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Toolbar Hysteria – It Isn’t Really a Penalty

by Greg October 24, 2007 Google

Here are some posts from Rand, Andy and Daniel on today’s toolbar hysteria. What I find most interesting about all the blog posts popping up is the constant use of the word penalty. To me, that just isn’t an accurate description; at least not in the sense that anything has changed recently.
Google has stated many [...]

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Why Sphinn Needs a Dumbass Button

by Greg September 13, 2007 Google

The cool thing about a specialized vertical social site like Sphinn is you tend to get a better concentration of smart people contributing  stories to the community. But that’s not always the case. Rose Desrochers posted a link to a story claiming BlogCatalog doesn’t pass PageRank because their links contain OnClick. Her evidence was a [...]

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Bodog’s Battle of the Brand

by Greg September 6, 2007 Google

Early last week, Bodog Entertainment lost control of over 3000 domain names, including bodog.com due to a default judgment in a patent infringement case. I’m not going to delve into the specifics involving the suit, or the potential ramifications to the web as whole, because that has already been covered in great detail in other [...]

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Using Google’s Brand to Spam & Jam

by Greg January 25, 2007 Google

During yesterday’s Rockstar show, we spent some time talking about the latest domains on the web being used for some good old fashion parasite SEO. A brand new domain on our monitoring list was http://www.quizilla.com

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