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I found myself searching around… again… because of yet another discussion about reporting paid links to Google. I don’t know why I allow myself to get into these discussions… again… but I did. I also don’t know why I decided to search for “tattletale ethics” but I did and found an interesting article…
Tattletale Ethics
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Merchants Protecting Consumers from Credit Card Fraud
In 2006 consumers used their credit or debit cards to spend approximately $160 billion at fast food restaurants alone. That’s a lot of transactions. Total online sales were projected to reach more than $250 Billion in 2007. Credit card fraud amounts to billions of dollars a year. But who [...]

There’s no shortage of chatter when it comes to Google and their stance on “paid links”. They have made it clear that pages that contain “paid links”, which they’ve chosen not to define, must be identified for a machine, spider, and/or algorithm, or they will suffer if they do not tag those links with machine [...]

There’s been many discussions on the value of web directory links of late. Directories being devalued and pages being removed from their index. Do directory links still have value and can they drive visitors and potential customers to your site? In a word, yes.
It’s important to realize that not all directories are created equal and [...]

Is there such a thing as writing naturally for SEO purposes and benefits?
Seems like a silly question doesn’t it? Well, I guess it just surprises me a bit when the subject comes up, gets debated, and usually ends up with someone checking the keyword density and arriving at a ranking conclusion based entirely on that.
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It seems every time I turn around I find yet another reason as to why SEO is a dirty word. Not surprisingly, that reason is exactly the same as almost all the others.
Take a look at this thread titled SEO for Google on WWS. A straight forward very basic question asked by folks new to [...]

The random surfer may not have noticed that the supplemental index tag has been dropped the webmaster and SEO communities sure have. On July 31st 2007 a post on Google’s Webmaster Blog announced the change. It is still possible to see which of your pages are in the supplemental index by performing a search for [...]

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Spring is upon us and the itch for Charter Fishing Lake Michigan simply needed to be scratched. So with that in mind, I booked an early morning charter on 04-22-2007 with Captain Rich Tanner of Stellar Charters out of Kenosha Wisconsin.
Early spring fishing on Lake Michigan can be hit or miss but, as Captain [...]

Clearly, Google still has serious issues on how they handle subdomains when delivering search results.
Try a search for Religious Jewelry as Art for example. You’ll find that IAF.net litters the SERP’s. They start with a result on page 2, then 3 results on page 3. After that, page after page after page of listings that [...]