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Appalling: US Patent US8515941 B1: System for Generating Search Engine Spam

Bill Hartzer

US Patent US8515941 B1 granted Aug 20, 2013, is titled “System for unique automated website generation, hosting, and search engine optimization” And their websites still rank well in Google despite Google Panda 4.0. It’s pretty rare that I out another SEO firm or company (okay, well maybe not).

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Is Google Penguin Recovery All About Cleaning Up Links?

Bill Hartzer

You actual gain search engine reputation over the years, and your domain name has a history. Take a look at my presentation about the latest Google Algorithm Updates, paying particular attention to the section on Google Penguin: Google Algorithm Update 2013: Google Panda, Penguin Recovery from Bill Hartzer.

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SEO and the Stock Market: How to Profit from Google Penalties

Viper Chill

This wouldn’t be much of a blog post if I only had a few examples so I decided to look further back to 2013 and beyond. The most obvious answer would be that they are caught breaking the Google Guidelines and are penalised as such. Create a blog post targeting Yelp and how they’re breaking guidelines.

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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. Of course the username should be backed by a strong user password using the guidelines that were covered earlier.

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In principle, the two names should be the first on the agreement.

Writtent Blog

Through the URS Procedure, ICANN offers a low-cost, expedited path to relief for rights holders experiencing clear-cut cases of infringement caused by domain name registrations. The Federal Reserve started issuing reverse repos as a test program in 2013.