SEO Case Study - 30 days after the linkbait driven by Digg

Exactly one month ago my entry about Ubuntu Girl hit the Digg front page, so now is the high time to check out the rankings for “ubuntu girl” within 4 major search engines. Let’s start with listing four base facts at first:

blog entry has received about 1,500 backlinks (according to Yahoo)
sites that share link juice [...]

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It’s cool to play the EVIL SPAMMER, isn’t it?

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In my opinion their recent announcement (check out webmaster guidelines) is just one another ludicrous thing that can only gross people out to doings of this company. By the way - what’s about the conclusion? The conclusion is the fact that it’s getting better and better to generate spam websites faster than Google is [...]

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WTF - My compatriot arrested for gaming search engine?!

One of my compatriots interested in SEO is accused of insulting president of Poland. 23 years old Marek W is currently facing up to 3 years in prison and YES this time I am completely serious. Our buddy has written a piece of spammy software which was used to cheat search engines - and finally [...]

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Free article submission - List of usefull sites (from PR7 to PR3)

I was searching for an index of services that offer free article submission. People say that hypertext link situated within the text does a little bit better for site rankings. I haven’t found any clean list, so finally decided to do it on my own. And there it is - sites are sorted by Google [...]

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SEO is FAR AWAY from being easy

A few months when Matt Codingtton made a poll titled “is SEO easy?”, most of readers answered “yes, it is”. Is it a common phenomenon when something becomes very popular people just start to talk about it as an “touch-and-go” plaything?

I consider SEO to be a very complex issue so I do think dividing it [...]

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Google Geolocation (almost) figured out

Let’s start from the definition - what is the Google Geolocation? Answer is really simple, in fact - it’s a process that affects listing of search results. Effect of this process consists in showing results adjusted to user nationality (precisely - his IP number). I think we can say users always get search results adjusted [...]

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SPAM Archiver - The most useful SEO tool I’ve seen for a long time

Since Search Engine Optimization has started to be such a POP issue it becomes more and more difficult to find good tools that might be really useful not only for an 14 year old internet marketers (sorry Harrison don’t take it personally haha). Honesty I’m always blissfully happy when I figure out some brand new [...]

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