Six Simple Steps You Can Do To Help Keep Spam At Bay

STEP 1: NEVER RESPOND TO SPAM! Oh sure, they say they'll take your name off the list, but they're lying. What they really want to do is confirm that they've got a live address. Also, if you respond, they'll sell your address to every other spammer on the planet meaning you'll soon be flooded with even more spam. STEP 2: DON'T POST YOUR ADDRESS ON YOUR WEBSITE! It seems like a good idea at the time, but posting your email address on your web site is just an invitation to spammers. Spammers and the people who sell spamming as a business have software...
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Get Your Site Ranked Better With The Search Engines

People often mention submission software and while it might help get you listed faster, it won't really help you with your ranking. We don't use submission software anymore, and if there are lots of links back to your page you don't really need to, you will get spidered and ranked automatically when any of the sites that link to you do. Over the years we have been playing with web sites and we have picked up some tricks that get sites rated better with search engines. We summarised them into these 6 Easy Strategic Steps: Getting as many other sites linking back to you as possible...
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Search Engines Information

Google This is search engine with the largest number of indexed web pages in the world (The Yahoo's search is powered by Google). But, except large number of indexed pages, this search engine will give you very quality search results. You can use operators such as +, -, " in the search query. You can also use keywords or phrases for searching. Google is the first search engine which has indexed a billion web pages. It is very simple designed search engine, and on a home page you can see the number of indexed web pages at the moment. As many Web users know, Google is the ultimate search engine. With the largest number of pages indexed and one of the fastest interfaces, Google is the search engine of choice for most serious Web searchers...
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Yahoo! Uses META TAGS In Its Ranking Algorithm

At the recent San Jose's Search Engine Strategies Conference, a search technologist from Yahoo! has confirmed that Yahoo! uses meta tags as part of its ranking algorithm. At the same conference, Ask Jeeves also stated that the three most important factors for ranking well in the Ask Jeeves' search engine are page content, meta tags and links. The above comments reaffirm the importance of using appropriate meta tags to secure top rankings on major search engines. What are meta tags? How can we find the right keywords to use in our meta tags? I've seeked advices...
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Death Of META Tag

Traffick.com's Andrew Goodman wrote recently in an essay about meta tags, "If somebody would just declare the end of the metatag era, full stop, it would make it easier on everyone". Now supported by only one major crawler-based search engine - Inktomi - the value of adding meta keywords tags to pages seems little worth the time (even we still use it - just for the case). For those unaware, the meta keyword tag is a way to insert text into an HTML page that is not visible when the page is viewed through a browser. Some search engines have read the content of the tag and associated the words within it along with the page's regular body copy...
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ONS E-Commerce Survey

The ONS (Office For National Statistics UK) published that internet use by business for sales and purchases (e-commerce) is likely to have a huge impact on the way the UK companies do business. It has the potential to: lead to dramatic growth in trade, increase markets, improve efficiency and effectiveness, transform business processes. In recognition of its significance in the future performance of the economy, the UK Government set itself the target of becoming 'the best environment in the world to do e-commerce'. These are a few details from their E-commerce Inquiry To Business (survey of 9000 UK businesses): 16% of them already made sales using the internet...
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