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<title>Indonesian Bali Web Design and SEO Consultant</title>
<description>We provide Bali web design and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) with over 3 years of experiences.</description>
<link>http://www.baliidea.net</link>

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<title>Web Development</title>
<description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Bali WEB DESIGNER, Web Programmer Bali, Web Development.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;We offer web design and development services along with friendly customer service at great rates! Based in Bali, Indonesia, Bali IDEA can design (or redesign) every aspect of your web site, from graphic design &amp;amp; copywriting to complete website design &amp;amp; development. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Whether you need a simple web site or a database enabled site, Bali IDEA is prepared to look after your needs! We are specialists in Web Programming using PHP technology, MySQL database. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.baliidea.com/baliidea_hotdeals/17_Website_Design_Packages_&amp;amp;_Solution.php&quot;&gt;&lt;FONT color=#ff6600&gt;Click here! to GET our HOT DEALS! of Web Design Packages with affordable prices.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;BR&gt;
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<title>Content Management System</title>
<description>&lt;P&gt;A &lt;STRONG&gt;content management system&lt;/STRONG&gt; (or CMS) is a system used to organise and facilitate collaborative digital &lt;FONT face=&quot;Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot;&gt;content&lt;/FONT&gt; creation. Recently, the term has been associated with programs for managing the content of web sites. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Web content management (WCM) is also used to refer to these programs. The current content management system at its simplest form is a computerised tool born of traditional sources (address books, encyclopedias, rolodex, etc.). The idea is to take information and organize it so that it's easily retrievable, updatable, flexible in how it can be reformatted and retransmitted, and searchable. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Today's content management systems are elaborate software/database applications designed to store and process large amounts of complex information. &lt;/P&gt;</description>
<link>http://www.baliidea.net/baliidea_services/6-Content-Management-System.php</link>
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<title>Multimedia Interactive</title>
<description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Multimedia Interactive Solution&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;As we enter the new millennium more business is being done at the touch of a button. To stay ahead of the competition you must be innovative and interactive. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;a Multimedia Interactive division of Bali IDEA is your solution to a successful business in the year 2005 and beyond. Multimedia Interactive division of Bali IDEA is a turn-key business from scripting your project, to filming, designing, editing, producing and manufacturing. &lt;/P&gt;
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<title>e-Marketing</title>
<description>&lt;P align=left&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;eMarketing, email marketing, email newsletter the effective ways for your online marketing strategy.&lt;/STRONG&gt; &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;E-mail marketing&lt;/STRONG&gt; is one of the most effective ways to keep in touch with customers. It is generally cost-effective, and if done properly, can help build brand awareness and loyalty. At a typical cost of only a few cents per message, it's a bargain compared to traditional direct mail at $1 or more per piece. In addition, response rates on e-mail marketing are strong, ranging from five to 35% depending on the industry and format. Response rates for traditional mail averages in the 1-3% range. One of the benefits of email marketing is the demographic information that customers provide when signing up for your email newsletter. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Discovering who your customers really are </description>
<link>http://www.baliidea.net/baliidea_services/8-e-Marketing.php</link>
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<title>SEO</title>
<description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to increase you website traffic and get more visitor from search engine.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;SEO Consultant, Web Promotion, and Internet Marketing is one of the most important business decisions that companies are making today. Using effective search engine solutions, companies can add new revenue streams that were previously unavailable. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Our Services in internet marketing and search engine optimization that not only promotes but educates your business on the values of effective website promotion and achieving high rankings on search engines. Our Website Promotion process brings you, our client, through every step of the process and helps your company become even more ambitious on the internet. All at prices that are unmatched in the SEO industry. This is what we do. At Bali IDEA, we strongly believe that our success depends on your success and we treat you that way! &lt;/P&gt;
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<title>Search Engine Optimization</title>
