Google On Buying Spammy Domains: Don’t Be The Guy Left Holding The Bag

In the latest Webmaster Help video from Google, Matt Cutts takes on an interesting topic. Can you buy a domain that has been penalized by Google for spam, clean it up and recover rankings? Well, it depends, and Cutts explains why. “This is a tricky question because on the one hand there’s algorithmic spam, and then there’s manual spam, and all manual spam does have an eventual time out, so if you were to completely clean up all the content on the domain, [and] do a reconsideration request, in theory, that domain can recover,” says Cutts....

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Are You More Or Less Worried About Google’s Panda Update Now?

As previously reported, Google’s Matt Cutts revealed at SMX this week that Google would be pushing a refresh to its famous (or perhaps infamous) Panda update on either Friday or Monday. As of Friday, it appears that the refresh has arrived. Have you felt the effects of the latest Panda update? Noticed any improvements in Google’s search results? Let us know in the comments. Barry Schwartz is pointing to some forum chatter about webmasters already seeing the effects of the refresh, indicating that it has likely begun to...

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The Best Strategy to Generate Free Ongoing Traffic for Your Website

We all know that generating traffic and lots of it is a major key to make a living online. The problem is that over 90% of all websites fail simply because they do not generate enough traffic to sustain an ongoing income for their website. Why do only some websites become successful while others are like a dry desert? And why do some websites struggle so much while others seem to make it with less effort? Maybe you are in that category, lacking the incoming traffic to your website and if so, I would urge you to keep reading… Regardless...

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Why I think PayDotCom is the Best Affiliate Marketplace on the Net!

Hi Mahesh here... If you are familiar with Clickbank.com (R), or even if you are not but you want to make profits online, then you will want to check this out ASAP ... While I like Clickbank, and they are a great marketplace... they are limited to many restrictions to sell products or earn affiliate commissions... Well, there is a GREAT NEW SERVICE now... It is a new FREE marketplace where you can sell any product you want. Yours OWN product... - OR - (the best part) You can become an INSTANT Affiliate for ANY item in their HUGE marketplace. It...

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AdSense Lets You Add Notes To Keep Track Of Account Changes

Back in October, Google announced some changes to AdSense performance reports to improve usability and make the reports more visually compelling. One of the changes involved the ability to view changes to an account in more detail with the “Show events” checkbox or a separate event report. “Change events are automatically generated and are shown as small flags...

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Google's First PageRank Update In 2013

Google has begun pushing out new PageRank values to the Google Toolbar yesterday. This would make the first Toolbar PageRank update of 2013. Normally Google updates PageRank values in the Google Toolbar every 3 months or so. The previous update was in November 2012 and before that in August 2012. Despite PageRank still being part of the algorithm, SEOs know that...

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