Google has admitted that the position #6 penalty not only exists, but was an error within their algorithm. Matt Cutts has publicly stated that the problem has been fixed, and the change should be rolling out to datacenters at the time of this posting. Hit the jump for a more in-depth look at the situation.

There are rumors circulating that Google will begin restricting their Adsense service to domains that have been registered for longer than 5 days. This would effectively eliminate any potential revenue for publishers who engage in the practice of “domain tasting.” For more information on domain tasting and how this will affect the SEM and PPC industry, read the full post.

Google’s Webmaster Central blog released a frequently asked questions post on the subject of sitemaps, which is an excellent resource for anyone eager to learn how this practice can help your search engine optimization strategy.

In a surprisingly smart move, Microsoft has offered $1.2 billion to acquire Oslo based Fast Search, a well-known and highly innovative search engine development company. This could mean major shakeups in the world of search engines by finally providing Microsoft’s Live search with a decent engine, hopefully giving them more competitive capacity in their struggle to achieve parity with Google.

There have been rumblings around the Webmaster World forums that a new form of page-specific (not side-wide) penalty may be affecting well established sites with a long history of #1 or #2 positions for a particular search phrase. The phenomenon seems to be shifting a diverse group of pages down to the #6 position, in […]

According to screenshots posted on the internet this week, it appears that Rogers-Yahoo, a prominent Canadian internet service provider, has been splicing its own content into the pages that customers visit. In this instance, the violated page in question is the Google homepage, as show in the screenshot to the right.
Wired Magazine obtained official […]

The battle between underscores and dashes in the world of SEO has waged for many years. Underscores have commonly been referred to as a “death mark” when it comes to file naming conventions, but perhaps that association is about to change. Google has finally begun to recognize the underscore as a word separator, and we detail how this change could possibly affect your SEO campaign.

There are a lot of great directory services out there that can be used to help boost your business. Below I’ve provided a list of some of my favorites. Give them a shot, you’ve got nothing to lose.

Business Directory
Blog Directory
adaxas Web Directory
New Free Directory
SEO Directory
Red Links
Directory of SEO Links
Trout
Blog Upper

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