Posted on February 17th, 2005 by kevin
The new Google Toolbar 3.0 is a nice step up from the previous toolbar. It has several new features that will make surfing the web more efficient and enjoyable. New features include Spellcheck, Autolink, WordTranslator and Customize Search. Spellcheck will underline questionable words (or non-words) in any web page form that you happen to be [...]
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Posted on February 16th, 2005 by kevin
The Irish have set their sites on Yahoo!, winning a contract that will create 400 new jobs over 5 years. Yahoo!’s European headquarters will be quartered in Dublin, populated mostly by graduates with skills in website editorial, information technology, financial services and customer support. Yahoo!’s decision to dub Dublin their new European Vacation home centered [...]
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Posted on February 15th, 2005 by kevin
Back in the old days, you didn’t do reciprocal linking because you didn’t realize that there was a benefit from this in the search engine rankings. Back in the old days, you linked to websites that you liked and thought your visitors would benefit from. Other Webmasters linked to your site for the same reason. [...]
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Posted on February 14th, 2005 by kevin
As the owner of an SEO firm, of course I am biased when it comes to standard, hands-on SEO versus SEO software. Disclaimer aside, there are a few areas to consider when deciding whether to go with traditional SEO or SEO software. First is motivation. Do you wish to purchase SEO software because you think [...]
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Posted on February 13th, 2005 by kevin
The Google Sandbox is theorized to be a deterrent to SEO’s, Webmasters and others who wish to manipulate search results and put up multiple fly-by-night websites in order to gain top positions in the rankings. Thus new websites are penalized in the SERP’s and the waiting time is approximately 8 months now to get out [...]
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Posted on February 12th, 2005 by kevin
Technology giant Microsoft and drug company Pfizer have teamed up to sue the pants off international spam rings that send out millions of bogus emails for fake Viagra every day. Attorneys for Pfizer have said that the fake Viagra doesn’t work like the real thing and in some cases can be a real let down [...]
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Posted on February 11th, 2005 by kevin
Mark Jen was fired from Google after 2 weeks with the company for posting critical remarks in his blog, http://99zeros.blogspot.com/ according to an article about Jen in WebProsNews.com. After a couple of weeks hiatus, Jen is back posting again and this time a Google AdSense banner appears on his blog which is ironic since Jen [...]
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Posted on February 10th, 2005 by kevin
Mamma.com has finally decided to spruce herself up a bit, get a makeover and start offering the ability to bid on keywords for the classified ads. After flat sales with the flat rate offering Mamma has decided to offer both which is good for Mamma and not so good for advertisers. Mamma in the past [...]
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Posted on February 9th, 2005 by kevin
A recruiter called Payrolling.com has placed an ad on Google’s behalf for a temporary remote worker in the U. S. or Canada who is Internet savvy and has multiple language skills. This worker won’t have to commute to the San Jose office and will be engaged in search quality evaluation. It is a bit interesting [...]
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Posted on February 8th, 2005 by kevin
AskJeeves has bought BlogLines.com, which is a comprehensive, integrated service for searching, subscribing, publishing and sharing news feeds, blogs, and rich Web content. The services is similar to Google’s Blogger.com so the “No search engine left behind” agenda continues. While AskJeeves tends to be a follower, rather than a leader, they have a strong following [...]
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