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Google’s Panda update in June sent a large number of websites plumetting down the search engine rankings.  This has left many SEO consultants and webmasters asking why is Google penalizing some good sites to get the bad ones?

There has been widespread discussion amongst webmasters and SEO experts as to what is the best approach to get their sites out…

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I recently came across an interesting thread on the WebmasterWorld forum which has generated plenty of discussion.

The topic being, what would you change in the Google search algorithm?

Some of the changes that forum members would make include:

• Don’t penalize paid links, just don’t let them pass link juice
• Make penalties permanent
• Kill the nofollow attribute
• Modify the

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You would think that listing all the factors that Google uses to determine your ranking would be a near impossible task, right? Well, apparently not. Today we have your first sneak peek at the list of the almost 200 search engine ranking factors used by Google.

How did this list get started? Well, apparently Mr Google, Matt Cutts, mentioned at…

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