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Google Gadgets for Your Website

Google made their Google Gadgets (widgets) available for website owners to add to their webpages. Good gadgets are basically Java Applets that offer dynamic content that can be displayed on any web page. A directory of

Fighting Copied Content and Plagiarism

I recently had an issue with one of my other websites. Somebody decided that they would copy my content and list it as their own, on their own website. Obviously I was not okay with this, and nobody should. In leiu of this, I’ve decided to write about what you as a webmaster can do [...]

How to Stop Forum Spam

Being a webmaster, and having a few websites which have forums on them, it has become apparent to me that spam is a very serious problem, with very few people knowing how to stop forum spam. You

Google FAQ Updated

I was looking through the general FAQ at Google today and noticed some subtle differences. I decided to figure out just what has changed and list it in my professional search engine optimization blog. The part that I want webmasters to pay most attention to is what is said about expired domains or domains that [...]

Automatically Build a Mission Statement

I figured that I would post this as my first marketing related article. As most of you marketing people know, most companies have a Mission Statement proclaiming their goals and what the company’s ultimate purpose is. Of course, this statement can’t be more than a paragraph so I’ve always found mission statements to be useless [...]

Google Website Optimizer

It has come to my attention that Google is in the process of developing a new product which may be very useful to us search engine optimizers. It’s called Google Website Optimizer and simply adds a new twist to how we see our readers convert into sales. The main purpose of Google’s new Website Optimizer [...]

Google’s Web Accelerator

I was just playing around on the internet for a little bit and did a search in Google for “Google” to see what would happen. I couldn’t believe it, but there are a couple tools that I haven’t even heard of before listed on there. I was particularily interested in a tool called the Google [...]

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