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Archive for October, 2006

Alexaholic: Website Statistics and Graphs

Alexa isn’t always spot-on accurate, but it has its uses. This site allows you to compare stats for up to five domains, side by side. An interesting tool for competitive analysis.
Alexaholic blends Alexa website traffic graphs with a lightweight ajax-enhanced interface to satisfy hard-core Alexa traffic chart junkies – aka Alexaholics.
Webmasters, SEO/SEM specialists, and domain […]

The Fox has Landed

Firefox 2.0 launched a couple of days ago. Please tell me you are using this browser! It has so many features compared to Internet Explorer it blows me away. I’ve been a dedicated Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox user since the 90’s, and with good reason: for the power user, this browser is unrivaled.
2.0 is more a marketing release […]

Yahoo Adds NOODP Support

The Yahoo Search Blog announced they have finally added support for the NOODP META tag. This allows you to override the SERPS behavior which would normally key off of Open Directory Project (ODP) (DMOZ) listings, or in this case, Yahoo’s directory listing. Read more
You can use this in two ways:
META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOODP” (prevents MSN, […]

Google ‘Officially’ Spiders Parameters Now

They’ve unofficially done this for a while, it seems, but now it is official:
We’ve modified our webmaster guidelines. Previously, these stated:Don’t use “&id=” as a parameter in your URLs, as we don’t include these pages in our index.
However, we’ve recently removed that technical guideline, and now index URLs that contain that parameter.
Read more at Official […]

Free File Hosting from MediaFire

Need to email someone a 300 Meg. file? MediaFire is a file hosting service allowing unlimited file sizes and uploads, as well as unlimited downloads of files. Ad supported, free, and very slick! Check it out at MediaFire.com.

Google’s New Custom Search Engine

Want to build your own Google-powered specialized search engine for your web site or blog? Google’s new Custom Search Engine service allows you to set up your own unique search engine that searches on certain sites you specify, and allows you to completely customize the look and feel. Some of the features:

Make money (get […]

DiscountClick Online Marketing Services

Businesses wanting web marketing services usually must pay a premium to agencies to get SEO and PPC assistance.  DiscountClick fills in the gap between do-it-yourself campaigns and high-dollar agencies.  Their affordable Search Engine Promotion Services costs as low as $50 per month. They provide:
… dedicated SEO Consulting, Natural Search Engine Optimization, Pay Per Click Management, […]

High & Low Risk Merchant Accounts Provider

Advantage Processors provides a service offering the best for Credit Card Processing and Merchant Account services. Part of their low model is segmenting between low-cost online internet credit card processing merchant accounts for both Low Risk and High Risk merchants.
Our solutions provides merchants with their own merchant account, online processing of credit cards (Visa, MasterCard, […]

Shopping Feeds & Product Feed Tool

Shoptracker is a central management point for products and shopping feeds. This tool can update prices; manage products; change product categories; […]

Quality Used Equipment from Vibrant.com

Servers are cheap, but used servers are even cheaper. Vibrant Technologies buys, sells, leases, and repairs new and used servers and other storage and networking hardware at a 20-80% discount off manufacturer’s list price. They will also buy your used hardware.

Their web site says:
All refurbished equipment is fully tested, configured and packaged to […]

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Stan ShinnStan Shinn is a high impact player in the web marketing field, writing prolifically on various internet technology topics, web marketing techniques, and business innovation. A voracious reader, Shinn is the author of Web Project Survival Guide.

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