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Using Google Alerts To Build BackLinks To Your Website

Writes: Titus Hoskins Building backlinks is an essential, yet tedious job for most webmasters. Here are a few tools and tips to make that job just a little bit easier… Google Alerts is a free...

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How To Generate Traffic Using Only Free Methods

By Graeme Briggs Putting up a company would of course require a lot of things, to get straight to the point, you need a capital. To make money requires money as well. But of course, with the...

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Why should I care about Social Media Optimization (SMO)?

By: Brian Easter Social Media Optimization has become a successful marketing tool for one simple reason. It works. The gap between old media and new has gotten smaller and smaller with the majority...

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My Web Site is Built - So Where’s the Traffic and Business?

By John Clark (c) 2008 Your website is built and sitting pretty. So where are all the people you hoped would come over to play? You need traffic for your site to be effective and to start...

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The Basics of RSS | RSS and Internet Marketing

What is RSS? You probably have seen this three-letter acronym in the course of your internet surfing. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary; syndicating means republishing an...

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What You MUST Know About Text vs. HTML Emails

By Bjorn Brands HTML messages allow for text formatting, multiple columns, images, and brand recognition. They are growing in popularity and over 95% of customer email programs today will support...

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How to Optimize for Google: Part 1 of 3

Writes: Scott Van Achte In today’s online world search engine rankings can make your business succeed, and while rankings in Yahoo and MSN are very valuable, their combined market value is...

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SEO and SEM; How to Dominate Google!

Search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) are two of the most powerful and profitable things you can do for your online business. As Google celebrates its twelfth birthday...

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Using Articles to Improve Your Site’s Ranking

It should always be your goal to provide those people who read your website or blog with relevant content. After all, whether someone is reading your personal blog and looking for perspective on...

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Top 5 Ways To Benefit From Universal Search

Writes: Jennifer Horowitz What is Universal Search and Why Should You Care? Universal Search combines all the information within its Vertical engines/databases into one index to serve a single set...

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Is Your Website Working For You?

Writes Alicia Forest If you’ve got a business online, then it’s likely you have some sort of web presence. Perhaps it’s a one-page ’sign up for my list’ kind of site, or...

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3 Fast and Simple Ways to Dominate Google Rankings!

Writes: Michael Small “Most old-school tricks don’t work today and many can get your pages banned. This is great news for you. Over the next few minutes I’ll show you how to make...

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Search Engine Optimization, Google, And The Reptilian Code

Writes: Jerry Bader. Search engine optimization dominates the thinking and to a large degree the marketing efforts of many small and medium-sized companies, but have you ever noticed that many of...

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A Web-Branding Blueprint

Writes: Jerry Bader Change is inevitable; as an economy matures, ages, and ultimately evolves into something new, adjustments must be made to our business development, marketing and branding. Failure...

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Writing Website Content - That Gets Results!

Benefits of High-Value Web Content This kind of content has value for the reader, obviously. But it also benefits the author / publisher. Here are the top five benefits of creating high-value website...

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A Beginner’s Guide to Pay Per Click Marketing

Writes: Kalena Jordan Pay Per Click (PPC) search engine marketing refers to a specific type of advertising where you pay a search engine every time a potential customer clicks on your ad. These ads...

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The New Rules of Marketing - Internet Marketing Tools For 2008

Write(s): Sam Law and Julian Stone Online businesses are coming to the realization that in an organic environment like the Internet, organic marketing is required; paying for traditional or static...

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10 Key Content Strategies to Increase Online Visibility

Write(s): Lani and Allen Voivod Now more than ever, if you want to be a successful business owner, you need a successful business website. Which means you have to make nice with the search engines....

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What is SEO (Search Engine Optimization)?

Writes Donovan Baldwin: Anyone involved in any sort of Internet marketing sees the term, “search engine optimization”, or SEO, everywhere these days. Everybody throws it around as if they...

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Google launches open APIs for social networks

Writes Elinor Mills Borrowing a page from Sun’s Java playbook, Google is announcing a way for programmers to build social applications for multiple Web sites at once. Google’s version...

