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...And then 80% of users will set their password as "123456". Seriously though, I don't see this affecting the price of BTC - it's 312 as I speak, totally overcooked, I could really do with it getting back down to the 100 range (can someone make up some more scare stories please?).

Sure, I understand what you are saying, I'm kind of thinking along the same lines - but SOMEONE is ranking for this crap still, right..!? OK, take a random search for our Ugandan village (random example, I have no connection with any Ugandan villages!), like "weather in Adjumani Uganda". Some...

So Google has been down on these kinds of site for a long time, not just through Panda etc., but way before that, because they tend to basically produce a lot of thin/unoriginal content if done unimaginatively. But they get mentioned occasionally by IMers, and I know there are marketers running...

Thanks for the tips OP, seems you place great store by fast load times etc. There is quite a bit of speculation that this is something Google looks at, but I never would have thought to take it that far. Certainly I have used cache plugins, and I am not really in the market for any kind of...

What are forums for if not "armchair speculation"? We might as well not talk about anything then.

Maybe a hard-core SEO discussion forum... Thanks for the "related:" operator tip - I'd clean forgotten about that. It would be a bit odd, wouldn't it, if that operator used a completely different algorithm to the one we are talking about! I am going to go and play with that on some of my sites...

Hmm, sorry, wish I had more time to devote to this, but I will try to chime in here whenever I can because I do think this is very important. But probably it's over the heads of MOST of the kiddies on this forum - again, not to be disparaging, it's just reality. Most people around here think...

I am certain almost NO-ONE really knows what is going on - how can they when there have only been a couple of Penguin refreshes, and that is not enough time to do any significant testing. Of course there is historical data and comparisons you can do, but seems to me there is a lot of people just...

P.S. I have been brainstorming this for a few months - recent Penguins put a few holes in some of my ideas, but I will have a think about this and see if I can share any definite thoughts, in line with successes I have been having. I think one key notion is "comprehensiveness" - how...

Dude, don't be surprised the tumbleweeds are blowing through this thread - the sad fact is, not to be disparaging of anyone, but 95% of people round here are lazy and just want the latest link scheme that "works", they don't want to trouble their minds with the future of where SEO is going...

Just to update on this, my EMD, the one with heavy AMR and exact-match anchor backlinks (and a shedload of M**t Lac*** links to an inner page - yeah, I know, I know) slipped a couple of times over the past few days, from page 3 to page 7 to page 13 and this morning I can't find it in the top 700...

Yeah, abbreviations are where the big money is - you get on the latest abbreviation before too many people know about it and you can be laughing all the way to the bank :D

Yeah, they got ripped off for millions and don't take kindly to cookie-stuffers these days - you can't refer traffic from a site you have not verified, so cookie-stuffers get caught pretty quickly. I know people who even got banned because someone mistakenly "stuffed" their cookie by copying...

Hmm, yeah, I would doubt you can make 10 grand a day! You would need tens of thousands of visitors and have a very good EPC (which depends on a whole bunch of factors, junk traffic won't do it). Cookie-stuffers might manage it, but they don't last long in EPN these days.

Yeah, it totally makes sense that they do stuff like that. We may see the search results being much more fluid in the future. I have seen this happen before too, even though I don't think it was a Panda/Penguin or any other update. Maybe they do it for keywords that have ambiguous meanings, or...

Arghhh!! Now EBAY is ranking no.1 for a SEARCH RESULTS page (?q=hinged+widgets) - I beat them out a YEAR ago! Actually, I suspect Google is testing bounce rates or something, looks like everyone is going to get a go at no. 1. Let's just hope my site wins in the end :D. Just like the Google...

Thanks, yeah, you're probably right, although I should point out I didn't have spun content on-site, just spun crap in the backlink profile. Never got an unnatural backlinks warning though... Sure, page 4 is nothing, it's just the downward slide that's worrying. If I was on page 50-60 then...

Somebody said something about incorrect results showing, or SIMILAR but not the same results: I have just had my FIRST real brush with Penguin or Panda (had cruised through so far) on a site which frankly was waiting to get slapped as it was entirely propped up with spun AMR articles, with very...

Yeah, I do OK, though it's not really my focus, I just find info-type Adsense sites easier than product-based sites. But there is a bit of a negative vibe around EPN that dates back to when they introduced the new PPC-style program (they got ripped off really badly when they were in CJ, by...

Yeah, that's very true, IMers seem to forget they are talking about human beings. They talk about "traffic", like it's some impersonal force, not a human being looking for answers to something. There was a guy on another thread the other day said, "My bounce rate is too high, how do I keep the...