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 [Toprank.blogspot.com] Online Marketing Blog - Daily Search Engine Marketing News: The rel=nofollow attribute is the correct answer: any site can sell links, but a search engine will be able to tell that the source site is not vouching for the destination page."It may be, as Barry points out, that search engines start to use tactics like block level analysis to identify areas within a web page where the "good" content and links are so that lower or no value is given to the areas commonly used for advertising links.

[Daily-seo.com] Google Sitemaps Beta Create Your Sitemap » Daily SEO: Google Sitemaps is an easy way for you to help improve your coverage in the Google index. It’s a collaborative crawling system that enables you to communicate directly with Google to keep us informed of all your web pages, and when you make changes to these pages.

 [Cre8asiteforums.com] Cre8: Google Sitemaps - New BETA feature - Blogs, RSS and ...: Since this is a new website, it is difficult to estimate changes in Google Spidering patterns. I just have to believe that if Google asked for such information, it is in our best interest to give it to them.

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