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FTC Sends Letter to Search Engines Regarding Paid Ads Versus Natural Search Results

Bill Hartzer

The FTC has sent a letter to many of the major search engines, including AOL, Ask.com, Bing, Blekko, DuckDuckGo, Google, and Yahoo!, the FTC is warning the search engines that consumers must be notified that paid ads are paid ads–and it must be very clear which search results include paid ads and which do not.

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TopSEOs.com Banned In Google

Bill Hartzer

At the Pubcon Conference today in Las Vegas, here’s the TopSEOs.com booth: A search in Google reveals that TopSEOs.com has been banned in Google: TopSEOs has been around or a long time, the domain name originally registered in 2002. Search Engine Marketing Firms' Penalized or Banned in Google?

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Relevance, Long Tail Are Nothing New

Small Business Mavericks

They’ve each been key SEO principles since 2002. If you stick with white hat techniques, you’ll stay clear of violating search engine guidelines and run fewer risks of being a victim of the algorithm. If you produce high quality content on a regular basis, then you’ll do well in the search engine game.

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Mathemagenic " Reasons for using weblog to keep information bits

Buzz Marketing for Technology

If the original disappears or is moved, I could use the quote for find it (usually it’s an updated location easily found with any search engine, otherwise I use Internet Archive Wayback machine ). December 2002 (41). November 2002 (15). October 2002 (58). September 2002 (34). August 2002 (78).

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How to Get Your MyLife Refund

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To recap MyLife.com (formerly Reunion.com) is a social network service founded in 2002, which claims to help members find and keep in touch with friends, relatives and lost loves. This people search engine is experiencing some customer service blues due its auto-renewal billing feature. Getting Your MyLife Refund.

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Is Twitter Advertising a Threat to PPC?

Convince & Convert

Google started implementing search engine ads in December of 1999, and by 2002 PPC had evolved into the major industry we know today. Back in February of 1998, Jeffrey Brewer of Goto.com first presented the concept of pay-per-click advertising (PPC) at the TED conference. But does PPC now have a new competitor?

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Mastering the Art of Listening: A Blogger’s Guide to Success

ProBlogger

When I began blogging in 2002 I made a lot of mistakes and had a lot of false assumptions about blogging. search engine referral terms – often people arrive on your site having plugged a specific question into Google.