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How to Spot and Fight Duplicate Content
Google may be like God, but Google is also imperfect. So imperfect that Google spiders can’t differentiate between the original source of an article and some spam site that picks it up. What can happen in this case is that your own site is dock...
Promoting a Site with Google Friend Connect
You’ve probably heard that Google has a new social networking service – similar to the network widgets of Mybloglog and Blog Catalog. I’ve chosen not to add the widgets to my sidebar because I want to save real estate and attention for affilia...
Paid Links vs. Directory Submission Services
I am now offering a manual directory submission service. Check out the link for more details – submissions to up to 2000 directories plus deep link submission of internal pages to high page rank directories. Up to 50 titles/50 descriptions for ...
The Page Rank of edu and gov Links
SEO is rife with a lot of myths, and one of the king of these is that edu and gov links send better link juice than .coms and everything else. Perhaps “myth” is taking it to far because no one is really sure how exactly Google measures page rank...
Why People Choose Black Hat vs. White Hat SEO
In the world of SEO, Black hat is sort of like Darth Vader (hence, the black hat) and white are the rebels (not the stormtroopers, roll with me on this). As we’ve seen time and time again in movies, the bad guys usually win initially, but in the ...
The Page Rank of a Subdomain vs. a Folder
Recently, when setting up the SEO Wordsmith Marketplace, I had to decide between a subdomain and a folder: Subdomain: marketplace.seowordsmith.com Folder: www.seowordsmith.com/marketplace There are arguments for and against each proposition. It can...
What to Do if You’ve Been Banned by Google
It’s every web marketer’s nightmare…or you knew you had it coming. Either way you’re going to want to deal swiftly with a possible Google banning. One important factor to understand is that there’s rarely ever a complete banning by Go...
The Age of a URL and SEO
Recently, I discovered that this blog’s URL goes back to 2006 when it was first registered. Actually, I realized this right away, as references to the old site show up in Google results. But I finally got around to checking the Wayback Machine ...
When Does Google Update Page Rank?
If you’re asking that question – and almost every new website owner asks it – then you’re already thinking about page rank in the wrong way. The truth is that Google updates page rank every day. The rank that you see when you use a page ran...
Do Blogs Create Duplicate Content? Using Smart Archives
The word on blogs is that they’re built for SEO. The trick to indexing your entire site is to link between pages on the site. If you create a new article post, you should think about linking to an older article that hasn’t gotten a lot of tra...
What Makes Unique Content Valuable?
There’s a misconception about what makes unique web content. By all means, you never want to have duplicate content on a website and repetitive content should always be avoided. But people think they are covering their bases by writing their own...
Will Google Index Old Pages?
Question: Suppose you’ve been active on a forum or blog that allows a profile link. Suppose you start a new site. If you update the profile, will all those old links be re-indexed by Google and increase your SEO? Answer: Yes, because even chang...
