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Archive for July, 2006

ICANN to Cut U.S. Apron Strings?

An agreement that gives the U.S. sway over Web addresses and domain names will soon expire, but Uncle Sam seems reluctant to cede control.
At stake is the oversight of the infrastructure and processes by which Internet protocol address and the Web site domain names that correspond to them are assigned. Currently that’s the job of […]

3 Ways to Immediately Increase Search Engine Traffic

Amongst the commercial blogosphere there is huge interest in the dark, and mysterious art of SEO, or Search Engine Optimization. There shouldn’t be. Not because paying attention to Search traffic is bad, or that wanting to rank higher in Google is evil, simply because it’s not rocket science, and anyone can do it. Even you.
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11 Strategies for Driving Traffic to Your Web Site

Are you looking for effective methods to drive traffic to your web site? Rand Fishkin posted this great article that outlines 10 (plus 1) strategies of gaining exposure to your pages.
In summary, the techniques are:
#10 - Targeting Unmonetized Searches
#9 - Creating Controversy
#8 - Maps & Mashups
#7 - Event Coverage
#6 - Top Ten Lists
#5 - Online […]

Site Maps Attract Search Engine Robots

Do you want an easy way to rank better in the search engines? Do want all of your pages to show up in the search engine results pages? Providing a site map for both your visitors and the search engine robots to index your website is a key step to getting visitors to your website.
This […]

Targeted Adsense Categories

Google announced that there is now an option to choose the category you want your Adsense campaign to be displayed in. This will allow specific targeting of the types of websites that you want your advertising to appear on.
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Overselling - The Truth About Discount Web Hosting

When comparing web hosts, you may have noticed that many discount web hosting providers offer a lot of server space and bandwidth for a small price. What they don’t tell you is that they are actually overselling their web hosting accounts.
Overselling involves selling more web hosting server space and bandwidth than is physically available. By […]