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Is My Website Banned in Google?

October 19, 2006

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

September 29, 2006

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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Graywolf on SEO Rockstars

September 6, 2006

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

September 4, 2006

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

September 2, 2006

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

August 31, 2006

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

August 30, 2006

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

August 14, 2006

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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Stop Buying New Domains for SEO Development

July 28, 2006

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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Mosquito Ringtones and why New York Times Cloaking Sucks for Usability

June 23, 2006

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?

June 9, 2006

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

June 7, 2006

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

June 5, 2006

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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Reputation Management – Case Study, Part I

June 1, 2006

Since my experiment in reputation management is actually getting much more interesting than I planned I thought I should go back and do a proper writeup.

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