Search:

Yes if a search engine wanted them to do so.
I don't use more time on this subject, since I regard it as higly sepculative
and don't care.


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As with anything else, that search engine crawlers, bots, indexing and archiving machines find on the internet. In addition:

It is not difficult to make a hub of the internets most important...

As I have said. The SERPs are far from perfect. Sometimes they are even bad, confusing and time consuming. I accidentily deleted some videos from my digital video camera and searched for free...

Make a hub of forums.
Test against the software / forum structure, configuration, footnote where the software used is explicitly mentioned etc. when the crawler / indexing machine visit a site.
A...

I think that if a search engine (company) wan't to devalue signature links pointing to a site, and pushing that site down the SERPs it is a programming task. It is more a theoretical than a...

Of course they can. That is a simple programming task. Perhaps you should have changed the title a little:

Can or should Forum Signature Links Damage New or Existing Sites?

In theory they...

AdSense is history for me like some web browsers are. I inform the world about what problems you can have with a company that is known under the slogan:


Source: ...

But banks and payment institutions is vital for a modern society. In a sense they are the veins of an enterprise economy. In that sense there is asymmetry between a media company like WikiLeaks and...

It is information.




Which problems?

Personally I don use G analytics and GWT.

Why is this thread posted in the SEO sub forum and not in the Google sub forum?

Fortunately more and more alternative services and tool come into...

Because my bad experience with AdSense?

If you read the last posts of that thread, Google may have problems with bigger companies and they change the whole Ad policy. The only predictable with...

I post this thread in the security sub forum, since I think it is security related.

Reuters: Iceland - Court orders Visa subcontractor to lift block on payments to WikiLeaks



Much mor...

Not a single response to this thread that was cut from another thread by a moderator? To add:



The answer to bad information is more (correct) information. The answer to bad democracy is more...

And regarding stabiility, for those of you that can read Norwegian or use a good translation tool, read

Wikileaks won in supreme court against Valitor - VISA Iceland
(the second post.)

I doubt that is possible.

Too late to edit my post. A realted thread at WMW:

Google is deprecating their affiliate network, any idea why?


Source: Google Affiliate Network

That may hit big players too:

Yahoo...

Please explain or it is only words.

Upcoming changes to the AdSense Terms and Conditions: http://www.webmasterworld.com/google_adsense/4566148.htm

Interesting comments:

Don't expect too much pattern reckognition ability from a search engine. I doubt that a search engine algorithm can say what is:

Unique content written bay a human being.
Article spun content...

When I search:

DoubleClick

on google, these

http://www.google.com/doubleclick/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoubleClick
...

I have always claimed that Opera is the most secure browser in the world For years I have had an Opera email account, but I have not used it very much. Now that email account has taken a quantum leap...

I don't use IE.



Opera is my favourite browser.
It is the most secure browser and user friendly browser with a great online http://my.opera.com/community/forums/ community.
In addtion...

Thank you all for the input. And it will be more difficult for google to ban big companies with big resources. Google that once was the small companies friend is now on a new road to please big...

You mean page rank algorithm?



Yes.



That they reduced themselves to pocket thieves and stole my money was not the worst. The worst is the hard work cleaning up more than 40 sites with...

In my personal view, original unique content is always king. Search engine bots do not care about design. In a sense they are color blind. From a user standpoint, refactoring to better design and...