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Yahoo Used in Spyware Click Fraud Scheme
Through its Overture pay per click search division, Yahoo has been found facilitating fraudulent click activity generated by known spyware makers including 180solutions, Intermix, and Direct Revenue. The Spyware - Click-Fraud Connection shows how at least a dozen different spyware firms redirect Internet users searches through their servers, inserting Overture ad links on unrelated websites or with pop-ups triggered by those sites.
What lies ahead for Kibaki Presidency?
The Kibaki-Raila contest may not only widen the fissure between the two communities. Also along with it, the communities that supported each. It is this fissure that is the worry of the international mediators given the recent attack on a community perceived to have its presence beyond its traditional foothold. The biggest worry would be the emergence of Kenya's version of Nigeria's South and North.
WebmasterRadio.FM - A Little Something For Everybody
I admit it. I am a WebmasterRadio junkie. Not only do I listen to many of the live shows that they do on a weekly basis, I also find myself listening to archived shows as well. I absolutely love it. It allows me to not only keep abreast of the latest happenings in my industry very quickly, it also allows me to hear the audible voices of many folks that I already know online or have met in real life.
Using culture as a fig leaf
For weeks, fathers and mothers in South Africa switched their televisions off, did not buy newspapers in sight of their young children, or mumbled into their dinner when the news came on. You’ll recall that South Africa’s former Deputy President, Jacob Zuma, was in the dock, accused of raping a relatively youthful family friend.
User Behaviour and Google Site Profiles
The term "user behaviours" describes any number of actions taken by people while using a Google branded search tool, while visiting a particular site in Google's index, and while moving from site to site or document to document. Basically, Google wants to know what its users like and dislike. Those user-judgements have become important factors in how Google ranks sites in its index and in personalized search results shown to registered users.
Useful Tips for Practical Web Design
Though just about anybody can create a web page using some of the software tools available in today’s marketplace – software that will generate your web pages and their “design” for you – there is a large difference between practical, appealing, and functional web design, and that which results from this marketing gimmick. And the poor results quickly become obvious.

Occasionally, as we surf the web, we come across a site that surely looks beautiful in one type of web browser, or a certain screen resolution…however, that is not the case in the way that we are surfing. Viewed in a different resolution or the wrong type of browser, and the plain text isn’t even clear on the page. Further to this problem, there are many different possibilities for the operating system being used by your web design viewer. Such pages will never be properly seen by any viewer except the percentage using the precise right combination of operating system, screen resolution, and internet browser.
Understanding the Terms
Due to the articulate nature of the Internet, the language associated with ecommerce website design continues to grow at a fast pace. Many visitors whether they possess Internet savvy or not, may find themselves confused the first time they talk to a professional web design company or ecommerce web designer. The following are terms, acronyms and Internet slang that are used in relation to ecommerce website design.
Toronto Searches Engine Strategies Conference 2006
This was my first time going to the SES conference. I have been working as an SEO professional for last 3 years and despite my best efforts I have always had a conflict and I was very excited to finally get to a conference. I was also excited by the fact that Toronto is my home town and was nice to go back for a couple of days and get a taste of the big city.
Top 10 AdSense Tricks To Boost Your Commission
Google AdSense - http://www.google.com/adsense - is fast becoming the preferred way for people to earn an income online. Forget eBay and multiple affiliate programs. Whether you are a work-at-home mom trying to make a little extra cash or an Internet entrepreneur with hundreds of monetized websites, AdSense is truly the easiest way to earn money.
Tips for Getting Your Website Listed on Yahoo
Treat Yahoo as both a directory AND a search engine. Yahoo offers a number of different search results. Part of their search results come from an actual search engine, and some of their results come from human editors, called surfers. Every Yahoo directory submission is viewed by a person. (Search engines use spiders and indexing software). Admission into the
Yahoo directory is entirely at the discretion of the Yahoo surfer viewing your site.
Tips For Buying A Pet Snake
Buying a snake can be a sizable investment. Getting a snake requires making a commitment to the pet's care and well-being. It is important to do your research so you know that the particular species or breed is something you will enjoy owning in the years to come. Find out how difficult they are to feed and house before you buy. Also find out about the snake's temperament.
