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Plussem.com Will Sell You +1s For The Low Price Of Your Soul

It’s only natural. People were bound to game the system to get those precious +1s so their crochet/steampunk blog got some recognition. SEO! So you can’t blame Plussem.com for charging $US9.99 for that fix, right? Of course you can.


February 25, 2011
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Google Search Updates: Less Content Farm Spam, More Recipes Search Does Exactly What Its Name Implies

Two awesome things are happening with Google’s search engine. First, Google is finally going after the content farms that flood their search results with posts that care more about SEO than content. Wanting to filter that noise out, Google is pushing forward a new search algorithm which identifies posts from those types sites and lowers their search rank. That makes it harder for these sites to make it to the top of a results page for any given search string. It will affect approximately 12% of all queries on Google.