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How to Build a Billion Dollar SEO Empire

Viper Chill

Jacob King was the first person to discover this back in 2013 and prompted Barry Schwartz, owner of Search Engine Roundtable to question whether Retail Me Not and other brands under Google Ventures’ watch would ever be subject to Google penalties. Aaron Wall of SEO Book had a different take on the subject.

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How to Get a Footer Link from SoundCloud.com (And Why I’m Continuing with “Dark SEO”)

Viper Chill

Within 24 hours of my blog post about how they were abusing their loyal readers by stuffing dozens of links in their widgets, they removed them from their widget code. For instance, I’ve already covered Godaddy and Symantec totally abusing the SSL space adding widgets to their users’ sites. Not a chance.

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Best Social Media Stats and Market Research of 2010 (So Far)

Webbiquity SMM

And ‘give and get’ widgets are more engaging than traditional banner ads, but no more likely to produce an intent to purchase.&#. By 2014, Forrester predicts that social media spending will be higher than that for both email and mobile, though still much smaller than search and online display advertising.

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