Tips and Tricks for Last Minute Business Trips
Business trips can often take place at the last minute. Something crops up that just absolutely has to be sorted out face to face. Which means if your job could potentially involve business travel, it’s essential to be prepare as much as possible in advance.
The VoIP Insurgency
VoIP is a revolutionary technology that has the potential to completely redesign the entire world's communication infrastructure. VoIP providers have already been around for several years and growing at a tremendous rate. Currently, there are over 6 million users of VoIP worldwide and that number is growing exponentially.
The Truth about Driving Qualified Traffic to Your Website
Companies large and small are constantly seeking creative, high return strategies to increase visibility on the Internet. The quest for a high ranking position seems to be a never ending process. With most people there seems to be an endless search for the one answer on how to drive traffic to their website and turn those visitors into buyers.
The Skinny About Online Universities
For people who simply don’t have the luxury of time to go to university, going to an online university is the surest and quickest way to having the career of your choice. There are various online universities nowadays.
The Maasai's century-old grievance
Maasai tribes in Kenya's district of Laikipia are demanding the return of their ancestral territory - 100 years after being driven from the land by British colonialists in 1904.
The Importance of Meta Tags: Providing the Human Touch
For the uninitiated, meta-tags are pieces of code within your website that contain information about each page. These tags are supposed to tell search engines and users what the page is about.
The Importance of Directories and Text Links
The proper use of search engines is an extremely critical aspect of online marketing. The search engines are the initial way that prospective customers can locate your site. That's the reason link popularity is so necessary. If your customers can't find you, you'll never see any sales.
The Immigration Swamp
THE IDEA that 12 million illegal residents of the United States can be induced to quit the country en masse within four months is absurd on its face -- a non-starter in logistical, humanitarian, political, diplomatic, commercial and economic terms that would leave an indelible stain on this country for years.
The Five Things To Consider When Publishing A Newsletter
Newsletters also allow you to establish yourself as an expert in your field. Provide your subscribers them with well-written content, useful leads and recommendations. People have to buy into you first before they buy into your products or services. They are more inclined to buy from someone who has been there, done it, and achieved success.
The Exact Methods Towards Online Selling Success
We all from an early age have been trained as consumers. From the first moment for example, we saw our first 30 seconds of television, we were instantly introduced to the wonderful world of both 'Direct and Indirect Advertising'. Both these words direct and indirect are very important when it comes to online marketing. In my opinion direct advertising does not work online at first, and should not be attempted until later. This direct advertising may have worked online initially in the past, but
The effect of co-citation on your rankings
The effect of co-citation is often overlooked by search engine optimizers. The other web sites to which your link partners link can influence your search engine rankings.
The Best Home Care Provider - Who Can You Trust
As people grow old, their siblings main concern is to provide them with home care assistance in their Golden years. It is better safe than sorry. The bottom line is that you are entrusting your loved one to a complete stranger. Therefore, it would be worth the money spent in checking applicant’s background.
The Advance Of Algorithms - New Keyword Optimization Rules
Maintaining and marketing a website can be a difficult task especially for those who are inexperienced or who have very little experience. SEO rules are constantly changing and even then, many SEO professionals disagree on the actual specifics required to optimize a website. This is in no small part due to the search engines themselves.
Ten Entrepreneurial Mistakes
It's hard to avoid certain mistakes, especially when you face a situation for the first time. In fact, many of the following mistakes are hard to avoid even if you're an old hand. Of course, these are not the only mistakes CEOs make, but they sure are common enough.
Talking ... Google Poised to Shake Up Copyright Law
Google's application of Internet search engine techniques to one of the world's oldest technologies -- books -- is challenging companies, courts and legal professionals to redefine copyright principles.
Step Away From The Computer Before You Have A Mental Meltdown!
Just out of courtesy, I think I should tell you that the following article is about as far from my typical writings as I can get. Quite frankly, it is nothing more than a very tired technology guy ranting and raving. Maybe a little wining too.
