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WGHubris on May 7th, 2011

Read between the lines on a recent NY Times article and you’ll see Google admitting that buying paid links, supposedly a violation of its Webmaster Guidelines, is just fine, as long as it doesn’t work out for you. This NY Times article shows, yet again, major retailers engaging in link spam by buying numerous paid [...]

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WGHubris on April 26th, 2011

While perusing the greatly improved performance reports for AdSense ads displayed on my websites I began to wonder whether a new option for AdSense would be valuable. I use AdSense to help me make money writing online with some of the various websites I publish. I don’t make millions but I do well enough to [...]

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WGHubris on April 19th, 2011

Earlier this year, the webmaster, online publisher and SEO communities were abuzz with news of a major Google algorithm update. Although Google claimed less 15 percent of websites were affected, legions of web publishers and search engine optimization experts took to forum, blog posts, and Google help pages to decry what they saw as unfair [...]

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WGHubris on April 12th, 2011

The any-big-business-is-a-monopoly-and-that’s-bad-mmm-kay groups have been sharpening their knives recently and salivating over the thought of taking on Google in court. There’s just one little problem. Today, Hitwise reported that Microsoft’s Bing search engine accounted for 30 percent of search in March 2011. Granted, in order to get that number, you have to add up the [...]

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