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Ferry Halim's Orisinal
Rand Fishkin

Ferry Halim's Orisinal

No relation to SEO whatsoever, but Ferry Halim, a graphic and Flash game designer whose work astounds me has put together what is, in my opinion, his most addictive game yet. If you've never been to Orisinal, get ready to spend the rest of the ...

Craigslist Blocks Search Engines
Rand Fishkin

Craigslist Blocks Search Engines

According to a thread at SERoundtable, a few million results in Google (and other search engines) from Craigslist have dropped out due to a change in the robots.txt. The change must be very recent, as I had used Google to search CL just a week before the holidays. It's an interesting strategy from the classifieds giant - If anyon...

Mick's Selling Syndik8
Rand Fishkin

Mick's Selling Syndik8

The infamous Black Hat SEO forums are for sale - Mick's done a good job building up the community there. Let's hope it stays in good hands. It sounds like offers should be $10K+, so make sure you're serious if you want to bid. The traffic and revenue details are also listed - I'd imagine it carries a valuable advertising spac...

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Todd's List of 40 Predictions
Rand Fishkin

Todd's List of 40 Predictions

Todd (Stuntdubl) has a great post today on his views for what will be hot in 2006 vs. 2005. I can certainly get behind most of his picks, although I'd love a definition for some of the more obscure ones like: algorithm variable hedge betting? web-copy language synonymy substitution? Algorithm variable...

Monday Morning SEO Quarterback
Rand Fishkin

Monday Morning SEO Quarterback

There's a lot in the SEO blogosphere worthy of reading today, and although I'm not usually one to post a roundup, it feels appropriate so, without further ado: Aaron's going crazy, posting like a madman this morning/afternoon on topics from political blog link-baiting to ...

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CPKs and Blog Serendipity
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CPKs and Blog Serendipity

I am always running the logs on my websites seeing where the traffic is coming from. One of my websites has a blog and I post to that blog almost every day. My initial set-up for that blog had seven posts on the homepage and the archiving was done weekly. After I had been ...

Earl Grey's New Black Hat Paradise
Rand Fishkin

Earl Grey's New Black Hat Paradise

My personal opinion is that you can't be an SEO "expert" without understanding the black hat side of the debate - the techniques that are working, those that don't, how money is made in that sector, and what the latest in hijacking, link spamming and automated content...

SEO on Efnet IRC
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SEO on Efnet IRC

Internet Relay Chat (aka IRC) is an older form of communication on the internet. It's an online discussion system where you join "channels," which are basically chat rooms. I frequent several technical channels but recently have been spending some time in one centered around SEO. The topics of discus...