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Exploring the Fascinating History of SEO

Content Hacker

Somehow, the page had gotten buried in the SERPs amid promotion from fan sites. 2003: Google Introduces the Florida Update & Nofollow Attribute In 2003, Google introduced the “Florida” update to its algorithm. It was the mid-90s, when the internet as we know it was brand-new. Why was Jefferson Starship’s manager angry?

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Confessions of a Retired Black Hat SEO: 7 Crazy Tactics That Yielded Big Gains

Neil Patel

Black hat strategies involve everything from keyword stuffing and private blog networks (PBNs) to content automation and tiered link building. Once a WordPress user added the new theme update, they would get some cool new features and, of course, a link back to one of my sites was placed in the theme footer.

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12 Most Insightful eCommerce Blogs To Follow for the New Year

ContentWriters

As blogging began to grow, WordPress came on the scene in 2003, and in 2004, Merriam-Webster named “blog” as the top word of the year, saying it was the most often looked-up word on its site during the previous twelve months. Every time you publish a new blog post, you’re adding fresh content, which Google likes.

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How to Get More Organic Traffic Without Doing Any SEO (Seriously)

Neil Patel

Now to be fair, this was back in 2003 when it wasn’t that hard to rank on Google (or any other search engine for that matter). Stuff some keywords into your page, your meta tags, and build some spammy rich anchor text links and you were good to go. I was able to do this because I already had sites that ranked for those keywords.

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The Craft And Business Of Writing Non-Fiction Books With Stephanie Chandler

The Creative Penn

I am a Silicon Valley refugee, I left in 2003 and I opened a brick-and-mortar bookstore here in Sacramento, California, and thought I was going to write novels in the back office. Also, Joanna, I've become a big fan of Amazon ads. I overspent on I can't even tell you how many print ads and things like that.

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188: How to Build Two Successful Blogs (and the Pros and Cons of Doing so)

ProBlogger

The first one I did was a camera review blog which I started late in 2003. It worked really well, it’s actually the first blog that I began to make some money from by putting some Adsense Ads on and referring people over to Amazon with affiliate links. But even in those early days, I didn’t really promote myself.

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188: How to Build Two Successful Blogs (and the Pros and Cons of Doing so)

ProBlogger

The first one I did was a camera review blog which I started late in 2003. It worked really well, it’s actually the first blog that I began to make some money from by putting some Adsense Ads on and referring people over to Amazon with affiliate links. But even in those early days, I didn’t really promote myself.

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