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10 Signs of SEO Scams, Fraud Tactics and Subplots

27. June 2009

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There’s a saying I often hear when I was growing up: Nobody will try to fool anyone if no one allows himself to be fooled. This piece of thought can be applied in search engine optimization, where a combination of personalities clash: demanding clients, pretending vendors, and more. Here’s my take on businesses who should get [...]

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How to File For Reinclusion of Site?

4. August 2008

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One thing Google can do when it finds websites violating its Webmaster Guidelines is that it could penalize these sites by removing them from its search index database. This results in disappearance of pages from search engine results. This penalty can be checked by using the site:nameofwebsite.com tool on Google Search; if none shows up [...]

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How to Report Spam to Google

17. January 2008

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Sometimes we still see spam pages on search engine results. That’s possible because millions of new pages are created on a daily basis and large portion of these contents are questionable / spammy in nature. While new contents don’t usually appear on search results immediately, certain types of content that has date relevance such as [...]

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Oasis Airlines Birthday Website Anomaly

2. November 2007

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I think one of the reasons why Hong Kong is still behind in adopting search engine marketing is because of the apparent lack of confidence on the part of website owners. It could be because the SEO campaigns they are running aren’t yielding enough success to drive them to the next level. Why should companies [...]

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MyAyala.com Caught Keyword Spamming

3. March 2006

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I have a colleague who used to work a company with so called “black hat” SEO practices in the Philippines. While he is aware that the practice was doomed to fail, his previous business dealings in that company was never in peril at the time. I was a little more conservative, dropping the methods I [...]

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