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Improvements on Google webmaster tools
If you are a webmaster and really cares about your site status and ranking on search engines especially google you will probably know google webmaster tools and probably visiting quite often to check some errors those robots are trying to check. You will also notice some improvements on its google webmaster area. Here is some [...]
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Official Google Stand on Link selling
Google officially announced its stand on buying and selling links via their google webmaster blog,If, however, a webmaster chooses to buy or sell links for the purpose of manipulating search engine rankings, we reserve the right to protect the quality of our index. Buying or selling links that pass PageRank violates our webmaster guidelines. Such [...]
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Don’t fall on those network blog post
As a member of digitalpoint and other webmaster and seo websites I normally see blogs being advertised in the market. Specially on Buy, sell and trade section or in the marketplace of every webmaster or seo forum. I am also aware that there are issues on directories being created today in terms on arguments and [...]
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Live Search now talking SEO and Link buying?
I normally check webmaster live blog about some updates their webmaster portal has to offer. But the post dated January 11, have slipped through my eye. It is SEO 101. And they are now talking SEO for their Live Search Engine. Interesting, but I will have take a further look on some points mentioned.Good ContentGood [...]
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Content Analysis on Google Webmaster Tools
If you are regularly checking your sites performance using google webmaster tools, you will probably notice an addition to the feature called Content Analysis. This show information meta on your site.It basically shows if you have a missing title tags on any of you site pages, descriptions (long and short) or non-informative title tags???If you [...]
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Live Search Webmaster Center
Finally, Live Search Webmaster Center is out for public beta. You can now use the service of what live search has to offer to check your website statistics on their own search engine. According to their blog,We want the center and the blog to be a place for two way communication between Live Search and [...]
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Web Design Resources
All, 11th September 2003, Nigel Peck. This article provides short reviews and links to other resources on the Internet that feature information on Web Design, Internet Marketing and Usability.
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New 'Proven Cure for Diabetes': With Over 9 Million Americans Suffering, Diabetes Resources Has the Answer
Breakthrough Science Resources Available Right Now for Diabetics. A Cure for Diabetes! Finally. (PRWEB Jun 25, 2006)
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Link Building 101 - Resources and Tools
Every now and then, there is a forum post worth bookmarking and a Search Engine Watch thread that compiles an excellent list of link-building resources is such a post. The post, and the comments that follow, provides for a very comprehensive list of tools, articles, forum threads and knowledge bases that can be found on the Internet. Good job Nacho.
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http://seo-services-guide.blogspot.com/
Frank Herald A webmaster and internet marketing specialist Search Engine Optimization Australia
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Human Ageing Genomic Resources
The Human Ageing Genomic Resources (HAGR) website provides tools and curated databases relevant to the genetics of human ageing. GenAge is a database of genes related to human ageing, and AnAge is a multi-species database facilitating the comparative biology of ageing. The Ageing Research Computational Tools (ARCT) is a collection of Perl modules to assist comparative genomics research.
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SEO Chat Forums - Backlink problems...
Date: July 17th, 2006 02:27 AM - tommr1 - UntitledPost: The question is are your serps better or worse.G states in the webmaster info section that they do not return all information. soYou...
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Parents tv cream of the crop
Subject: Thank you for parentstv.orgTo: Editor@parentstv.org, Webmaster@parentstv.org, Letters@parentstv.orgHello creators and maintainers of parentstv.org.I am not a parent, but I really, really appreciatewhat your site is doing. Specifically, the page at http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/clips/main.asptitled 'Worst TV Clips of the Week'.In general I have discontinued watching broadcast andcable television because of it's low quality and Isimply don't have time to sift through the garbage. What your page provides me is the sweetest necturefrom all the fruit of broadcast and pay television. Ican just hit your page once a week and get all thefun, hot clips. With your permission, I will startbacking up this page onto a CD-ROM archive that I canmail around and trade with my friends.You are all quite a peice of work. Don't ever stopbeing you!Gratefully yours,Austin happy non-parent and heavy user ofparentstv.orgPS-- Feel free to use this testimony on your website.
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Google's new position 6 penalty
A discussion in an online webmaster forum indicates that Google might have invented a new ranking penalty for websites that rank well for popular search terms. Is your website affected by this penalty?
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mezzoblue: CSS Resource Guide
More CSS resources to augment this list.
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Quality Leaders: Upgrading QC Article Published

