Web Development Articles: K - L

Keep 'Em Coming Back for More
Maybe you've already got good search engine placement. Maybe lots of sites
have linked to you, and people are able to find your little piece of
cyberspace without much trouble. However, once they've been there, do they
ever come back?
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Keep It Clean. Keep it Simple
With the availability of more elaborate programs and features for website building, it seems that many webmasters, particularly those who are relatively new to Online Home Business and Marketing, have decided to concentrate more on how fancy their website...
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Keep It Simple, Stupid: The Beauty of a Clean Cut Website
Don’t knock it; “Keep It Simple, Stupid” is a great rule to live by. Nobody likes a website to “yell” at them, with blaring colors and flashing lights. Too many buttons will turn customers off. I had...
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Keep Them Coming Back - Update Your Site
If you are anything like me, your website is a reflection of yourself. It contains your thoughts and communications, exposed to the entire world at all times. Look at virtually any non-commercial web...
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Keep Visitors Coming Back Over & Over! Offer Them What They Want!
If you have a site you want to be "sticky" - meaning visitors will hang
out at your site and check it out for awhile, and then come back for more
visits due to changing content they want to see - you need to have a
strategy. You need to know...
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Keep Your Navigation Consistent!
One of the single most important aspects of effective navigation is consistency. Why? There's a simple reason. Visitors want familiarity. They are more comfortable and more trusting if they know thin...
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Keep Your Navigation Simple!
Navigation must be simple. Since it's the backbone of your site, it's imperative that visitors be able to understand it. Here are two tips on how to make simplicity a reality in your site: 1. Your li...
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Keep your web host from costing you money


Now that you’ve probably just spent hundreds of hours and
possibly even thousands of dollars to build your web presence,
one of the most important decisions you’ll make next is where to
host your website.

Choosing a Platform
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Keep Your Website Up-To-Date
In almost every business publication there are articles telling us how, as a small business, we need to have a website. This is very true! The Internet is where most people go to find a product or se...
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Keeping it clean could give you a boost.
Keeping it clean could give you a boost.
By Mark White

Everyone is striving to be at the top of the pile, we all want to get a better google PR and want this to reflect in more visitors to our site. But after we have followed all the advice abou...
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KEEPING TRACK OF YOUR LINK EXCHANGES
All of us want to increase traffic to our web sites. It helps
our search engine rankings, and provides us with potential new
customers. One of the best, and certainly least expensive, ways
to do that is by exchanging links with sites similar t...
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Keeping Your Pop-Ups - and Your Audience
In "Why Pop-Ups are Pop-Bad", we looked at the pitfalls of
pop-up advertising, the most significant of them being the way
Internet surfers feel about pop-ups. As I mentioned in that
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Keeping Your Site Current
It's imperative that your website's information be current. This can prevent you from many problems with your clients.

If you have anything on your site that's date sensitive, such as a sale, promotion, coupon or similar items that have expirati...
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Keeping Your Website In Top Condition - 5 Easy tips for maintaining a streamline site
Whether you are the master of your own domain or webmastering for
someone else, you want to maintain the most efficient website you
can. To achieve this takes diligence and awareness on your part. Here
are five ways to maintain that site with ...
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KEI Concerns and CID Alternative
KEI Concerns and CID Alternative

Like many folks, I have been using KEI for some time now to
determine what keywords I should target with my web site.
And this has led me to becoming concerned with the results
KEI provides and the keywo...
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Key Facts you should know about Web Site design and Search Engine Optimization
1. Web site File Structure / File Naming Most search engines do not recognize beyond two directory levels. Make sure to name your files and directories with keywords. Don’t separate keywords u...
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Keys to Effectual Design
Oftentimes there are tips for betterment of almost every single detail of our lives. Things that you should do to attain this and that and everything that is needed to be done are just around the corner waiting. Keys to attain better gains are needed so t...
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Keyword Density - Are You Getting the Right Result?
When checking keyword density, would it shock you to know the results from using different analyzer's can differ by over 150%.
I used 5 analyzer's and rarely got close to the same keyword count or word count with any of them.

