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May 24, 2012

Pandas, Penguins and Why I Don’t Do SEO

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Google warned us in advance about its planned webspam algorithmn update (now known as “Penguin”) and site owners who ignored those warnings are now paying the price. Many of the comments posted to Danny Sullivan’s post about the Penguin update verify search engine ranking downgrades and loss. Here are just a few examples: “I just [...]

Migrate Your Blogger Account Now

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Just got this email from Google…. You are receiving this message because your email address is associated with an unmigrated legacy Blogger account. As we announced in April of last year, legacy accounts will no longer be accessible after May 30th, 2012 unless they are updated to the Google Account system. Any blog content associated [...]

High Comment Count = High Google Ranking

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Back at the end of October 2009, I came across a disturbing post about fake soldiers bilking unsuspecting lonely singles out of their hard-earned money. Running an internet dating site, I felt it only right that I should share this post with my readers and warn them about the dangers of military dating scams. Little [...]

How to Create a Feed Mashup with Google Reader

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Ever wondered how webmasters create feed mashups? If you don’t know what I mean by ‘feed mashup’, take a look the homepage of this blog where it says “Ros’ Other Blog Posts“. You’ll see another example on my personal blog under “Recent on Ros’ Other Blogs“. What you’ll notice is that the most recent posts [...]

Content Farms Hammered by Google

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Webmasters who spent their time gaming search engine results with low-quality content farms and scraper sites have been hit hard since Google’s latest algorithm change last week. In a February 24th, 2011 post on the official Google blog, Amit Singhal and Matt Cutts stated: Many of the changes we make are so subtle that very [...]

Amazon Associates Integrates with Google Blogger

Amazon just announced that they’ve integrated their Associates program with Google Blogger accounts. The post, “Amazon Associates and Google Blogger Now Integrated” reads: Today we are excited to announce Amazon Associates for Blogger, a direct integration between Amazon Associates and Blogger. This new collaboration enables Bloggers to monetize their content by adding relevant Amazon products [...]

Google to End Adsense for Video Program

On the ‘Inside Adsense‘ blog, Google writer Arlene Lee states “After reviewing our AdSense video units feature, which allows you to show YouTube content and ads on your pages, we’ve found that it hasn’t had the impact we had hoped for” and that they’ll be terminating the program at the end of April. Or, in [...]