The statements about the importance of quality made by management are rarely accompanied by assigning adequate responsibilities and resources to the QC team. To start with, many QC teams deal solely with verifying the functionality of the product. Yet, the quality of a software product has many other aspects...
...However, the scope of responsibility assigned to the QC team is often the least of their problems. A more acute group of problems deals with the physical resources assigned to the QC team. The QC team is often understaffed. The ratio between the numbers of developers and the number of QC people in a project is rarely adequate. This is an inherent problem of the QC team...

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WebMaster Media Maker.
Create Streaming Audio and Video with Media players that do not require a streaming media server.
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Resources from recent talks

I have posted slides and demo code from my talks this month at Code Camp 5, DevTeach, and VSLive! on my site here. I have also posted each of these individually on the respected sites for the conference.

Each of these conferences went well. There were lots of great questions, and as with all speaking opportunities, I learn from those attending as well as become more comfortable with the material. One highlight for me was the great evals for each, and at DevTeach, I actually placed as the #1 speaker in the SQL/Data track based on evaluation results.

One issue I had with getting Service Broker to work at Code Camp 5 was resolved before DevTeach. I found that after I attached the new AdventureWorks database (included in the latest April SQL Server 2005 Samples), the authorization for the database was different than what I was using. This caused messages sent from an Initiator Queue to fail for Service Broker. My friend Rushi (a developer on the Service Broker team at Microsoft -- he has a great blog) mentioned I needed to do this:

ALTER AUTHORIZATION ON DATABASE::AdventureWorks TO sa ;
GO

After this step, things were right again and my demos WORKED!

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Holy CSS Zeldman!
An exaustive list of CSS links, and other Web designer/developer resources.
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A new SEO trick for high Google rankings
Some webmaster use a new search engine optimization practice to get high rankings on Google. They hotlink images from other web servers to get on Google's first results page. Will this method also work for your site?
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Keep Control of Your Domain Name
We don't want to scare you, but you really need to check to see who has control of your domain name. We feel that you should never let your webmaster own your domain name, find out why.
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Eric Meyer: CSS Work
A whole collection of resources from the leading expert in the field of CSS. Includes articles, tutorials and discussions.
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Directory submission
Directory submission. seo services: internet submission Internet directory and SEO specialists that do not submit to search engines, not even Google. We provide links for our clients from two sources. Firstly from over 19, 000 webmaster contacts around the world, in a variety of subjects, and secondly in. . .
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The end of Google bombs?
Google bombs have become a problem for Google. The official Google webmaster blog recently had a statement about Google bombs and how Google deals with them. How does this new algorithm affect your Google rankings?
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Identifying with the Web
URIs and the Myth of Resource Identity "Another way to put it is that the authoritative descriptive information that I publish licenses the use of my URI in certain models. This is analogous to publishing some interfaces for an object in an object oriented system. You can never be sure that I won't (monotonically) publish an additional interface at some point in the future, just as you cannot be sure I won't publish more descriptive information about me..."

"On the other hand, even if it is not possible to completely describe a resource, it may be possible to unambiguously identify that resource, in the sense of conveying what resource it is, as distinct from all other possible resources.
For example, if I provide descriptive information telling you that the URI http://t-d-b.org?http://dbooth.org/2005/dbooth/ identifies all-and-only the actual, living person with email address dbooth@hp.com as of 1-Jan-2005, that is sufficient to unambiguously identify me, distinct from all other possible resources."

"The ability to uniquely identify a resource -- in the sense of conveying the distinction between this resource and all other resources -- is important because it enables others to publish additional descriptive information about the resource, beyond what the URI owner provides. The Semantic Web is all about the network effect created by the use of URIs as universal identifiers. When a URI's resource is uniquely identified, it enables "anyone to say anything" about that resource[4].