If you're using...
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Keyword Density - More Than Meets the Eye
One of the standard elements of web page
optimization is Keyword Density: up until very recently
the ratio of keywords to rest of body text was
generally deemed to be one of the most important
factors employed by search engines to determine a ...
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Keyword killer Tips
Though there may be more than a thousand ways to
generate traffic to your website, keywords are
extremely critical to blasting your website into the
limelight. Stats prove that almost 90% of targeted
ready to buy traffic comes through search e...
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Keyword Optimization - How To Achieve It
The most important thing you can do for your business and your website is develop relevant keywords that are not too competitive yet generate targeted traffic to your website. It's called keyword op...
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Keyword Ownership: What it is and Where it's Headed
Keyword Ownership:
What It Is and Where It's Headed?
By: Richard Zwicky
Published: August 20, 2003, SiteProNews.

Have you ever got one of those silly emails that offers to let you own a keyword? Silly question. How many such emails do yo...
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Keyword Popularity Check
Before using keywords for your site, it is always better to check for the popularity of these sub theme keywords. Some or all of the tools mentioned in the keywords tools section could be utilized to measure the popularity of these keywords.

Based...
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Keyword Research - The Lifeblood of your Website!
So, you know what your prospective customers search for when looking for your products or services? Do you? Get it wrong and your website marketing will be in vain, get it right and you signpost prospective clients straight to your door.

So why do ...
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Keywords are the “KEY” to a Profitable Web Site
The only activity that should preface keyword research is the brainstorming you do to come up with list of potential themes for your web site. Think about things that you find interesting, are passio...
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Keywords Finalization Methodology
To arrive at the set of keywords that:

Describe business correctly (are relevant)
Attract traffic (are popular & are searched for)
Have less competition (are relatively un-optimized for )

Steps

Step I:
Lets start by sayin...
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Keywords usage in the Body Text
Once the sites keywords have been finalized it is now time to start using them to optimize the site. Once the title & meta tags of the site have been optimized its time to start with optimizing the content of the site with keywords.

KEYWORDS and K...
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Keywords usage in the Meta Tags
Once the sites keywords have been finalized it is now time to start using them to optimize the site.The first & most obvious place to start using them is the meta tags of the site.

There are three metatags that we can start to use them with.
<...
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Keywords: The First Step To Recognition
Open Wordtracker [ http://www.wordtracker.com/ ] and you'll see following proclamation by Brent Winters, President, FirstPlace Software, Inc., the makers of award-winning web promotion software, WebP...
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King + Queen = Royal Success
Ever wonder how or why your competitor gets better search engine rankings than you do? Does he know something you don't? Well, maybe he actually does…And that's where I come in. I'm here to unveil the secret tricks of the trade that may be giving your ...
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Know-How in Microsoft Publisher
For those who still don’t know, Microsoft Publisher helps computer users to easily create, customize and publish materials such as flyers, brochures, catalogs, newsletters and websites. It provides t...
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Landrush of Indian Domains
The landrush period of indian domains starts at February 16 2005.
Almost all extensions ending .in will be offered on a first-come-first-serve basis with no restrictions during the public launch on 16 Feb 2005!

