Ben Kaplan’s (cityofcollegedreams.org) City Of College Dreams gives students information on how to prepare for college. How to win college scholarship couldn’t be easier. After attending Harvard for little cash up front he’s written a book called “How To Go To College Almost For Free”, which can be purchased at cityofcollegedreams.org. It shows step-by-step how to take [...]

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So Stage 1 was making the thing work at all, but Stage 2 is doing SEO to improve how it scores in search engines.  So I replaced all the Query based Category links with nicely formatted Search Friendly Human Readable ones.  Doing the copy and paste to put these in this list was a good [...]

Filed under : Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

There was a lot of news recently about if Powerset should sell, or play David and Goliath with Google.  I vote sell. The concept is good, but they are more of an Ask competitor than a Google competitor, and we know how well Ask is doing. So let’s Play. Question one, which I posed a [...]

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www.isayhello.com went live last night.  The front page is ugly, I don’t have as many human edited pages as I would like, but it is day one, and this is the first step.  In the coming days you will start to see better and better results pages, and more “Category” templates. Not all results will [...]

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I bet you visit your own site somewhat frequently, did you know that if you had the Alexa Toolbar installed that you would counts as thousands of visitors to your site? Just like being a Neilson’s viewing family you can represent thousands of your peers by installing the Alexa Tool Bar this can boost your [...]

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With millions of competing websites, designing a website, let along a successful website with a high ranking, can be quite daunting. The following “Ten Secrets for a Killer Website” will help give you an edge on your competition: 1. Custom vs. Templated – A Custom website is a website that is totally designed and formatted [...]

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Having a good looking website design that will appeal to your customers is very, very important to your online success. A web designer must create a design that will convey professionalism and confidence to potential customers. Once a great looking and easy to use website has been designed it is then very important to consider [...]

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If you don’t think you need a content management system you may want to read this article. This article chronicles 10 days in the life of a website client working without the help of a content management system and points out the differences that employing a content management system would have had have to a [...]

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You may not be aware of this and im sure you’ll find it very interesting! Despite the time and effort that your web designer has put into creating a beautiful website for your company, Google – the biggest search engine in the world doesn’t even care what it looks like! This may seem like a [...]

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Article marketing is an important component of external SEO, or search engine optimization. Irrespective of how much internal SEO is carried out on a web page, article marketing can make a massive difference, not only to the traffic to your site, but also your link density and search engine listing. The term ‘web page’ is [...]

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Ok, I am convinced. I should put a sitemap on my blogger site. But, what steps do I take to add a sitemap? First, I better define a sitemap. It is simply a map of your website and lists of all your sections and pages. A sitemap speeds up the indexing of your pages in [...]

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Search engine optimization is a means of making your website attractive to spiders and if you know of to use SEO to get listed on the search engine indices, you have a fabulous way of getting free advertising at your fingertips. Many people spend a lot of money on pay per click advertising because they [...]

Filed under : Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Search engines are very difficult to completely understand. There are no complete explanations of how their ranking algorithms work. But the very fact that the average person does not intuitively know how to crack the search engine algorithms leads to all sorts of the same questions, usually variations of: “How do I get my website [...]

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Do you have a website on the internet that is getting little or no traffic? Lets face it.Starting a new website with the hope of achieving a large amount of targeted visitors is a very difficult task to achieve for most internet newcomers. This is mainly due to the fact that one has to go [...]

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In this age of information overload people are desperate to find the most accurate information within the minimum time possible. The internet is one such area where any kind of information is always at your fingertips. The crucial objective is to search through the huge volume of data and arrive at the information that is [...]

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Improved search engine rank can lead to high listings in search engine indices. The major page rank measurement is the Google PageRank that you find on the Google toolbar, but many people are confused at the difference between PageRank and search engine rankings, or listing positions, in the indices for specific keywords. Google PageRank is [...]

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SEO to me was very much just like fishing, you sit there for ages waiting for a bite, never knowing if you are in the right place, have the right bait or technique. Coming from a sales background where results in many cases was instant to SEO where much of your efforts become unnoticed for [...]

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With the numerous websites in the internet right now, you would wonder how they manage to get a lot of people to view their sites everyday to be able to survive. Most search engines have the most number of traffic, mainly because people use the internet to search for something they need to know about, [...]

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Man Competes with Stephen Colbert for Greatest American Title April 27, 2007 – Mountain View, CA. Brandon Wirtz–a Microsoft employee in Mountain View, California–is competing with comedy legend Stephen Colbert for the title of “Greatest Living American.” Wirtz was previously ranked as the “Greatest Living American” according to the popular search engines Yahoo and Google. [...]

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Well that is one way to make it look like you are non-biased.  Advertise for your competitors on your site. I know I want “Better Results” but different?  This is my question lately about search engines.  Why do they vary so much day to day? 

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