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Using Spotlight Feature In The New iPhone OS 3.0
I finally updated the operating system on my second generation iPhone and the new OS is definitely cool - and faster - but I'm not too sure how to use Spotlight, the search feature that so many people have been talking about on Twitter and elsewhere. What does it really do for me and how do I get to it?
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Date: 2009-07-31
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Optimizing Your Digital Assets Within Your Website
It's likely you've heard plenty about search engine optimization but what about "Digital Asset Optimization"? Many companies that have applied basic SEO principles to standard web site content see substantial benefits. Adding new content and attracting links help maintain search marketing performance but is that all you can do to be competitive with SEO? No.
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Date: 2009-07-30
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Are Expired Domains Worth Acquiring For Your Business?
A friend recently asked me about a domain name he was thinking of buying. He mentioned that one of the websites he owns and has developed is the name of a city: and he noticed that there is a ‘related' domain name that is for sale. It used to be on the same topic of the website that he owns, and he wanted to know if he should purchase it and redirect it to his current website.
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Date: 2009-07-29
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Adding More Interactivity To Your Website
If you've spent any time visiting blogs lately chances are you've seen those small little photo's accompained by a title or bit of text in or near the masthead. I'm not sure if it has a proper name, but most people I've talked to call it a carousel, in this tutorial I'm going to show you how to add one to your blog.
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Date: 2009-07-28
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Making Sure Your Site Customer Centric
Website conversion is increased using a variety of strategies all of which play an important role in the ultimate effectiveness. I seem to constantly mention that one must make sure they pay careful attention to the customer experience their website offers. After hearing this so many times one might ask "Why do you keep saying this? Enough is enough already."
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Date: 2009-07-28
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Test Environment For Perl Opens
Perl programmers, get ready - at least in a figurative sense - to break out your beakers and put on your rubber gloves, aprons, and goggles. The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) Testing Laboratory is good to go.
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Date: 2009-07-28
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Targeting Ads With Better Keyword Tags
When you're running a blog with affiliate links, one of the key factors that can increase your conversions, help you make more sales, and ultimately put more money in your pocket, is to have ads that are targeted to match the content. In this tutorial I'll be showing you some tactics on how you can improve this targeting using tags.
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Date: 2009-07-27
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Increasing Site Revenue With Better Keyword Targeted Ads
When you're running a blog with affiliate links, one of the key factors that can increase your conversions, help you make more sales, and ultimately put more money in your pocket, is to have ads that are targeted to match the content. In this tutorial I'll be showing you some tactics on how you can improve this targeting using tags.
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Date: 2009-07-27
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Measuring Your Site's Analytics Velocity
For many types of systems and measurements, the rate of change is more important than the actual measure. In physics, g-force is a function of acceleration not speed - no matter how fast you are traveling, you feel at rest as long as your speed doesn't change. In the world of business, stock traders often focus on "momentum" - how rapidly a stock or market price is moving up or down.
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Date: 2009-07-27
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Is Cloud Computing Really Ready For Business?
You hear lots of talk about cloud computing, but is it really practical? It might sound cool and many cloud computing services are even free, but can you talk your executives into it? What are the kinds of things that they will ask that you need to think through? If you want to try cloud computing in your organization, you need to know what they will ask and be ready with the answers.
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Date: 2009-07-27
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Effectively Requesting Inbound Links To Build Your Site
Direct requests for inbound links are a valuable way to build quality links to your website, however, the effectiveness of requesting links is directly linked (no pun intended) to the delivery of the request. For those who are looking for an automated means or a template that works can stop reading, because to put it plainly, in my opinion there is no such product that will accomplish this task.
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Date: 2009-07-24
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IBM Takes Steps To Make Supply Chains More Eco-Friendly
From polluting the environment to creating sweat shops, poorly managed supply chains can tarnish the reputation of any company - not only that it makes good business sense. Many global corporations realize this, which is why they have been so progressive in maintaining supply chains that hold themselves accountable for everything from the labor they employ to the eco-friendliness of the parts they use and many actually report on their progress and efforts.
