How Not to Email Spam

Recently a new kind of email spam started making rounds around the web. Here is a screenshot from my inbox: (Click the thumbnail to see the full-size screenshot) So what’s wrong with this exact kind of email spam and why …

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Post-Panda Duplicate Content Detection and Attribution: Google at Its Best

I have been looking at a client’s site that had some position losses after June 16 Panda rollout (v4 if I am not mistaken). They only lost positions for one tight group of keywords that one specific page was targeting …

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How to Get Suspended on Google+

First of all, a disclaimer: I cannot be 100% sure all of the described below is not a coincidence and there wasn’t something else that I didn’t know about that factored in. Yesterday, Matt Cutts reposted this post by Andrew …

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How to Spam People’s Emails via Facebook

Much has been written about Facebook’s privacy issues but infact it’s even more exploitable than one may think. Who needs Aweber and double opt-in email lists when you can spam people via Facebook. Here is the simplest scenario that can …

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Why WordPress Theme Footer Links Can Be Considered Editorially Approved

Since the rise of WordPress as one of the leading platforms building links through free themes has become quite fashionable at some point. The author of the free theme would just place a link to his desired web property in …

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Google +1 and What It Changes

With Google’s recent rollout of it’s +1 feature, the talks of the “end of SEO” have surfaced again – nothing new or surprising, with no more ground for them than usual. In case you haven’t heard of it yet somehow, here’s …

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G-Man Is Gone :-(

Found out today that Geoffrey Faivre-Malloy better known in the SEO community as G-Man has passed away 🙁 Here is the obituary. G-Man was one of the most advanced people in the industry, capable of digging deep into the technicalities, …

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Of Tools and Hype

I have been doing a few tool reviews on this blog previously. This post can be seen as a sort of a tool review as well – although the main point is in reviewing approaches to marketing the tools rather …

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Some Domains to Watch

It feels like walking a domain cemetery these days… Remember Pownce? It was acquired in December 2008 and everybody using it was advised to switch to Vox – a free blogging service and community owned by Six Apart as well. …

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Free Domains and AdSense in Frames

Pretty neat way to monetize user created content – although I won’t get into how risky this can be for the AdSense ID owner, or how this is against the AdSense TOS (of which I am not even quite sure …

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