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Andy on June 29th, 2008

An interesting topic was posted yesterday by the self proclaimed World’s Greatest SEO aka Darren Slatten on Widgets as linkbait. Matt Cutts said some interesting stuff in the interview with Eric Enge, but as usual the answers were, when analyzed, rather bland and really what he was saying was go back and read Google’s webmaster [...]

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Just recently, MySpace changed the way they handle outbound links. So now, my MySpace page “effectively” doesn’t link back to my website anymore. they’ve taken this action in response to spammers abusing MySpace popularity with Google to manipulate SERPS. Looks to me like it was too little too late! Google appears to have penalized MySpace [...]

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Andy on April 21st, 2007

This I find interesting. You can see on the right (hopefully) the link to my MySpace page using the anchor text “internet idiocy”. Just checked it an low & behold, my MySpace page comes up number 2 on Google for that search keyword. That’s “achieved” (and bare in mind I don’t give a monkeys wheer [...]

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Andy on April 16th, 2007

The Inquirer is running an interesting story today on a 15 year old boy who fooled YouTube into taking down videos for alleged copyright infringement. The laughable part being that the copyright holder not only knew YouTube were hosting some of their content, but was actually pleased to have it there as it gave them [...]

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Andy on April 9th, 2007

I’ve never really believed the use of the H1 tag could really reap any rewards with a search engine like Google. Surely their algorythm is much too complex for something so simple to have a dramatic effect. Now I do believe it, and found out purely by chance. This week my daughter said she wanted [...]

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