<description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Get more visitors with Search Engine Optimization Strategy!&lt;/STRONG&gt; &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Internet Marketing is one of the most important business decisions that companies are making today. Using effective search engine solutions, companies can add new revenue streams that were previously unavailable. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Our Services in internet marketing and search engine optimization that not only promotes but educates your business on the values of effective website promotion and achieving high rankings on search engines. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Our Website Promotion process brings you, our client, through every step of the process and helps your company become even more ambitious on the internet. All at prices that are unmatched in the SEO industry. This is what we do. At Bali IDEA, we strongly believe that our success depends on your success and we treat you that way! &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;!--StartFragment --&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.baliidea.com/baliidea_hotdeals/17_Website_Design_Packages_&amp;amp;_Solution.php&quot;&gt;&lt;FONT color=#ff6600&gt;Click here! to GET our HOT DEALS! of Web Design Packages with affordable prices.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/P&gt;&lt;BR&gt;
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<title>Web Design Special Offer</title>
<description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;A clear and direct approach of Creative Website Design.&lt;/STRONG&gt; &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;We offer a Web Design service and are dedicated to helping small, medium and large sized businesses prosper online. It's simple - we offer &lt;STRONG&gt;web design and development services&lt;/STRONG&gt; along with friendly customer service at great rates! &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Based in Bali, Indonesia, Bali IDEA can design (or redesign) every aspect of your web site, from graphic design &amp;amp; copywriting to complete website design &amp;amp; development. Whether you need a simple web site or a database enabled site, Bali IDEA is prepared to look after your needs! We are specialists in Web Programming using PHP technology, MySQL database. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;!--StartFragment --&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.baliidea.com/baliidea_hotdeals/17_Website_Design_Packages_&amp;amp;_Solution.php&quot;&gt;&lt;FONT color=#ff6600&gt;Click here! to GET our HOT DEALS! of Web Design Packages with affordable prices.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/P&gt;</description>
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<title>Logo Design Services</title>
<description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Make your Corporate Logo&amp;nbsp;with professional Graphic Design Company!&lt;/STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Logo Design for your Corporate ID. In just three days your business will feature its very own high-quality custom designed, corporate logo design. Even if your business is very small it will look big. It will look more professional. Your new company logo design will inspire confidence and brand loyalty in the eyes of your customers. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Get your company logo design now!&lt;/STRONG&gt; We will deliver three top quality, professional logo design choices for your review. We will also give you one free revision if the first round does not produce exactly what you are looking for. There are no hidden fees. &lt;/P&gt;</description>
<link>http://www.baliidea.net/baliidea_features/4-Logo-Design-Services.php</link>
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<title>Quality Software Products</title>
<description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Web and Windows Based Application, Software Development Company in Bali.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Software Development Products Information Technology Services from Bali IDEA are focused on helping customers realize their business goals by delivering tangible, measurable benefits. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Our expertise includes &lt;STRONG&gt;software development&lt;/STRONG&gt;, &lt;STRONG&gt;systems integration&lt;/STRONG&gt;, &lt;STRONG&gt;application maintenance&lt;/STRONG&gt;, &lt;STRONG&gt;remote admin &lt;/STRONG&gt;and&lt;STRONG&gt; technical support&lt;/STRONG&gt;. We can also augment our technology services with a whole range of Business Process Outsourcing services such as back office processes and customer service. Another dimension of Bali IDEA's offering is that we often utilize pre-built software products or components within our solutions that increase the speed and simplicity of solution delivery. &lt;/P&gt;</description>
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<title>Website Design Packages &amp; Solution</title>
<description>&lt;h3&gt;Customized Web Design Solutions for you! &lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;a target='_blank' href=&quot;http://www.smartwebby.com/design_portfolio.asp&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Bali IDEA CONSULTING (baliidea.com) offers high-quality &lt;strong&gt;website design packages &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;and development &lt;/strong&gt; at the most affordable prices. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;The Web Design quality combined with the price makes these deals unbeatable and we highly recommend these packages to all clients. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;We're believed that Bali IDEA CONSULTING (baliidea.com) has the perfect web design partner for your Online Business! &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;Web Design Packages </description>
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<title>Google Launches Developer Site</title>
