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By Amy Sawitta Lefevre

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai court handed an eight-month suspended sentence on Wednesday to a website editor for failing to quickly remove posts deemed offensive to the monarchy in a case that adds to growing debate over Thailand's draconian royal censorship laws.

The Bangkok Criminal Court ruled posts on the Prachatai news website (www.prachatai.com) were offensive to the royal family and that its editor, Chiranuch Premchaiporn, failed to remove them promptly, as requested by the court, allowing at least one to stay online for 20 days.

Thailand has some of the world's toughest lese majeste laws to penalise insults against the king, queen and crown prince, but critics say the legislation is used to discredit activists and politicians opposed to the royalist establishment.

Chiranuch, 44, was charged in 2010 in a crackdown on royal defamation under former Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, whose supporters include Bangkok's traditional elite of top generals, royal advisers, middle-class bureaucrats and old-money families.

She faced a maximum 20 years in jail on 10 counts of supporting illegal content and violating the Computer Crimes Act, a controversial and wide-ranging law passed by a military-installed legislature following a 2006 coup.

The suspended sentence is a rare moment of leniency in a series of tough and highly criticised decisions by courts to protect the monarchy, an effort that has increased during what many see as the twilight of the reign of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Thailand's long-hospitalised 84-year-old monarch.

"For someone involved in a lese-majeste content issue, this was a comparatively reasonable sentence," said David Streckfuss, a scholar and expert on Thailand's lese-majeste laws.

Many Thais revere the king, the world's longest-ruling monarch, and regard him as a unifying figure, but national unease over what follows his reign has added to recent political turbulence.

Deadly street riots, mob takeovers of airports and a coup in recent years reveal a country divided broadly between a yellow-shirted royalist elite and lower-income red-shirted supporters of former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, toppled in 2006.

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28-05-2012 20:55 Why restaurants need social media and SEO SEO and Social Media are not the same. They both compliment each other though and should both be part of a restaurant marketing plan.

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Ive got a joke for ya: What has 250,000 URLs, a content team of 15 people and three target keywords?

Your website.

I understand SEOs keyword obsession. Its hard to let go, and a nice, high ranking for a really juicy phrase tends to justify budget. But, as Ive written before, theres more to justifying enterprise SEO than keywords alone.

In fact, in enterprise SEO, Id say keywords should be the last thing you look at. You can get your biggest, best wins with a a general focus on site visibility, content clarity and site performance. Heres why:

Most enterprises have been around a while. If you fit that description, you already have a brand. Your audience already uses certain non-branded phrases to find you. And there are hundreds or thousands more long-tail terms that theyre using.

But youre not getting any traffic from those terms, because you dont appear. See Youve got bigger problems below.

Show me a website larger than 10,000 pages, and Ill show you a site with:

So far this year, weve crawled and tested 10-15 sites Id qualify as enterprise. Every one of them had the problems above. Address any three of them, and you build organic traffic.

If Sears wants to rank for dozens of 'automotive' phrases, they should fix this 302.

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Googles admitted the possibility of negative SEO for years. But in the wake of the Penguin Update, some have claimed its now easier than ever. Does a new change by Google in its help pages acknowledge this?

Googles admitted the possibility of negative SEO since at least 2007. On its help page, it previously had said this about negative SEO, a term used to describe a way a competitor might harm another site:

Now the page says:

Google changed the language a few months ago around March 14th according to Shaun Anderson. This pre-dates the Penguin launch, which may validate that the update of this text does not prove that Penguin makes it easier than ever to use negative SEO techniques than before.

All it may say is that Google is more likely to admit these techniques are indeed possible.

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