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Danny Sullivan writes, "You have no privacy on YouTube. So effectively declared a US judge yesterday. And now somebody in the US government better stop grandstanding about search and privacy protection and actually get some laws enacted now. Yesterd read more »
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Most SEO companies, including mine, see a good number of hacked websites, usually after the site owner contacts us wanting to find out why their Google traffic has suddenly dropped for no apparent reason. read more »
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Taking what little hassle there is out of installing WordPress. read more »
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Matt Cutts explains what happened to the SEOmoz Web 2.0 Awards, and includes some good advice on filenaming conventions. read more »
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Seriously, the entire Firefox+Google love fest is a joke. Let's revisit a little history here. Google fought and fought to pressure Microsoft so that no search provider was the default in Internet Explorer 7, arguing this was the best for consumer c read more »
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Google's SSL cert is expired ;) heh read more »
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Curious what the Google "penalty" of Pay Per Post bloggers actually entailed, Apogee Search ran a controlled test with PPP bloggers. The results of Phase One are found in this article. read more »
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Brian White (from Google) shows what happens when you are a bit too quick to write a paid post. read more »
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A fantastic example to demonstrate the strength of knowing what drives customer participation. By being clever in identifying the best revenue streams and eliminating the others, this guy has turned a mediocre site into a cash cow, by giving users w read more »
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Look, we all make mistakes (though I am rarely in place to make such a super spectacular one!) but what is really rare is to have someone 'man up' and apologize.

Not a wimpy political "I am sorry it could have been interpreted as blah blah" but a 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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The Guardian says that "update Florida" happened in Christmas 2004. But Florida happened in November 2003. Who fed The Guardian bad dates? Fess up. :) 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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I don't know if I can describe it any more than the title :) read more »
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Matt Cutts walks us through a concrete example of paid posts and shows why the major search engines don’t want to be affected by links within paid posts. read more »
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Matt Cutts writes an entry on Google Webmaster Central Blog about paid links and its chronology, also includes Q & A. read more »
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The long anticipated announcement by John Mueller (aka JohnMu and Softplus) that he will be joining the Google Team in in their Zürich (Switzerland) office, joining the team around the Webmaster Tools as a Webmaster Trends Analyst.

We all anticip read more »
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I'm disappointed. Is that really necessary?

People in this community put so much effort into writing good content and obsessively tracking their industry and community that why should the newest site, which is itself the ultimate community-builde read more »
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The Google Webmaster Central service has gained a new "Message Center" area that will initially be use to notify site owners of official spam penalty problems and eventually used to communicate about other issues related to site inclusion at Google. read more »
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If your web site is backed by a physical store front, you may want to do things a little differently on your site than you might if you were web-only. Here are a few ideas. I only rant a little.

(Finally! I have written a post about something oth read more »
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I have searched the internet and could find nothing quite so sphinn-worthy as a blog post about my cats. read more »
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Welcome to Sphinn! Thanks so much for agreeing to beta test the site. This is the place to get a fast rundown on what's going on plus give us your f read more »
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