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Link Sponges
Posted by rob on August 8th, 2008 filed in SEO
As a new addition to the made-up world of SEO parlance, I’d like to propose the term “Link Sponge”. I may be wrong in thinking there isn’t a phrase for this already, but here’s the definition:
Link Sponge - a URL that is used to prettify an otherwise ugly URL, then 302 redirected to a longer [...]
Read More..>>Why Google sucks and Yahoo! rocks
Posted by rob on January 2nd, 2007 filed in SEO
Despite being a champion of open source, Google have discontinued their SOAP search API. This sucks because those who previously wanted to get information from Google’s SERPs programmatically (ie to check up on their website’s ranking for certain keywords, etc) without resorting to screen scraping, now have to do just that - which is incidentally [...]
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