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Search Marketing Industry Shake-up Imminent

Writes Jim Hedger As sure as the sun shines behind the clouds on a rainy day, a major shake-up in the search marketing industry is coming soon. The signals are being sent and received through-out the...

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Tables Still Have a Place in Web Page Layout

Writes: Kevin Yank At tonight’s meeting of the Melbourne Web Standards Group, Andrew Krespanis and I have been assigned to argue for the statement “Tables Still Have a Place in Web Page...

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Matt Cutts Pokes Fun at Keyword Stuffer

Crying about Google ignoring your keyword stuffed web pages just gives Matt Cutts and the rest of the SEO world something to gleefully mock. Note: Naughty tricks aimed at gaming the search engines...

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‘Directory Submitter’ Review — Software Gets You Tons Of Quality 1 Way Links

You may or may not know that Website Directory Submission is a very popular and easy way to get quality, one way links to your website. These kinds of links are exactly what the search engines are...

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Social Media Optimization’s impact at your Web site

Social Media Optimization’s impact at your Web site Writes: Boris Mordkovich Over the last year or so, "social media" has quickly become the next "big" thing online. A plethora...

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Web Hosting — IPowerWeb Announces Biggest Sale EVER!

To celebrate the Fourth of July, IPowerWeb has announced its biggest sale EVER! IPowerWeb’s normally-priced $7.95/month Pro Plan hosting package will be discounted to the extremely low price...

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Insider information about Google’s ranking algorithm

The New York Times has recently published an article about Amit Singhal. Amit Singhal is in charge of Google’s ranking algorithm. The interview reveals some interesting facts about...

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Conversion Rate Optimization Vs. SEO

By Frederick Townes Within the e-commerce sphere, the “mind games” between site owners and search engine designers have focused on search engine optimization (SEO). After all, you...

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FREE Marketing & Publishing Gifts From — InkwellEditorial.com

Run by Yuwanda Black, InkwellEditorial.com is a Business portal for and about the creative and editorial industries. At InkwellEditorial.com, you will find first-hand info about success stories, the...

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It’s Curtains For Google Adsense Arbitragers

Writes — Ba Kiwanuka Playing the Arbitrage game — “There’s a strong correlation between Google Adwords and Google Adsense which so happens to be the basis of the whole Adsense...

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Google Launches “Universal Search”

Google’s search algorithm now has an integrated interface, integrating all relevant results from Google Blog Search, Google News, Google Maps, Google Images, Local Search, etc. into one results...

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What Produces Successful Web Advertising?

Here are six questions to ponder: 1. How will your product or service change your customer? 2. Is what you have to say different? 3. Do you know how to tell your story? 4. Can you say it boldly? 5....

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Protect Yourself Against AdSense Click Fraud

If you use Google AdSense on your web site, then you need to be aware of this… Did you know you could easily lose all your Google AdSense income without notice and through no fault of your...

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Understanding the Challenges of the Link Building Game

Many webmasters who have been following the discussions about Google’s dislike of paid links have been confused about what constitutes bad links and good links, in the eyes of the search engine...

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Google announces new and enhanced ‘Google Analytics’ Service

Google has announced the release of a new version of the Google Analytics reporting interface. This latest enhancement to this popular tool boasts several improvements, including better controls and...

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The Best Way to Jumpstart a Link Building Campaign

Collyn Floyd, online emarketing and PR specialist with TheKarcherGroup.com, spoke with WebProNews about the best way to jumpstart a link building campaign. She also explained why social media...

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Web Marketing Today - By Dr. Ralph F. Wilson

Web Marketing Today is publication by Dr. Ralph Wilson — Dr. Wilson is widely recognized as one of the top international authorities in the area of Internet marketing. Business Week called his...

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Competitive SEO Evaluations: Individual Keyword Phrase Analysis

Writes: Fernando Chavez It is common for Web sites to rank very well for certain keywords but not very well for others. This makes sense since the competitive landscape changes from one keyword...

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Do you want Google’s new branding on your site?

By: William Charlwood What do you think of the new-style AdSense ads where the Google logo is more prominent? Personally I don’t like them. I don’t care if they are apparently good for...

