Regular visitors to the SEO Refugee blog will, no doubt, have noticed that something looks different here. For quite a while our home page and blog have needed freshening and it’s finally happened. With any luck, we’ll apply a similar freshening to the forum in the next month or two.

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By now of course the SEO blogs are all buzzing about the New York Times’ article, “Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine.” Nearly every major blog has at least mentioned it and several have analyzed it, tossing their two cents worth out there for us to consume. However, the one advantage I believe this site […]

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According to a thread in our SEO Forum and a post at SEO-Scoop, Yahoo is including pay-per click ads in its organic listings. To the casual observer, the ads are indistinguishable from regular listings leading some to question whether Yahoo! is selling rankings in their search engine result pages (SERPs) as well.
As mentioned above, the […]

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Yes, you read that title correctly. When I logged in to my company’s AdWords account (despite my personal feelings about Google, the company still uses them) today, I was welcomed with this message:
22 keyword(s) are currently inactive for search.
These keywords are marked in the Status column of the Keywords tab […]

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