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Google Profiles in Regular Search Results

A little less than a year ago, Google started including Google Profile pages in vertical results but it seems they have taken it one step further by now including them in regular search results (as depicted in the image above). Seems “fair” enough considering Google profiles are now jam-packed with all sorts of buzz and …

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List of 138 Ping URLs (RPC / RPC2 Services)

If you’re on WordPress or another blog that lets you specify the services you want to ping whenever you post to or update your blog (e.g. Ping-o-Matic), here’s a list that expands on the list of 56 RPC and RPC2 Services to Ping graciously provided by Elliott Back back in 2004.

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HTML noindex Tag

Someone on Twitter asked Google if they index content contained within the HTML tag, “noindex” (not to be confused with the robots meta tag directive) and, as far as I could tell, never received a response. I took to the Google Webmaster Help forum for an answer and a member stated his opinion that, “virtually …

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List of Affiliate & CPA Programs

Here’s a list of CPA programs. It’s an old list so there may be some that are no longer in business. There may also be some newer ones missing. What can I say, you’re welcome.

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Find Out if an SEO is Lying in Five Steps

I’ve had my fair share of run-ins with unethical car repair shops but a recent experience made me realize that there’s an analogy to be drawn between shady SEO salesmen and shady auto mechanics. To test this I simply copied an article from eHow titled, “How to Tell if a Mechanic is Lying” and made …

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Another Reason Web Analytics Software Should Incorporate An Industrial-strength Bot List

I wrote a real simple script to mess with some of my friends which basically makes it seem like Googlebot visited their site, well, as many times as I wanted them to think. Don’t worry, I’ll provide the script in a minute. But it reminded me of a tweet from @fantomaster in which he shared …

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Search Engine Technology Bookmarks

Here are some bookmarks to get you thinking about SEO from a highly advanced and technical point of view. Not all of this stuff is comprehensible by those without a background in Information Retrieval but be patient, re-read, re-read and re-read again until you understand as much as you can. Once you begin to understand …

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RFP! RFP! RFP! Then RFP

If you’ve been getting more and more requests for SEO proposals that mysteriously keep getting denied, you may be falling victim to a relatively new dirty little SEO secret (or you’re just not great at writing proposals but let’s assume that you are). We all know Google has been moving towards leveraging user signals over …