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Lady Google

Posted in Humor,SEO on January 27th, 2006.

In a forum thread of StatCounter Robin posted an answer to a person that was impatient with Google in regards to ranking. This is what he wrote: Lady Google does not provide immediate gratification. She considers that kind of thing to be undignified. She expects to be romanced for a considerable time. She’ll pay attention [...]

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Carcasherdotcom Seocontest

Posted in SEO Contests on January 25th, 2006.

This is a white hat Carcasherdotcom Seocontest SEO Contest page, managed by Jim Westergren of SEO Fusion.

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WordPress users – sharpen your URLs with Google!

Posted in SEO,WordPress on January 24th, 2006.

Update: October 1, 2009 This article is from january 2006. In new versions of WordPress all the things in this article is being taken care of automatically. DO NOT USE IT ANYMORE. First of all you must enable the permalinks, but that you probably already have done. Now to the point. Did you know that [...]

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V7ndotcom Elursrebmem

Posted in SEO,SEO Contests,SEO News on January 15th, 2006.

This is a white hat V7ndotcom Elursrebmem SEO Contest page, managed by Jim Westergren.

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Releasing SEO Fusion!

Posted in My sites,SEO on January 13th, 2006.

I am happy to announce that I now have a SEO Site for my international clients set up with all my services and their info listed! Let me present: SEO Fusion This will start my SEO business for real and moving into english speaking clients. I found it much easier doing link building for english [...]

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Google Sandbox – All Latest Data

Posted in SEO,SEO Articles on January 12th, 2006.

What is the Google “sandbox”? In my own words I would say it is an observation of an algo effect implemented by Google in March 2004 that makes new sites not rank at all for a period of many months. It is a dampening effect that was most probably created to stop spam sites from [...]

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SEO Test finalized – Unnatural link growth

Posted in SEO on January 9th, 2006.

Is Google detecting and penalizing unnatural link growth? Case Study Sites used for the test: NetMarketing.us WebRelatedArticles.com Release dates of the two sites: November 27, 2005 November 25, 2005 Both sites are new domains that was not before indexed by Google. Links added to the sites within the first 3 days of release: Links from [...]

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New site: SEOForReal.com

Posted in My sites,SEO on January 4th, 2006.

SEO For Real – all the latest SEO information for SEO Professionals automatically collected in one place. Instead of checking 5 different SEO blogs and news sites daily – you just have to visit this one. I paid a person on DP that was offering to set up these kind of sites and then I [...]

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Checking backlinks the right way

Posted in Link Building on December 31st, 2005.

How is the correct way to check backlinks? This is what I have learned from own observations and I feel like it would be good to share. First I can tell you that Google only shows a random fraction on the backlinks they know of – so it is totally useless using Google for this [...]

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Future PageRank prediction

Posted in SEO,SEO Articles on December 31st, 2005.

There are 7 different tools and one new discovery that can be used in additional to looking at backlinks if you are interested in finding out what your future PageRank will be. I say already now that they are not accurate … Backlink and PR prediction tool from online-utility.org Comments: This is the only PR [...]

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New site: Link Juice – buy text links

Posted in Link Building,My sites on December 30th, 2005.

Right now you can buy very cheap text links at LinkJuice.net and get some good discount. Boost your PR with some real Link Juice! Yesterday evening I made a new simple site to serve as a place to sell my text links. I will start to promote it in the beginning of January.

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SEO Contest

Posted in SEO Contests,SEO News on December 28th, 2005.

There will be a new SEO Contest starting on the 15 January. Remember nigritude ultramarine? Here is the forum thread announcing it. I will be playing and it would be fun to get as many as possible participating. Will you participate?

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Did a test with digg.com

Posted in Online Marketing on December 25th, 2005.

A week ago I submitted my blogg post “How to write DOS text on your site” to test out digg.com and kind of explore it. It was my first submitted item and I wanted to try out how it worked. Well, somehow I got enough diggs in a short time and so got listed on [...]

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SEO data from Google!

Posted in SEO on December 24th, 2005.

Here are some valuable SEO reading with data coming from Google that or not on their official Google pages. Matt Cutts (Senior Engineer): SEO/Google section from Matt Cutts blog – regularly updated and is worth a daily reading Nick Wilsons interview and blog post: “Exclusive: Google Teaches Bloggers How To Rank” (December 13, 2005) Interview [...]

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Google backlinks just updated

Posted in SEO News on December 20th, 2005.

Just noticed it, it must have happened in the last few hours. Google is not updating the backlinks regularly like MSN and for some strange reason only shows part of them and in a random manner. My advice is to always use MSN when checking links. It also seem like MSN is listing the backlinks [...]

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Google knows about your backlinks

Posted in SEO on December 18th, 2005.

Google knows probably a lot more than you think. This is a blog post by Matt Cutts (Google Engineer): “Tell me about your backlinks” Google might not like that text links are being bought but in my opinion I see no problem with that. You pay for advertising, just like adwords. Now, I agree that [...]

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Yahoo algo update

Posted in SEO News on December 18th, 2005.

A few days ago Yahoo updated it’s algo. My Swedish company web site went from #3 to #1 on the keyword webbdesign (swedish for web design), so I am pleased. But it is interesting that I have not done any changes at all on the site since months, I have just been adding backlinks. By [...]

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Someone put my post in digg.com

Posted in My sites,Online Marketing on December 12th, 2005.

My post Frames with CSS got submitted by someone to the design section of to digg.com and I got about 70 visitors by it. 10 people digged it so far (2 days later). Not enough to reach the home page but still ok. As soon I have a moment more I will try to explore [...]

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New jewel from Randfish, just released

Posted in SEO on December 6th, 2005.

Once again, Rand and his team impress us with a new fantastic 9 pages guide to SEO – for free. Many years of knowledge goes into such a piece. Here it is: Beginner’s Guide to Search Engine Optimization Can you afford NOT to read it?

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Tutorial: Feed your sites by blogging!

Posted in Link Building,My sites,SEO Articles,WordPress on November 30th, 2005.

Notice: This article is from 2005. I have written a new one in 2009 about this same thing but much more good that can be read here. Are you also the kind of webmaster with 5, 10 or even 20 web sites with the plan of making a living only through your own sites? How [...]

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Huge amount of links added to my new site

Posted in My sites,SEO on November 29th, 2005.

Some days ago I released NetMarketing.us. And since 72 hours I have added the following amount of links: Two PR 7 links (both home page) Ten PR 5 links (6 sitewide and 4 home page) Ten PR 4 links (6 sitewide, 2 home page and 2 on subpages) Seven PR 3 links (4 sitewide and [...]

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Good way to get many links and PR

Posted in My sites,SEO on November 26th, 2005.

I found an interesting thing that worked well for me in order to get PageRank and backlinks. Here it comes: Get many sites. I have so far more than 20 sites and I must say that links is no problem now. I have been buying sites on auctions that already had PR and made those [...]

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My Guide to SEO and Success

Posted in SEO Articles on November 26th, 2005.

This is THE ONE checklist for SEO. Extremely useful and full of insights. I can assure you that there is something here you didn’t know. It has also been reviewed and commented on by a number other professionals.

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