You can take advantage of the na...
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Language - Who Can Read Your Web Site?
We assume that people looking at our web site can read the words. But can they? If they can't read what is

presented, they certainly won't buy. Tens of millions of people use the Internet to buy products and services

everyday, but they w...
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Latest Bytes on Search Engine Marketing
The search engine world is always changing. They are always up to something new, using new technology, coming up with new requirements and rules, and, of course, running into new glitches. As a web site owner, you need to know exactly what they are up to ...
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Launch amara Flash News Ticker
Amara
Flash News Ticker is a new software program that enables users to quickly
create vertically scrolling news tickers. Users just follow a few simple steps, ...
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Launch of Amara Flash Menu Maker
Amara Flash Menu Maker is a new software package that makes it easy for users to create animated Flash buttons and menus for websites. Amara Flash Menu Maker provides offline creation of ...
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Lead Them On - Getting the Spiders to Notice Your Site
© 2004, John Calder
http://www.TheEzine.net

You've found your market, developed a marketing and business strategy, identified or created your products, and finally finished your site. Everything else is in place, and you're ready to get listed...
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Leading Your Web Designer to SEO
Many SEO projects involve taking a site that has already been built and changing or adding optimization elements to help the site rank well in the search engines. For a site that has already been built, the web designer is usually not involved in the proc...
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Learn from the Masters (of Web Design)
If you've ever been to the Louvre, you know it's
chock full of art students, who spend hours in the
museum with their sketchpads, copying the works of
the Masters. Poets do it too; that's why English majors
spend hours doing "close reading...
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Learn HTML tables - no effort required!
HTML sounds daunting to the novice webmaster, who often assumes that the HyperText Markup Language, with all its confusing tags and elements, is going to be difficult to understand.

But after a few good <...
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Learn promotion through the search engines
According to a new survey carried out by Alliance & where ID_NUM=9270;
Leicester, one in five small business owners view tax as
their greatest concern. The Chancellor has announced in his
last budget that companies with profits below œ10,000...
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Learn the Language of the World Wide Web
If you are already on the web or thinking about it then you must know the terminology used on the web. Here is a Glossary of a few must know Web Terms. Visitors: The number of distinct people who vi...
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Learn The Truth About Your Web Design Company By Its Portfolio
When you start building your online business and search for a web design company that will implement all your needs for the web site you must understand that it is very serious step because you are e...
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Learn The Truth About Your Web Design Company By Its Portfolio
When you start building your online business and search for a web design company that will implement all your needs for the web site you must understand that it is very serious step because you are e...
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Learning ASP Series - Installing Personal Web Server
Welcome to the first chapter of your Basic ASP Learning Series.

I mostly communicate on a personal level, so it's better we
acquaint ourselves in the beginning. My name is Amrit Hallan and
I'm a web developer. I work through my web site - Read more

Learning ASP Series -- Getting Your Hands Dirty With VBScript
I know some people don't like VBScript for being
Microsoft-Centric, but it's very easy to get familiar with, and
once you know how to create your ASP pages in VBScript, you can
move on to any programming language of your choice.

First th...
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Learning ASP Series -- Your First ASP Page
ASP pages (Active Server Pages page sounds a bit melodramatic but
its easier to refer to them like this) are nothing but web pages.
The difference is that they have an extension .ASP and you write
the code in a Server Side Scripting language.
...
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Learning the Adobe software
Students, professionals and interested persons are always interested in learning news stuffs especially when it comes to computer technology and its software. There is always a room for learning new things that would add up and generate expansion on one’s...
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Learning the Adobe Software
Students, professionals and interested persons are always interested in learning news stuffs especially when it comes to computer technology and its software. There is always a room for learning new ...
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Learning Tools
The Internet is a network for learning, not merely a means for
disseminating information. During its early days, most activity
was oriented towards the dissemination of information. But as
the Net developed, greater emphasis was placed on lear...
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Leave those Links Blue!
Don't mess with those links! When you're designing your site, you should leave your text links in their natural state--blue and underlined. We all want to be creative and not do the bland, expected, ...
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Lesson for Learning the Basics of HTML
For beginners who are interested in learning basic Web development by using HTML (HyperText Markup Language) here are some helpful HTML tags to start practicing with. Listed below is the basic framework you will need to create an HTML page:

