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Link Cloaking, What is it?

I hear a lot about "link cloaking" and that I should be hiding my affiliate links to keep them from getting hijacked. Is this true? -- Joe S. What is Link Cloaking? Link Cloaking is the technical practice of hiding an actual URL through a link on the local domain, or a through a benign third party domain. URL shorteners, which...
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Thanks for the Slap Google

A few days ago my own pagerank here on the jangro.com homepage dropped from 6 to 4. I was always a little dubious over my ranking of 6, so it must have been a very weak 6. Therefore, a 2 point drop isn't that surprising. In comparison, Jeremy mentioned recently that Shoemoney.com just dropped from 6 to 5. At least I'm in good company. ...
jangro

Linkshare is Dead. Long Live Linkshare.

I'll start out by saying that when talking about Linkshare, my basic inclinations are toward sarcasm and criticism. I can't help it. I've got deep-seated, ingrained, visceral feelings about Linkshare that come from my many years of not only competing head-to-head with during my 5+ years at Be Free, but from failed attempts to stand together...
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Buh-bye Askimet

I just pulled the plug on Askimet. Why would I do this to a plugin that's been saving me about 1000 spam comments a day? Because once in a while it caught up a real comment. While I appreciate the effort these guys go through to thwart comment spam, one false positive is too many. Instead I've installed the Did you pass math? plugin...
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Is Google Misreading Robots.txt?

We noticed a precipitous drop in the past few days in our Google traffic on one well-indexed site. It's been puzzling us for a few days until we noticed in the Google Webmaster Tools that our robots.txt file was somehow instructing Google to disallow everything, from the root directory, down: robots.txt URL...
jangro

I'm Sorry, Googlebot.

jangro

Google's Double Standards?

Let's talk about something other than CJ Javascript links for a bit... Recently, Google updated their Webmaster Quality Guidelines to add a second bullet aimed toward affiliates. Peter Figueredo at Revenues writes that Google Only Wants Affiliates Who "Add Value" and talks about this change (second bullet, bold added): Avoid...
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Google Adsense Bot Moonlighting

First reported by Greg Boser on his SEO Rockstars radio show, it seems that Google's Media-Partner bot is now being used for feeding the index. Word out of the presently-running WebmasterWorld conference is that Matt Cutts of Google confirms that this is the case. Shoemoney reports that "Matt said it is a bandwidth saving feature to have...
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