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Thank you Tad Chef
Just did my first guest post ever!
And to do it at SEO 2.0!
Too excited to say anything except for a humungous
Thank You
to Tad
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Dilemma vs. Conundrum
Dilemma
A dilemma is when you must must make a choice between two options, and both have nasty consequences.
For instance, in Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach, James and the insects are inside a giant peach that is floating in the ocean. Their dilemma is:
Do they eat the peach, and face death by drowning?
OR
Do they not [...]
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The Internet is the first place most researchers turn to because of its sheer size and content; ironically, the size of the Internet is also the reason many researchers are slowly losing their minds.
Searching for information on the Web is a time sucker; you being your search, look up at the clock and realize three hours have [...]
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If you race around the Web, searching for information, getting sidetracked, and ultimately returning to the same tried and true sources, there are two easy-to-use tools that are brilliant at sorting stuff; getting it out of your head and moving it to the Web.
Google Personalized Homepage
Rather than clog your favorite’s folder with URL’s that you [...]
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I was recently given the opportunity to speak with Adam Lasnik, Google’s Search Evangelist about search engine optimization, and it started me thinking about title tags and meta description tags; specifically, just how important is it to get the words right?
When you search on Google, the two most obvious things that come back are the [...]
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Harvey Norman, a household name in Australia, is a franchise that retails products for the home and office. Its diverse product line and quality of merchandise allows you to completely furnish your house or office with one visit, should you want to, and, if you know it exists.
By all appearances, Harvey Norman is a successful [...]
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How to Blog Well
One year ago, when I first arrived in Silicon Valley from the Land Down Under, one of the most significant differences I noticed, when it comes to technology, is the size of the blogosphere.
Utilized by businesses and individuals in the States, blogging is still in its infancy in Australia.
Ironic really, given one of the pioneers [...]
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Converting files from one format to another can be tricky at the best of times. Media Convert is an online tool that is free to use, easy to use, and requires no software or registration. If it makes my life easier, I’m all for it, and this does.
I recently converted a .wav file, that I [...]
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Copyright laws vary from country to country, but are generally put in place to protect the intellectual rights of authors of books, films, songs, websites, software, and songs.
Most countries follow the Berne Copyright Convention, which protects both published and unpublished work, and ensures copyrighted works are protected in foreign contracting countries.
The problem with the Berne [...]
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If you want a tool that gives you more formatting features and an easier interface, or you just want the ability to write offline, w.bloggar is one of several Weblog clients that WordPress supports. It is free to use, runs on your machine and uses XML-RPC to post to your blog.
Installing it was a little [...]
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