If you haven’t been hiding under a rock lately, you’ve probably heard that Wikipedia recently reinstated the NoFollow tags for all external links. The English version of the user edited encyclopedia had been the only version without the NoFollow tags (a method, according to Google, of preventing spam).
The move made headlines all across the online [...]

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I know some SEO’s have resisted the Linkbaiting trend and simply glaze over when they hear the term. However, SearchEngineLand has an article that I think every SEO should read.

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Google has apparently begun offering (or at least testing) a feature to offer “Searches related to…” after their first page of organic listings. It appears to be a feature that only affects fairly broad terms and gives the user an option to narrow their search, presumably if they did not find what they were looking [...]

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“First, you got to create good content. Second, you ought to make your content accessible. And third, you should tell others about your content.”
This story made it to Digg.com’s front page and just goes to show that the general public A) is interested in how to rank in the different search engines, and B) doesn’t [...]

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Now, I usually enjoy Search Engine Journal’s articles quite a bit. However, I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw their article 9 Ways To Get Banned by Search Engines.

The 6th point:

6. Duplicate Content or WebsitesSetting up multiple websites with the same content or having several pages on a site with essentially the same information but different keywords inserted here and there. You see the duplicate content method a lot with travel-oriented sites. A “template script” is written then regional terms, such as state or city names, are swapped out on each page.

Of course, someone may have copied the content on your site and put it on their site. The search engines do not make any distinction on who had the content first. Make sure no other site is using your content. You can do this by performing a search using some of your text with quotation marks (”) around it. If you do find someone is using your original copy visit here to learn more about copyright infringement: http://www.google.com/dmca.html.

Let me get this straight… the search engines DO NOT make any distinction on who had the content first?

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