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PageRank Sculpting Isn’t Dead But Comments Can Kill Your PageRank

June 16, 2009 By Andy Beard

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This post was originally titled “Is PageRank Sculpting Dead & Can Comments Kill Your PageRank” Following a confirmation post from Google’s Matt Cutts today, it seems PageRank Sculpting as practiced by many SEOs is effectively dead, and comments, even using links with nofollow CAN have a negative effect on the amount of PageRank that can be passed on to your internal … [Read more...]

How To Find FriendFeed Rooms With Google

May 25, 2008 By Andy Beard

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I noticed within the new Problogger room on FriendFeed, Darren mentioned the following: “feel free to invite others to this room - as long as they are bloggers and/or are interested in the ProBlogger type topic I'm happy for anyone and everyone to join. I've invited all my contacts on FF. Pity there's no list of public groups for people to join.” While there isn't a public … [Read more...]

Google Double or Indented Listings

May 21, 2008 By Andy Beard

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While I gain tons of Google indented listings for money terms, and I can achieve them quite often in minutes, rather than days, they are almost always achieved using a few simple steps. Get one page indexed and ranking Write a second post linking to the first (which will also then trackback to the second page) Use the same primary keyword in both posts The second … [Read more...]

Lowering The Google Red Flag: Sidestep The Cash Hungry Bull

February 15, 2008 By Andy Beard

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With all the previous discussion of paid reviews and my unwillingness to raise the white flag or bend over, this post is going to come as a bit of a shock. I am lowering the red flag Carry on reading to find out why this isn’t the same as raising a white flag, and is far from surrendering to Google on paid reviews. Robots.txt I have spent a long time deciding on a … [Read more...]

Techmeme PageRank Penalty?

January 31, 2008 By Andy Beard

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I just happened to glance down at my Search status toolbar in the status window of Firefox, and noticed that Techmeme’s Google Toolbar PageRank had been reduced to PR-4: Techmeme Sell Links Techmeme has very clear advertising with sponsored posts: The links they use are … [Read more...]

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