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PUBLIC MARKS from balibones with tag seo

September 2006

SEO Group on Squidoo

A gathering of search marketing professionals on Squidoo.

Bush Still a Failure but Not on Google

George W. Bush’s Bio page no longer shows up as the first listing on Google when searching for the terms “failure” or “miserable failure”. Here's how it was done...

August 2006

Who is SEO Fan Girl? A Clue...

A clue leads to a plausible theory into the true identity of SEO Fangirl. Or does it? Maybe some things are better off left as a mystery.

http://www.firstpagefitness.com/blog/2006/08/23/editorial-opinion-another-algorithm-factor-for-google/

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Either the latest Google Search Engine Algorithm Patent to come out of Mountain View, California is a hoax, or a really, really bad idea. For Google's sake, let's hope they're trying to pull one over on us.

Hide Behind a Google IP While Surfing to Expose Cloaked Pages

The Google tool above is made for the purpose of translating web pages. However, it has one other very useful and interesting purpose if you are willing to think creatively: Finding out if your competitors are cloaking Google.

The History and Causes of Canonical URL Problems

But even among the SEO elite, not everyone understands the history of this issue. Few ask the question, “Why do we even need www. in the first place”? Perhaps this short history lesson will help…

July 2006

DMOZ Editors Spamming Their Profiles With Hidden Links

If you look at the source code that she has archived you will see absolute positioned links waaaaaaay off to the side of the screen where only SEs can see them.

Spotlight Sundays: SEO News for Weekend Warriors

Donna is very respected in the industry and an active forum moderator who has her finger on the pulse of the SEO world. It's a good read for those to can't stop working on the weekends.

The Promotion Trader forum is a place where people who want to create and promote a web site can meet to trade links, content, services and more.

Ever wish you could trade a few hours of your expertise for a few hours of someone else's? Now you can! This is a very neat idea for webmasters, SEOs and online marketing people. It's like a giant swap meet.

Reducing the Code-to-Text Ratio of Your Web Page

It's about taking java script off the page. There are instructions for putting the scripts into an external .js file.

June 2006

March 2006

January 2006