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Dreamweaver Templates and
Meta Tags
My question is about using Templates in DreamWeaver and the meta tag structures
the same for each gallery. I own a website that I use to promote primarily my
artwork. I have a little over 200 paintings that I have broken down into galleries...
Old Style Web Design For
Google - Text Only?
I have been toying with the idea of creating a text only website. No graphics,
no CSS, no nothing but straight up default text. The site would be a source of
information for a particular industry with obl's to sites of similar interest.
Proper use of keywords and tags...
Disallusioned newbie, Spam
works on Google!?
My apologies if this is so well known to be useless, but I was so astonished to
see what I think is effective use of invisible text to get a good Google ranking.
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The online retailer has added a new service for users: a low-cost virtual closet
where people can put in and take out their data online, and pay for just what
they store and transfer.
Editor's Note: Will the cost and functionality of Amazon S3 convince you to make it part of your application development? What should Amazon do to improve the minimal feature set, if anything, to S3? Let us know at SyndicationPro.
Amazon's Digital Services division released the Simple Storage Service (S3), offering people access to Amazon's storage network. The service supports HTTP as the default download protocol, but also includes a BitTorrent protocol interface for moving really big files at a lower cost.
The service uses a simple pricing structure: $0.15 per GB-Month of storage used,
and $0.20 per GB of data transferred. Amazon said that users can store an unlimited
number of data objects ranging up to 5GB in size, roughly equal to a modern-day
DVD. That would allow businesses that backup information to DVD to store a copy
of it with Amazon.
Security functionality in Simple Storage Service verifies the authentication process
to keep out unauthorized users. Amazon noted that the objects stored with the
service can be made public or private. It also looks like they support access
control lists, since various rights can be assigned to specific users.
For the tinkerers on the Internet, the service "uses standards-based REST
and SOAP
interfaces" that can work with a developer's preferred toolkit.
Amazon touted several points besides the simplicity of the design of S3. Ultimately, the company sees S3 as a fast, inexpensive, scalable solution, with an availability rate of 99.99 percent. They also followed several principles of distributed system design, which they detail on the S3 page.
The service is already getting a workout from some areas. BusinessWeek blogger Rob Hof posted about one user group, "a UC Berkeley team running NASA's Stardust@Home project that involves 60,000 images to 100,000 volunteers worldwide so they can scan them for comet dust."
TechCrunch blogger Mike Arrington thinks Amazon just stole the thunder from the chatter about Google's oft-discussed Gdrive, as he posted comments from Amazon about the service:
Until now, a sophisticated and scalable data storage infrastructure like Amazon's has been beyond the reach of small developers. Amazon S3 enables any developer to leverage Amazon's own benefits of massive scale with no up-front investment or performance compromises. Developers are now free to innovate knowing that no matter how successful their businesses become, it will be inexpensive and simple to ensure their data is quickly accessible, always available, and secure.
One likely difference between S3 and GDrive, plus whatever competing efforts may arrive from Microsoft or Yahoo, is cost. The major search portals may have to offer similar services for free, and that is assuming they take a standards-based approach to developing a storage service.
Amazon has significant brand recognition itself, and has steadily built up an array of web services for developers. The most notable one before S3 was their opening of the Alexa search database to developers in December 2005.
Both Hof and Arrington perceive Amazon's move here as an important one for the Internet; when it comes to online storage and how new software projects may use the service, Amazon could be the most important web service to debut to date.
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Currently, the Internet's better mousetrap is the photo sharing website. The success
of Flickr.com, now owned by Yahoo!, is loved and lamented by users and developers
alike for its usability and its limitations. Michael Arrington believes he's found
the better phototrap, an assertion some call premature, in Zooomr.com.
Ed's note:
Can Flickr be bested? Is Zooomr.com on the path to challenge the mega-popular
Yahoo! owned photo sharing website or is all this talk just premature Silicon
Valley hype? Let us know what you think in SyndicationPro. SyndicationPro.
Zooomr is "Flickr on steroids," says Arrington, referring to a website built in just three months time by 17-year-old wiz Kristopher Tate, offered in 15 languages with a Google Maps integration that allows geographical information to accompany photos. Zooomr includes audio annotation, a built-in Flash player, and allows logins from Gmail, Meetro, and LiveJournal (among others).
"I hope that somehow this next wave of Photo Sharing sites reaches the core of photos and uses that metadata to help people find each other," said Tate, who also plans to add a service to back up photos to .zip file.
Arrington's praise of the website must have caused enough buzz to create traffic jams, as pulling up Zooomr informs visitors the site is being moved to another datacenter.
But Arrington's titled admonition "Flickr has some catching up to do," has met scorn as an overhyping of a brand new interface that has yet to be fully tested. Further, it has a long way to go to overtake King Flickr.
Burningbird.net's Shelley Powers thinks the Techcrunch crowd is more impressed by the youthful speed of the creation more than the creation itself.
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Article and Discuss at SyndicationPro
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Hunting CSS Spam
As the popularity of the search industry (this includes marketing techniques like
SEO and SEM) grows, various techniques to trick or game the engines into yielding
favorable results is growing hand-in-hand with the engines as well. Fortunately,
as these spammy techniques have gained popularity and increased use on a widespread
sense, the engines have made efforts to disrupt result spam. However, the nature
of the beast when dealing with computers and technology is that when one hole
is plugged, another pops up.
I'm not going to run through a history of different spam techniques, although,
I will offer that one of the more popular methods is manipulating web text and
content by using CSS. Now it appears as if the boys at Google are addressing this
type of spam as well. Take a look below at today's spotlight post and find out
what's being said by Matt Cutts of Google.
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Googlebot Detects CSS Spam?
Matt Cutts in his most
recent blog entry posts another specific index exclusion mini-thriller. This
time involving a Site that was blatantly deploying CSS Spam techniques.
I left the blogfile name of his post intact above on purpose. The name "SEO Advice
Check Your Own Site" seems to be very direct and poignant concerning the CSS Spam
topic at hand. He never directly states that Googlebot indeed now detects CSS
spam, but seems to dance all around it with statements like:
"#4: you had spam (specifically hidden text) on your pages. When Googlebot visited http://www.thepeoplescube.com/Truth.php on Sun, 05 Mar 2006 12:17:12 GMT, the page looked fine to users, but had hidden text. Here’s what it looked like with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) on:..."
"But if you turn off Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), you see stuff like this at the bottom of the page:..."
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I wondered if anyone could clear up what the BigDadddy update is and if it has
completed yet? I've noticed the update has been mentioned for a while now, and
our listings have been fluctuating wildly.
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