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Dumb and Dumber influence on Google founders

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Fascinating post here about how years ago cinematic images affected two young men, Sergey and Larry whose destiny was to become the founders of the greatest monster of the internet – you guessed it right, the almighty Google. Both born in 1973 were only 21 years of age when a movie described by Wikipedia as [...]

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Why Google likes older websites

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Google wants to promote a better web experience for readers. With the growth of spam site and other SEO gaming techniques the majority of more recent sites are not high quality. Therefore, Google is weighting older sites more heavily in their algorithm, under the supposition that older sites are more likely to have quality content. [...]

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PubCon Las Vegas 2007: Matt Cutts of Google and Vanessa Fox

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WordPress SEO tips from Matt Cutts of Google

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Matt praises WP 2.3 ; does a much better job of putting posts in one location even though can be seen in, for instance, home page and category archive. This is very important in not triggering Google’s duplicate content filters.
Matt stressed offering useful service like a demo or other training rather than just brochure-ware to [...]

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Its a Trust Box not a Sandbox

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Finally some clarity on Google “sandbox” filter at Suntdubl
So what is search engine trust?
For the purpose of keeping things simple, I would identify a site’s trust by 3 different simple criteria:

Website Age – (most importantly the first time it was indexed)
Total # of backlinks and the overall age of those links
Total “trustscore” of other backlinks [...]

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Google Now Reporting Anchor Text Phrases

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Danny Sullivan has a great article over at Search Engine Land about Google Webmaster Central’s new feature; being able to see the text link that links to you site gives webmasters a critical piece of SEO data. For example, <Danny Sullivan> is the anchor link in the previous sentence.
He gets to the point with this:
How [...]

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