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Traffic. It’s the all-important piece of the marketing puzzle that faces all web owners. Your product may cure cancer but unless there are people reading your information it won’t matter. And not just any traffic. You want laser targeted, highly motivated customers ready to whip out their wallets and input their credit cards. You are searching for El Dorado. You know it’s there. You’ve read that others have found it. There is a path and it starts here.
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There’s no such thing as the GoogleOS in reality - but despite that, it is one of the most talked about Web products. People can’t stop discussing it - and even imagining screenshots for it! Seems like everyone expects Google to get into direct competition with Microsoft, by releasing an operating system. However Google refuses such claims and even makes fun of this kind of buzz. Nevertheless we decided to analyze where Google may be heading with their product strategy - and from that determine what are the chances of a GoogleOS. (more…)

Blogs and other social media tools have changed the publishing landscape over the past few years, making it easier than ever to share information with the world. The ease of use and focused attention of the medium has also helped create new opportunities for spammers to automatically generate content, buy links, and get noticed by search engines and other points of aggregation.
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With the full release of MSN Live last month many new flaws have been found in MSN’s new ranking algorithm. If you have been a long time reader of my blog you probably remember when I recommend using BlogSpot to spam MSN, and then just weeks later I showed you how one could take out the top 9 spots on MSN for just about any keyword.

Today I’m going to show you something even more viscous then I have ever written about!
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Matt Cutts [Google God] has given strong hints that participating in controversial programs like ReviewMe or PayPerPost, that pay bloggers for writing about advertiser’s product or services, may jeopardize the search engine rankings of your blog. This also applies to websites selling paid text links on their pages.

Speaking to Mike McDonald, Matt made the following comments on paid text links and paid blog posts: (more…)

Google is making it easier for webmasters to make sure their articles get on Google News with their newly-announced Sitemaps for Google News tool. Sitemaps for Google News is an XML-based, open source protocol that is supposed to allow for greater control over Google crawls as well as more useful data about what gets included and why.
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At Ask.com, Steve Berkowitz didn’t have enough resources to take on Google. Now, at Microsoft, he has plenty of money, but still has a lot of work to do. Berkowitz joined Microsoft in April, where he was given the task of helping build a cohesive ad-funded business around all of Microsoft’s disparate online businesses, from MSN to Windows Live.
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I just received an email from Google about a new feature they have enabled on my account call Ad Placements. It’s designed to help advertisers target a specific ad on your site. A check of my Google AdSense control panel shows I have a new Ad Placement check box under my custom channels.
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Google Adsense Policies clearly states that “Clicks on Google ads must not result in a new browser window being launched.” Adsense publishers are neither allowed to alter the HTML code nor can they give their visitors an option to open Google ads in a new browser window.

But according to a report published in The New York Times, a majority of web users are responding to banner ads indirectly - they avoid clicking the actual banner advertisement on the website but type the advertiser’s URL directly in their browser.
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.htaccess files provides us with ways to make configuration changes on a per-directory basis. This file works well in Apache Web Server and on Linux/Unix. Also, it works on Windows based system with Apache Web server.

There are several things that developers, site owners and webmasters can do by using .htaccess file. Let’s look at some of them (more…)