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Supplemental Results, Paid Links, and Priorities Slightly Out Of Whack
I was hanging out over at Matt Cutts’ blog today, where the subject at hand was SEO Tip: Avoid Keyword Stuffing. The discussion centered around a site that was blatantly stuffing keywords on its pages, and happened to get banned by Google. The conversation turned, as conversation tend to do, to other penalties sites suffer, and how not all sites that were penalized actually deserved them.
My attention was caught by a comment by Aaron Pratt, of SEO Buzz Box, having to do with the penalty of Supplemental Pages:
Top 10 Free Stock Photo Download Sites
Ok, another non-smackdown going out to DazzlinDonna. Kudos, this time for assembling a very nice list of her 10 Favorite Free Stock Photo Download Sites. Very nice list, a must have for anyone who needs image content for their website, or photographers trying to get their work noticed.
Google AdSense Team Thinks I’m Special!
So, I received an invitation today from the Google AdSense Team. Very attractive subject line, I must say:
Google AdSense Survey – Win $1,000
Followed up, of course, by a direct stroke to my ego:
John Chow’s Latest Contest May Soon Be Overshadowed…
John Chow and BlueFur web hosting are holding what they are calling a contest, with the prize being a 24? wide screen LCD monitor. Near as I can tell, it’s more of a lottery than an actual contest, but who cares… I’m in.
The rules are simple enough. To enter all I have to do is
Digg Flaw Gives Out Digg Login Info!
Let’s hear it for sensationalism! On Digg today, I came across the following headline: “Google Flaw Gives Out MySpace Login Info!”. It’s referring to an article by Loren Baker, and a story he wrote about how Google is collecting login information for other services without using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), which would
Ask.com Games Google… And Wins!
I was reading a post by my bestest friend Donna talking about how the latest Ask.com advertising campaign bombs out. Her article is concerning the buzz phrase that Ask is pushing with the campaign, “Search Better on Ask.com”. She was getting a few referrals from the phrase [search better now], due to
Official Witch Hunting Season Opens
So, apparently Google has recently changed their guidelines to include a nice little tidbit about Why should I report paid links to Google? Matt Cutts did discuss this on his blog before, but making it official Google policy is something else altogether. Does anyone else sense the oncoming bloodlust
Wow, I didn’t know I was THAT nerdy!
Taking this test, as I answered the questions, my thought was, “Damn, I’ll never out-nerd my friends on these…”
… and then I hit the submit button.
Digg User Finds Huge News Story That ALL Major Newspapers Missed
So, I logged into Digg today (as I do most days), and scanned the stories looking for treasures that I might have missed throughout my day. In the second place under Tech Industry News, I find the following headline:
