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The new Google Penguin update was a big change that has been very unsettling to SEO’ers, both blackhats and whitehats. It seems that everywhere you go, people who had previously considered themselves to be “professionals”, are now dumbfounded as their stable authority sites have moved from ranking in the top 5 for competitive keywords, to not ranking at all.

What Did This Update Do and How Do I Recover? (By Reading This Post. Duh!)

Microsite Masters is in a unique position; we have historical ranking data for thousands of websites. We have data on sites that are still...
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MicrositeMasters has offered up 5 good points for navigating the new Google Penguin updates. They also provide some convincing evidence for why your site may have been hammered during the latest Google update named Penguin. There are lots of good details and insights in this article, but for the average website or business with a website, I think the third...

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By Brett Bumeter

Didn’t attend PubCon 2009?  Get the best Insights gathered up from the conference at Managing Greatness.  Even though on the surface this looks like a cliff notes version of Pub Con it is more of a linear mind map or outline of some of the key items.  (frankly I’m impressed there’s some useful stuff in...

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By Brett Bumeter

From time to time, I will write a comment on a blog that is so damned long, that it just doesn’t make good blogging sense to publish the thing as a comment.  I say if your comment grows beyond 1000 words (for me) or maybe 1 quarter the length of the original article for your average person that is...

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By Brett Bumeter

Are you famous on twitter?  Are you heading there quickly?  Then make the right SEO play and insure that you put a realy hyperlink in your Twitter account for your web address. 

Just because every other link on Twitter gets shortened, don’t forget the rest of the world outside of twitter mostly uses real and complete hyperlinks still.  That includes...

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By Brett Bumeter

I found a great little SEO tip for working with Tables over at Smartlab Software.  It basically tells us (reminds some of us) that if you are working with tables, find a reason to work with tables, or maybe even if you go out of your way to work with tables, you can include the following code:

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James Farmer at WPMU.org wrote a very interesting Penguin-related article, which doesn’t make the update look too great, despite its apparently honorable intentions.

The update hit WPMU.org, sending it from 8,580 visits from Google on one day pre-Penguin to 1,527 a week later.

According to Farmer, the Sydney Morning Herald spoke with Matt Cutts about the issue (which may or may not appear in an article), and he provided them with three problem links pointing to WPMU.org: a site pirating their software, and two links from one spam blog (splog) using an old version of one of...
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As webmasters continue to investigate how Panda works (or doesn’t) some new evidence indicates two things:

  1. Before Panda, Google must have given extra spammy sites more link juice than seems practical to anyone
  2. Theme Creators (such as WPMU.org) who have links in the footers of the themes they sell or give away may have...

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By Brett Bumeter

If you are wondering why the recent Microsoft and Facebook agreements are so relevant, consider a couple things.  Facebook membership and usage grows at leaps and bounds.  Facebook is becoming one of the primary places for people to go on the internet, and while they are there, they search for things and people.  More people and groups right now than anything else,...

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By Brett Bumeter

I found this cool looking plugin recently that helps you optimize keywords within a WordPress Post or Page.  It doesn’t help you find keywords, but once you know the keywords that you want to emphasize with a <strong> tag for example, you can type in the word into the admin panel and the plugin will automatically place the keywords in bold for...

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By Brett Bumeter

I have been expending a great deal of effort testing plugins that offer some form of management over nofollow links on a WordPress site.  I’m looking for something that will enable me to specifically select a page or Post by the Post ID and mark that page or post to always receive a nofollow tag whenever I link...

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By Brett Bumeter

Over the years, I have accumulated a handful of blogspot blogs and blogspot domains that are miraculously worthy of not throwing away.  There is much talk about the low quality of blogs in the blogspot domain area, but the truth is that the blogger engine is not that bad, and that there are many very good blogs in the system.  Unfortunately,...

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