<description>&lt;P&gt;Google launches a developer website that contains software tools for adding the search engine's services to web applications.- Mar 17, 2005 &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Google Launches Developer Site Google Inc. on Thursday launched a developer website that contains software tools for adding the search engine's services to web applications. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The site also includes discussion groups and links to all of Google's application programming interfaces, or APIs, which are used in developing applications that tie into Google services, such as AdWords, Blogger, Desktop Search, Gmail and web search. Developers can get regular updates on new projects and tools on the site through any standard newsreader. Chris DiBona, open source program manager for Google, launched the site through the Mountain View, Calif.-based, company's blog. Google engineers who have helped build the software tools will also help build communities around their use, DiBona said. &lt;/P&gt;</description>
<link>http://www.baliidea.net/baliidea_news/4-Google-Launches-Developer-Site.php</link>
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<title>Improve Web Sales Figures. In-depth tips for SEO programs</title>
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<title>Search Engine Optimization and Marketing Services</title>
<description>&lt;!--StartFragment --&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Search engine optimization or search engine marketing&lt;/STRONG&gt; is the process of promoting a business online to achieve top search engine rankings for relevant, targeted keyphrases.
&lt;P&gt;Search engine optimization refers to modifying a website for search engines in order to bring searchers and suppliers together. Search engine optimization will increase qualified traffic, generate enquiries and convert more sales.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Contrary to any sales hype you may read elsewhere, there are no software products available, nor will there ever be, that can automate the search engine optimization process.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Having the best looking site won't give your business any benefit if it can't be found. Each page must be content rich, search engine friendly and should be easily found by potential customers using relevant search terms. Search engine optimization can achieve this.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Merely registering your URL with all the major search engines won't give your pages a decent shot at appearing on the coveted &quot;page one&quot; of the search engine results unless it is backed up with targeted search engine optimization.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Popular animated gizmos based on products like JavaScript or Flash, for example, are to all intents and purposes invisible to search engine crawlers and can seriously affect the search engine optimization process. So can Active Server Pages, JavaServer pages, elements contained within frames, and pages that enforce acceptance of cookies. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Research shows that most search engine users don't look past the first two or three pages of results returned by a search engine. If your pages do not appear in the first three pages it's time to consider search engine optimization.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Research also shows that around 85 percent of Internet consumers use search engines and directories to look for products, services and information. Given such a high degree of consumer use and acceptance of search engine results, search engine optimization is the most cost efficient means of generating qualified site traffic and activity. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Fact : &lt;/STRONG&gt;People who are actively searching for your products or services are qualified prospects who, in the most part, have already made the decision to buy! Focused search engine optimization brings the searcher and the supplier together. &lt;/P&gt;</description>
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<title>Using Title Tags to Improve SEO &amp; Website Conversion</title>
<description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;!--StartFragment --&gt;Why title tags are important to your site's performance. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Search engine optimization (or SEO) is clearly important in this day and age. An entire industry has arisen around the quest to get to the top of the search engines, with black and white hat SEO witches battling it out to stay in the top five positions. &lt;/P&gt;
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<title>Experience the Benefits of an Internet Business</title>
<description>&lt;!--StartFragment --&gt;&amp;nbsp;The Internet industry is booming and offers opportunities galore for internet businesses. Internet businesses are not just for computer whizzes anymore, not just for people with multiple college degrees or a rich background in business. Internet businesses are a viable economic solution to anyone owning a computer and willing to research their options. There are many benefits to owning an Internet business, and the list below contains only the very few to scratch the surface.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;The first benefit to owning this sort of business is the freedom you have to enjoy the rest of your life. You will be able to call the shots and name your own hours because you are the boss. You are the one in charge, and you make the rules. You can decide what hours are most productive for you, and which hours to reserve for your family or your friends. This incentive is particularly attractive to people with young families. Why should you miss out on baseball games, piano recitals, and first steps to make someone else money and be little appreciated for it? Wouldn't you rather put in a hard day's work during the hours you choose and then be able to show up for the obligations you consider more important?