Thousands of Sites that Ban you from Linking to them.

March 28, 2011

I always enjoy reading stuff Malcolm Coles puts out. Today, he just dropped a really well written post:
15 more sites that forbid you from linking to them
Insanity?
Yes. It is. In this day and age more links means more more more rankings. So why are these sites not allowing people to link to them?
Legal Legacy
I blame [...]

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How Long Does a Google Penalty for Bad Links Last?

March 22, 2011

Not long if you are owned by Google.
Guess who is back in the SERPs with a vengence?I wrote about Beat that Quote and started ranking for it, in fact, I was at position 1 until today morning (they were penalised for shady SEO only a couple of weeks ago).
Jump To: Quick Answer! ===>
Now lets [...]

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Beat That Quote, Car insurance Aggregator!

March 16, 2011

Is Google screwing about with UK Car Insurance Autocomplete (or Suggest as we know it) results?
Maybe. And I have data to suggest it.
In my last post, I demonstrated how it is in fact possible to Manipulate Google suggest. I also pointed out that it is possible to do this for a number of reasons, one [...]

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Manipulating Google Suggest Results – An Alternative Theory

March 8, 2011

Google Suggest is a Reputation Management Nightmare at times. A number of companies have been hit and hurt by results that show up with “Company Name + Scam” for example. The problem with those results is that when users see the suggestion, they are immediately tempted to click on them, as opposed to their original [...]

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Google Hints at Using User Signals via their Spam Extension.

March 3, 2011

So for those of you who read my google Nostalgia post, must have om across th google Friends newsletter. Yes the news letter is still running. ad I just got mine. I picked up the following tidbit which I thought was interesting. Have copied the relevant section, but the highlights are mine:
POWER TIP
Block sites from [...]

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Facebook SEO – Grayhat SEO in Practice?

February 28, 2011

For those of you who read my blog, you must have come across my post on SERP Sniffing. In short, I define SERP Sniffing as:
Utilising Gray / Blackhat techniques to research SERP weaknesses so as to exploit them for Whitehat Purposes.
The strategy entails creating hordes of auto gen content, launching it on SERPs, and capturing [...]

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Link Building Via Misspelled Domains!

February 24, 2011

It isn’t often that I give out Link Building advice. This is because I don’t really like link building – I find it tedious and sometimes boring, except for when the ideas are around Link Baiting (but that’s another post ) .  As a result, I am always looking for low hanging fruit (to [...]

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Google Spamming the SERPS, Again.

February 21, 2011

It’s not hard to Spam Search Engines. Seriously, it isn’t. Especially when working on the Long Tail of Search Spam. I mean that is what SEO Automation is all about. However to do so, means falling foul of search engine guidelines, especially that of google.
One of the most traditional methods of SERP Spamming was the [...]

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10 Things You Should Have Learnt from the JC Penney SEO Fiasco

February 15, 2011

You are probably bored reading about the JC Penney Fiasco. I know I was for a little while. But I couldn’t ignore this opportunity – it isn’t often that you get to see a Brand SEO campaign that is nearly burnt to the ground because of dodgy link building practices. You want a case study? [...]

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Google – A Bit of Nostalgia

February 10, 2011

Matt Cutts recent wrote a “nostalgia” piece about google 2000 vs 2011. I must admit, I started using Google in 2002 properly, mostly to hunt down good scifi stories.
What was great about the Search Engine Back then? Plenty I guess, it wasnt perfect. But I dont think its SERPs were under that much external scrutiny [...]

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