<...
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Let Your Brochures Do The Work For You
Brochures are not created just to have your company or business displayed. Like other print jobs, they have a deeper intent that is in favor of you. By giving people your brochures; you display what ...
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Let Your Little Website Shine, Part 1
One of the great things about the World Wide Web is that even the "little
guy" can be big.
Your website can give the appearance of a large organization, even when it's
just you and the family dog, sitting in your kitchen in your underwear (not...
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Let Your Little Website Shine, Part 2
I discussed the speed of your website load, and now we'll discuss element 2:

2. Looks great: Please remember that this subject has so many opinions among
so many people that it really is up to you in the end. What you think looks
great, may ...
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Let Your Visitors Know How Often You Update Your Website
If you update your website often, you may wish to express
to your visitors that your website is up-to-date, and
not "deserted".

One way to do this is by placing a small statement which
includes a "Last Updated" date that changes each t...
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LET YOUR WEBSITE DO YOUR TALKING - How To Convert Your Voice To RealAudio On The Fly!
Have you ever wondered what it would take to quickly
get your own voice file onto your website?

* How to greet your customers in your own voice. Let
them get to know you; trust you.

* Have an excited customer tell a testimonial about ...
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Let's Flash!
Most of you have visited web sites filled with video-like animation, sound effects and music synchronized to the animation, enhanced interactivity, and stunning graphics - all of which appear to load and play almost instantly.

These sites seem to h...
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Let's Get Navigational
Navigation is extremely important for your website. It's part of
your design, look, and feel. The right navigational tools will
create a user-friendly website, while a poorly mapped out
website can crush your success.

The following ar...
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Let's get personal: Putting your personality to work for you
Our personality is who we are, it is unique to us. We know this about ourselves, about our co-workers, clients, and customers. Anyone who has been alive for long has people they enjoy being around, because of their personality.

The Internet is co...
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Link Building For Top Search Engine Placement - StepForth Search Engine Placement
For many, the idea of optimizing a website for top search engine placement means entering some META tags, maybe titling the page appropriately, and then you’re done. A long time ago, in an SEO galaxy far FAR away, this tactic worked. Unfortunately for tho...
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Link Building in Light of Vision-based Page Segmentation
The days of basing a successful link building strategy on link quantity and anchor text alone may be numbered. The link popularity theories behind PageRank and Hilltop remain important, but major search engines are continually adding new elements to their...
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Link Building That Makes Sense: Who To Link To
When you are building links to increase your link popularity, who do you link
to? The question of where to link to increase ranking can be confusing. Logical thinking is needed to achieve link popularity in a natural way.

Google PageRank
Fir...
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Link Building: To Link, or Not to Link, That is the Question
Lately, there have been a lot of heated discussions regarding link building. Is it ethical to create a link building campaign? Does Google or any other search engine penalize for “link farms” (a bunch of non-related links created for the SOLE purpose of i...
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Link Exchange Blues
It is a well-known fact that the number of important relevant inbound links to any site counts in its Google PageRank and position in search results. Hence the quest for inbound links from other webmasters is the beginning of wisdom. This has spawned a wh...
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Link Exchanges - What can they do for your business!
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Link Exchanges - What They Can Do For Your Business (Part 2)
Link Exchanges
What can they do for your business! (Part 2)

By: Martin R. Lemieux
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If you haven't read (part 1), please go here:
http://www.smartads.info/articles/le/10.html
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Link Manipulation
Link popularity is a winning factor in many campaigns to achieve a substantial boost in your rankings, however; with all good can come over-inflated and out of control manipulation (BAD).

