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Building A Natural Link Profile

Building links but worried about being penalized by Google? Here are some of the possible metrics search engines may use to detect manipulation

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Using the Digg API

Everyday microblogging is gaining more traction. In this article we go over some of the basic steps of syndicating your social network activity on your blog/website via digg's api

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New Keyword Rankings Tool

Please help us test our new keyword rankings tool that pulls data from the Seodigger.com api.

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Is the DIGG experience worth it ?

The real value of Digg's front page isn't direct traffic. The natural back links from bloggers increase PR and relevant anchor text links help in keyword rankings.

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Digg Needs A Linkjacked Bury Option

Many of the sites we see on the front pages of Digg and Reddit are thinly disguised linkjackers.

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htaccess tool

Posted on 13 December 2008

This tool allows users to create a custom apache .htaccess file that eliminates a couple of the most common PageRank leaks found on a typical site. Simply enter your domain name and default index page and click the submit button.

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analytics

Google Analytics: Goal Tracking and Sitelinks

Posted on 12 December 2008

Google is using a lot of your analytics data for their own nefarious purposes. We can confirm that they are using goal conversion data to determine sitelinks. Who knows what else?

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reddit

Reddit’s Secret API

Posted on 24 November 2008

Over the past few weeks I have been working on creating a tool to gather some social media metrics to track social media optimization campaigns. Friendfeed is your friend if you’re embarking on the same project. While looking for a native reddit API however I stumbled across a post on code.reddit.com that mentioned [...]

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jquery  site architecture

Hiding Content from Spiders with jQuery

Posted on 19 October 2008

Any decent SEO is certainly aware of the CSS float technique to manipulate how a search engine spider caches your site. The idea behind this trick is that if the main content of any page is cached before less important, less relevant content, it will slightly improve your keyword rankings. This SEO technique [...]

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  • ryan: Try googling “reddit api” See what comes up.
  • Adam: Thanks. I think I understand and largely agree with you. I was actually watching an old Matt Cutts interview...
  • Foo: This really isn’t much of a secret. They’re open source, you know
  • admin: First off I wouldn’t believe everything you hear from Google but yes, word is css & html are now...
  • Adam: I was under the impression that Google looked at CSS now as “part” of the site and that the old...

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