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 [Jim Hedger] SES Toronto 2005 Follow-Up - Serious Search Marketing: An unnamed representative from Google happened to be sitting in the front row and I couldn't help but notice his look of surprise when Greg showed a slide that looked as if a press release he wrote had captured 6 of the 10 first page references at Google News under the keyword phrase “home improvement guide”. A closer look reveals that these are different press releases with text relating to the phrase as part of a springtime promotion run by Verizon's Yellow Pages.

[The SEO Blog] SES Toronto 2005 Follow-Up - Serious Search Marketing: An unnamed representative from Google happened to be sitting in the front row and I couldn't help but notice his look of surprise when Greg showed a slide that looked as if a press release he wrote had captured 6 of the 10 first page references at Google News under the keyword phrase "home improvement guide". A closer look reveals that these are different press releases with text relating to the phrase as part of a springtime promotion run by Verizon's Yellow Pages.

 [En.wikipedia.org] Search engine optimization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Many search engine administrators consider any form of search engine optimization used to improve a website's page rank as spamdexing. However, over time a widespread consensus has developed in the industry as to what are and are not acceptable means of boosting one's search engine placement and resultant traffic.

[Seoblog.elixirsystems.com] SEO Blog from Elixir Systems: When you register a domain name you own the right part of the name, in my instance I own elixirsystems.com I can put whatever I want to the left of the name (while sticking to valid URL characters). We currently have www and seoblog as two subdomains of the elixirsystems.com site - full URLs would be www.elixirsystems.com and seoblog.elixirsystems.com

[Rankmagic.com] Internet Marketing and SEO Blog from Rank Magic: 3/13/05 :::: Some SEO firms use techniques that may give their clients a fast bump to the top of the rankings but which violate the search engines' terms of use. An example is stuffing keywords into a page but making them the same color as the background (for instance, white text on a white page) so that humans looking at the web page don't see them but the search engines do.

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