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Fri
18
Aug '06

Social Bookmarking PHP Library

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Excerpt: Many of us use social bookmarking sites -- del.icio.us, digg, reddit, etc.  They're pretty useful, and also great sources of organic traffic.  There are plenty of plugins for blogging applications that place icons on a page to ease its bookmarking.  For example, the one I use for ...
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Thu
17
Aug '06

Microsoft the Most Standards-Compliant?

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Excerpt: Is the world upside down?  By way of Jake's post on blog.outer-court.com, Microsoft was the only search engine that passed the W3C Markup Validation Service test in flying colors -- no errors.  All the other search engines bit the dust.  Google came in fourth with 61 errors. Was i ...
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Wed
16
Aug '06

Google Robots.txt Snafu: Part III (Conclusion)

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Excerpt: We finally have a conclusion on how exactly to interpret a robot.txt file for the edge cases mentioned here.  Someone started a WebmasterWorld thread on the subject of contention.Indeed, according to the specification, the rules for a specific matching user agent entirely override the "Use ...
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Wed
16
Aug '06

Even "The Axis of Evil" is Bloggin'

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Excerpt: Hurry up and start a blog if you haven't already, because even the fundamentalists are ahead of the curve.  Mahmood Ahmadinejad, president of Iran, announced his new blog over here.  In an unabashed display of self-importance, his first post is an autobiography:It starts with "In ...
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Tue
15
Aug '06

Review: Search Marketing Standard Fall 2006 Edition

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Excerpt: I'm looking at the latest Search Marketing Standard, and it exceeded my expectations.  No, that's not just because I'm in it :)Anyway, I'm pulling out a few gems from the magazine as a whole and posting it here.  My comments are denoted by italics:0. My unabashed recommenda ...
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Tue
15
Aug '06

Google's Expired Domain Penalty and Content Theft

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Excerpt: Search engine marketers loved SnapNames.  Expired domains used to evade the dreaded "sandbox" aging delay.  I loved SnapNames too -- but for a different reason.  I like domain names that don't stink.  The domain aftermarket is a boon for people searching for domain ...
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Tue
15
Aug '06

Real-Time Stock Quotes Back!

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Excerpt: OK, so it was just a temporary thing.  Phew!  Now my little application that watches stocks can resume its duties :) ...
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Fri
11
Aug '06

Free SEO Site Clinic Sites Selected

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Excerpt: The sites for the Free SEO Site Clinic are selected!  I will be reviewing the sites www.elitehosts.com and www.arlin.net.  Both are web hosting sites.  This is an ultra-competitive industry in many ways -- including SEO.  I have some ideas to help drive traffic with long tail key ...
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