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Write up of how to spot and deal with potential link insertion hacks, how we solved it and a free checking tool.

Nasty hack to discover this one, hits your rankings before you notice in most cases. read more »
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This is a method of getting free links. The links:

1. Have Google PageRank (PR)

2. Allow you to use your keywords as the anchor text

Enjoy! read more »
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Good local perspective. read more »
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Esrun has written a good post on the legalities of dropping affiliate cookies in sneaky ways following a lively debate that we have been having at Syndk8, the blackhat SEO forum. read more »
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How can a site with 24 million links from an automated link network be allowed to rank number one for "loans", "credit cards" and "mortgages" 6 months after Matt Cutts was aware of it? read more »
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In their own War On Terror, the European Union has decided to crack down on the evil that is - biased blogging.

From the beginning of next year, it will be illegal for people/websites based in any of the European Union member states to publish te 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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Help these two crazy SEO kids hook up and find married bliss in Vegas for PubCon. Lisa D (SEO-Chick extraordinaire) and Rob K (evilgreenmonkey) will marry if Rob ranks on the first page for "weddings" (code in blog post).

It'll be the industry e read more »
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