Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO
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Excerpt: The 2nd-biggest poker company, PokerStars, asserts that Poker is not restricted by the new unexpected gambling ban. This recent ban sent gambling-related internet stocks diving, and the search engine marketers making money as poker affiliates were also reeling, as the bill would even make link ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO
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Excerpt: I'm very surprised that nobody mentioned that NameWinner, the expired domain snapping service of Dotster has closed shop on Wed., October 11, 2006. They say:We are pleased to announce that domain names previously available for bidding on NameWinner are now available on SnapNames.com. We ha ...
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Excerpt: Or is it search engine optimization? It occurs to me that the publisher of our book, Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP, picked the title for us. Usually I give more thought to titles. The title does contain the key phrase "search engine optimization," but i ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Viral / Link Bait
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Excerpt: Is this the tale of a copywriter who can't even rank for his name artfully link baiting some of the most widely read SEO blogs? Who is in the 15-yard dash -- us or him? I deconstructed his arguments regardless, but you decide ...I found Breaking SEO Myths Part One: The SEO Experts b ...
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Excerpt: I know of many architectural mistakes that can totally torpedo a web site's rankings -- using URL-based session IDs, adding duplicate content for fun, etc. But one thing stands out in WordPress blogs as a culprit. I call it "death by pagination," and it's another way to ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Google
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Excerpt: I guess Google's adult-filter went on vacation with me this weekend, because there was a buxom blonde baring it all for everyone on the Google News homepage: Barry Schwartz of Search Engine Roundtable says: "I see it myself, I took a screen capture and blacked out the offensive part.&q ...
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Excerpt: QuadsZilla's latest link bait experiment is going to read like a who's who on viral marketing (if it works). It's a bit cheesy, but cheesy tops the Digg front-page every day. Mr. Black Hat may just rank for "viral marketing" and "link bait" soon ... I'll hav ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Black Hat SEO, Security
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Excerpt: I guess I think like a hacker, because I thought of this before seeing RSnake's post about finding vulnerabilities with Google Code Search.If you want to find lots of PHP-based web applications that are likely vulnerable to HTML injection, try this search out:lang:php (print\(|echo)\s\$_(GET|REQ ...