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The BBC has reported on SEO black hat tricks noting that Google has “blacklisted” the website of German car manufacturer BMW for breaching its guidelines.

Google is testing a new data center infrastructure, a feat much bigger and comprehensive than an algorithm change.

Google is still the Big Mama of search according to the statistics of fo search results in 2005. Some results below:

In an article title SEO For The New Google, Dave Davies writes about the latest 3-part Google update, nicknamed Jagger, that has essentially changed many of the rules and have thrown the SEO community for a loop. The key areas, he notes, that have been affected with this update are:

Google’s duplicate content filter has been the target of much discussion on search engine forums. Recently search engine hackers Googlewashed Matt Cutts’ blog, to prove a point. Those guys sure do some interesting stuff.

A while ago, I wrote an article on how to benefit from article marketing by using unique content, which I […]

The forums are buzzing with the news that Google has filed for an organic search patent, Personalization of placed content ordering in search results , to serve organic search results based on user profiles. The patent deals with profiling Google users based on their search history in order to personalize Google ads with behavioral targeting

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This thread on WebProWorld discusses Google’s ongoing Jagger Update. Some webmasters have noted that their traffic from Yahoo jumped during the update and wonder if the public dislikes Jagger as much as SEOs.

The buzz on Google’s latest algo update (nicknamed Jagger) has crashed the WebmasterWorld Forums, but the discussion continues here. Plenty of complaints on the new update on the Search Engine World Forums.

According to Google engineer, Matt Cutts, Google is trying out a new initiative to allow users to block spammy or non-relevant sites from their personal search results.

Black hats are often experts at manipulating code to stay a step ahead of the search engines, and the latest issue of the Axandra newsletter reports that some webmasters are using a new bad trick to get higher Google rankings.