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Looking into cloaking as the most powerful technique of search engine positioning, people immediately tend to fret. The irony being that this will probably be the least of your worries as an accomplished cloaker – because avoiding search engine penalties is really such a nobrainer!

Here’s an update to this article, reflecting some of the more recent developments. To spare our readers the trouble of having to browse to the original version, we’re republishing it here.
Criticizing Google for their boundless data greed and the unfettered self-serving disregard for their users’ privacy is nothing new. But rather than adopt a myopic, fragmentized view of things, it’s about time to view their transgression in aggregate because in total it is actually dramatically greater and far more sinister than the mere sum of its individual constituents would lead you to believe.

The tax office is hitting us with a major VAT bill we’ll have to settle soon. So rather than divert funds from ongoing development projects, we’re offering a one-of-a-kind 50% discount on all our products and services for a limited time!

An issue you won’t find being discussed a lot is the nightmare most all content management systems (CMS) will hit you with. Unfortunately, from an SEO’s point of view, it’s also their predominant feature…

The wedding party is definitely over: both the media and the political establishment are starting to view Google as a prime threat to a slew of well established rights and business practices, ranging from privacy through copyright infringement to monopoly status possibly requiring enforcement of Anti Trust laws. Google, expectably, is not amused – and pulled a link they had pointed to our recent Data Kraken article.

Criticizing Google for their boundless data greed and the unfettered self-serving disregard for their users’ privacy is nothing new. But rather than adopt a myopic, fragmentized view of things, it’s about time to view their transgression in aggregate because in total it is actually dramatically greater and far more sinister than the mere sum of its individual constituents would lead you to believe.

These downright sneaky and underhand tactics to optimize for the local search space are bound to be highly effective – so don’t miss out!

Here’s a short and sweet list of fairly good video search engines and platforms, some of them still in beta.

So we’re not much into PPC + affiliate marketing ourselves – but if you are, this is definitely your #1 option!

There’s a new spam technique hitting Twitter, the all-beloved social network that’s been touted as the coming Google killer, and more: tweetjacking – watch your tweets!

If you thought directory marketing was dead – let IrishWonder disprove you: featuring the biggest and most current directory list on the market, along with a slew of techniques and tricks, it’s a must read for every serious SEO

Here’s a free online tool that allows you to check your pages by simulating how they will look to people inflicted by various forms of color blindness.

Here’s an nice piece explaining how to get dofollow links on fickle Delicious

Reports on how to boost your search engine rankings are a dime a dozen these days – but this one is actually quite different: no fluff, no redundancy, and highly effective and low-to-no-cost…

The following article was written and published by me back in 2000, when it created a bit of a buzz in the professional translators’ community. But is it dated? I sure wish it were…