Pulling together the Google penalty threads

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Let’s tie the various posts I’ve written over the past few months together into some coherent form, shall we?
In October, I pointed out that using human reviewers to penalize websites for selling links was unfair, given that this is a highly subjective process that can’t […]

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IZEARanks.com is now open to the general public

Izea has opened up the latest component of what will be known as SocialSpark today by opening IZEARanks.com to the general public.
Some key points:

IZEARanks is only open to Blogs, so the ranking is relative to other blogs.
Realrank is at the core of IZEARanks, and the algorithm is public knowledge and can be found at the […]

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Absolutely

“If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?” - Harry Shearer
Just thought this quote was apropos. It’s a Google-world, we just live in it. Back to your normal scheduling.
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Is this proof that even a blind squirrel can find a nut?

I was having a hard time deciding if I should go with the title you see or go with “Social Media Eating Google’s Lunch”
In the end, I went for whimsy.
Also, comparing search and social media is really an apples-to-oranges comparison. There’s a lot of people that are proclaiming social media as a competitor to Google, […]

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