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"Time goes by so fast sometimes its hard to get a handle on just what happened over the last 10 months. A member on Highrankings Forum has been away from SEO for sometime and is just getting back into the industry and wants to know what he missed in 2005. A lot of the members come to together to outline the year in review. Here is what they came up with that I have compiled and add too. Please feel free to comment and add to the list.\n\nYear of the Google\nYear of the Map\nDuplicate content penalities gets a very close look from SEO's\nReciprocal links even less useful\nPage rank even less important but still a mystery for some\nText links brokers and link builders either change or die with the times\nEven more variation in \"what works\" across different topic areas\nEven more ad money flowing into Adsense away from traditional advertising\nGoogle ranking algorithm updates eliminates more crud (scrapers suffer this year)\nComment spam gets some notice and a group effort to erradicate\nSearch engine spammers take to the streets and forums\nusual complaints about good content penalized and bad content rewarded\nHowever, good content continues to become a staple and reason for high rankings.\nYahoo! begins to become a force in search.\nMSN Search debuts.\nGoogle continues an aging Delay that keeps new sites from being able to rank.\nGoogle begins starts to get serious about eliminating scraper sites/directories\nSearch Engine Patents! \nContinual search engine updates, which are not so bad this year until Jaggar.\nA year ago, few people disliked Google. That has changed this year. \nOverall tilt towards paying more for better-qualified AdSense traffic\nGeneral interest in search marketing continues to rise\nPatience and understanding from SEO clients is on a decline\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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