Duplicate Content issues and related penalties have been issues and topics on all search conferences, blogs, tutorials and even Google’s blog and webmaster guidelines.

However, what none of them talk about is their double standard for especially strong and trusted sites when it comes to NOT tripping the duplicate content filters and still get a good junk of (extra) traffic from duplication.

.AC.UK domains have shown to be really strong and trustworthy link sources when we looked at them last November!

Now we continue our university domain research project and present the TOP 30 Canadian University domains to you – ranked SEO-wise and compared to international academic school ratings.

Read which Canadian universities to look at first in your link building efforts!

Do you want this research for GERMAN domains? Let us know!

.EDU links have been hot for a while now, but today we are looking into the big UK universities – thanks to the trusted links they have getting links from .ac.uk domains is something you should look into. Read why!

Once again Yahoo has changed it’s Site Explorer interface, breaking all sorts of overlay tools like SEOquake, SEO4FF and various greasemonkey scripts and of course data scrapers that we and fellow SEOs use…

Some nice posts I want to point you to a classic post by Roger/Martinibuster about the sex of linkbuilders… "seems like getting a request from Georgina, Bunny, or Debbie has a better chance than one from Hank, Frank, or Bruce." old but very funny new WordPress plugin by Gab for automatic internal link building great [...]

Years after the NOFOLLOW tag was introduced as a publicly visible tag for links to be ignored
there’s a post about an internal NOFOLLOW class that only Google is able to interpret – per site …

I’m here at the SMX Advanced in Seattle, and there’s def a coverage of the show on many blogs out there, but I guess this little juicy nugget of information might be missing on most of them. Last night in the “You & A” session Matt Cutts responded to Jay Young talking about building an [...]

Last week we published a german version of the Google Ranking Value document by Aaron Wall titled Was ist ein Top Google Ranking wert?

Thanks to Aaron for providing this quality-document with a lot of great pointers and suggestions.

Google somewhat confirmed an algo update,
and I can confirm this myselves…

Google changed the way the return results for some queries.
Google changed the way they filter results for some queries.
Google changed the SERPs for some queries.

Seeing some clients rocket up the SERPs … good thing, eh?

Have a good weekend!

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