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So, in order to test the theory, i picked two sites that sometimes double as my furry lab animals and set them up so that site A links to site B with two links using different anchor texts. The phrases appeared only on a site A, they were not to be read more »
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Wow ... this is a big announcement. Previously, Google was not able to get past simple forms, but now it can. Great development. read more »
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There is a new Google spam guide on the streets. read more »
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At long last, Google owns DoubleClick. In doing so, the company has done something else that many people would have never believed possible. Become an SEO. That's right -- Google's in the SEO business now, selling services through DoubleClick's Perf read more »
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We've had the DeSphinn feature live for a while and I think it's time it gets more power.

What do you guys think 1 to 1 ratio on Sphinn/DeSphinn or not? read more »
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I've been busy the past few weeks and haven't had a chance to trawl the "What's New Posts" like I usually do. In reviewing them today, it seems like the percentage of get-rich-quick posts and blogs are overtaking those having to do with search marke read more »
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It’s good to see folks in the search community challenging some assumptions behind PageRank, while introducing a new flavor of PageRank which replaces those assumptions with user data.

A patent application from Yahoo, published last week, takes read more »
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John Andrews has a point, you better get to know Matt Cutts now before its too late! read more »
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"Dear Googlers, I believe that a dog company like Google needs to take real-world Webmasters into the boat when playing with standards like the Robots Exclusions Protocol (REP), for the sake of the SEO cats."

Seriously, that's kinda RFC for robo read more »
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The paid links debate is back, this time about whether Google wants all links in a paid post to have a nofollow attribute. Below, a look at the latest round, plus a recap of this year's "War On Paid Links" by Google and where the other search engine read more »
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According to a new post on the Google Webmaster Central blog, the supplemental index is no longer, well, supplemental. Google has long had a two-tiered index and webmasters have generally feared the second, supplemental tier.

With this latest cha read more »
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Post a page about what you know. That's the concept. But here, it's done with a twist. And it looks good. Check it out.

It's only a test, not a real product.

But, being able to post ads and pass page rank from the pages is a far cry from any 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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Subdomains will no longer be treated as separate domains. Google will begin treating them as folders. There will be exceptions of course. Tedster at WMW rocked this. Check the link for more details.

This is huge! read more »
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Google’s webmaster tools has a neat feature that lets you download your query and click statistics (once you have verified ownership of your site). The data you can get from there is quite comprehensive, but hard to break down for use in Excel. read more »
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Karen Blakeman lets everyone know that the link: and linkdomain: commands work again on MSN / Live, all you have to do is prefix the command with a + sign to get it to work. read more »
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Some sensible information from Eric Ward about five of the many ways link builders hurt themselves. read more »
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Robert says "Some wars can't be won. We've spent a week wrestling with Google's stance on nofollowing advertising and what actions we should take. What I've decided to do is share some of our instant messages over the past few days." Funny stuff! read more »
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Should Sphinn have a new page or section where the Editor (me) or Moderators can manually select the most important Sphinn stories? read more »
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Great post by Vanessa Fox and her thoughts on "the most awesomest feature ever of Google’s Webmaster Tools" being that you can now tell them geographic data for your site.

I'm loving everything Google and others are doing to improve local search, read more »
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SEO is about optimizing a web business to garner free organic search referrals. It has also become about managing Google, as Google tries to manage commerce. SEO had a reputation as a way to “game the system” but now Google has a reputation for gami read more »
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You’re absolutely right when you say that search engine nitpicking should not force you to throw nofollow crap on your links like confetti. From your and my point of view condomizing links is wrong, but sometimes it’s better to pragmatically comply read more »
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I admit, I got a wee bit cranky and mouthed off. But, despite the crankiness, the points are valid, I think. read more »
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When you start reading down the list, you might think Michael has gone absolutely bonkers, until you get to his explanations further down the page. read more »
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Google's highly advanced, infallible new method of determining paid links. (Cartoon) read more »
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