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Date: 2009-07-24
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Americans Value Broadband Highly
Consumers receive more than $30 billion of net benefits from the use of fixed-line broadband at home, with broadband increasingly being viewed as a necessity, according to a new study by Compass Lexecon, conducted on behalf of the Internet Innovation Alliance.
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Date: 2009-07-24
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GlaxoSmithKline Move May Lift ERP Community
GlaxoSmithKline is the second largest pharmaceutical corporation in the world, which makes everything it does extremely important. And its latest move is extremely important for the enterprise resource planning community, as GSK is liable to introduce an ERP system.
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Date: 2009-07-24
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Microsoft Contributes Code To Linux Developers Under GPLv2
It's been amusing to read all the "pigs flying" and "Armageddon is near" initial responses to news that Microsoft is contributing code under the GPLv2. If you really thought this would never happen, then you've been under a rock for the past 3 years. Or you've ignored Microsoft's shifting stance towards open source.
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Date: 2009-07-23
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Repairing Various Issues Within Wordpress Blogs
WordPress, like any software, has the ability to break and that then can cause a blog owner quite a bit of anxiety. This can be caused by plugins not working properly, file corruption, database problems, or many other things. Even though your data is usually just fine, having a blog down is not what a blog owner wants.
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Date: 2009-07-23
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How To Fix A Broken Wordpress Blog
WordPress, like any software, has the ability to break and that then can cause a blog owner quite a bit of anxiety. This can be caused by plugins not working properly, file corruption, database problems, or many other things. Even though your data is usually just fine, having a blog down is not what a blog owner wants.
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Date: 2009-07-23
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Finding A Host With Good Front End And Back End Support
Today we conclude the three-part series on choosing a web host provider. In Part I we looked at the cost factor as well as up-time guarantee claims from web hosting companies. In Part II we discussed a number of other factors that can mess with your site's performance in the search engines such as speed, bandwidth, server load monitoring, space as well as other necessities such as email and security. Finally, we'll look at FTP accounts, control panel access, tech support and both free and in-house hosting options.
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Date: 2009-07-22
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Matching Your Site Host With Your Performance
Today we conclude the three-part series on choosing a web host provider. In Part I we looked at the cost factor as well as up-time guarantee claims from web hosting companies. In Part II we discussed a number of other factors that can mess with your site's performance in the search engines such as speed, bandwidth, server load monitoring, space as well as other necessities such as email and security. Finally, we'll look at FTP accounts, control panel access, tech support and both free and in-house hosting options.
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Date: 2009-07-22
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Creating The Best Keyword Density Over Your On-Page Content
The subject of keyword density has been open to debate for a long time. In the early days of search engine optimization, high keyword density was the order of the day, to the extent that you would have the same keyword repeated several thousand times on the page, in small print that matched the background color of the site.
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Date: 2009-07-21
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Understanding Modern Use Of Keyword Density
The subject of keyword density has been open to debate for a long time. In the early days of search engine optimization, high keyword density was the order of the day, to the extent that you would have the same keyword repeated several thousand times on the page, in small print that matched the background color of the site.
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Date: 2009-07-21
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Checking Your Blog For Broken Links
Recently I've been experimenting with a plugin for checking broken links, on several of my blogs, and I'm fascinated by what I've discovered. The plugin is called, obviosly enough, Broken Link checker, what it does is periodically run through all of your posts and blogroll and checks for broken links. You can put a widget on your wordpress dashboard page so that you can see what the status is everytime you login.
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Date: 2009-07-20
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Increasing Relevance By Removing Broken Web Links
Recently I've been experimenting with a plugin for checking broken links, on several of my blogs, and I'm fascinated by what I've discovered. The plugin is called, obviosly enough, Broken Link checker, what it does is periodically run through all of your posts and blogroll and checks for broken links. You can put a widget on your wordpress dashboard page so that you can see what the status is everytime you login.
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Date: 2009-07-20
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Microsoft Connects Dynamics CRM To Twitter
It's getting to the point that Twitter is hard to avoid; in fact, a study released today determined that the site's received about $48 million in free media coverage. It makes a fair amount of sense, then, that Microsoft's decided to integrate its Dynamics CRM software with Twitter.
