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Tue
17
Oct '06

Tell Your Competitors To Use Network Solutions' DNS

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Excerpt: Today I ordered my lunch online.  When I hit "confirm," I got a random error to the effect of "your email address doesn't exist."  It then proceeded to blow up.  This is definately poor programming, but it does highlight another issue: Network Solutions' &q ...
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Mon
16
Oct '06

Free SEO Site Clinic Site Selected (September)

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Excerpt: The web site for the September SEO site clinic has been selected!  I will be reviewing the site www.pixellogo.com, a design firm that offers various other template design material.  This time, there are some architectural issues.  Some are interesting and along the theme of my upcomin ...
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Fri
13
Oct '06

Ads For Poker May Be Kosher Says Israeli

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Excerpt: The 2nd-biggest poker company, PokerStars, asserts that Poker is not restricted by the new unexpected gambling ban.  This recent ban sent gambling-related internet stocks diving, and the search engine marketers making money as poker affiliates were also reeling, as the bill would even make link ...
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Fri
13
Oct '06

NameWinner Closes Shop: Joins Forces with SnapNames

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Excerpt: I'm very surprised that nobody mentioned that NameWinner, the expired domain snapping service of Dotster has closed shop on Wed., October 11, 2006.  They say:We are pleased to announce that domain names previously available for bidding on NameWinner are now available on SnapNames.com. We ha ...
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Thu
12
Oct '06

SEO For Book Titles?

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Excerpt: Or is it search engine optimization?  It occurs to me that the publisher of our book, Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP, picked the title for us.  Usually I give more thought to titles.  The title does contain the key phrase "search engine optimization," but i ...
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Tue
10
Oct '06

The Special Olympics of Link Bait

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Excerpt: Is this the tale of a copywriter who can't even rank for his name artfully link baiting some of the most widely read SEO blogs?  Who is in the 15-yard dash -- us or him?  I deconstructed his arguments regardless, but you decide ...I found Breaking SEO Myths Part One: The SEO Experts b ...
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Tue
10
Oct '06

Stop SEO Death By Pagination

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Excerpt: I know of many architectural mistakes that can totally torpedo a web site's rankings -- using URL-based session IDs, adding duplicate content for fun, etc.  But one thing stands out in WordPress blogs as a culprit.  I call it "death by pagination," and it's another way to ...
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Fri
6
Oct '06

Google Uncensored!

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Excerpt: I guess Google's adult-filter went on vacation with me this weekend, because there was a buxom blonde baring it all for everyone on the Google News homepage: Barry Schwartz of Search Engine Roundtable says: "I see it myself, I took a screen capture and blacked out the offensive part.&q ...
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