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Saturday, October 30, 2004

PRESS RELEASE: George Bush DeCloaked

PRESS RELEASE: George Bush DeCloaked: "George Bush re launched his web site but took the decision to alienate the world, using search engine Spam techniques.

Any visitors not from the US are banned from his website. This has been accomplished using cloaking technology, commonly used by spammers trying to manipulate the search engines. In the interests of democracy, StrangeLogic.com, A search engine technology company has made the content available for everyone to view."

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Thursday, October 28, 2004

Are you making these Deadly SEO Mistakes

Are you making these Deadly SEO MistakesEd Zivkovic Contributing Writer
"Black Hat SEO: Web Spamming and Linking to Bad Neighborhoods"

Defines a web spammer as "someone who creates hundreds or thousands of keyword rich pages in order to create the illusion of a themed site with related pages. These sites can be composed of sneaky redirect pages, doorway pages, gateway pages and now the latest craze seems to be auto generated directories. SEO circles call these types of pages "search engine clutter"...spammer places the search engine clutter on a secondary domain and looks for link partners"...the sites..."all link or redirect to a main selling website which does not link back to the spam pages. Usually, all the secondary domains link to each other too. "

The challenge is " to develop the ability to detect these types of pages with the naked eye"..

It is only if you link to web spam or a bad neighborhood that you risk getting penalized. ...bad neighbourhoods..."include Free For All Links pages (FFA s), Link Farms and useless directories designed to do nothing more than create the illusion of a themed web site.

A good guide to follow would be not to link to any site which does not contain useful information or relevant content. More info about bad neighborhoods here: http://www.v7n.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11376 ...

Defines.."Obsessive Compulsive SEO practitioner" as a webmaster who "is always looking for the easier softer way. The delusion is strong. The insanity has got a grip of the obsessive compulsive SEO. In the end, when they get sick and tired of getting banned, they swear off Internet Marketing altogether claiming that everybody in the industry is a rip off artist..."

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Wired News: Internet Users Want a Voice

Wired News: Internet Users Want a Voice: "Websites that want to remain relevant should strongly consider building in ratings systems that allow visitors to leave input about what they find on the site.... the new study shows that a growing number of Americans want to have their opinions heard online, and are willing to put their money where their mouths are. Thus, an increasing number of commercial sites are following the lead long since set by Amazon.com, eBay and others that allow users to weigh in on the value or reputations of products or other users of the service."

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More domains given initial approval: Barnako.com

Barnako.com New Web domains approved:

The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers announced its preliminary approval to new domain names, ".post" and ".travel." The body said sponsors provided substantial information to allow for commercial and technical negotiations. ICANN said applications for eight other domains, including "xxx" and "jobs" are pending and will be considered as information from their backers is made available

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Wednesday, October 27, 2004

registration of .eu domain names: European Commission - Information Society

European Commission - Information Society - Telecommunications, Communications and Services - Today's Framework: "Open for Business in 2005: yourname.eu"

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Tuesday, October 26, 2004

MediaDailyNews 10-26-04

MediaDailyNews 10-26-04: "one of the great truisms of the Internet is that it perfectly disaggregates that which was once aggregated...blogging, RSS, MyYahoo, PVRs, and other new capabilities (means) we all are becoming our own aggregators."

Via Ebay "Tens of thousands of small business folks are reaching customers they never reached before with imbedded cost advantages previously impossible. Everyday individuals are creating businesses once reserved for the big, established, brick and mortar juggernauts."

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Study: Drugstore.com Offers Best Site Search

Study: Drugstore.com Offers Best Site Search: "Drugstore.com offered the best site search in a JupiterResearch study of 42 online retail sites...the top rankings used proactive merchandising features to help influence consumer decision-making.

"Retailers must look beyond simply presenting a list of products in search to adding features that ease and enhance the shopping and discovery process," said Patti Freeman Evans, retail analyst at JupiterResearch.

the study found just 55 percent of the top online retailers offer the ability to refine search results by brand, price and style, a search capability that consumers say they use more than any other...

Jupiter recommends features like ubiquitous access to search and relevant results that list customer-friendly product names and price...enhanced navigation capabilities, such as faceted search or dynamically generated attributes that allow searchers to narrow the list of products via features that are important to them"

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Monday, October 25, 2004

National Trust travel photographer opens Northallerton gallery This is The North East |

This is The North East | News | The Advertiser : North Yorkshire

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Friday, October 22, 2004

More DNS attacks: Netcraft: UK Betting Sites , The Register...

Netcraft: UK Betting Sites Hit By Simultaneous Outages

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Tuesday, October 19, 2004

Netcraft: Fraudsters go Phishing on eBay - new tactics

Netcraft: Fraudsters go Phishing on eBay: "Fraudsters go Phishing on eBay"

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Thursday, October 14, 2004

On web surveys

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Tuesday, October 12, 2004

Silicon Valley Bank Encourages Entrepreneurial Spirit at Showcase 2004

Silicon Valley Bank Encourages Entrepreneurial Spirit at Showcase 2004: "26 domestic offices and two international subsidiaries in the U.K. and India. More information on the company can be found at www.svb.com"

Have a UK presence but mainly support technology based enterprises.

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Monday, October 11, 2004

Protect Your Content from Online Plagiarism copyscape checker

Ten Easy Steps To Protect Your Content from Online Plagiarism

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Tuesday, October 05, 2004

Fast Company | The Gonzo Way of Branding

Fast Company | The Gonzo Way of Branding: "The Gonzo Way of Branding "
RB brownnose

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Friday, October 01, 2004

Branding doc example

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