Cache Bashing: Google API Used In SEO War

The Nigritude Ultramarine seo contest just got nastier with the addition of an application that uses Google's API to scrape Google's cached pages of Nigritude Ultramarine sites. The wily creator of this app then cloaks the stolen pages as if they were his, and since he's got higher PageRank he kicks the site he copied out due to the duplicate site penalty.

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Paid Text Ads A Bigger Threat Than Blogs?

Paid links or "sponsorships" are a hot trend right now and one that has important implications for all SEO practitioners, professional or amateur. Numerous commercial brokers have launched Web sites that facilitate the sale of links on a wide array of Web sites with high PageRank.

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updateAfterEvent Explained

It appears that most coders use it, but 50% if not more dont actually know why they are using it, what it does or when they should use it. In the latest article for a regular column in a uk based internet magazine; dot net, a self proclaimed actionscript expert implemented updateAfterEvent in his mouse recording example as follows:

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Domain Names and Anchor Text

Branding vs Naming Many people say that the name of a website should be original. It should convey some sense of branding unlike any other site. They say your name should not be generic.

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Amazon CEO Stands To Benefit From Google IPO

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com, was one of the first five outside investors into what was a fledgling start-up search engine named Google. Bezos made his investment in 1998, and the result of his support was that Google entitled him to an undisclosed amount of stock at 6 cents a share.

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