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How to Get People to Open Your E-Mails: Subject Lines, Pt. 2

By Lydia Sugarman Is there a secret technique to get people to open your emails? Yes, kind of. Common sense. Descriptive. Tell — don’t sell them on — what is the subject of...

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Semantic Indexing and your Search Engine Rankings — Search Engine News

1. The influence of semantic indexing on your search engine rankings Semantic indexing is getting more and more important to search engines. What exactly is semantic indexing and how does it...

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Article Keyword Density – A Worry of the Past?

In the past a Webmaster could stuff all kinds of keywords in their web pages and the SE’s would be tricked into thinking that page was about those keywords. Well, things have changed and this...

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Our New Marketing Newsletter

What is this newsletter about? Afro Articles - Article & Internet Marketing Directory is offering a free Internet Marketing E-Newsletter designed to help authors/marketers improve their Internet...

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Landing Page Optimization - Marketing Experiments Conversion Formula and Course

MEC(Marketing Experiments Conversion) Labs has identified five essential elements to website conversion, which are brought together in the MEC Conversion Formula. In their seven session on-demand...

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7 Reasons Google’s Paid Link Snitch Plan Sucks

By: Rich Ord Matt Cutts blogged that Google would like you, the average search engine user, to report on sites you feel are displaying links for cash. This created a firestorm of negative responses...

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iProspect Social Networking User Behavior Study — (April 2007)

In January 2007, iProspect partnered with independent research firm JupiterResearch to develop a series of survey questions focused on how the U.S. online population utilizes several of the most...

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What The Google’s Algorithm Is Looking For When Determining Site Rankings

According to Jason Lee Miller of WebProNews: “Fishkin and SEOMoz have been refining this list since 2005, whittling it down from over 200 important factors.” This year’s guide...

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How To Drive Traffic “Away” From Your Website

1. Give Web-visitors Too Many Options and Choices 2. Give Web Visitors Too Much Information To Process 3. Give Web Visitors Too Much Non-relevant Content 4. Give Web Visitors Too Many Irritating...

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How To Use A “Server-Side 301 Redirect” To Get Credit For All Your Inbound Links

Many search engines rank web pages based on the number and “authority” of “inbound links” pointing to the web page in question. In Google’s PageRank System, for example,...

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Google Update — On Spam Reporting

The Google Search Quality Team has updated it’s SPAM reporting FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) at the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog. In an effort to weed out web sites that violate...

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What is Web Accessibility?

By — Nelson Chung What is web accessibility? With Wiki’s being so popular these days, why don’t we consult one? Wikipedia defines web accessibility as “the practice of making...

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Latest From Internet Marketing News Watch

‘20 Ways To Convert Visitors Into Subscribers’ - Earl William’s Latest Article ‘Online Article Marketing Brings Customers To You’ - ‘Your...

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Google Labs Releases More Tools For Bloggers | Website Owners

By using the Google Ajax Search API bloggers can now add the following services to their sites: Google Map Search Video Bar Video Search News Bar (Horizontal and Vertical) Blog Bar (Horizontal and...

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How to work around Google spam filters - Part V

Google tries to keep its search results as clean as possible. For that reason, they have a variety of spam filters in their ranking algorithm that try to remove low quality web sites. If your web...

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Email is not dead — AutoResponders are still vital in Email Marketing

As a marketer you are always looking for a way by which to squeeze in more sales. Follow up with potential customers through email is still a viable tool — despite the Cyber-Crime Pandemic...

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Google Changes Privacy Practices

Google Changes Privacy Practices, Matt Cutts And The Next Generation Of Search, Michael Crook Apologizes — Click Here To View Video Copyright © 2009 Afro-Articles Internet Marketing Blog....

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How to work around Google spam filters - Part IV

Daylight Savings Time - Action Required!

Daylight Savings Time was pushed forward three weeks ahead of the “normal switching” time — meaning you must patch your computer in order for it to display the correct time. This...

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The 50 Most Important People on the Web

Here’s who’s shaping what you read, watch, hear, write, buy, sell, befriend, flame, and otherwise do online. Writes: Christopher Null — PC World Despite what Time magazine would...

