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Confessions of a Google Spammer

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Before I became an inbound marketer, I once made $50,000 a month spamming Google. I never wanted to spam the Internet. If spamming is so wrong, I wondered, how come it always works so well? They rationalize spamming Google's index in so many ways: We're helping Google improve their algorithm! They deserve to get spammed.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Now, you can discover if someone’s a dolt in 140 characters or less. In the last year, I’ve been lied to at various times by the President, Congress, my family, clients, Tiger Woods, Toyota, the Catholic Church, the local school board, and at least one Olson twin (but I can’t remember which). It’s a constant.

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How to Protect Your Website Content From Future Panda Updates

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If you're unfamiliar with Google's Panda Update, it is essentially one of Google's search engine algorithm updates that targets and pushes down the rankings of content farms and duplicate content on the web. At the end of 2010, there were 255 million websites online, which made for quite a bit of content! Easier said than done, right?