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The decline of the dollar has been hitting European vendors and producers selling stuff in the dollar space pretty hard recently. Being based in Belgium, we’re no exception, and so we’ll regrettably have to raise prices for some of our products from midnight tonight

Once again, here’s your favorite black hat SEO comic!

What’s up in terms of spamming and hacking at Google’s all-time darling, Wikipedia? Essentially, it’s the old Dmoz story all over again: A long, sordid tale of broken dreams, tainted trust, misguided zeal, faked concerns and, barring politics, some of the sleaziest social engineering extant.

Ok, folks – here’s another week’s worth of search marketing report.

It’s been a long standing assertion amongst the A-list members of the SEO community that PageRank does not equate with ranking: Too many low PR sites hitting top spots in the SERPs, outdoing their high PR competitors, it’s really hard to come to any different conclusion. However, now there’s a statistical study determining PR evolution in the Google SERPs over the past 6 months and analyzing the correlation between PR and rankings, offering some interesting conclusions

Isn’t it funny how prophecies have a knack of coming true sometimes? One month ago we did a cartoon taking a shot at Google’s hypocritical FUD tactics regarding paid links by fantasizing about what a pair of hardnosed mobsters would do to take advantage of this positively silly state of affairs. Now, it seems that a high profile company like Shopzilla has actually started to pay for link removal!

When you’re traveling or running errands, far from the office desktop or in lack of that nifty laptop, having to make do with your smart phone’s standard search function usually sucks bigtime. The last thing you need is to wade through a hundred search engine results on a display screen the size of a postage stamp!

If you’ve fallen for the prevailing view that a social networking setup like Twitter is of no practical use unless you’re an exhibitionist attention whore, perhaps, think again. There’s actually a lot more to it, provided you’re prepared to venture on untrodden ground.

Here’s a “Link Building 101 in 2 Minutes” video that will save you tons of time and money.

The first reports are in and subscribers have begun making serious money only hours after purchase: Seems that Google Payload is a real bigtime winner on all fronts. However, there’s even more news - some good, some bad

Installing Wordpress blogs on a mass scale is onechore you’d rather want to avoid. It can be daunting enough on a one-time basis, especially if you’re not of a technical bend, but rolling out tens, hundreds or even thousands of WP blogs positively sucks if you have to do it manually. Now, there’s a no-brainer solution available - and at a 25% discount, too, with our special promo code

Reports outlining PPC traffic arbitrage are a dime a dozen these days and we’ve read them all. But this one’s different - hugely, critically different, in fact. If you’re into monetizing the obscenely huge gap between different traffic sources at all, there’s a number of very important things to consider.

And now for something completely different: Here’s your search marketing log.

Quite a few blogs haven’t yet implemented the dreaded “nofollow” tag on comment links. While comments on these blogs will pass link juice nicely, there’s a snag: How are you going to find them? This ultra cheap software cuts it down to a single-click action

Seeing that these networks have evolved into major traffic and link juice pumps, more often than not surpassing the traditional search engines by a long shot, they’re a mainstay of SEO 2007+ now. Here’s an interview on how to game these networks effectively.