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Bing Debuts its Own “Webmaster Guidelines”

November 19, 2012
Bing Logo

Say “congratulations” to Bing everybody! CONGRATULATIONS! I really hope I wasn’t the only one shouting, that would have been really foolish (and strange)… After more than three years since the official launch, Microsoft’s search engine Bing finally has its own Webmaster Guidelines! As Duane Forrester from Bing’s team stated in……

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Nothing Wrong with Guest Blogging (as Long as…)

November 13, 2012
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Publishing an article by a guest author hadn’t been invented by bloggers. It has subsisted a long time ago, way before the Internet was even some special experimental military project or something. In fact, old media publications like newspapers and magazines have been featuring guest articles since the dawn of……

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The Linking Game – Sorting, Removing, Disavowing and Hoping

October 31, 2012
Google Hunger Games

We’re in a links whirl. This whole current situation where webmasters frantically tries to gauge and weigh and sieve and remove and now to disavow links is so insanely ridiculous. Instead of focusing on the product itself, too many are focusing on everything around it. The Google had spoken and……

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Only Reconsideration Requests of Manual-Action Penalized Sites Reviewed by Humans

October 25, 2012
Sheldon Cooper Computer

I guess that after all the Pandas, Penguins, Page Layouts, EMDs, unnatural link warnings and more (and very possibly more), submitting a reconsideration request to Google is a burning issue for many webmasters. The problem is that often people don’t really understand this process and when they should approach it.……

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Quoting Won’t Result Duplicate Content Penalty if Adding More Value

October 23, 2012
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Sometimes it’s a bit saddening to hear about other bloggers that only scribble stuff based on what they think are the current whiffs of Google. Ideally, people don’t need to ponder on how a freakin’ machine will gauge their content, but just try to create it the best as possible……

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Gamemaker Cutts: Distrust Non-Editorial Links, Accept Mild Mix of Spammy Links

October 19, 2012
Gamemaker Matt Cutts

Links, links, links. You can’t live without them and you can’t live with too many bad of them. If you are an eager beaver site owner, that is. Many good links can take you up to the top of the rankings kingdom and many bad ones can throw you down……

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Google Disavow Links Tool Now Live – Use with Extreme Caution

October 17, 2012
Google Disavow Links

When Google’s most ferocious anti-spam deputy Matt Cutts had mentioned that the search team has been working on a tool which will allow webmasters to disavow particular spammy links back in June, it had incited some fuss and excitement around the SEO community. But as time went by, people began……

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Numbers Don’t Lie: Google Penguin Recovery Almost Impossible

October 12, 2012
Penguin Killer

For most people, a penguin is just a cute little perky aquatic animal that mostly dwells in Antarctica. But for much fewer people, a penguin associates with a vicious algorithm that resides within Google search engine. For those people, the Penguin is anything but cute or little… Google’s Penguin update……

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Google’s Page Layout Algorithm Second Strike – Analysis and Examples

October 10, 2012
Google Page Layout Hit Example 2

And there we go again… Google continue to throw out more algorithm updates and refreshes into the search jungle in just a matter of less than two weeks, where this time it’s the turn of the engine’s Page Layout filter to elicit an update. Google’s anti-spam lord, Matt Cutts, had……

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