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(Entry was posted by W.E. Jonk on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 01/30/2014).

From a negative sentiment to more negativity

From a negative sentiment to more negativity

This week was a dark week, almost every day there where articles/tweets or whatever about penalties or what can be seen as spam or how G is manipulating webmasters. Since it makes me sad I did not shared it here. Hope you can still suffer one post:

http://www.linkresearchtools.com/case-studies/expedia-google-unnatural-link-penalty/
Expedia seems to spam a little. 

http://sugarrae.com/rants-in-bitchland/google-propaganda-marketers-wake-up/
DO AS OGLE SAYS, NOT AS THEY DO How Google manipulate webmasters.

http://www.seobook.com/divide-and-conquer-algorithm
Fear Sells How Google is using negative techniques to overcome problems they created. 

https://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/427921190162665472
A reminder that affiliates should provide unique/high quality content. Why should G rank them in the first place?

https://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/428436336006017024
Buzzea got penalized and is gone (http://www.buzzea.com/communique.php)

https://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/428607043037958144
Article directories smell like spam.?
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