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I don’t know much about computers. The computer guy at work is a pretty cool dude but sometimes when I talk to him it’s difficult.
Me: Hey, did you have a good weekend?
Him: Blah, blah blah blah computer talk. Blah blah blah.
Me: Oh, really? I went to a movie.
Him: Blah blah blah blah blah blah computer […]

Not a whole lot, it turns out.
Meta tags were originally intended to help search engines index web pages more accurately and to give people a little bit of control over their sites’ keywords, descriptions, etc.
Then they started being abused. Search engines recognized this abuse and made meta tags less important to search engine ranking. […]

“Text-only advertisements work far better than banners, but is this only due to their novelty?”

Business Week published a piece by Sherry Alpert on March 28, 2005 entitled ‘Let Search Engines Do the Walking.’
Here’s an excerpt or two…
Because of cost effectiveness and the ability to target very specific markets, more small businesses are making an online strategy at least one part of their overall campaigns. With that comes a […]

A service that can be used to help limit the fraud that seems to be growing in the Pay-Per-Click world.
New Service Helps Stop Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Click Fraud
PPC Trax released to the general public to help track and stop PPC click fraud, improve PPC advertisers’ conversion rates and improve PPC Return-On-Investment (ROI).
[ClickPress, Mon Feb 21 2005] […]

Here are a few guidelines suggested by MSN to help you out. First and foremost, MSN readily admits that MSNbot will actively be using Meta tags for part of its web site analysis. Yes, meta tags are still relevant pieces of code (despite all the nay sayers out there), and with this new Bot they […]

Technorati reports that 30,000 - 40,000 new blogs are being created each day. According to David Sifry, part of the growth of new blogs created each day is due to an increase in spam blogs. What are spam blogs? They are fake blogs that are created by robots in order to foster link farms, attempted […]

The following was posted on 3/22/05 to this thread:
Good Day All,
We are a marketing firm specializing in Online Gaming & Poker and are looking to hire a Senior(if possible) Search Engine Optimization and Marketing Specialist/Manager.
We would prefer to have a local candidate, or someone who comes from Ontario or Canada, but relocation is an option […]

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