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Bing to Power Yahoo Next Week

I just got an email from Microsoft informing me that Yahoo’s search engine is going down next week, to be replaced with search powered by Microsoft’s Bing, as announced in a deal long ago.
The changes will finally be live.
I for one am ecstatic.
Yahoo has always provided subpar results for me, my sites do not rank [...]

Global Market Exposure

I have recieved a Cease & Desist letter from an attorney representing Global Market Exposure Corp. This letter threatens me with a legal action if I do not remove my commentary on this company. I have decided the prudent course of action is to comply. My action should not be perceived by anyone as an [...]

Best of the Web Directory Submission Coupon

Best of the Web is, in my opinion, one of the top three web directories for promotion. I use it, I recommend you use it. Directory submissions as link popularity builders aren’t as powerful as they once were, the rise of blogs and the rise of cheap useless directories (plus the malaise at DMOZ and [...]

Introducing: Two Step External Links, a Nofollow Replacement

Last month Google announced a change as to how they handle the rel=nofollow link attribute.
To simplify, PageRank, or link weight, is passed from one page to another through links. To decide how much each link gets the total weight the page has to offer is divided by the number of links on the page. [...]

Nofollow & PageRank Manipulation

Matt Cutts made a blog post you really should read.
I’ve been talking about PageRank manipulation for a long long time now, almost 8 years, going back to my time on SitePoint, doing experiments, getting a page a PR 7 with a single incoming link, editing menus to siphon PageRank to pages I desire (such [...]

Failing Newspapers Lobby Google for Special Treatment

From adage.

Many publishers resent the criteria Google uses to pick top results, starting with the original PageRank formula that depended on how many links a page got. But crumbling ad revenue is lending their push more urgency; this is no time to show up on the third page of Google search results. And as publishers [...]

People Change, Things Stay the Same

Woe for the sexy days of SEO. In watching the Watchmen this weekend there is Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin’” during the opening credits, and that song fits my mood now. Situations have changed, but more so I have changed rather than the times, and I imagine I’m not alone.
SEO used to be [...]

Google Malware Filter Goes Haywire, Internet Breaks, Google Slanders Millions

This morning Google’s malware filter went berserk. This is a feature where if Google detects that a website hosts a malicious download, it will put a barrier between Google search results and that website. This barrier explains that this site has badware hosted on it, and that the user may want to choose a different [...]

Save 25% at Best of the Web with Coupon

Best of the Web What I consider the #3 Internet directory (and surely, miles ahead of any #4) is running a 25% off coupon. This is the largest discount I’ve ever seen them run and can save you a big chunk of change on directory submissions. The coupon code is “BLIZZARD” and it expires on [...]

Hi this is Daren from Netbiz and I’m actually calling on behalf of Google

There is this company called “Netbiz” that has been sending me phone spam more or less every day, despite me being verbally abusive to them on the phone when they call.
They say they’re calling “from Google” or “on behalf of Google” and that they have started a new feature for whatever topic your site covers. [...]

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