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Great Site for Learning about Term Weight
I stumbled across Professor Rich Ackerman's Theory of Information Retrieval Site today and found this excellent summary on the theory of normalized term weight. There's some nasty...
The Wrong Ip Address
Many of us have heard rumors about Google banning IP addresses or even entire blocks of IPs based on spamming or manipulative activity coming from them. Here's a case of an SEO whose found exactly this to be the case. From the post: Google will not cache the index pages for any of the sites Incomming tra...
SearchLore
Came across an interesting site today called SearchLore. There's an older but excellent article there on the subject of deep searching and deep indexing - it covers a wide variety of issues and has a great 3D mod...
Oh Ye of Little Faith
For those who may still be reticient to believe in the sandbox's existence at Google or think that a variety of non-related factors or filters may be affecting sites and that the SEO world has simply "created" this term. In defense, I offer up evidence that I can't reveal - that of hundreds of sites experiencing exactly the same type of penalization/filtration effects at Google. I receive dozen...
Actions to Take for Non-Payment
Traian, a member at SEW, is asking for help in what to do regarding a client who will not pay for a verbal contract which he completed. The discussion is fascinating as both ethical and legal issues ari...Level Up Your SEO Skills With Our Free Training
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Design Principles
Return to the roots of design for a moment and remember that the art of our development is inherently tied to specific principles that have been forged over centuries of observation and creation. Digital Web Magazine has an ...
Atoning for Past Sins
Todd (stuntdubl) has a great post at SEW on how to make a successful re-inclusion request to Google. He notes, first off, that a customer of his got banned specifically for using Link Vault, which is new informat...
In the Summertime, When the Weather is Hot...
The lazy days of summer crawl in North America & Europe, creating a bevvy of webmasters who fret and furrow their brows, wondering where the traffic has gone. This "summer slump" is an observable phenomenon every year in industries of all types as workers in t...
Black Hats Hiring
There's an opening for a "Black Hat" position with a company in Toronto, ON. It looks like they're desperate, as they've opened the position to candidates worldwide. Incubator has opened a thread at SEW on the subject and is requesting e-mails go to waynec_at_yellowmediainc.com. I'm not sure if an...
Update on the Sandbox
Many individuals, mostly from SEOChat, having been asking me to update my Google Sandbox articles to include all of the new information, observations and hands-on experience I've got from the past 6 months. I've obliged and have created a new definition and observable phenomenon shee...