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Entries for July, 2010

Google Search Fully Blocked in China

According to several reports and data from Google, the search engine is fully blocked in mainland China as of today. Also fully blocked are ads and mobile access. Image search is partially blocked, as are Google Docs, Google News and Google Groups. Other sites and apps that were previously and remain blocked include YouTube, search suggestions, Google [...]

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Oldest Twitter user dies at 104

Ivy Bean, 104, began tweeting last year from her residential home in the outskirts of Bradford in northern England, and amassed over 56,000 followers with posts telling of food, family visits, and even an invitation from Gordon Brown to meet the then Prime Minister in Downing Street. Ivy had fallen ill last month, and her [...]

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36 RSS Feed Distributions To Promote Your Site

Many website owners, especially bloggers utilize RSS feeds to distribute their content. For those that use Feedburner, you’ve probably already chosen a few services to further publicize your feeds. But there are also a number of additional directories available to further promote RSS feeds to help you increase visitor numbers. I found a list of RSS [...]

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Yahoo Japan Signs Search Deal With Google

Yahoo Japan said it will be switching Yahoo’s search technology with Google’s search engine, dealing a serious blow to the global Microsoft-Yahoo search partnership. In July 2009, Yahoo signed a deal with Microsoft, under which Yahoo was to adopt Microsoft’s Bing as the search engine on all Yahoo sites. However, Yahoo only has a minority stake [...]

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10 Less Known Facebook Features

Facebook recently surpassed 300 million registered users, meaning it’s becoming increasingly vital to your online and offline social graph. Whether you use Facebook primarily for your personal life, business purposes or both, this list of tips will help you gauge how well you’re already using Facebook’s tools and perhaps offer advice on how to make [...]

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Will linking to other sites, reduce your Page Rank ?

Google PageRank is calculated by the number of internal links to your site and Google has repeatedly stated that the number of outgoing links from your site have no direct implications on your PageRank. Fair enough. But I’d invite you to look at this from a different perspective. Rather than bothering about the number of [...]

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5 Tips to create an excellent search engine optimized landing page

These days, landing pages are being used very frequently, even though they have evolved from the cheesy designs and glaring oddities. These days landing pages come with sexy designs and the best compelling copies, that can convince you in seconds. We’ve seen many good examples of modern, sleek looking landing pages, which are eye candies [...]

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Use isset() Instead of strlen()

This is actually a neat trick. Here is the example: <?php if (isset($username[5])) { // The username is at least six characters long. } ?> When you treat strings as arrays, each character in the string is an element in the array. By determining whether a particular element exists, you can determine whether the string [...]

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How to Increase the number of RSS subscribers overnight

No.This is not one of those cliche articles. And I’m not talking about getting subscribers by writing great content, or getting more links etc.. C’mon who doesn’t know those points? We are looking for something new. Right? I’m talking about that one trick that will increase your subscriber list atleast by 10% over night. Guaranteed. So you [...]

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5 things you can do with the footer to leverage on SEO

So you know that footer text is a good real estate option in SEO. And you’ve been placing your sitemeter button and credit texts there. Some of you are clever I know, you have that “natural” looking two lines to text there with links to totally un related websites! Guess what, I have some better alternatives [...]

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