Speed Reading Basics
Speed reading is vital in today’s business and academic world, with the vast information that the internet offers, and the huge amounts of reading tasks an average manager or student faces, there is really no choice but to try and increase the intake of information.
Small Business Podcasting Demystified
From a technical standpoint, there's nothing really too complicated about podcasting so don't think this is some geeky tech stuff. From a marketing standpoint, I didn't get too excited about the concept until Apple decided to make a podcast directory a primary component of iTunes. When that happened the market for podcasting on any subject imaginable was born.
Si Se Puede! The undocumented speak up - and America should listen
At last, reality rears its lovely head. For months, the immigration debate has been hijacked by some of the nastiest, most jingoistic and dumbest politicians around. In the name of national security, the House of Representatives passed a bill in December that will turn the 12 million undocumented residents of the United States into felons and build a Berlin-like wall between the United States and Mexico.
SEO With Google Sitemaps
A Google Sitemap is a very simple XML document that lists all the pages in your website, but the Google Sitemaps program is actually much more important than that. In fact, the Sitemaps program provides a little peek inside Google's mind - and it can tell you a lot about what Google thinks of your website!
SEO Link Building With Web Content Secrets
It's the timeless question: how do you get other sites to link to you? The most commonly discussed ways are reciprocal linking (swapping links) and buying links. Yet there's another important tool for building links that should be a part of your toolbox: distributing content in exchange for one-way inbound links.
SEO For Yahoo!
Yahoo! is the second biggest of the three major engines and includes an enormous network of websites. The algorithm is based on that of Inktomi which Yahoo! purchased back in 2002 as part of their plan to stop serving Google results to search queries. The algorithm itself can pose a problem for some SEO's as we optimize client websites to rank highly on multiple search engines due to the way that it deffers from Google and MSN. That said, any issue can be addressed provided that the right attention is given to the right details.
SEO for MSN
This is article one of a four part series on optimizing your website for the "Big Three". Part two will focus on Yahoo!, Part three will focus on Google and part four of this series will explain how to perform SEO on your website to attain high rankings across all three major engines. We are beginning with MSN as rankings are generally faster attained on this engine and thus it is a good place to begin, especially if you have a new site that is likely still in the sandbox on Google or are just at the beginning stages of link building.
SEO for Google
I likely don't even need to mention that Google is currently the largest of all the search engines with ComScore Media estimating this giant to be responsible for 42.7% of all online searches in March of 2006. For this reason people tend to view Google as the engine to rank on. While this point is debatable (let's remember that there's still 57.3% of searches that aren't done on Google) it's definitely an important engine to rank on. So how is it done?
Selling the Dr. Seuss Way
I think most people have read this Dr. Seuss tale either as kids or to their children. What is interesting is the relevance this story has to selling. First of all, Sam is selling a product and although his prospect is not initially interested, Sam doesn’t let that deter him from asking. Secondly, Sam consistently offers the prospect a choice when trying to close the sale. Thirdly, he refuses to give up. No matter how many times his prospect says ‘no’ Sam keeps offering alternatives. In fact, he offers fourteen options before he finally closes the sale.
Selecting a Search Engine Optimization Company
A Search Engine Optimization Company can be an invaluable asset in your Internet marketing campaign. They specialize in knowing how to raise your search engine positions, monitoring those positions on the regular basis, and adjusting their strategies to account for undesirable results in any given month. Since this takes a lot of time, effort, and specialized knowledge, it can be in your best interest to go to an outside source rather than try to maintain high search engine positions on your own.
Rwanda: How the genocide happened - Some 800,000 Rwandans were killed in three months
Between April and June 1994, an estimated 800,000 Rwandans were killed in the space of 100 days. Most of the dead were Tutsis - and most of those who perpetrated the violence were Hutus. Even for a country with such a turbulent history as Rwanda, the scale and speed of the slaughter left its people reeling.