The search engines will not be defeated for long. Those who ...
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Link Popularity - A Thing of the Past?
've found myself involved in a lot of discussions about the dropping importance of link popularity lately. Numerous people have said to me that they think incoming links no longer hold as much weight as they once did, and that the only links worth obtain...
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Link Popularity and the Myth of the Guestbook Link
You have probably been to a site that had a section called a "Guestbook". Many sites ask you to "sign their guestbook", and many of these guestbooks also permit HTML code in the guestbook comments, meaning you or I or anyone can visit guestbooks on we...
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Link Popularity Basics

Link popularity has recently become an important aspect to
consider when promoting a website. Many search engines have
started to use link popularity to help determine ranking in
their listings. Gaining links from other sites is also very
...
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Link Popularity for a Successful Website: How (Not) to Go About Getting It
Everybody wants to draw visitors to their website. Many incoming links means many incoming paths for the visitors; it may also boost your search engine ranking. But how do you get there?

A classic way of getting seen and noticed on the web...
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Link Popularity for a Successful Website: How (Not) to Go About Getting It
A classic way of getting seen and noticed on the web is to make sure your site is linked to as many other sites as possible. The strategy of link-exchange has been so overused and abused that search ...
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Link popularity improvement tutorial
Introduction:

Improving your link popularity is a big part of optimizing your website for search engines. Many webmasters ignore this very rewarding process. The most common reason for this is the time it takes. Many webmasters just don’t have the ...
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Link Popularity: Improve your Search Engine Rankings
What is link popularity?

Link Popularity is simply the total number of pages that link to your website. Most search engines, including Google, consider that when one page links to another page, it is effectively casting a vote of confidence for the...
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Link Popularity: Why It's The Best Investment You Can Do For Your Business
More and more search engines rank your web pages based on the number of links that point to your web site (link popularity). Google uses link popularity as its most important factor in ranking sites....
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Link Rot Kills
"My site had a severe case of
link rot and yours may too!"

Have you ever run a link checking program on your website?
No, not one of those quickie link checks, but a "full site"
link check?

What you learn about your website may...
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Link This! Drive Traffic to Your Site!

How do you make more money online? Increase your online visibility! And how do you increase your online visibility? Driving traffic to your website is key. Achieving and maintaining a high ranking with the search engines is a definite must.

The b...
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Link Trades That Waste Your Time
Never has competition been so difficult in the Internet world. Google and Yahoo keep indexing more and more pages, into the millions upon millions, and yet more and more people are creating super qui...
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Link-exchange (Important tips)
1-ALWAYS try to find popular key terms. You can use search term suggestion tools like overture. Overture will pull up a page full of related search terms in order of their importance.

2-ONLY find key terms related to your business and your website ...
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Linking for Traffic not Positioning!
With more and more experts and search engine enthusiasts claiming the right way and the wrong way to handle link
swapping, link exchanging or reciprocal linking!

You can tell something is important when there is more than one name for it! GRIN!<...
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Linking out is good
Many websites I come across don't have a single link to another website. Ask the webmaster why not, and the answer you get is simple enough: "If I link to other websites people might leave my site." ...
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Linking Psychosis is Treatable
Publishers, please consider the following 836 word article
about linking insanity and the foolishness of self-referential
links.

Please SET URL's as hyperlinks and maintain resource box
at the end. Feel free to use the TEXT TO HTML CONVER...
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Linking Strategies for Google
Google has recently filed an application for a United States patent including the use of historical data in analyzing links. This has caused quite a buzz. Many articles are being written about new linking strategies for Google and how to "beat the system...
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Linking strategies to skyrocket to the top of Google.
If you don’t know already, one of the key success factors to getting loads of free Google traffic to your website is increasing page rank. So just how do you increase your page rank? Well, it’s all in the linking.

To be honest I never could quite ...
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Linking With A Millstone
I've been engaging in reciprocal linking with other websites for some time. I've always been aware that a single incoming link from a high PR website is worth far more than many links from low PR websites (the actual ratio is known only to God). I've a...
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Links and link building with Google.
Links and link building with Google.
By Clare Lawrence 1st June 2003. Clare is the CEO of Discount Domains Ltd a leading UK provider of domain names and web hosting services

Google is the leading search engine, so having the right strategy for...
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Links and search engines
Links and search engines

By Clare Lawrence 29th September 2003
Clare is the CEO of Discount Domains Ltd a leading UK Domain name registration service.

