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Wed
29
Nov '06

Guide To Multiple Class C Web Hosting

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Excerpt: There are many rumors surrounding the venerable IP address as it relates to search engine optimization and web hosting.  So let's talk about it, dispel some myths, and conclude with some information regarding hosting services that provide for hosting on various ranges of IP addresses.It is ...
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Tue
28
Nov '06

How Cingular Wireless Is Dropping The Bar (On Links)

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Excerpt: Have you ever felt stupid about wasting money?I have -- many times; but to make us all feel better, I'm going to do a case-study of Cingular Wireless.They boldly claim that they have the fewest dropped calls of any wireless network.  That's wonderful.  But with one of their competi ...
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Thu
23
Nov '06

Happy Thanksgiving To Spammers!

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Excerpt: Here's some "oven roasted turkey" just for you: The rest of us get to eat real Turkey.  Sinners! ...
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Tue
21
Nov '06

All Your Text Link Ads Are Belong To ... ?

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Excerpt: Text Link Ads was acquired by an advertising agency, MediaWhiz, a few weeks ago.  That company, in turn, is wholly owned by an uber-boring-sounding private equity firm, Lake Capital.  OK.  So, why does this boring information mean anything to you?It means a few things.  It valida ...
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Fri
17
Nov '06

Sitemaps Standardization Illustrates Trend

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Excerpt: A few weeks ago, Yahoo announced its support of wildcards in robots.txt.  This week, Google, Yahoo, and MSN all agreed on a standard for sitemaps.  I don't think this a coincidence of events.  Rather, I believe it is an indication of a trend -- that search engine vendors see a val ...
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Thu
16
Nov '06

Wikipedia Is Link Nazi Of 2006

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Excerpt: No Links For You!I wrote the Wikipedia page on Link bait a few months ago -- only to have it mercilessly edited and destroyed by a bunch of editors who naively see every blog as unfit to be quoted.  Let's see.  Which group actually understands the concept of link bait best?  Could ...
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Wed
15
Nov '06

6 Questions To Weed Out Charlatan SEOs. Make Suggestions ...

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Excerpt: There are a lot of idiots charlatans still out there promoting meta tag optimization services, so I decided I'd write a short list of questions to quickly weed them out.  Any decent search engine marketer should be able to answer all of these questions at least partially correctly.  I ...
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Tue
14
Nov '06

3 WordPress Hacks For SE-Friendly Blog Archives

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Excerpt: Your default WordPress installation has a problem.  Your posts slowly get pushed into "pagination death" as they age; your older trusty content gets buried deeper and deeper internally.  Furthermore, duplicate content issues plague your category and main listing pages. Slowly, bu ...
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