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About.com Nothing but MFA Spam

Whenever someone asks me to to define an MFA site I point them to about.com. Last night I was looking up [history of coins china] and came across a perfect example of some About.com MFA Spam on this page. Which also ranks for [chinese coin history] and I’m sure a whole bunch of other related [...]

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Is My Website Banned in Google?

One of the more difficult problems to diagnose is has your website been banned or is there something else wrong? I have the unfortunate task of trying to diagnose the problem for one of my sites and I thought it might be educational to let you in on the process.

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How to Win an Election With Keywords

Every few days I go through my “junk suspects” email folder to see if anyone got flagged as “spam” that shouldn’t have. I noticed a large increase in spammers using political topics as subject lines things like :
“URGENT: Bush admits Al-Quada and Iran Link False”
“IMMEDIATE ATTENTION: New White House Plan Endangers All Americans”
“ACTION REQUIRED: Show [...]

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Getting Real Friends in MySpace

One of the problem with MySpace is getting “real” friends. If you go through any of the really popular people you’ll end up with a lot of shills, but there are ways around that.

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Topp Digg User Leaving

Kind of funny all the attention Digg is getting this week, and pissing off their top user enough that he left. Where do I stand on the issue …
Sun Tzu: The Art of War
Strategy Number 5: Loot a burning house.

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Graywolf on SEO Rockstars

I was on SEO Rockstars on Tuesday September 5th if you missed it you can listen to the podcast. I talked with Todd and Greg about spammin’ and workin’ places like digg, and myspace.

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Looking at Keyword Stuffing SERPS

It’s curious that this SERP highlights the word in the comments and not in the title or anywhere else in the post.
As does this SERP and this SERP.
However adding quotes causes this serp to drop out my site, however my 43 people profile still lists (cache).
May have to do some more testing and disable comments [...]

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Google URL Searches

I’m not sure if Google is crazy stupid or crazy like a fox with the way they handle the searches for www.example.com but I see it as an incredible opportunity …
For example let’s look at [www.coke.com] if I were Pepsi, RC Cola or any other soft drink manufacturer getting my domain to list for a [...]

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Does Google use Whois Information

I received an email last week from one of my readers asking me to explore the question of “Does Google use whois information”, and it seemed like an interesting topic to talk about.

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The Dark Side of Social Media Optimization

Rand came out with a kick ass post on Social Media Optimization for those of you who lean a little more towards the dark side, here are some things to think about.

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Wikipedia Versus Squidoo

I’ve mentioned Squidoo here a few times, and if you aren’t playing with it I think it’s time you start. It’s starting to look more and more like Wikipedia’s little brother and you can still get in on the ground floor.

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Google Base Is it Self Indexing?

I’ve been monkeying with Google Base for a while now, but usually I’m going for stuff that’s off the beaten path so to speak. Sunday night about 10 pm EST I entered a new item and some of the tags I used were a lot closer to the surface. Monday morning I started putting up [...]

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Stop Buying New Domains for SEO Development

Is it even worth buying a new domain and spending 12-24 months developing out link worthy content anymore? I mean Google has the authority knob locked up tighter than the gold at Fort Knox. I haven’t seen any changes in their love affair with the Amazons, EBay’s and Cragslist for some time. So rather than [...]

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Conspiracy Theory Opportunity

Here’s a freebie, looking for a way to get a quick hit of traffic to your political, news, or otherwise offbeat blog? Cook up a kooky half-baked conspiracy theory for this story, comment anywhere and everywhere about it …

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Banned from MySpace

While no one likes to get banned or kicked out of anything sometimes you’ve just got to do it to see where the line is. I started an account on Friday, pushed a little too hard in a few too many directions at the same time and got whacked. So it is possible to get [...]

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Building Traffic to a Travel Website with 43Places

When you are looking for “polluted” areas on the web two that immediately leap to mind are travel and real estate. I don’t think that it should come as shock to anyone that searchers are starting looking places other than search engines for information.

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Mosquito Ringtones and why New York Times Cloaking Sucks for Usability

Go ahead search for [mosquito ringtone] which do you think is better CLOAKED New York Times Article or a the actual Washington Post article on mosquito ringtones?
The only good part is once everyone is cloaking spammer, no one is …

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Alt Tags Back in Black?

I remember the good ole’ days when you could stuff alt tags with whole sentences and it worked like a charm, then it got killed. However recently I’m seeing more and more alt tag stuffing working.

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Cocoonworks.com Part II

North over at Cocoonworks.com accomodated my request to remove all of the content taken from my RSS feed over on his news aggregation blog, you can see his comments here. While I’m not going to enter into a debate about copyright you will notice I’ve changed the footer in my feed to clear up any [...]

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Superficial Crawling SEO Strategies

On WebmasterWorld people are discussing big daddy strategies, and on SEORountable they are highlighting how this is becoming a problem for directories. No discussion about Google’s new crawling method would be complete without also looking at Matt Cutts on the indexing timeline. While to some extent things are still in flux, I think we’ve hit [...]

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