Vaguely Interesting - "7 SEO Techniques That Google Smashed in 2007"

[Bill]

We already know all this stuff, but it's vaguely interesting to see a summary...

I thought #3 was particularly relevant to the link lists - #1 is the biggie affecting everything else.

Visit the url to read the whole thing - I trimmed this version a bit.

http://www.copybrighter.com/blog/7-s...mashed-in-2007

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1. Reciprocal links. In May of 2007, Realtors who relied heavily on reciprocal links started to sob as -30 penalties were dished out by Google, harming their business. It became clear that the decade-old tradition of reciprocal links programs was over. Done. Finished. Time to get one way links.


2. The "site: *** -sljktf" command (to show the supplemental index results).

3. Directory links. Buying directory links is another decade-old SEO tradition that Google took a pretty big swipe at when it devalued the PageRank of hundreds of lower-quality, made-for-webmasters directories this year.

4 Open link brokers and link networks. (basically, openly buying and trading links)

5. Sponsored blog post networks.

6. Owning the SERPs with subdomains.

10 Top Blue Links. (the idea that top tens are easy to get anymore) Even more remarkable, more linkworthy, more multi-media content is in order for 2008. Quality over quantity.

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