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Is Google Slapping its Do-Followers?

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!If you’re just joining us, I have been running an experiment over the last few weeks evaluating some rumours that Google is punishing blogs that employ a do-follow plugin with lower positions in the search engine results. I don’t […]

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No Follow DoFollow Update

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

I know, I know… I said I would update my experiment in a month, but the results demand that I update sooner. If you haven’t read the first article in this experiment yet, pop back a week and read “No Follow DoFollow, What?”, then come back here to find out what has happened so far.
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No Follow DoFollow, What?

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

It is well known that Google prefers it that we use the no-follow tag on our blogs. The premise is simple, and on the whole I have to agree with it. In principle. If your not familiar with the no-follow tag, it essentially tells Google not to follow a particular link, and by extension, not […]

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Social Pollution on the Internet

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

You may have heard about Digg’s recent change in algorithm, an effort to limit the “gaming” of Digg’s system of voting a story up or down. If you’re really in the know, you may even be aware that scribd.com has put a halt to html uploads. The express purpose, as stated on the scribd blog, […]

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Why I Love Mandriva

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

The upside of my recent computer troubles is that my computer finally got all those critical upgrades that it so desperately needed, not the least of which is an OS upgrade. I have been running Mandriva since it was Mandrake 9.0, with the most recent incarnation of the Operating System being Spring 2007. As a […]

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