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Christopher Walken Escapes Sandboxing in Under 2 Weeks
My understanding is that the website Walken2008 is a joke and nothing more. However, it has the distinct privilege of being the fastest site I've ever observed coming out of Google's notorious sandbox. Despite being r...
Graph Showing Sandbox Exit
The disgust blog has an entry from several months ago on a site's exit from the sandbox via a 301 re-direct to a new subdomain at an existing TLD. Pretty stark evidence of the box's effects and a good solutiong for those in desperate need of a way out. Here's the ...
Sample SEO Contract
DazzlinDonna has a pre-made SEO contract that might be useful for those who run smaller operations and need a hand getting started in contract design. It's by no means over-arching, but it's an excellent place to start and it's free. She also has a good, basic description of the specific tasks that fit into SEO work: ...
Signature Links at the Forums
I've been noticing people's signature links at the major SEO forums more and more lately, especially when I ran this search - mesothelioma seo forum thread reply. That's a disturbing number of resu...
gVisit
gVisit is a tool that you can install on your site to see where the last 20-100 visitors to your site came from geographically. It's nothing sophisticated, but it is another example of a site using Google's map API to create something unique, and building on the succes...Level Up Your SEO Skills With Our Free Training
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Link Analysis Tool from SEOBook
Aaron Wall has put together a very impressive link analysis tool. Sadly, I don't have time to check it out personally, as I'm deep in tool building myself. However, his review of the tool is exceptional and walks thr...
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...