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Developing for IE 7

By: Andrea Butterworth of BraveNet.com Hey guys! Last month I talked a bit about IE conditional comments and now I’m going to expand on that a bit further as they can be very useful....

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3 Title Tag Tips That Can Increase Your Ranking

Writes: Matthew Elshaw Title tags are one of the oldest and most effective aspects of on-page search engine optimization. Your title tag is displayed as the main clickable link in search engine...

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15 Google spam filters and how to avoid them - Part II

Google Webmaster Central — Improvements

Google has improved its Webmaster Tool Offerings significantly, and every webmaster should visit http://www.google.com/webmasters/ — which a comprehensive one-stop shop for a lot of information...

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15 Google spam filters and how to avoid them - Part 1

Social Bookmarking & Tagging Can Help Your Website

Marketers and advertisers can benefit by using the numerous “Social Search (Social Networking)” websites now mushrooming all over the Internet — to leverage their products and...

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The Design of Sites: Patterns for Creating Winning Web Sites — 2nd Edition

Book Review — By Lee Underwood - Author: Douglas K. van Duyne, James A. Landay, Jason I. Hong - Total Pages: 1,024 - Publisher: Prentice Hall - Copyright: 2007 - ISBN: 0131345559 There are many...

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Internet Explorer 7 Tips For Webmasters

By: Andrea Butterworth of BraveNet.com In this Andrea discusses Microsoft’s release of Internet Explorer 7, and takes a look at some of the fixes, new features, as well as some tips on...

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The end of Google bombs?

Google bombs have become a problem for Google. The official Google webmaster blog recently had a statement about Google bombs and how Google deals with them. What are Google bombs? Google bombs are...

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Does Google read your CSS files?

Many webmasters have reported that Google’s spider has started to index their external CSS files. What are CSS files, why does Google index them and how can this affect your rankings on Google...

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Which Character Encoding Should You Choose For Your Website?

For those who use WYSIWYG editors without bothering to “go underneath” to examine the actual HTML of your web-pages, character encoding is rarely an issue — usually you will go with...

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Google Updates AdSense Policies - To Thwart Competitors

New Policy on — Competitive Ads and Services In order to prevent user confusion, we do not permit Google ads or search boxes to be published on websites that also contain other ads or services...

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Is PPC Advertising Nothing But A Big Rip Off Scheme?

Writes Mel Strocen The herd mentality never fails to amaze me. When the pay-per-click concept was first pioneered in 1997-98 by GoTo.com (now Yahoo! Search Marketing), it was years before the model...

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PayPal (an ebay company) is set to tighten security for its users

Online fraud, especially through bogus emails by devious scammers is rampant. These scammers otherwise known as “Phishers,” attempt to fraudulently acquire your passwords and credit card...

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Google Sets The Record Straight On: “Adding Images Near AdSense Ads”

A Google AdSense Policy Clarification Placing images besides Google AdSense ads for the express purpose of attracting website “user clicks” is a no-no according to Google. Adding images...

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All you need to know about search engine optimization in 2006

The year 2006 has been full of news about Google and the way it ranks web sites. If you need information about Google’s ranking algorithm and if you want to know how to get high rankings on...

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First Impressions - A Sloppy Site Provokes Doubt!

“If you happen to be the owner of a well-established brand-name site such as Amazon.com, the issue of trust is a non-issue. However if you are one of the faceless millions of netpreneurs...

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Search Engine Optimization: The Benefits of SEO in Online Retail

Online retail is not a venture for the faint of heart, to be sure. Finding success in the realm of eCommerce requires patience, diligence, and a willingness to be flexible and constantly experiment...

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The Near Death of DMOZ a.k.a Open Directory Project (ODP)

DMOZ otherwise known as Open Directory almost “died” during the last two months. A six-week unscheduled outage and a history of consumer dissatisfaction, lagging editorial energy and...

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Google Website Optimizer: Free Multivariate Testing

Google has unveiled the “Google Website Optimizer” which allows you to experiment with various aspects of your web pages — for example it minimizes the guesswork in landing page...

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LunarPages Hosting Now Offers FREE Coffee Cup Software!

