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Google Finance: Get Yer’ Game On

Unless you were completely asleep or under a very big rock you no doubt heard about the launch of Google Finance. However since I’ve given up on regurgitated news I’d like to talk about ways to use Google finance for fun and profit.

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There’s No Crying in Black Hat SEO

SEO is clearly an emerging industry every day more and more people decide to try their hands at learning techniques to increase their rankings. However many of these newbies give in to the dark side thinking itâ€™s faster, quicker, and easier. However many of these same people end up getting their websites or their clients [...]

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Getting More Out of Article Distribution Websites

At this stage of the game syndicating your content with article distribution websites is still a fairly effective strategy for building links. However as engines continue to tighten the grip on duplicate content and become more sophisticated at detecting patterns I think it’s a tactic being addressed by search engine algorithm’s. So here are my [...]

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Editing Wikipedia and Ancient Traditions

Ever since the ancient Sumerian’s started writing things down in cuneiform on stone tablets thousands of years ago, people have been modifying historical records to suit their own purposes and goals. One of my particular favorites is the story of the heretic king Akhenaten of ancient Egypt, who tried to replace thousands of years of [...]

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Ministry of Disinformation Visits SEO Rockstars

On January 31st Google’s top Svengali Matt Cutts visited SEO Rockstars. WebGuerilla (aka Greg Boser) questioned Matt about the “sandboxing” of the domain [linkcondom.com]. Using his super top secret internal google tools (show off) he said it was not an age penalty, there was something else that made it look “wonky”. Yes he actually said [...]

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Corporate Black Hat SEO Terminology

So now that more and more companies are getting involved in one form or another of search marketing, chances are at some point some of you may get a call from, and actually end up pitching for the occasional consulting gig. To help you transition from working in your bathing suit to a pinstripe suit [...]

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Million Dollar Home Page Stats

Seeing how it’s almost the end of the year and the Million Dollar Home page is now almost completely sold out, I can share some stats. I had a site I was willing to sacrifice in case it blew up in my face, so I bought a box for $100. I put up some adsense [...]

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Double Standards for Spam

I’ve really been trying to keep things a little more positive here but every so often something gets under my skin and I gotta call a spade a spade. I’ll start off by saying I’m a regular reader of Darren Rowse’s Problogger and I respect and value his work there. Darren’s on vacation and having [...]

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Six Degrees of a Lesbian Porn Scraper

Perhaps you’ve heard of the play or seen the movie Six Degrees of Separation. One of the elements of the movie was that everyone is no more than six people (degrees) away from anyone else on the planet, the trick of course is finding the right six people. This led to the (in)famous game Six [...]

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Spam Document With User Agent Cloaking

I have to say I find it particularly funny when a document about Web Spam from an EDU is using user agent cloaking. A recent document about Web Spam Propoganda and Trust gives a completely different result if you change your user agent to Googlebot (see screen shot below) oh where are those finger wagging [...]

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Matt Cutts on Link Brothels

So one of the more interesting panels at Pubcon was the organic site review with panelists, Tim Mayer, Matt Cutts, Barry Lloyd, Bruce Clay and Baked Jake moderating. In the first part of the session they reviewed bargaintravel.com and Matt recommended they stop interlinking all of their sites together. Later in the session they reviewed [...]

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Paid Links, Pubcon and Matt Cutts

I went to two sessions today where Matt Cutts was speaking. First let me say whatever they are paying him at Google it’s probably not enough, he really does an excellent job making people feel good about Google, and puts a much better face on things than the people who get paid to do that. [...]

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Bacon Polenta, Second Helping

So after Matt Cutts made his infamous Bacon Polenta posting it was discovered that his Bacon Polenta was Google Washed by the DarkSeoLabs team over at Threadwatch. I made note of it here on my blog (Matt Cutts and Bacon Polenta). Now it seems that Google has decided that my post should rank #2 for [...]

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Matt Cutts and Bacon Polenta

I’ve been trying to keep away from the regurg’d news but clearly this is one of the more important SEO threads of the year Matt Cutts Blog Google Washed.

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Blog News : Scrapes, Fakes, And Remakes

If you’re a regular reader here you know I’m a big fan of integrating a trend or news blog into your website. I think it’s a great idea for keeping things from becoming old and stale, and a fun and educational way to play some of the “freshbot” games. I’ve been experimenting with different kinds [...]

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Splogs Are a Good Thing

Mark Cuban of Ice Rocket has launched a holy war in the blogosphere against what he considers the scourge of the online world, spam blogs or splogs for short. He’s so upset about it he’s threatening to ban all blogs from Google’s blogspot domain, since he feels that’s where the majority of splogs come from. [...]

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