Google Removes All .co.cc Sites From Index

Google has been doing all it can this year in order to reduce the amount of spam pages in it’s index, a figure that has been steadily growing for the past 5 years or so. Some serious changes to the magical Google algorithm this year, with the ‘Panda’ update, helped this by hitting spam sites [...]



Cutts, Sullivan Weigh In On Paid Links


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This post is taken from WebProNews . by David A. Utter Internet Drama, in the form of the ongoing paid links debate, received a couple of new entries to fan the flames. Webmasters see paid links as a way to boost their search engine presence against the competition. Google perceives paid links as a mechanism [...]



SubDomains and SubDirectories According to Matt Cutts from Google


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This post is directly referring to its original owner’s blog here. I encourage you to visit Matt’s blog for other interesting articles. Towards the tail end of PubCon, I noticed a spate of articles talking about subdomains and subdirectories in Google, and I wanted to talk more about this subject in case I was unclear. [...]



Google Scrubs SubDomains


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This post is taken from WebProNews . by Mike McDonald A couple of weeks ago, Google made a change in their algorithm. Prior to the change, a subdomain was considered more or less like a separate URL. Matt explained the reason that presented a problem was due to the fact that multiple subdomains and main [...]