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Search Data Manipulation

keyword trends volume and unfriendly symbols

If you keep an eye on Google Trends or search for keyword suggestions regularly then you may notice strange results popping up from time to time. As an example you could could have a look at Google trends for date July 13th you will see the words .Pretty neat if you ask me. I’ve always been curious how to type upside down and backwards. Read the rest

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iPhone OS 2.0 Software Update »

iPhone OS 2.0 Software Update

at&t stores loosen their grip, on sanity

The iPhone OS 2.0 software update and the iPhone 3G are both available at long last. at 225MB this new software package offers an even bigger punch. Also bring into play the wider distribution of the new second generation iPhone 3G and Apple is looking at another home run for shareholders even though rumor has it that Apples download servers are having a meltdown. Couple that with AT&T’s notorious level of service and you can imagine that lots of people have wasted yet another iPhone sick day off.

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Google AdWords Keyword Tool »

Google AdWords Keyword Tool

SEM by the numbers

So now, at long last, Google had fulfilled one of it’s greatest promises. Actual, real search volume numbers. No more will we be forced to guess if a green bar 3 is good or, if a green bar 4 is almost 5 or almost 3. Thats right folks real live actual number for search volume. Rumor has it though, that the numbers, much like what Yahoo displays, are inflated.

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Window Update Breaks Zone Alarm »

Window Update Breaks Zone Alarm

Flaming your firewall

Today after automatically downloading and installing a Windows networking update, KB951748, thousands of XP users found they no longer had access to the internet. Zone Alarm, a popular 3rd party firewall, interpreting the update as an attack declared internet access denied.

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Web Page Optimization Components 5 »

How To Rise In The SERPs

and add zero’s to your bank account

Now at long last part 5 of the series has arrived. No doubt by now you have figured out that it is, drum roll please…. the Headline. The headline much like it’s importance, comes in many sizes. With h1, h2, h3 and so on, each higher number is of lesser importance, smaller size and, lower value to Google, Yahoo, MSN Live, etc.

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Long Tail Theory Clipped »

The Long Tail Clipped

blind mice, a carving knife and academic voodoo

I read a quote recently in an article published by a Harvard Business School associate professor that stated, “Just because the Internet makes it possible to offer a near-infinite inventory of sale goods does not mean that consumers will want more obscure items in any great numbers” This prognostication floored me as all I could murmur was, “gee, ya-think?”

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Google Affiliate Network »

Google Affiliate Network

another piece of the action

During the stone age of the internet, a new species was born to the affiliate advertising tree and it’s branch was know as Performics. After being consumed by DoubleClick in 2004 Google then this year devoured DoubleClick and , now, behold, the ultimate evolution of affiliate connections, the new Google Affiliate Network.

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ConnectU+Facebook=ScrewU »

ConnectU+Facebook=ScrewU

Oral agreements and ConnectU’s Outsourcing Woes

perpetrator of the biggest legal screw job of all timeI’m sure everyone who is reading this is aware of and has made more than a few oral agreements in their life with no problems at all. Not the case when 3 Havard students, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra, needed to outsrource some coding to fellow Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg to help them build a social-networking site. As it turns out not having a written contract with a no compete clause ended up being a $15,000,000,000 mistake.

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Auction Sniping Goes Mainstream »

Auction Sniping Goes Mainstream

Winning auctions automatically

Auction Sniping, named for the original software AuctionSniper, has gone mainstream and, if you are selling on eBay or expect to as part of your business plan, you should be aware that this relatively new trends mainstream adoption has put your profits at risk.

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Open Calais »

Open Calais

Paving the way to web 3.0

Connecting everything is no small job but Calais wants to make all the world’s content more accessible, interoperable and thereby, far more valuable as well. Also known as Web 3.0, the Semantic Web or the Giant Global Graph, they call thier piece of it Calais. What it does sounds simple – what you do with it could be nothing short of absolutely amazing.

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Link Building 2.0 »

Linkbuilding 2.0

Finding Blogs for Links

I’m sure if you are reading this then you are fully aware of the importance of link building and, since thats the case, I’m quite certain you are aware of the power of contextual link building. I don’t think it’s any surprise that the power of contextual link building is derived from the fact that it’s the very basis of what the internet is all about after all, hyperlinking relevant text to related sources. I wonder who thought that would make things so easy. Anyway, with blogs being the current pinnacle of contextual link building evolution, I’ve put together a little checklist of how to go about finding those little gems of link love that will absolutely help you push your rank. Read the rest

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FireFox 3 Launch »

FireFox 3 Launch

Download Day Arrives

Today June 17th at 10AM PST marks the long promised FireFox 3.0 Download Day Release. Up to 5 million downloads are expected to occur which if reached, would set a Guinness World Record for the most single piece of software downloads in a single day. If the 1.6 million pledges are any indication, then they just may pull this one off. The new firefox has a great deal to offer such as being: Read the rest

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