Last week there was a big stir in the SEO field when SEO Black Hat put a listing on Ebay, selling a DMOZ editor username and password to an unknown PR5 category in DMOZ. The ad was shortly pulled from eBay, and he was also sent this letter from Ebay suspending his eBay account.
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There are plenty of ways to get people to notice you, your site, and your content without having to pay any money to anyone for it. This is good news to those of us with low budgets (or practically no budget) for site promotion. For example, Craig’s List is available for many cities, and depending […]

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Some may think that directories are a little outdated, but they can still have a positive effect on your traffic. Try submitting your site to DMOZ and other highly respected directories that allow free submissions. You may have to do a little research to find out which ones are the most reputable, but be patient. […]

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If you’ve been doing SEO for a while, you know about the concept of linkbait. This is content that is so cool or useful or entertaining that people can’t resist linking to it, thus improving your page rank and your position in the search engine results pages. But how do you get the word out […]

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Google thinks of a back link as a vote for your website. So if you have a website about snowboarding and other snowboarding websites are linking to your site, google will think that your site must be important because other related sites are linking to yours. A lot of people think that it is the […]

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So many people have written to me, wanting to know the basics of being indexed by Google and staying on the index. Its my guess that no one would want to be stuck in the Google Sandbox for a lifetime, given the speed and ferrociousness the internet grows and the reality of the many advances […]

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