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Long tail keywords and SEO

When you did the keyword research for your website, you probably found a lot of simple words you’re now incorporating into your website. These general terms are things that many people search for, and are not necessarily going to help your business or website to be number one in the search engine for, other than […]

Google AdSense ‘Hijacked’ in Search Engine Results

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Google Says: Webspam Aint Cool

Andi Baio broke another webspam story recently, this time on Syndic8 hosting articles on their various sub-domains.
An update on the article reads:

May 6, 2005: Philipp Lenssen reports that Syndic8.com was removed from Google’s index entirely. By e-mail, a Google engineer also confirmed that the Google AdSense account for Syndic8’s ad affiliate was terminated.
I agree with […]

Microsoft / MSN Search Hires Top Yahoo Search Guy

CNet: Microsoft plucks top Yahoo Search exec Gary Flake
More on Gary Flake on this thread at Search Engine Watch:

Dr. Gary Flake is Principal Scientist & Head of Yahoo! Research Labs. In part one of this wide-ranging interview, he talked about the daily work of researchers at Yahoo Labs, and what they’re doing to make search […]

Great Adsense - Ad Links Thread on Webmaster World

Just came across this great thread on Webmaster World.
If you are running AdSense on your website, and haven’t yet experimented with the new Ad Links unit, you should definitely give the entire thread a good read.
Some highlights:

I have tried AdLinks in two different locations on a 3 column layout:
(a) middle of right column
(b) top of […]

Will Text Ads Continue to Trounce Banner Ads?

“Text-only advertisements work far better than banners, but is this only due to their novelty?”

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