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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!

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!

Here’s an excellent opportunity to gain linklove from Wikipedia in a perfectly legitimate manner. Lots of niches available that can be yours to cover for the asking.

A Russian black hat SEO reveals how to get 100K pages indexed in Google without spamming their links directly. Use at own risk.

Like so many others who haven’t renounced their brains by signing up for the Google Cargo Cult in the hope of eternal page one rankings, Alex Goad of Net Frontier Marketing takes exception to a slew of Google antics, publishing an activist piece you are encouraged to read and adopt.

Branding Google’s latest antics for what they are: a policy of Web Apartheid and unfair segregation of millions of innocent Web sites, born out of utter hubris, arrogance and disregard by the world’s most colossal corporate parasite for the very host they’ve been thriving on for far too many years

In their pervasive effort to make life as difficult as possible for just about anyone except themselves and their antediluvial ranking technology, Google is now wagging the index finger at reciprocal linking.

Good, affordable link building networks aren’t exactly a dime a dozen these days. Here’s a new one (still in pre-launch) that seems both well conceived and very promising even though there’s still some scope for improvement.

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.

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.

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.