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Time for fun again! Here is Dr Search with another search engine marketing toon!

Search industry watchdogs have noticed an ongoing radical slashing of many (former) darlings’ PR values. It’s happening across the board and has hit a slew of previously high PR rated sites. Is this a consequence of Google’s clamping down on link sellers? Not everyone seems to think so.

Unabashed by the ongoing, FUD dominated discussion concerning paid links as fueled by the Google self-declared Noevilers, this crowd has blithely launched a new link building service with a twist: Rather than pay through the nose on a monthly basis, as is customary, you’re only set back by one-time fees for any PR1-PR5 link.

In what’s evolving into something of a collaborative effort, Pablo Palatnik on Palatnikfactor blog has started out with a mindmap analyzing the typical brains of a white hat and a black hat SEO. Good fun stuff.

With our fantOons series of SEO cartoons now into its third year (hurray!), we’ve decided to set up a basic shop over at CaféPress where you can purchase your Dr Search favorites on t-shirts, mugs, steins, wall clocks, tile coasters, mousepads, baseball caps, trucker hats, bbq aprons, buttons, stickers, posters, etc.

There’s more aspects to black hat SEO than you can shake a stick at, it can be applied to anywhich type of the gaming search engines in order to drive traffic and sales, and pay-per-click (PPC) advertising is certainly no exception.

Usability and ROI guru Jacob Nielsen reveals why you should use active voice in your headers - with a twist, of course.

Lest we forget: Here’s another week’s black hat SEO doodle!

This is truly funny - a spoof on the countless absurdities of SEO by a designer royally annoyed by what he terms “The Tyranny of Design-For-Google”.

Off to the funny side: Here’s our Dr Search with another weekly black hat SEO report…

Earl Grey of Syndk8 forum is conducting an SEO experiment targeting what is arguably the most competitive market of them all: pharmaceutical spam, specifically Viagra.

Regular readers of fantomNews will know that we’ve been very early adopters of Wordtracker, the industry-standard keyword research tool and database. Now, they’re offering a special promotion giving you 15% off both monthly and yearly subscription.

Here’s this week’s black hat log!

What with the ongoing FUD tactics pursued by Google & Co. trashing paid links and junking up the industry forums and blogs with all the buzz this creates, out comes - entirely expectably - a super duper tool claiming to have mastered the technology to detect said paid links. So can they? Well, if so, here’s some very revealing stuff - and remember you read it here first!