&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;The next benefit of the industry is unlimited financial opportunity. Owning an Internet business is working in a business with no salary cap. In this industry, you choose how much you work, how far your market, what your bottom line dollar amount will be. You can decide how much money you need to live comfortably, and you can evaluate how hard you should work to achieve that amount. This success can be yours and will be once you enter the industry and start your own business.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;The third benefit of the industry is personal growth and pride. You are creating something when you start your own business. You are developing a business you can leave behind you, that you know will touch lives and deliver necessary services and products. You can take pride at the end of the day, knowing you met your own goals and achieved your own successes. This feeling comes with the independence of choices and freedoms of time and constraint. These benefits do not take years to achieve. YOU do not have to wait until retirement to feel you have earned time with your friends and family. You can experience these qualities of life right now when you own your own Internet business. This opportunity is open to you, and information abounds to get you started down the road to success. You can make your own dreams come true, and provide for your family as you never have before. Whether this becomes a full time career or a part time hobby, your business will change your life and your outlook. </description>
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<title>One of the 'Golden Rules' of Internet marketing</title>
<description>&lt;!--StartFragment --&gt;&amp;nbsp;Copyright 2005 Richard Grady&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;In my opinion, one of the 'Golden Rules' of Internet marketing has to be the following:&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;'Once you have uploaded a website, you should leave it online forever - even if it is only making you a couple of dollars a month.' &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;As long as you are covering the hosting and domain registration fees each year (maximum of a couple of dollars a month), then why take the site offline? Admittedly if the site is causing you hours of work every week and still only making you a couple of dollars income each month, then yes, remove it. But if the site involves you in no work (for example if it sells an eBook or you generate Adsense income etc from it, then why remove it?)&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;The point is that whilst the site in question may only be generating a small amount today, you never know what might happen tomorrow</description>
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<title>10 Mistakes to Avoid When Setting Up a Link Directory</title>
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&lt;P&gt;When adding a link directory to a web site there are important mistakes to avoid, or else you'll be storing up big problems for later on. I know, because I made some of these mistakes and didn't have anyone to offer any advice or tell me what I'm about to tell you.&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;B&gt;Don't create a directory page with all your links on one page.&lt;/B&gt; You should have no more than 30 - 40 links to a page. The reason is that some sites will not link to you if a page you put their link on has too many links, because it dilutes the value of the link to them. To understand why, you need to know about Google Page Rank and how it's passed to another site from your link page. That's a subject too lengthy for this topic.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;B&gt;Plan your link directory on paper first&lt;/B&gt; and decide what names you are going to give each category in your link directory. Make the names fit with the theme of your site and try to avoid adding categories which are nothing to do with what your site is about.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;For example if your site is about Making Candles and Candle Accessories, don't have link categories for Computers &amp;amp; Games, or Search Engine Optimization etc. The reason is that if you want your site to achieve a good ranking with the search engines your site should be built tightly around your theme, in this example Candles.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;B&gt;Only link to web sites that relate to your site theme&lt;/B&gt; and have something to offer your visitors. This refers to item 2. If you don't have categories for unrelated topics, you'll be less tempted to link to them because you don't have a category to put them in.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;B&gt;Choose names for link categories that you want to use now and in the future,&lt;/B&gt; because you can't easily change them later on. Once the pages are created by your link manager software, it will use the category names you give it. So if you have a category called &quot;Candle Power&quot; it will create an html page called Candle-Power.html or something similar, using your category name. Once this page is found and indexed by the search engines, in time it will gain Page Rank.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;If later, you change the category name to &quot;Candle Lights&quot; the link manager software will create a new page called Candle-Lights.html and you will lose the page rank you had gained for the earlier page. If your link partners linked to you because the page you put them on had a good page rank, renaming the page will cause this page rank to fall to zero. As a result your link partners may drop the link they have back to you, which is not what you ever want to happen.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;B&gt;Avoid having sub-categories or sub sub-categories in your directory&lt;/B&gt; from your main category pages. The reason for this is again to do with how search engines will rank your directory pages. If your directory pages are more than two levels or two clicks away from your main index or home page they will either not be indexed by some search engines, or if they are indexed they will achieve a lower ranking. Some web sites will not link to you if the page you are to put the link on is more than 2 clicks away from your home page because these webmasters know what I've just told you.