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Date: 2009-07-20
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Behavioral Advertising Is Here To Stay
Remember when Gmail launched in 2004 and there was an outcry because Google would be matching adverts to what people wrote in their emails? At the time the BBC even found someone called Simon Davies, from something called Privacy International, to describe the proposed system as, "a vast violation of European law".
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Date: 2009-07-16
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How To Change Web Host Without Hurting Your Ranking
Recently I received a call from a former client, concerned that their website was down. We helped them set up their web host services with a nationally recognized company and provided them all the information they needed to manage their account before continuing on with our other services.
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Date: 2009-07-16
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Breaking The Chain Of Hamster Wheel Analytics
Hamster-Wheel AnalyticsFrom Part 1, setting goals is the first and only place to start when developing an analytics strategy. Otherwise, the analyst or the website marketing manager will spend the majority of their time developing reports with numbers on them. The rest of their month will then be spent justifying why those numbers are higher or lower than the previous month. Without goals, there is simply no direction.
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Date: 2009-07-15
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Growing Your Small Business Without Reinventing The Wheel
Are you struggling to constantly reinvent the wheel when it comes to marketing and growing your small business? Are you so swamped with running your business you can't even think about putting together new products? If so, then you need to start following the successful small business owner's secret of reusing, repurposing, and reducing to get more done with less.
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Date: 2009-07-15
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Clario - A Web-based, Data Mining And Analytics Tool
clario Analytics was founded back in 2002 largely by folks from Fingerhut. The team had been working on mailstream optimization - how to manage catalogs. The best customers of a catalog marketer can get literally 100 catalogs per year and this is not good. Initially a consulting company they raised money in 2006 and launched clario Stream, a product for developing customized/personalized outbound contact streams - contact optimization or the evolution of mailstream optimization. Now they have launched their generic data mining and analytics platform, clario.
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Date: 2009-07-14
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Google's Next Microsoft Killer Chrome OS
Yep - it's true. Google are venturing into the world of computer operating systems and have clearly put Microsoft on notice. In case you missed the news, last week Google confirmed that they will be launching an operating system (known as Google Chrome OS) that will provide PC and laptop users with an alternative to Microsoft's various Windows operating systems.
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Date: 2009-07-14
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Tapping Into The Wealth Of Knowledge Between The SES Co-Chairs
If you've exhibited, presented or moderated a Search Engine Strategies conference, it's more than likely that you've had the opportunity to meet Stewart Quealy, VP, Content Development at Incisive Media, parent company to Search Engine Strategies, Search Engine Watch and ClickZ. Stewart (L), along with Mike Grehan (R) were recently named co-chairs of the SES Advisory Board, which is charged with shaping the future direction and ongoing growth of the SES conference.
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Date: 2009-07-14
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Permanently Delete All Information From Your Storage Devices
I learned something new from this interview about how I was unknowingly leaving data exposed so I want to share my AppGap post on Drive eRazer here. We often talk about the new transparency in enterprise 2.0. However, there are times when we need to go the other way and eliminate any access to information. Perhaps you believe the system messages and think that anything put in your trash folder and deleted goes away. Not so. You might need some expertise to find it, but is still there.
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Date: 2009-07-13
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Understanding The Difference Between Linux And Unix Systems
I was using Sun Microsystems Solaris operating system at school for the last month. I was also told by my professor that it was also Unix operating system. Are Unix and Solaris the same thing? I looked online for screenshots of both and the results are practically identical to each other, as well as the screen I would look at while on-campus. I would like to add Unix and Solaris operating systems to my resume, but I don't know if it would make sense if they are one in the same. Please help.
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Date: 2009-07-09
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State Of C++ Deemed Iffy With "Upside Opportunity"
Lots of subjects get covered by different "state of" talks. There's the State of the Union address delivered by the president, for example. There's also Conan O'Brien's hilarious "State of the Show" sketch (which he'll hopefully continue in his new timeslot). And for C++ fans, Justin James recently gave his opinion on the programming language's condition.
