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Lest we forget: Here’s yet another black hat SEO satire.

Here’s a fun piece kind of documenting Matt Cutts showing a search engine spammer the verbal middle finger.

Monetizing your participation on social media platforms such as Digg, Netscape, Squidoo, StumbleUpon, Facebook etc. can be a tedious and even tricky affair. This new service will actually pay you for doing so.

There’s some indication that Google’s handling of their Supplemental Index may be in for a dramatic change in terms of links being allowed to pass anchor text in future. If confirmed, it would constitute a fairly dramatic turnaround in their ranking policy.

Here’s a sweet short piece outlining how you can monetize your Facebook membership by promoting affiliate links.

Recent hair-raising findings indicating that click fraud rates are steeply on the uprise, with Yahoo! at least acknowledging the problem and Google shifting into customary turbo denial mode call for a solid, hardnosed reviewal of ROI projections in this market space.

Here’s someone giving you ten good reasons why there’s really no reason for you to waste your time reading the Matt Cutts blog.

Google has been granted an interesting patent covering the split up of search queries into multi-part semantic units. This could well impact a number on-page search optimization factors in the near future.

After having been offline for almost two weeks, Threadwatch follow-up Threadwatcher is up and running again.

Here are two excellent resources listing directories and sites you can submit your blogs and RSS feeds to for free.

Prolific and seminal search engine marketing advocate Mike Grehan has been appointed chair and host of the the premier search marketing show in the UK, SES London 2008.

In a widely unexpected shift of policy, Google will now be treating underscores as word separators in links – a new development that should impact your SEO link building efforts.

fantomaster.com now offers ANZ phone number support via VoIP

Have fun! Here’s another week’s worth of search engine marketing lampoon!

Ask.com has come forth as the first major search engine to adopt a robust privacy protection policy for searchers, possibly heralding a new round of competition in capturing users’ hearts by addressing ever growing concerns about the engines’ data mining practices.