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;B&gt;Ensure each page of your link directory has a link back to your home page.&lt;/B&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Once again the reason for this is to do with how search engines will rank your directory pages, so make sure these links are in place.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;B&gt;Don't be obsessed at linking only to web sites that have a good ranking&lt;/B&gt; with the search engines. Look first at whether the site has anything to offer your visitors. If it has poor or unrelated content don't link to it. If it has good related content that compliments your own content but has zero or low page rank, consider linking to it. Later on you may be glad you provided a link, when it's page rank improves.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;B&gt;Don't use link directory software that doesn't automatically check links&lt;/B&gt; to your web site are still present on the other sites. Doing link checking manually can be tedious and you have to remember to do it. Software that you can set a schedule to check links and automatically send out emails to webmasters when links are not found will save you a lot of time. Link management software that will automatically suspend links and delete them if they are repeatedly not found is an added bonus.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;B&gt;Don't use standard templates that come with any link manager&lt;/B&gt;, link directory management software. You need to modify these templates to match the look and design of your own web site. This requires you know something about editing a web page using an HTML editor. Also don't use the standard email templates, personalize them in some way, even if it's only to add your name.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;B&gt;Don't assume you're finished once you've set up your link directory&lt;/B&gt; and done all the things I've said. You must test and retest every aspect to ensure everything is working properly, before visitors arrive.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;This means making an add a link request, as if you were a visitor to your own web site. Setting up test links and making sure these links are being checked by the software so it detects when links are removed or defective. Making sure it sends out email notices correctly and check the formatting is correct when they are received. You should also check you can make backups of your link directory database and be able to restore it in the event of a problem.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/OL&gt;</description>
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<title>9 Ways to Keep Google Happy</title>
<description>&lt;!--StartFragment --&gt;&amp;nbsp;by Rick Hendershot, &lt;A href=&quot;http://marketingbs.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;Marketing Bites&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;A recent Google patent application has the SEO community buzzing. At a bare minimum this document reveals the direction Google is taking its future search criteria. Changes in the way Google will be evaluating pages for search rankings are intended to address two major problems:&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;- Search engine spam, and&lt;BR&gt;- Ensuring that &quot;fresh&quot; documents score higher than &quot;stale&quot; ones&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Here is a summary of some of the general principles outlined in the document. Most SEO &lt;BR&gt;specialists agree these are reasonable principles, and it is only a matter of time&lt;BR&gt;before they are adopted.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;1. Anchor text of links is still very important. Focus on your anchor text. It should contain your most important keyword.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;2. Google expects that anchor texts will vary. A lot of identical anchor text suggests an &quot;unnatural&quot; linking pattern. Anchor texts should vary, but contain related phrases.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;3. Google will record when specific links were first discovered, and watch how they change over time. Links with a long life span are considered more valuable than links with a short life span. This adds support to the link delay theory -- that links do not start &quot;counting&quot; until they have been in place for a few months. So get working on those links right now, but don't expect immediate gratification from Google.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;4. If a new website gets a flood of new inbound links, this will be an indicator of possible spam activity. Links should be introduced gradually and according to a consistent pattern.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;5. Google acknowledges that there may be link &quot;spikes&quot;, and so an influx of new links will be interpreted as legitimate if some of the links are from &quot;authoritative&quot; sites. Go after links from authoritative sites.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;6. If a stale webpage continues to receive new incoming links, it will be considered fresh. Keep adding links pointing to important pages.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;7. Links from fresh pages will in some cases be more valuable than links from &quot;stale&quot; or old pages that have not been recently updated. Get links from pages that are active. If you have high value links from important sites, develop a strategy for keeping those links fresh.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;8. Google places more value on a site where link growth remains constant and slow. Slow and steady wins the race. Keep getting those links.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;9. Pages with many inbound links will require proportionately more new links in order to remain fresh. The assumption is that the more links a page has, the more it should be getting in the future. Otherwise it starts slipping into the &quot;stale&quot; category. Focus more attention on your most important pages. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Regardless of whether of not Google implements all of these criteria, the general direction is clear. More importantly, these points make good SEO sense, and provide a very good place to start when planning a link strategy. </description>
