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Google targets black hat webspam

Nefarious search engine optimizers be warned. Google is coming for you—again. Following previous changes to Google’s ranking and page layout algorithms, the search giant is pushing yet another update to its algorithm this week with the hopes of curbing “black hat webspam” from creeping into search results. The change will go live for all languages [...]

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Block the bots

Google, Bing, and other search engines use bots to crawl our sites, but if SEO’s use a bot to create content or to exchange links it’s considered a form of SPAM. Some users report that Google has brought down websites by making multiple concurrent connections and overwhelming shared hosts ability to respond to requests. Solution? [...]

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Internet copyright crackdown by ISPs – downloaders beware

If you download potentially copyrighted software, videos or music, your Internet service provider (ISP) has been watching, and they’re coming for you. Specifically, they’re coming for you on Thursday, July 12. That’s the date when the nation’s largest ISPs will all voluntarily implement a new anti-piracy plan that will engage network operators in the largest [...]

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