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	<title>Blackhat SEO</title>
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	<description>For all the bad ideas I have...</description>
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		<title>Google is Evil: Don&#8217;t Trust &#8216;Em</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Collective Thoughts has an interesting list of the Top 12 Resons to Distrust Google, which include gems like:

Google earns huge money off splogs (Spam blogs) and MFA (made for Adsense) sites with no real content
Google is literally a black box company and accountable to nobody, we simply don’t know how exactly they manage our most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blackhat-seo.feifei.us/15/google-is-evil-dont-trust-em/</link>
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		<title>Twitter Stole My Username!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out this email from Twitter:
We&#8217;ve received a request regarding the release of a trademarked username. It has come to our attention that your Twitter account http://twitter.com/timbaland is in violation of our basic Terms of service, specifically article 4 which mentions impersonation:

You must not abuse, harass, threaten, impersonate or intimidate other Twitter users.

In this case [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blackhat-seo.feifei.us/14/twitter-stole-my-username/</link>
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		<title>Wordpress Vulnerable to Worm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Benjamin Flesch points out seven Wordpress XSS exploits that could be used partially or en totalis to create a 0day Wordpress worm that could:

Spread automatically around the blogosphere
Inject a payload into Wordpress

In the blackhat world, the best target would be to find a Wordpress.com XSS exploit.  Then you could easily write a script looking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blackhat-seo.feifei.us/13/wordpress-vulnerable-to-worm/</link>
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		<title>Adsense Rounded Corners Lack Thoughful Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google has a new way to show Adsense, in different kinds of rounded boxes now.  Presumably, this is to help their advertisements blend better with the newer style of Web 2.0 sites we&#8217;re seeing more of of.  There are three levels of rounding available, but the text is poorly layed out inside the ad block:

See [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blackhat-seo.feifei.us/10/adsense-rounded-corners-lack-thoughful-design/</link>
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		<title>Auction Ads Hates How We Do It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got this somewhat amusing email from Auction Ads:
We have noticed that your AuctionAds account is sending an extremely large number of dynamic keyword requests.  While it may seem like that method would provide the best experience for your users, and the best conversion, that is not the case.  Dynamic keywords put a strain on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blackhat-seo.feifei.us/9/auction-ads-hates-how-we-do-it/</link>
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		<title>Twitter Experiment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you know, Twitter pushes pagerank.  So, I&#8217;ve linked myself from Twitter to this blog.  A good trick would be to register a number of users, or pay users, to link to your blog.  Just like every other social network, people are going to start paying for links on Twitter&#8230;
What a shame that we can&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blackhat-seo.feifei.us/7/twitter-experiment/</link>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s -950 Overoptimization Penalty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you believe that there&#8217;s a Google &#8220;-950 positions&#8221; over-optimization penalty?  If you don&#8217;t, here is the proof:

That&#8217;s right, over the course of a day one of my sites dropped by about 90% of its traffic.  How did I correct this?  Well, I was using a plugin which generated a list of terms.  If you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blackhat-seo.feifei.us/5/googles-950-overoptimization-penalty/</link>
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		<title>Google Trends = MFA Spam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s relatively new Hot Trends of the Day features all the keywords you need to create your own highly optimized made for adsense (MFA) page:

The algorithm for exploiting Google Trends is simple:

Scrape their hot-trends page in as many languages as you like
Query technorati for that language and term and get stories
Post some excerpts on an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blackhat-seo.feifei.us/3/google-trends-mfa-spam/</link>
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