Queen’s University
Queen’s University is one of the proud universities standing at northeastern part of Lake Ontario. It was originally founded by the Royal Charter of Queen Victoria in 1841, thus the name Queen’s University. It was in the year 1842 where the first ever class was held in the university. Being one of the pioneer degrees granting organization in the United Province of Canada, it has educated quite a number of Canada’s prominent political and cultural personalities.
Protect Your Domain Name
Imagine you're the owner of a successful Web site, but when you logon one day all you get is an error message. Or worse yet, the domain name now points to a site full of advertisements. That's right. You're out of business.
Poor man’s weapon spreads terror
The car bomb has become the ubiquitous weapon of choice by all manner of groups and movements fighting a militarily superior foe and by governments out to prove they can play the game, too. With the possible exception of Australia, car bombs have exploded on all continents at one time or another. Today, car bombs reign supreme in Iraq.
PageRank Toolbar - Let's Put it to Bed
Pagerank – it is debated by SEO's and misunderstood by website owners. At one point in time, pagerank was the all important feature for determining where you ranked in search results. It was, by all calculations, a measure of the importance of a website.
Optimizing for Rankings - Things to Do and Avoid
Search engine optimization is a much-debated topic and there is a lot of different on the net. Let's cut through the muck and discuss things you should and shouldn't pursue to get high rankings.
Obama turns America’s tribal voting pattern on its head
American politics is tribal. Not in the sense of Kikuyu and Luo and Kalenjin and Kamba and all our competing ethnic groups, but racial and ethnic components do account for the differences in this richly diverse country.
No Website Needed To Make Extra Income
Are you looking to make extra income online but you don't have the experience or capital to start your own online business? You need not worry. There are a lot of online marketing options available to you. One of them is affiliate marketing.
New acquisition: Can we expect a shift in Google's ranking algorithm?
4/11/2006: Google recently acquired an advanced text search algorithm that has been invented by University of New South Wales PhD student Ori Allon. Although the acquisition has not been confirmed yet, Google has confirmed that Ori Allon is now employed at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California
Microsoft's Mistakes Proving Costly
The wizards of Redmond turn thirty this year. Officially founded in 1976, Microsoft appears to have lost its edge as it enters its third full decade. At one time, not so long ago, Gates and Co. drove the machine, setting standards that everyone else conformed to. Virtually nothing could stand in their way and competitors who did seriously threaten their dominance could be effectively diminished in one way or another.
Microsoft Going After Google
For advertisers and search marketers, a deal between Microsoft and Yahoo could bring much needed competition and growth to the search marketing industry. It could also benefit search engine users by introducing a healthier competitor in the organic or natural search listings.
Media Advertising
The media is a powerful thing -- the average person spends an enormous amount of their life consuming it in one form or another, and will spend a significant percentage of that time looking at, listening to or watching advertisements. If you want to use the power of the media, though, you need to know what you're doing otherwise your investment will be a financial disaster. Listed below are the most common forms of media advertising. No doubt you can think of others as well.
Maui Weddings Are Something To Behold
Sun, sand and surf on a tropical island paradise is something everyone should experience at least once in their lifetime. The Hawaiian Islands have it all and the island of Maui has it in spades. Maui is the perfect place for a vacation, the perfect place for a honeymoon, and the perfect place for a wedding.
Living With And Treating Migraine Headaches
Stress leads the list of all psychological triggers for migraine headaches and may be the most common migraine trigger of all. Understanding stress and how it effects your life could help you cope better with migraines.
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Keyword Analysis: Looking For Low-Hanging Fruit
Getting traffic from the search engines for competitive keywords is a tough battle. And it's getting tougher. This article will help you continue to drive traffic from Google, Yahoo and MSN while avoiding the sandbox where the bullies hang out.
Is Google Really Big Brother?
Google has grown into a big scary company and web watchers are expressing their concerns about the information Google gleans from their various services.
Is Google No. 1 Forever?
Google is without a doubt the world's number one search engine. According to the research firm Neilsen/NetRatings, Google's share of the global search market in February 2006 was 48.5%, more than double the 22.5% share its nearest rival Yahoo saw. Having been the engine of choice for nearly five years, Google is synonymous with search. Because Google is the first thing most folks think of when they think about search, it is the most important search marketing venue, at least for the vast majorit
How To Write Better Solo Ads
Writing responsive ads may seem like an exact science, but there are some simple things you can do to increase your response rate. Here are some tips on how to write better solo ads.
