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Recently, with mucho fanfare, TLA launched a new service called inlinks – designed specifically to restore freedom to the link buying industry – freedom from the prying eyes of the grand overlord Google, freedom from… well actually just from Google. read more »
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I'm not going to try to explain John's post in a couple sentences but I will say that by the time you're done reading it, the strong statement he makes with his post title doesn't seem that radical any more. read more »
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First part of a 6 part series attempting to 'decode digg'. Part 1 focuses on the importance of domains. read more »
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New tools and options that should keep Google in the fight against more expensive analytics solutions. read more »
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If you've spent hours laboring over your latest work you want to make sure it can withstand the surges of traffic it's bound to receive. Here's 5 tips to protect your site from common problems associated with large traffic spikes read more »
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There are plenty of confusion related to sitewide links. Are the worthless or even dangerous? Please share your thought! read more »
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Exclusive interview with Eric Morris about Google Adwords read more »
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You are probably familiar with the rather rocky relationship that Digg has with its core community. Fueled partly by a need to counter false accusations from disgruntled community members who claim that Digg is rigged, partly by the desire to encour read more »
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I still like Sphinn, but criticism is the cornerstone of improvement. Serena offers some apt criticism of Sphinn, which I personally think should be heeded.
Maybe if there was a more concerted effort to clean it up, Sphinn wouldn't be "sphinning" read more »
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It appears that Google took the opportunity to update their web master guidelines regarding paid links. The changes essentially reveal that buying or selling links that pass PageRank can penalize a site not only in its Google Toolbar PageRank status read more »
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getting this error when attempting to edit profile:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare cleanit() in /var/www/html/sp/sphinn.com/modules/users_extra_fields/users_extra_fields_main.php on line 94 read more »
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Well Matt cutts is at it again. Weeks after the first PR update he hasn't even mentioned it in his blog. That's fine. Its his personal blog. But when he does exactly the opposite of what he is preaching to everyone I have call him out on it.

Th read more »
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Should Google actually go for buying GoDaddy, as the search market grapevine is anticipating, the impact on black hat SEOs could be huge. Here’s a list of viable options allowing you to hedge your bets. read more »
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But why is this quiz so wrong? Too many of the questions go beyond the science and into the art of SEO, where things are fluid and changing and open to interpretation. The quiz is more accurately a test of how much of your personal SEO philosophy ma read more »
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Has anyone else here heard about this (apart from Danny Sullivan that is)? read more »
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Aaron Wall is complaining that google should use nofollow for all its business partners' links, here's another take on the issue. read more »
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Don't let the title fool you - I'm not against buying links. In fact I buy them quite often for clients. However I am frustrated time and time again when searching for good links. I find a great site in which there is an opportunity to buy a paid li read more »
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Chuck Norris sends TChirts.com a Cease and Desist letter. Tchirts replies with no fear. Take a break and read this hilarious article! read more »
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If you want to test how well a Black hat technique like hiding text on a webpage can be then here is a collection of techniques to keep your text hidden. read more »
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Interesting application (probably short lived) that will give you info on why a story was buried. This is an article commenting on this application from ProNetAdvertising.

A direct link to the tool is ...

http://www.adamant.com.au/blog/genera read more »
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Social media interview with Cameron Olthuis. Cameron talks about what social media tactics work and which ones he feel are a waste of time. read more »
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I know I will take some heat for this one, especially as many will view this as some sort of personal attack against the SEO Community's Golden Boy. I feel, however, that since many people won't even recognize a spin job when they see one, that some read more »
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Super awesome sophisticated web analytics tools like Omniture and HBX may be your worst enemy. read more »
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"opps I guess, Brett didn’t like the cloaking thread and I guess I won’t be asked to speak at Vegas.. Darn it and I’m Forty this year I guess Birthday party will have to be else were" read more »
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I’m not sure what front page traffic Sphinn home page can generate towards your site/blog, but maybe I’ll find out soon. Have you hit the home page? read more »
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