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that negatively affects the whole ecosystem, they’re a big waste of time & effort. The smart approach to SEO contests is to ignore them.” Muller adds that anyone considering participating in an SEO contest should devote their time and effort to something more productive. “If you’re thinking of
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pointing to that document, forcing webmasters to link to a web site was quite a powerful way to increase its web presence. The contests announced by V7N (using the phrase v7ndotcom elursrebmem) and its counterpart by WebGuerrilla are good examples. While the first of these originally required the
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