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<title>What Is Spam?</title>
<description>&lt;!--StartFragment --&gt;&amp;nbsp;If you've been around the interenet any length of time then you probably know what spam is. However, if you're new to the internet you might be asking yourself the question &quot;What is Spam?&quot;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;The best place to begin would be to explain to you exactly what spam mail is. Spam is basically just unsolicited commercial emails that companies send to your inbox.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;There are a lot of ways these companies get your email address. You may have signed up for a newsletter or promotions with one of them, or you may have ordered a product or service that requires registration from a website first.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;It is common for companies to share their mailing lists with their affiliate companies. It</description>
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<title>5 ways to stop spam from reaching your mail box</title>
<description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;!--StartFragment --&gt;By Joel Teo 2005 All Rights Reserved &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;!--StartFragment --&gt;&amp;nbsp;UCE or unsolicited commercial email is getting worse by the &lt;BR&gt;day and Microsoft has announced that in the future it will &lt;BR&gt;be developing a system in which email sending and receiving &lt;BR&gt;will be like our postal mail where a digital stamp has to be &lt;BR&gt;bought to send it. But until then marketers online will be &lt;BR&gt;continuing to send emails to potential customers in the hope &lt;BR&gt;of converting some of the leads that they buy into buying &lt;BR&gt;customers. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;The internet arena of emailing is a murky one in which your &lt;BR&gt;email might be traded and sold in some internet networks &lt;BR&gt;which I have seen sell and trade in email contacts online. &lt;BR&gt;That is the reason why when you get one type of spam email, &lt;BR&gt;you tend to get more of the same type of email as your email &lt;BR&gt;has been sold to a large emailing list which is in turn sold &lt;BR&gt;to marketers to email to. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;This article will highlight some ways in which spammers can &lt;BR&gt;get your email address and highlight ways to deal with them. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;1.Non Cloaked emails on websites &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;This is actually one of &lt;BR&gt;the most easy way to get spam. I</description>
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<title>Shooting and optimizing your internet images</title>
<description>&lt;!--StartFragment --&gt;&amp;nbsp;For corporate communicators brought up on printed publications, the immediacy of on-line communications is a breath of fresh air. But just as we have had to adopt our writing style for the net, we should also be thinking differently about how we take and edit photographs.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Why? Internet and intranet images are used very small </description>
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<title>Frames and Search Engines</title>
<description>&lt;!--StartFragment --&gt;&amp;nbsp;When it comes to framed sites and the effect that the use of frames by a site has on its search engine ranking, there are two schools of thought. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Some people say that framed sites, if done properly, have no problems in getting good rankings in the search engines. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Others claim that if search engine optimization is important to you, never use frames.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;In my opinion, the truth lies somewhere in between. Yes, the use of frames does throw up a few issues when it comes to getting good rankings in the search engines which don't understand frames. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Hence, when you are designing a new site, I would recommend that you avoid using frames, unless you have a specific reason for doing so. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;However, if you already have a site which uses frames, all is not lost. You can still get good rankings in the search engines even though you have used frames. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Furthermore, using frames also has its own advantages when it comes to search engine placement, as we shall later on. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;This article assumes that you have a working knowledge of frames. For more information on frames, go to http://www.webreference.com/dev/frames/&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;In case your site uses frames, the key to getting good rankings lies in using the NOFRAMES tag. The NOFRAMES tag is intended to help framed web sites display some content for those people who are using browsers which don't understand frames. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;The search engines which don't understand frames also look at the NOFRAMES tag. Hence, if you are using frames, you need to add content to the NOFRAMES tag.