How to Price Your eBook
Pricing an ebook is particularly difficult because ebooks are a fairly new commodity. Since they are digital, the value of an ebook is as confusing as the understanding of what digital actually is to the average layperson. This means that we must look at ebooks in a different light in order to determine their actual worth in this brave, new cyber world.
How to Grab a Good Top Level Domain
With the recent explosion in the availability of website domain name suffixes (such as .eu, .ws, .cc and so on) it's never been easier to grab a domain name that is directly related to the subject matter of your site.
How To Get Floods Of Traffic By Using Link Directories
So you've finished your website masterpiece and want nothing more than spreading out the word and receiving tons of traffic as soon as possible? Now you might think of a way of a good way to drive traffic to your website in no time. What could it be? Article submissions? Press releases? Link exchanges? Sure! But each an every method requires a huge amount of work and most of all... time! Imagine those countless hours of writing articles or trying to formulate an effective press release. Requesti
Harsh words on immigrants could backfire on GOP
Listening to the Republican presidential candidates, you might sometimes think that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the softening economy, a government in serious debt or a planet in climatological peril are second-tier issues. If the Republicans' harsh pre-primary rhetoric backfires on them next November in Florida and other battleground states, they will have only themselves to blame.
Great Tips For Breeding Your Dog
Choosing to breed your dog is a big decision and it’s natural to feel a little uneasy about the process. These dog breeding tips will help things go smoothly and help you enjoy the entire process.
Google Under Fire, But Search Is Strong
Could the Sports Illustrated Jinx, where teams and athletes featured on the cover famously flounder soon after publication; have spread to their fellow Time, Inc. weekly Time Magazine? This week the boys from Google are gracing Time's cover and from their easy smiles (and a byline that mentions Internet domination) you'd think that the transformation is complete: Google has finally "pwned" ( http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pwned ) us all! Well, a theory that there is some kind of jinx fits because Google seems to be getting it from all angles now. But with all the piling on, it's important to remember that Google's core business, search advertising, is still very much a winner.
Google Search Engine Optimization Pitfalls
So you have a website but where is it on Google? Have you fallen foul of a penalty or have you overlooked one of the many common search engine optimization pitfalls when designing your site?
Google in the Garden of Good and Evil
In Silicon Valley, Google's moral code is a contentious issue. To its local boosters, Google can do no ill; but to critics on both the left and the right, Google epitomizes all the worst hubris, hypocrisy, and greed of the dot.com era.
Google Algorithm Problems
The algorithm problems seem to fall into 4 categories. There are canonical issues, duplicate content issues, the Sandbox, and supplemental page issues.
Google AdSense Tips
AdSense allows website publishers to display contextually relevant advertisements on their website. If a web visitor "clicks" on an advertisement, the web publisher will earn a percentage of the advertising revenue generated as a result of the click. Many webmasters have built content websites around the Google AdSense model. In many cases the specific intent of the webmaster is to profit from Google AdSense. Other webmasters use Google AdSense to supplement their revenue.
Getting The Best From Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking is a way of bookmarking the sites/posts you like on a website. These bookmarks are usually public, hence the 'social', and they also allow other users to comment on the links you have saved. Social bookmarking is a way of showing what interests you share with the rest of webkind. Some of the best known sites include Blinklist, Blogmarks, del.icio.us, Furl, Kaboodle, ma.gnolia, Simpy , Spurl and Wink, to name just a few.
Four Hot Signs Of Attraction
In today’s society, beauty, physical attraction, and sexuality are all commonly misunderstood as some transcendent inevitable fact; falsely interlocking the three makes it seem doubly true that in order to initiate attraction between a man and a woman, both sexes should be beautiful to be sexual.
