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He also says that all of the variables that come into play may diminish the value of linking, which will certainly not help the spammers' cause either. He says it will be a big win for Google, and big win for the searchers. - Mark McLaren

Our Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide covers around a dozen common areas that webmasters might consider optimizing. We felt that these areas (like improving title and description meta tags, URL structure, site navigation, content creation, anchor text, and more) would apply to webmasters of all experience levels and sites of all sizes and types. Throughout the guide, we also worked in many illustrations, pitfalls to avoid, and links to other resources that help expand our explanation of the topics. We plan on updating the guide at regular intervals with new optimization suggestions and to keep the technical advice current. - Mark McLaren

If you are utilizing .asp (Windows Active Server Pages) as the underlying technology of your Windows IIS hosted websites, there is a simple 301 permanent redirect method that you can utilize without involving a server administrator. This 301 method allows you to quickly implement a 301 Moved Permanently status from the old-page.asp to the new-page.asp. - Mark McLaren

# 301 – Permanent: This redirect tells the Web client that the location of the requested resource has moved permanently # 302 – Standard: This redirect tells the Web client to issue a new request to the location specified # 307 – Temporary: This redirect tells the Web client to resend POST data, which prevents a Web browser from losing data when the browser issues an HTTP POST request - Mark McLaren

As expected, there was really no ground breaking news here - they didn’t release a 3 step guide to getting the #1 result in Google. But what is interesting is they supported basically all the arguments SEOs have figured out on their own about the Google algorythm - and more importantly (for me at least), everything I’ve been blogging about. It’s good to be told you’re doing something right every once in a while :) - Mark McLaren

DigitalArbor, which is starting with three local positions and about 25 positions in Costa Rica, said it can make that process less expensive for agencies and their clients by doing the production of ads in other regions of the globe, Willms said. Willms wants to grow the company over the next 18 month to 750 employees, most of whom will be based offshore. - Mark McLaren

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ScreenToaster is a free screencasting application that can help anyone create simple screencast demonstrations. There’s nothing to download and it’s so easy to use that you’ll be creating screencasts in minutes. - Mark McLaren

Convert Video movies to SWF or FLV Flash files! Video to Flash Converter Console version is a powerfull tool for converting your digital videos in a batch or command line console mode. - Mark McLaren

SoloSEO helps SEO to be easier, by managing keywords, content, and link building all in one place. With SoloSEO you can use professional SEO tools to track, manage, and optimize your site. - Mark McLaren

Google is asking that you have a targeted page for every keyword that you would like to advertise against. They're saying that if the keywords aren't in the title tag, content, and if the page isn't specific to the keywords that you would like to advertise against, there's a good chance that the page won't show up in the top Google AdWords listings, even if you're willing to pay or bid the highest amount for a listing there. - Mark McLaren

What would Google look like if it was built by librarians? We're about to find out. Called "Reference Extract," the project's goal is to built a web search engine where the weight of the search results aren't determined by any sort of algorithm like PageRank, but rather by the expertise and creditability judgments from librarians around the world. In other words, it's smart people-powered search. - Mark McLaren

Lorelle Van Fossen For more information on writing and publishing code on your blog, see: * WordPress Plugins That Help You Write Code * WordPress.com Blog Bling: Signatures and Writing Code * Writing Code in Your WordPress Posts * Using Javascript in WordPress - Mark McLaren

Google understands the following meta tags... - Mark McLaren