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;What you should do is to add a complete web page within the NOFRAMES tag. Ensure that this page repeats the important keywords for your site a number of times. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Also, in order to ensure that the content within the NOFRAMES tag is as prominent as possible to the search engines, you should put the NOFRAMES tag right after the FRAMESET tag. &lt;BR&gt;However, don't put the NOFRAMES before the FRAMESET tag. If you do that, Internet Explorer will display your site correctly but Netscape will display the content present in the NOFRAMES tag, rather than the content present within the frames. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Furthermore, you should also place a link to the page containing your navigation links in the NOFRAMES tag. This ensures that the search engines are able to spider the internal pages in your site.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;One problem that occurs when you use frames is that the search engines may often display one of the internal pages in your site in response to a query. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;If this internal page does not contain a link to the home page of your site, the user will be unable to navigate through your entire site. &lt;BR&gt;The solution, of course, is to add a link to the home page from that internal page. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;When the visitor clicks on that link, she is brought within the context of the frames.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;However, simply adding a link to the home page presents yet another problem. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;If the visitor had already been viewing that page within the context of the frames and then clicks on the link to the home page, a new set of frames will be created in addition to the frames already being used. I&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;n order to solve this problem, you have to use the TARGET = &quot;_top&quot; command in the link, i.e. the HTML code for the link would be something like&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Go to our home page&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Wrapping things up:&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;As I mentioned earlier, there is also an advantage to using frames. Since most Internet users are now using frames enabled browsers, it means that not many people are going to know what's present in your NOFRAMES tag. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;This allows you the repeat your keywords a few more times in the NOFRAMES than what you could have done if you were writing a page which humans would also see (of course, don't repeat the keywords too many times - that can cause your web site to be penalized for spamming). &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;You can also avoid using tables, graphics etc. which you would otherwise need to use if humans would also view that page. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;However, it is debatable whether this small advantage is sufficient to justify using frames.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;For more advice on how you can take your web site to the top of the search engines, subscribe to his FREE newsletter by going to: &lt;BR&gt;http://www.the-easy-way.com/newsletter.html </description>
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<title>How To Start An Internet Business</title>
<description>&lt;!--StartFragment --&gt;&amp;nbsp;The first step to starting any Internet business is conducting keyword research to determine if there is any interest in your idea. Once you identify a need, it</description>
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<title>Top Search Engine Optimization</title>
<description>&lt;!--StartFragment --&gt;&amp;nbsp;Anybody who has their own website or is involved in business &lt;BR&gt;online understands the importance of SEO or search engine optimization. Higher rankings equal more traffic. More traffic equals more potential sales. Simple, eh? Or is it?&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;The problem here is that most people think search engine optimization is like magic and that only search engine &quot;gurus&quot; have all the answers. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Forunately, for you, this is far from true. In fact search engine optimization is relatively easy. What stops most people from ranking well in the search engines is misinformation and the promise of quick fixes. Every week there's a new tool or ebook that promises to solve all your search engine woes. There are no quick fixes folks. Accept that as a truth and move forward.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;What follows in the next three articles is a 10 step program for &lt;BR&gt;improving your online presence and search engine rankings. Enjoy!&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Keywords&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Keywords should be the first step in your search engine optimization campaign. People put keywords or phrases into search engines looking for information. The search engines then check their index for pages that contain these keywords. Unless your pages contain keywords relevant to your business or service then do not expect search engines to rank you well. It's that simple.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;For example if you have a website about dating then you'll find it very difficult to rank well for the keyword &quot;dating&quot; because so many other sites are competing for it. However if you were to target a specific area like gay and lesbian dating then you're dealing with a smaller, more targetted market. You could even regionalize it by targetting gay and lesbian dating in Toronto. See where we're going with this?