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Paid Bloggers Still Get Google Downgrades

Bare Feet Studios

Bloggers who had earned a decent or better Page Rank saw their status tank to zero once Google realized they were being being paid for certain posts by advertisers. To its credit, Google also penalized its own Japan division who used the pay per post tactic in an attempt to compete against Yahoo.

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Link Spamming Is Not Good SEO

Small Business Mavericks

There is a type of blogging that is still popular and that may soon find itself on the outs with Google, if it hasn’t already. This type of blogging was popular in 2005. In fact, in 2005, just about everybody who was blogging was blogging this way, but it’s not the right way to blog. Bill Slawski probably agrees.

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Does E-mail Marketing or Blogging Produce More Results

Small Business Mavericks

“Build a time machine and go back to 2005 and start your blog then,” I say. However, a lot of other things have happened since 2005 that change the blogging/social media landscape. Google has changed its search algorithms thousands of times. Today’s bloggers have to take that into consideration as well.

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227: 3 Travel Bloggers Share their Stories and Tips

ProBlogger

3 Travel Bloggers Share Their Tips and Stories. I started this series towards the end of last year with episode 221: From 0 to 500,000 Page Views a Month – A DIY Blogger Shares Her Story. Today I’ve got three blogger stories for you. Links and Resources for 3 Travel Bloggers Share their Stories and Tips.

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It's Official: Bloggers Are Recognized by the FTC

Bare Feet Studios

It will no doubt be a challenge to enforce this but the FTC recognizes what many of my blogger associates resist: that receiving compensation does affect coverage. At the very least, without compensation or freebies there is far less likelihood that said blogger would be paying attention to said marketer. Insert smiley face here.)

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Google+ Tactics of the Blogging Pros

ProBlogger

Over the next couple of days on ProBlogger, we’ll be taking a look at key marketing tactics bloggers are using on Twitter and Facebook. Since we covered Pinterest recently , I thought I’d explore Google+ today, and check out the approaches some of the A-list bloggers are using on this network.

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Good Writing Remains a Core PR Skill

Proactive Report

I started telling PR people that back in 2005. We know that very few journalists or bloggers get their news from the news wire anymore. News, Google News and many other news websites listed in the Nielsen top ten. Add me to your Google Plus circles. It became a news release, since it was no longer only for the press.

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