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Wed
10
Jan '07

Cashing In With Legacy Link Equity

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Excerpt: Your computer sucks.  The Core Duo is dead -- now you need a Core 2 Duo!  Well, at least nobody is selling them.  And if the web page was located at /Core-Duo.html, one can 301 redirect /Core-Duo.html to /Core-2-Duo.html.  This channels the legacy equity to related updated conten ...
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Mon
8
Jan '07

SEO Egghead's Birthday: Jan. 16

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Excerpt: It's my birthday on January 16, so it's time for everyone to leave a comment -- and for all of my friends to buy me drinks.  I'll be doing something that involves a bar and drinks in NYC on January 13. I figure I should reschedule my birthday like presidents do for maximum convenien ...
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Thu
4
Jan '07

How To Sneak Trademarks into AdWords

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Excerpt: One thing I've noticed in my PPC adventures is that Google AdWords is anal-retentive when it comes to using drug trademarks in the legal space.  This probably isn't the only area where trademarks become an issue (The Apple trademark seems to be another one), but drugs are where I've ...
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Tue
2
Jan '07

How You Can Stop Dirty Feed Scrapers In 3 Easy Steps

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Excerpt: Stealing is wrong; but some people just don't seem to get it when it comes to intellectual property.  Some of my posts take a few hours to write.  It's just plain annoying when people steal my work.  I'm sure that you feel the same way. Now, normally, I don't call out ...
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Tue
2
Jan '07

Gmail Lost 7 Days Of My Email!

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Excerpt: I logged in to Gmail earlier this past December 2006 -- only to find that my localization setting was set to Chinese.  It took me about 5 minutes to figure out how to get it back to English, mostly because I don't read Chinese! I assumed it was just a fluke.  Maybe my cat walked o ...
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Thu
28
Dec '06

The "Top 1" Reason To Look At Everyone's Web Stats

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Excerpt: Everyone is releasing their web stats for 2006.  What the heck -- I will too.  What you have to notice, though, is that everyone who is getting lots of traffic has a few posts that sound like this:"The Top 10 reasons ... ""5 Ways To ... "Hrmm ... I see a trend.  Bu ...
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Wed
27
Dec '06

I Dream Of Miss Dewey

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Excerpt: And so do you.  Miss Dewey is hot, she's viral, and she's ... in softcore.  Danny blogged about this viral experiment from Microsoft here.  Valleywag documented Janina Gavankar's "interesting" past appearances over here (not work safe). I posit that Microsoft wa ...
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Wed
27
Dec '06

DMOZ Editing 100% Back Up

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Excerpt: A little while ago I reported that DMOZ had risen up from the ashes.  But DMOZ was still hiccuping and not 100% back to normal.It appears that over the Christmas holiday the rest of the issues were solved, and they report:"Notice: Editing is Back!! Login now for more information - Dec. 18, ...
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