"If a URI's resource is not uniquely identified -- if others must rely solely on authoritative descriptive information about that resource -- then those who wish to make statements about it run the risk that they may have guessed wrong about what resource the URI owner was intending to identify. This hampers others' ability to make statements about that resource, thus diminishing the value of that URI. This is analogous to connecting, to the telephone network, a telephone that nobody wants to call: it consumes resources without contributing anything to the network effect."

Via, URIs and the Myth of Resource Identity.

Related to, Why Different Things are the Same and Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One.
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Accurate Backlink Counter for Google and Yahoo

Easy way to get accurate backlink counts from Google and Yahoo.

If you are a regular Google user and website owner, you know that the link: modifier doesn't give accurate results for the number of backlinks pointing at a site. In the good old days we'd go to alltheweb.com and do a search with link:www.ahfx.net to get an approximation of the number of backlinks because they didn't dummy down the number of backlinks like Google does. However, now we've got better tools. To get a more accurate backlink count you have a couple of options.

Sign up for a Google account and go the the webmaster tools. You will first need to verify you own the account. Then you can access a number of important items like web crawl errors, statistics, and links. Just use the link tab to see a much more detailed view of backlinks.
You can use Yahoo's Site Explorer. Yahoo's site explorer is a great little tool to figure out just who is linking to someone without going through the hoops of signing up with Google and verifying you own a domain.

It seems that Google is a little nervous about letting "everyone" know how many backlinks their competitors have. However, since they've added "links" to the webmaster tools, maybe they'll start increasing the accuracy of the link: operator. After the great success of Yahoo's Site Explorer, maybe they'll have to. Only time will tell.
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Are we going into voice search?
Recently Live webmaster announced its ability to search using your phone by dialing 1-800-CALL-411 as posted on their blog. Some excerptsWe’ve built Live Search 411 to go beyond just finding business information. Because our goal is to help you complete your task, we’ve included features like: * Connect to any business [...]
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Fourth of July
Daily Sucker for Tuesday, July 4, 2006 Submitter's comments: Why isn't the annual 4th of July celebration announced/on the front page? Why did I have to spend 5 minutes digging for this page? Something tells me the webmaster doesn't realize its about providing the public with pertinent information in a timely fashion - but rather to pimp-up the rep of incumbent politicos. Vincent's comments: Be...
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Can duplicate content really influence your rankings?
Every few months, webmaster forums discuss if search engines penalize duplicate content. Can duplicate content affect your search engine rankings? What can you do about that?
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Accessify.com: Attractive, Accessible Web Sites
Or, disproving the myth of ugly. An article discussing how to achieve both. With both good and bad examples. Many more resources on this site including tutorials, news and reviews, and discussions.
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Audio: Luke Wroblewski on Form Design
I recently had the pleasure of talking with Tom Crawford, CEO of VizThink, about my Web Form Design book and its relevance for the visual thinking community.

Check out the podcast with video on the VizThink site.
Download the audio as an mp3 (21.6 MB)

In the interview we discuss:

Why web form design is important
If form design is everywhere, why are there so many bad forms?
What are some of the common mistakes web form designers make?
What are the Top 3 tips for improving web forms?
Why do good designers create bad forms?
What is the disappearing form?
How does web form design relate to visual thinking?

For more on Form Design...
Check out Luke's book about Web form usability, visual design, and interaction design considerations: Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks.

Tags: forms, vizthink08, visual communication, visual design, interaction design
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Designing URIs
Although you may have never thought of it as "design" (I do), it is important to carefully think about site structure and how URIs to different resources are related. Failure to do so can come back and haunt you. I speak from experience.
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Are search engine spammers exploiting your web pages?
A recent thread in a webmaster forum indicated that some search engine spammers might exploit the new XML sitemaps files. Has your sitemaps file been abused by spammers? Can using a sitemaps file harm your rankings?
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Google's SandBox and TrustRank filters and your web site
Google's Sandbox and Google's TrustRank are often discussed in webmaster forums. How do these factors influence your web site rankings on Google and what can you do to get out of the sandbox or to get a high TrustRank?
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New features in Google Sitemaps
Last week, Google added new features to its Sitemaps service. After verifying that you are really the webmaster of a site, you can access some statistics about the information Google has about your site. This kind of information can help you to spot possible reasons when Google doesn't index your site.
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WordCamp Update
So 1 day after the announcement, 104 people have signed up that they're coming to WordCamp and 58 have joined the mailing list. Wow! Thank you, as this has been a huge help in determining what sort of resources we're going to need to pull this thing off. Now the big challenge is finding a [...]
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SEO World Championship SEO Contest Begins

Well there is another SEO contest going on, so we'll see how much SPAM comments start accumulating on discussion boards and blogs all over the world. This contest is for the keywords "globalwarming awareness2007 ". Those that rank highest on the big three (Google, Yahoo, and MSN) will win (if there is a tie then of course the highest Google rank wins).