What is linking?
Linking involves linking your websitesite to another with the ai...
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LINKS TO THE TOP!
It seems that the newest way to reach the top of
the search engines is by having many links to your
site, which isn't always easy.

For some reason, the search engines feel that the
most popular sites are the most worthy of more
advert...
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Linkworth
Linkworth is a new tool for webmasters. Linkworth offers links for sale by other webmasters.

Text Link Advertising is taking the internet by storm right now and there is nothing to help a webmaster control and/or manage the entire process. The id...
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Linux vs. Windows web Hosting, does it make a difference?
One of the most confusing decisions someone new to web hosting will have to make is which platform their server should be on. There are a number of different choices out there but the main two are Linux and Windows web servers. There are also a lot of sou...
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Live support from your website? Can you do it for free?

I'm a freelance programmer and somehow I managed to get clients, speak with them, and generate leads for years without a live help system. To be honest, I had put in bids for a "live" help system several times, and I wasn't aware there were free o...
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LiveCamNetwork.com Nominated For Best Adult Award
(Toronto) June 30, 2004 -- The self-proclaimed "coolest little adult video chat site on the web" just got a little hotter: it could be awarded the Best Amateurs site during the Best Adult Awards ceremony at this year's Qwebec Expo.

LiveCamNetwo...
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Local Search Optimization: Think Globally, Act Locally
Many small businesses need to have an online presence and sell their products or services locally. For instance, doctors, dentists, real estate agents and restaurants can all benefit from online marketing but only on a local scale, not globally. In order ...
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Logo Design Mania
When you are about to design your very own logo take into consideration how you plan to use it. For instance, a logo created for website or full color stationery printing will be designed for faxing and imprinting on coffee mugs and other items.

M...
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Logo Designs on the Go
Logo sets up an identity and name for the business that aims to be remembered. It is something that a business really needs to have to instill in the customers a sense of belongingness and authenticity of business.

Your business logo should contai...
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Logo in the Browsers Address Bar - Favicon
Several people have asked me about logo branding with an image that appears in a users address bar. While I personally removed the Favorite Icon from most of my hosts (In the process of creating a mo...
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Look Out MSN Search, Here Comes Gbrowser
It is official, the search engine wars are in full swing. On Tuesday, February 01, 2005 MSN officially rolled out its new search solution to all of its websites, including MSN.com. This comes on the heels of growing speculation that Google plans to launc...
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Looking Good on the Web
There's a lot of websites out there floating around in cyberspace, screaming
for attention. When you cast your site out into the void, will you be able to
catch viewers and hold on to them? Will they click through — or click off?

You have ...
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LOOKs Can Be Deceiving
You may have heard that Looksmart Ltd have made some changes to their business model lately. In fact, Looksmart have made the profit-driven decision to move Looksmart.com from a Paid Submission based directory to a Pay Per Click based directory.

T...
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Lookup domain names using name generators to save time and find common keyword combinations
Many reputable domain registration services on the web have added little domain name generators to their sites. There are also entire name generation programs that have been popular in the marketing and branding industry for years. If you have exhausted ...
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LOSE THE WAIT!
Slow sites drive visitors away. It's that simple. Not yours, you
say? Think it's "worth the wait"? Sorry to break it to you
pumpkin, it's not.

You're on your way home. You have two choices. You can either
take the route that is the ...
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Lost and 404 Not Found
Are you sometimes tooling around on the web, clicking your
way through links, when suddenly you come to a dreaded dead
end: the 404 Not Found page? Do you wonder what those darn
error pages are all about? They are often brick walls that
fo...
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LSI and Link Popularity
When Paypal's official Web site no longer ranked #1 in Google on a
search for "paypal," it was obvious that Google had become more aggressive
in penalizing sites with "unnatural" backlink anchor text. Although the
high-profile Paypal exam...
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