a fair portion of them over read more »
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Ever come up completely blank for a blog topic? You’re itching to get a quality post out, something that attracts attention and enhances your blogging profile. But you just can’t seem to come up with anything compelling. Here’s a technique that may read more »
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Start finding images of old Apple computers, linux servers, hot gaming/tech chicks and hacked iPhones. read more »
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Until recently standard advice in the SEO community has been not to break up content across multiple domains. It’s easier to administer one domain than it is to administer multiple domains. And with one domain you can maintain one site design. read more »
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