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BurnUrl: Another Steaming Pile

Thumbnail image for BurnUrl: Another Steaming Pile by Greg April 13, 2009 Google

Now that the heat has been turned up on Digg, scrutiny is also spilling over to all the “up-and-coming” services who have decided to jump on the “justifiable framing bandwagon.”
One of those services is BurnURL. The concept of BurnURL is pretty simple: You input a url and it spits out a shortened version that you [...]

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The Truth About Digg’s DiggBar

Thumbnail image for The Truth About Digg’s DiggBar by Greg April 9, 2009 Blogging

Over the last couple of months, I’ve been getting the urge to get back into blogging a bit. However, when it’s been awhile since you’ve attempted to construct a thought longer than a 140 character tweet, actually doing it is a bit harder than you regular bloggers might imagine. I keep finding myself sitting [...]

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Real Estate Webmasters Banned by Google

by Greg January 25, 2008 Google

I try very hard to stay away from the drama that constantly engulfs Morgan Carey and Real Estate Webmasters. But this one is worth commenting on because it’s such a great example of what not to do.
Late last night, members of REW’s forum started posting that they weren’t finding REW in Google searches. This [...]

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Link Whores and Liquor Thieves

by Greg October 26, 2007 Google

I while back, I received some swag in the mail from SEO Shirts. However, being the extremely lazy blogger that I am, I never got a round to giving them the link they wanted for the free shirt. So now I’m playing catch up.

Just for the record, I’m a big fan of “links for swag.” [...]

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The Do Follow OPML Project

by Greg October 24, 2007 Blogging

One of the things that happened over the summer while I was on my blogging hiatus was the launch of the “Do Follow” movement. For those that haven’t heard about it, it’s basically a group of bloggers who have realized that having comments and trackback links automatically default to “No Follow” isn’t really a good [...]

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