Earlier this year, Lunarpages Web Hosting teamed up with one of the most renowned and highly regarded software companies, CoffeeCup! LunarPages’ 12 and 24 month hosting plans now include $700...

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Premium Webmaster Tips and Tools

Netmechanic.com has been a top provider of Web site maintenance and promotion tools, as well as server monitoring services since 1996 — a strong industry presence for a period spanning one...

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Easy-To-Use Article Directory | News and Article Content Management Software

Article Directory Pro is a powerful web site news and article content management system.Specially designed for the busy marketer, it was created to speed up your activity of adding news, articles,...

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Why Your Articles Get Rejected

Writes: Liane Bate I have been writing original articles for my online business for the past ten months or so, and for various reasons a few of them have been rejected by some article directories. I...

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Google’s Matt Cutts talks about search engine optimization traps

The head of Google’s anti-spam team Matt Cutts publicly reviewed some web sites at the 2006 PubCon in Las Vegas. Some statements in these public reviews might help you to improve your rankings...

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Jennifer Kyrnin’s predictions for Web design in 2007

Most Web pages will not be XHTML compliant or valid. Table lovers will continue to fight against CSS layouts. Older browser versions will still be widely used. Many designers will only want free Web...

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Avoiding Website Assumptions that Mask Your Blind Spots

Writes: Todd Follansbee Every day I work with people who manage their own or others’ small to medium business websites. Most make fundamental mistakes that leave money on the table. While...

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FireBug 1.0 - An Indispensable FireFox Extension For Web Developers

Firebug 1.0, the single most indispensable Firefox extension for web developers has been released. Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you...

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How to Create Great HTML Emails with CSS

Writes: Christian MacAuley HTML emails are widely used for all kinds of professional correspondence. Beyond email newsletters they’re used for all sorts of application-generated messages, such...

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10 Signs That Your SEO Is a Quack

Writes: Jill Whalen There are so many SEO/SEM firms cropping up that talk a good game but don’t deliver results. This is in part because there’s so much information that is freely...

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How to find the very best Keywords for promoting your Web Site

Using the right keywords is the cornerstone of successful search engine optimization. Finding the right keywords is an important step that you should take seriously if you want to be successful with...

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Are you blocking IP addresses of Search Engine Spiders in your .htaccess File ….inadvertently?

How often do you check your Server Error Logs? A prudent webmaster needs to keep track of the various IP addresses belonging to — at least — the major search engines: Google, Yahoo and...

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The Latest In Search Marketing [11-21-2006]

WebProNews’ Mike McDonald and Chris Richardson interviewed many search industry luminaries last week at PubCon Las Vegas. Just click the video image and you will be taken to...

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Google, Yahoo and Microsoft team up for Sitemaps protocol

Last week, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft agreed to support the Sitemap 0.9 protocol. How can this new standard help you to improve the ranking of your web site in search engines? What are sitemaps and...

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Learn How to Use and Style HTML Definition Lists

Writes Jennifer Kyrnin When people think of lists they usually think of either bulletted (unordered) or numbered (ordered) lists. These are great tools for Web designers, but there is another type of...

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Combating BookMark Site Spam - Scuttle BookMarking Script

Over the last few weeks a spammer utilizing an automated spambot has been posting bookmarks at the rate of 800 a day, in our bookmarking sub-domain: mybookmarks.afroarticles.com — mostly...

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How To Conduct SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Keyword Research

Whether you’re launching a new site or just want to better optimize an existing site, your SEO efforts begin with proper keywords research. If done correctly, keyword research lays the...

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Internet Explorer 7 Hacks

Article - Courtesy Alex Walker - Editor, The SitePoint Design View Tredosoft have two options available for the IE tester. For those not quite ready to overwrite their old IE6 install, they offer...

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Link Baiting and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

The number of quality inbound links pointing to your website from other “quality” sites is a major metric used by search engines to determine the importance of your website, hence your...

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Simple Visitor Counts - The First Sin of Web Analytics

Web analytics is the measurement of the behavior of visitors to a website. In a commercial context, it especially refers to the measurement of which aspects of the website work towards the business...

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