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As Threadwatch is canned, two different projects are starting to compete for successorship. So are we in for a split up of the community?

As news about black SEO and the harm it may inflict on the search marketing industry and the entire commercial Internet begins to hit the mainstream media, it is about time to break down the most common tactics employed and point to solutions protecting you against desperate or hard hitting competitors playing dirty.

After years of the SEO industry’s going in denial mode whenever the topic of negative or inverse SEO was broached, it’s hit the mainstream media now and will expectably evolve into a major buzz now impacting all search marketers and optimizers.

Tired of asking strangers where to find the next john when on the go or making do with whatever filthy place you happen to come across in a pinch? No more diapers! Here’s a mobile search engine you can deploy via your cell phone.

The Central Intelligence Agency’s Freedoom of Information web site has been caught with its pants down - a cross server scripting vulnerability allows you to publish your own content there. So much for national security in the age of the War on Terrorism.

Trackback spamming is only one out of several black hat traffic and link building techniques. Read these interesting free reports if you’re concerned about what those nefarious black hats may actually be up to.

Aaron Wall announces the closing down of the infamous Threadwatch forum.

Depersonalizing your Google search helps protect your privacy and may fend off grief incurred by two parties attempting to compare search results in a meaningful way.

Yes, here’s our search marketing farce!

Seems the Chinese government isn’t just blocking political dissidents: Apparently they’re not too happy about companies developing cloaking software, either.

In the prevailing atmosphere of link fetishism, .edu sites have evolved into a prime target for white and black hat SEOs alike. Here’s a mystery site offering you your own .edu site blog and text link. Alternately, get your own oneway .edu links for free instead.

Google’s privacy spokesperson Peter Fleischer threatens to close down GoogleMail in Germany if the German government persists in enforcing its controversial plans for more or less total surveillance and record retention of Internet traffic and e-mail usage.

Link building fads come and go, like practically everything else in search marketing, and it’s always a good idea to review strategies further down the road after the initial hoopla has abated. Sponsoring Wordpress themes for linklove is no exception.

Gauge your SEO blog’s money value with this neat Technorati API based tool - this will help you fend off all those greedy investors hopping on the domaining band waggon till your price goes ballistic.

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