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November 26th, 2007 by elias.kai
Does Facebook’s Privacy and Data Policies Worry You
* Yes: something should be done
78137% of all votes
* Yes, but I’m not fired up about it
44321% of all votes
* No: Google already knows everything about me anyway
37218% of all votes
* No: I don’t care
32215% of all votes
* Maybe: somewhat concerned
1708% of all votes
Total Votes: 2088 Started: November 25, 2007
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November 22nd, 2007 by elias.kai
Why should I report paid links to Google?
Old
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Buying links in order to improve a site's ranking is in violation of Google's webmaster
guidelines and can negatively impact a site's ranking in search results.�
New 22 - 10 - 2007 (I think since July 2007)
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Not all paid links violate our guidelines. Buying and selling links is a normal part of the economy of the web when done for advertising purposes, and not for manipulation of search results. Links purchased for advertising should be designated as such. This can be done in several ways, such as:
* Adding a rel=”nofollow” attribute to the tag
* Redirecting the links to an intermediate page that is blocked from search engines with a robots.txt file
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