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Excerpt: Today, Barry Schwartz of Search Engine Roundtable blogged about the news that Link Vault, one of the better link-networks in my opinion, was seemingly banned by Google.  For whatever reason their domain dropped out of the index.  It happens, but it was probably just a glitch in this case.  Apparently, people have also been noticing that pages with this link network (among others) on them are going supplemental.Personally, I think Link Vault is mostly safe when used in small doses,…

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Excerpt: This is a random idea I cooked up recently.  Many sites have trouble targeting misspellings; it's a common problem.  It looks bad, or it won't fit for some other similar reason. Conceivably, one could put the misspellings on a custom 404 page, citing that perhaps the user misspelled the URL.  Then we list a few of the most common (and therefore desirable) misspellings and link them to the respective pages, which have the semantically related correct spellings and more cont…