Official Rules

Site must include either a SEO World Championship text link or a banner . (The banner may be linked or not linked)
Valid contact information must be found on the site, E-mail is preferred.
Your official domain must be registered the same day or after January the 15th 2007.(All domains registered before the 15th of January 2007 will not qualify for the competition, no record of the domain is allowed. See archive.org)
Website will not use SEO methods which are clearly not approved by Search Engine Guidelines for example: doorway pages, etc. See Google webmaster Guidelines. (Any participant ignoring the Google webmaster guidelines will not qualify for a prize)

It is good that they get rid of "old domains" to help level the playing field. However, with an end date of May 1st, people will be hard pressed to get in and rank in such a short amount of time. I am also impressed that they chose a topic that people can benefit from instead of some random garbage word that no one will ever use after the contest is done.

Well good luck and we'll see you in May.

CSS Vault
A gallery of inspirational, CSS-designed sites, as well as many CSS resources. A good place to check out examples of CSS applied to real (commercial) Web sites. New material is added every month, on top of a large archive.
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Have you removed links after pagerank update?
I was wondering how webmaster’s responded to the recent pagerank update. Did you remove your paid links? Or did you add no follow on your “friends” links?Getting into the topic, on this blog, I still have those links as follow and never responded to that google pagerank decreasing update. As long as I get those [...]
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CSS Panic Guide
It's 2:00am, that design you've been working so hard on is looking good, and the client is scheduled to review it in the morning. But wait, it doesn't work in browser X! Don't panic! Here be Owen, with tips and resources to keep you from coming unglued.
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SkimCSS
Features a keyword tagged and searchable database of CSS resources. Visitors may submit suggestions, and vote on the quality of existing articles thus creating a social rating system. A tag cloud is provided, as well as RSS feeds for recent additions.
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Technical Writer Resources
A collection of links of use to technical and professional communicators. Mink, Rebecca
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Esquillo SEOcontest
Esquillo SEOcontest. seo contests: esquillo Pagina criada para parti ipar no Esquillo SEOcontest. Codico de pesquisa: Esquillo SEOcontest. O Esquillo Seocontest tem por objetivo encontrar o webmaster que melhor consegue promover a sua pagina nos principais motores de busca mundiais, de modo a conseguir a melhor classificao para uma determinada. . .
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Developer Buzz
This is the parent container for the rest of the Artima Buzz resources located elsewhere in this directory. By subscribing to the RSS feed you can stay up to date on the rest of them from one location. Or use my dnews interface if you prefer.
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Arjay Enterprises provides a variety of services and information
Arjay Enterprises also publishes electronic books, opundo (a word garage of clean humour), The Northern Spy, and Sheaves Christian Resources.
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Plasticpilots: News from all Over
Alex has a nice interface here, that aggregates news from a number of design related sites (many of which have resources listed here). He also has a program that features well-designed sites, one anyone can submit entries too. Lots of great stuff at PP.
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Web Accessibility Toolbar
An awesome toolbar for developers allowing them to examine Web pages under Internet Explorer for various aspects of accessibility. Contains links to a lot of accessibility resources. Version 1.2 released Oct, 2005 with many enhancements and improvements.
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Cynthia Says™
International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet (ICDRI), the Internet Society - Disability and Special Needs Chapter, and HiSoftware Company collaborate to provide cost-free educational resource for Web Site accessibility testing.
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June 10, 2005: Motorola Employee Data Stolen
Two computers containing personal information on Motorola employees were stolen from the mobile phone maker's human resources services provider, Affiliated Computer Services.
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