Google Kills Blocked Sites Search Feature + MORE

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Great Scott! I am finally back again for another spectacularly lengthy post, rich with wonderful titles, and this time – statistical goodness…

Remember Google’s search feature that let you block websites? The one that launched in March 2011, expanded globally in September 2011, and then vanished and became useless by January 2012 and forgotten soon after? It’s now officially discontinued.

Posted by Pinpoint Designs
On the 15th of August 2012, our agency's website (which was in the middle of a complete redesign) was hit with a manual penalty by our friends over at Google. This came completely out of the blue to us, as we're a fairly small agency that has never taken part in any unorthodox link building techniques…

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: SEO Opportunities Begin Well Before New Website Development Launching a new site, or any major site update, for a large enterprise comes with some unique…

Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article…

You already know that a big fat list is one of the best ways to monetize your site's traffic. But as you've probably seen firsthand, simply tossing up an email opt-in form doesn't work very well. If you want to get more subscribers from your existing traffic, check out these 5 proven tweaks…

You want to rank higher. What’s wrong with that? What’s wrong with the following:

inurl:/category/guest “mobile phones”

Perhaps as many as 927 results for URLs that mention they accept guest posts. Link building, perhaps. But, it’s not marketing.
It’s just link building, and Just link building isn’t enough anymore, is it? You’ve got to want more from this process…