Chris Faron

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Google Panda update missed this one

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With all the talk about the new panda update penalizing sites that have low quality content, I was surprised to find a very poor result in the first spot in Google for the key phrase [google buys beatmyquote] . Clicking on the link to a Smart Company result takes the user to a virtually blank [...]

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April 14th, 2011 at 8:18 pm

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Google Search results with only 3 normal organic listings

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More bad news for SEO specialists still concentrating only on organic results in Google (surely not….). It seems Big G is testing first page results with only 3 “normal” organic listings and 7 map integrated ones. Considering the map listings are appearing for more and more listings, this is going to make it even harder [...]

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April 3rd, 2011 at 7:00 pm

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Google quality rater paid me a visit?

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While going through my Google analytics data for one of my domains, I noticed a very strange URL as a referral. It was domain.com/this_page_should_not_exist.fake (no page extension like html, etc). Being a curious type and working in SEO meant a further investigation was on the cards. I checked the location of the visitor which was [...]

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March 6th, 2011 at 10:53 am

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SEO Duplicate Content checker tools

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Duplicate content or pages with similar content is a major problem on the web both for users and for web designers and SEO specialists. There are many tools around the web to help alleviate the problem. These are my favorites: Webconfs Similar Page Checker after entering the 2 urls outputs the results as a percentage. [...]

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October 2nd, 2010 at 9:10 pm

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