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Google Hosts Low Quality Article Directory with Links They Want Us to Remove

Bill Hartzer

Let’s first take a look at this ‘article directory’ website: If you look at the screen shot, you’ll see that it’s an “article directory” that’s similar to the what Matt Cutts talked recently talked bout. In fact, he said not to build links using article directory websites.

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The Evolution of SEO in New Zealand

Bill Hartzer

In the mid to late 2000s, it was possible to write lots of keyword rich articles, submit them to article directories such as Ezinearticles.com and get them highly ranked in a short time. When Panda was implemented, however, the tactic of blasting articles to directories became virtually useless.

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Best Demonoid Alternatives

SocialFish

After many years of sporadic appearance and disappearances, Demonoid started to come back online in August 2019 under the Domain name dnoid.to. However, the website was taken down in October 2013 after a protracted legal battle with the MPAA. Like with older iterations of the site, however, registrations open intermittently.

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How to Protect Your WordPress Site Before the Hackers Lock You Out!

ProBlogger

Since most brute force attacks on your website are automated, they most likely will either use “admin”, “administrator”, “manager”, or your domain name to try to hack into your account, so use a random username instead. You can disable directory browsing by adding (without the quotes), “Options –Indexes,” to your.htaccess file.

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The Triple X Niche Site Case Study is Now Live (With a BIGGER Twist)

Viper Chill

We’ve lowered this to $500 each until the end of 2013 (two months). As far as my domain name goes, I’ll also be choosing something brandable rather than something that specifically mentions the niche or the keywords I’m hoping to rank for. properties and submiting to article directories. Building Web2.0

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13 Advanced Link Building Strategies You (Probably) Haven’t Used

Viper Chill

The website is featuring a real brand with a logo, Twitter account and Facebook page which has nothing to do with the domain name of the site I see ranking. I’ve found one site I can donate to (it’s cheap) and two directories which accept links from anyone, as long as you get in touch with them.