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Date: 2009-07-09
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How Your Site Architechture Impacts Ranking
It's often difficult to get a simple answer on the impact that site architecture has on search engine performance and website traffic. Accordingly there also a myriad of myths that circle the forums and blogs as to how the search engines treat various architecture scenarios and practices.
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Date: 2009-07-08
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ERP Sector Proves Recession-Resistant
As most people know by now, the recession's hit all sorts of sectors, and a quick look at the Dow, the Nasdaq, and some unemployment reports can confirm this (and cause your blood pressure to rise). Still, ERP professionals can remain relatively confident, as it looks like your industry's doing just fine.
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Date: 2009-07-08
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Google To Enter The OS Market For Netbooks
Google certainly doesn't rest on its laurels, that's for sure. They are, first and foremost a search engine, but the success of their search business has fathered so many products that aren't search related at all it's amazing at times. Of course, now that everything is losing its beta status Google needs to get something else in the pipeline that will raise an eyebrow or two.
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Date: 2009-07-08
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Cli.gs Hacked For Ranking Links
Cli.gs, (Cligs) a URL shortening/forwarding service has been hacked where several users have been reporting their older created forwarders were all going to 1 single location. Below is a screenshot within the Cligs user interface displaying some older saved forwarded URLs in my own Cligs account.
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Date: 2009-07-07
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Rakudo Brings Perl 6 Closer Still
An implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine is moving forward. A fresh report indicates that Rakudo is "ready for experimentation," which is a positive development that many people might not have thought would come.
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Date: 2009-07-07
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Indexing Your Site Effectively For SEO Ranking
The post today is about getting a site crawled and indexed effectively by the major search engines. It can be frustrating for a site owner to find that her newly built site with bells and whistles is just not appearing on the Google SERPs for a search query relevant to her business.
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Date: 2009-07-06
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Developing Good Results For SEO And The End User
For some people, SEO has always been about this - creating a killer page that deserves to be number 1. Perhaps it doesn't always shine through in the work you do - there are a variety of constraints that can hold you back - money, time, resources or corporate politics to name but a few. But in general, this is the approach that always serves you well. This article looks at some of the traits of a category killing page and how you moving away from the "keyword, keyword, keyword" mentality that SEO encourages can do wonders for your rankings.
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Date: 2009-07-02
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Your End User Wants A Well Developed Site Not Just Top SEO
For some people, SEO has always been about this - creating a killer page that deserves to be number 1. Perhaps it doesn't always shine through in the work you do - there are a variety of constraints that can hold you back - money, time, resources or corporate politics to name but a few. But in general, this is the approach that always serves you well. This article looks at some of the traits of a category killing page and how you moving away from the "keyword, keyword, keyword" mentality that SEO encourages can do wonders for your rankings.
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Date: 2009-07-02
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Record And Edit Video Directly On Your iPhone
One of the cool new features of the Apple iPhone 3GS is the ability to take videos. Nice, but I can't figure out how to get to the video camera? I know how to take photos, though, so I figure it's related to the iPhone camera (rather obviously, eh?) I have also heard that you can edit the video right there on the iPhone, but I don't believe it. I mean, isn't the screen too darn small?
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Date: 2009-07-01
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Linux May Give Away Netbooks in Risky Marketing Move
Want a free netbook? Who could refuse? Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation was speaking to a group of Chinese industry leaders, when he discussed the potential of mobile providers selling netbooks for low prices, but receiving a subsidy through users purchasing programs for their machines. It's a similar marketing move to what cell phone carriers do when you sign up for a contract; they give you a free (or drastically reduced) device, as long as you purchase a subscription.
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Date: 2009-07-01
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Deciding How To Organize Your Small Business
Dave, we're trying to figure out, should we set up our business as an LLC or S-Corp? In particular, an LLC Corporation instead of an LLC partnership, though we have heard from a few people that a partnership LLC is best. What's the difference and what works best with three -- unequal ownership -- founders?
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Date: 2009-07-01
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