The following is a guest post from Tom Demers. One of the most pivotal aspects of driving large volumes of search traffic in most verticals is effectively targeting long tail keywords.

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3 Steps for Optimizing Content for Long Tail Keywords

When the internal Google remote quality rater guidelines leaked online there was a core quote inside it that defined the essence of spam: Final Notes on Spam When trying to decide if a page is Spam, it is helpful to ask yourself this question: if I remove the scraped (copied) content, the ads, and the links to other pages, is there anything of value left? if the answer is no, the page is probably Spam. With the above quote in mind please review the typical Mahalo page Adding a bit more context, the following 25 minute video from 2008 starts off with Matt Cutts talking about how he penalized a website for using deceptive marketing

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Spam vs Mahalo: Matt Cutts Explains the Difference

When the internal Google remote quality rater guidelines leaked online there was a core quote inside it that defined the essence of spam: Final Notes on Spam When trying to decide if a page is Spam, it is helpful to ask yourself this question: if I remove the scraped (copied) content, the ads, and the links to other pages, is there anything of value left? if the answer is no, the page is probably Spam

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Spam vs Mahalo: Matt Cutts Explains the Difference

And all this, only to find out there was a missing ingredient the whole time Of course, if Dilbert had a text version of the cartoon and perhaps a more relevant alt tag in his embed code that would help too.

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Funny Dilbert SEO Comic Strip Cartoon by Scott Adams

My wife used to tell me that I would give too much away…and then she pens something like this AdWords affiliate guide . It doesn’t seem fair

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Killer Google AdWords Guide for Affiliates