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Google says no more Penguin releases–what does it mean?

Biznology

Penguin targets over-optimized websites that use techniques such as keyword stuffing (dumping dozens of keywords into pages just to get higher rankings) and cloaking (sending a different page to the search engine than to the user). So, does this final release mean that there is no more for Google to do to curb spamming?

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Online Marketing News in 2009: The Year’s Hottest Events

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Here is our 2009 year in review. December 2009 Online Marketing News. Top word of 2009: Twitter. November 2009 Online Marketing News. October 2009 Online Marketing News. Yahoo stops using meta keywords for search. September 2009 Online Marketing News. August 2009 Online Marketing News.

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Best of 2009 (So Far): SEO Guidance, Part 3

WebMarketCentral

Why it Makes Sense to Target Longtail Keywords First by SEO Book Aaron Wall explains that because new or small sites without a large number of external links pointing to them are unlikely to rank well for highly competitive search phrases, it's better to focus on longtail terms first, building up trust, links and traffic gradually.

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Do-it-Yourself Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Your WordPress.

Industrial Marketing Today

If you have used keywords or phrases in your category names, then you may want to add the category to your permalinks by entering “/%category%/%postname%/.” I prefer just the postname since I optimize it with keywords and phrases. Make it descriptive with one or two keywords and phrases and keep it concise.

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Rick Short Explains How to Turn Staff Into Prolific Bloggers

Online Marketing Institute

Posted by Magdalena Georgieva on Mon, Jun 29, 2009 @ 07:40 AM COMMENTS Been searching for an answer.everyone (nearly) agrees that blogs are a great way to bring eyes to your pages. posted on Monday, June 29, 2009 at 10:02 AM by Jack Leblond Jack - thanks for the comment. Any numbers to show success of one over the other?

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Best of 2009: SEO Tips, Part 1

Webbiquity

How do search engines treat different forms of keywords? What other tools are worth checking out for keywords, linking and website analysis? Q&A: A Few Things You Need to Know About Keyword Usage by Search Engine Guide. Ron Jones reviews several keyword, site grader and linking tools.

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A Brief History of Search & SEO

Hubspot

Some, like Search Engine Land (SEL), say that Excite “revolutionized how information was cataloged,” making it easier to find information “by sorting results based on keywords found within content and backend optimization.”. February 1993: Six Stanford students create Architext , which would later become the search engine Excite.

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