Ebooks are Promotional Powerhouses
Ebooks are part of the new frontier of cyberspace. They are an entirely new medium for sharing marketing information, ideas, techniques, and expert knowledge. Each day the number of people accessing the Internet grows, causing the exposure of your ebook to increase incrementally. It's obvious why electronic self-publishing has become so popular so quickly.
Darfur's doomed peacekeeping mission
The African Union is faced with the most difficult decision in its short history. Created three years ago with the idea of "African solutions for African problems" at its heart, it must decide whether to handover its first major peacekeeping operation to the United Nations. Seven thousand AU troops are deployed in Darfur but they have failed to end a conflict that has so far killed more than 100,000 people and left millions in overcrowded camps.
CSS – Why Use Modern Design Techniques?
This article aims to demonstrate the advantages in learning modern web design techniques, focusing on CSS. We’ll learn what CSS is, explore the business factors in building websites in a modern way and find out how much easier and beneficial it is to design using CSS. What this article isn’t is a guide on how to make websites with CSS.
Choosing The Best Keywords To Drive Traffic To Your Website
Getting a website to appear in the first page of search engine results is a common goal for most webmasters, yet few possess the skills to actually achieve it. There are many steps to take in order to be found for terms related to your site, and taking your time to research the best possible phrases for your site is an important step on the ladder.
Choosing an eBook Compiler
You've written and revised your ebook, hired an artist who has produced outstanding graphics, and now you're ready to actually put together your ebook. What you need to make an ebook is software called an ebook Compiler.
Battle for return of stolen African art
Many years ago, thousands of priceless craft were looted and shipped overseas. A few are back now, on a short loan from Britain. They have a strange cheer around them ... but they will be spirited away again to cold and alien cages.
Auction Sites Trafficking Stolen Goods Online
Ah yes, eBay! The online auction giant that makes all your dreams come true for finding that special something you can't find anywhere else. It's like a giant garage sale in the sky. Unfortunately, eBay's size makes it easy for people to sell stolen or unauthorized merchandise and not get caught.
As Search Engines Grow Smarter, Will You?
As search gets smarter, tricks get cheaper and we get nearer to coming full circle to an original goal of Internet search: that content is, indeed, king. It cuts across the grain of some notions we've held in the industry for some time, that there are shortcuts aplenty in the hunt for better search rankings. Search experts at ICMediaDirect.com dissuade clients from thinking that they can or should fool Google and Yahoo. Instead, we show them solid methodology that works. Above all else, your web
All the president's women — and men
With the myopia of hindsight, it might be imagined that Bill Clinton was the first American president who could not keep his zip up. But Bill was only treading a well-trodden path. The first U.S president, George Washington, set a dizzying standard that few presidents have come close to equaling with the 'Washerwoman Kate Affair.'
A society whose values have been eaten by moths
When your 2002 dreams have been so violently aborted by devious dinosaurs and other assorted political sets of offspring, you want to seek interim leave of the politicians and disputers of this world. You seek composure and solace in higher company. And so I am dreaming, today, with the great Ben Okri, Africa’s wordsmith of The Famished Road fame.
A Bubble of Confidence - Preparing Your Child for a Standardized Test
Most parents have a lot to say about the validity and necessity of standardized tests. Your viewpoint on the subject will not change the fact that your child will soon face the rigors of the dreaded end of year exam. Like it or not, the scores and percentiles are quite important to your child's future. Children are given a vast amount of knowledge throughout the school year, and are expected to be able to recall enough to answer the questions on a seemingly endless battery of tests. Teachers hav
8 Best Resources for SEO
I am always amazed at the response I receive from people when they find out what I do. When I explain that I own Site-Reference which publishes articles on marketing, website development, and search engine optimization, invariably they get a little gleam in their eye at search engine optimization and ask - "So you could get my website to the top of Google, right?"
3 Quick And Easy Ways To Build A Profitable Opt In List
You finally realize that you need a good opt-in list. After reading countless articles and sought expert advices and have read many success stories of people creating a small fortune with opt-in lists you finally decide to have one of your own. Then it happens, you think you have known everything there is to know about opt-in lists and have followed their advices to the T and you still weren’t able to make a profit.

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