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Black Hat SEO Case Study: How Mahalo Makes Black Look White
Originally when launching Mahalo, Jason Calacanis claimed that it would be spam free and that SEOs would have hell to pay.
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Google penalizes original content site because of scrapers
In a recent comment someone shared the fate of Patrick Jordan , owner of justanotheripadblog.com.
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Spam vs Mahalo: Matt Cutts Explains the Difference
When the internal Google remote quality rater guidelines leaked online there was a core quote inside it that defined the essence of spam:
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How Demand Media Used PR Spin to Have Google Kill Their Competitors
Media is all about profit margins . eHow was originally founded in 1998 & had $36 million in venture capital behind it. But the original cost structure was flawed due to high content costs. The site failed so badly that it was sold in 2004 for $100,000 . The original site owners had GoogleBot blocked. Simply by…
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Excuse Me, But Where Did Google's Organic Search Results Go?
In the past many SEOs have called organic search results the results on the left side of the page and the pay-per-click / AdWords results as the results on the right side of the page. As Google has grown more aggressive with promoting vertical/universal search I think a better way of defining the portions of the…
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You Aren't Average
Do you ever think that SEO is "obvious"? "Common knowledge"? "Pretty easy, really"?
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What Does $14 Million Worth of PageRank Look Like?
CircuitCity.com is back after Systemax purchased the brand and domain at bankruptcy auction for $14 million. Systemax also owns TigerDirect.com and acquired CompUSA last year. CircuitCity.com was quickly relaunched last week to capitalize on the remaining brand strength and traffic to the website.