Googles secret handbook leaked to the outside world!

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Published 24th October 2011 |
Read latest comment - 25th October 2011

This caught my eye, an article from Site Reference about the leaking of a confidential handbook used by outsourced content checkers, that help grade all of our websites.

Most of it is stuff we've all been aware of over the years, but still some good points, especially for any novices.

Googles Secrets Leaked to the Public | Site-Reference

Steve Richardson
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Thanks for sharing article like these . This helps lots of businesses specially home or small business owners.

IanL

I found a related article from that one that I have bookmarked. It might not be the real guidebook, but its packed with a lot of information regardless.

I wonder how many got the guide before Google caught on?

Thanks,
Dreamraven

yup, I liked the quote from Search Engine Land:

"Google said that it was a copyrighted document, and since he hadn

Steve Richardson
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That just really sux I think. We could have gotten a lot of really good information about how we could make the perfect site. But I can see why they would also have it removed though. Spammers could do a lot of real damage had they gotten their mitts on it.

Thanks,
Dreamraven

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