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Jordan looks at Yahoo! Buzz, and how it differentiates itself from better know social news sites. He explains what you can and cannot do, and offer more insight.

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In an effort to raise energy awareness, Google Israel has issued a black out for the day; serving a black screen with white letters instead of an all white screen with black letters. The results pages however, are still in classic Google white. read more »
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Gee, Jeff's talking about authority building; who knew he had an interest? he he.... One more entry into Jeff's musings on authority building (and blogging too!)

Search Engine People - In reality, Authority Building is a process … a linear proces read more »
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After reading the leaked "Quality Rater Guidelines" I was absolutely amazed at how basic a lot of the things are they have people looking for. Things that EASILY should be detected by the crawlers, not humans. Webmasters have long lived in fear of G read more »
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It's been 6 months since Google has penalized many web directories. I have no problem with mine being one, that is accepted, but the fact that Google has also penalized non directory related folders is something that makes me wonder.
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Pablo Palatnik talks about how viral marketing - with unique and relevant contents may bring in thousands of visitors for virtually no cost. read more »
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Utah Web Servics - With that back drop what will change with the current process of evaluating billions of websites and how they are ranked, featured, marketed, promoted, placed and branded. What companies are they looking at acquiring, what is the read more »
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In reviewing the "What's New" posts here at Sphinn this weekend, I was hoping to catch up with some interesting SEO/SEM articles I may have missed during the week. I really wanted to Sphinn some good stuff.

Unfortunately, the good stuff was few read more »
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Google Webmaster Central and the Google Search Quality team have a new ally in the global fight against Web spam, cloaking, paid links, link farms and other non-sanctioned schemes: the Security Group at the University of Cambridge.

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This owner of an old, developed and quality directory owner rues the fact of how others are sabotaging his quality directory by linking it to sites he is not aware of! read more »
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Greg Boser's beautiful description of a penalty to a major real estate site. His point about a site being penalized for its indirect (as well as direct actions). While I wrote a similar post on the issue at the same time, I believe his take on the r read more »
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So, why is it exactly that Matt Cutts thinks that anonymous employees over at Yahoo have better decision making skills than the search engine industry leaders? read more »
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Loren Baker looks into the practice of successful link building for Google, by pretending that Google and PageRank were never invented, and linking is done to attract interest and traffic. read more »
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Can I make the claim that I get my news from one source? Definitely not. Twitter, which started off as a site where you shared what you are doing, has emerged into a useful site where sharing news is only a small part of what you’re doing. read more »
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Michael's call to arms digs into the issue of how Google's influence and policies affect the future of monetized web properties in a "top-down, dictatorial manner." Is Google scaring people into a particular way of doing business that benefits Goog read more »
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Donna, I admire you. You sure do have some stamina, the way you've had them Louisiana lips of yours puckered so firmly to Google's evil ass this long.

They're in the wrong to make you (or anyone else for that matter) jump through hoops like that. read more »
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