&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;So what keywords tools are available to you? Describing each of them goes beyond the scope of this article so please refer to our site for more information on this topic.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Content&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Make this your motto - Provide Useful Content. DO NOT provide keyword stuffed, spammy, automatically generated pages. Write something useful for your visitors based on keywords which are relevant to your business or service.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Ask yourself one question - do you want your website to last? Yes? Great then provide content that's actually useful to your visitors. Not only should you provide the initial content but keep adding content to your site. A page a week, a page a month it doesn't matter. Give your visitors a reason to come back to your website.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;You can't write? Yes you can! Most people just think they can't write. Most of us send emails every day to friends, colleagues and loved ones. If you can compose an email like that then you're perfectly capable of writing 200 - 300 words of text for a page of content. The mere thought of writing a page of website content can fill people with terror but if you need help on this please refer to our website for a list of resources.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Keyword Density&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;This is how often your keyword is used on the the page. For example if you have 100 words of text on a single page and you mention your keyword 5 times then your keyword density is 5%.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;So what's the ideal keyword density? Do yourself a favour and don't focus on keyword density at all. The forums are full of &quot;experts&quot; with theories on the perfect keyword density percentage. Here's a wake up call - there is no perfect keyword density. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Mention your keyword towards the top of your page within the body text, in the page title and in the Meta Description tag. Apart from that only ever use the keyword or keywords within the page itself as is contextually appropriate. Forcing a keyword into a page over and over again is going to produce a webpage that's difficult to read and sounds silly.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Domain Name&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;You have two choices when choosing a domain name. You can use a branded name that doesn't relate to your business e.g. Amazon.com have built a hugely successful brand name as an online retailer using the name of a South American river for their company. It just works for some reason.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Your other choice is to use a keyword rich domain name. What this means is that if your website is about baby clothes you'd use a domain name like www.baby-clothes-guide.com. Should you really use hyphens to separate the keywords in the domain? The simple answer is yes because a search engine can read each individual keyword in the domain. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;If you were to use www.babyclothesguide.com the major search engines can only read the first word from it which is &quot;baby&quot;. Therefore it has no idea that the domain is specifically about baby clothes (targetted) and not just about baby (untargetted).&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;(c) Niall Roche - All Rights Reserved </description>
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<title>Keywords and SEO. The facts.</title>
<description>&lt;!--StartFragment --&gt;&amp;nbsp;Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is essential for the success of almost every website. The majority of traffic to websites is brought in by search engines. Keywords are an important part of SEO. Unfortunately, many website owners overdo it. Keywords are one of the most important tools in ranking high on search engines. Abuse them and you will suffer the consequences. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Many novices read about places to add keywords, such as ALT tags, anchors and other areas. While these are meant to be used if you want to help boost your keywords, they should be relevant to the image or the place where you are linking. Many people try to stuff keywords into every possible place. There is no benefit whatsoever in doing this. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;As a general rule, I would say you can optimize one page with 3 keywords or phrases. I would recommend starting with one or two. Depending on who you talk to, your percentage of keywords in your text should be between three and five percent of the total content on the site. I have seen site tops with percentages as high as ten. There are some free online tools that can tell you the percentage of each word on your site. This one is http://www.googlerankings.com/ultimate_seo_tool.php &lt;BR&gt;This tool will also show under which of those words your site comes up on. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;One huge mistake I see all the time is repeated keywords in the keyword tag. Here is an example: shoes, brown shoes, blue shoes, and red shoes. There are two things wrong here, Do you know what it is? First, of all, the use of the word </description>
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<title>Website Traffic Generation</title>
<description>&lt;!--StartFragment --&gt;&amp;nbsp;We all know that the secret to success on the Internet is getting your website noticed and producing massive amounts of unique traffic.&lt;BR&gt;Even better still is producing this traffic on a consistent basis and for free.&lt;BR&gt;So how do we go about this task and what is the magic formula that will do this for us on a constant and ongoing basis.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Here are my 7 tips that will certainly in crease your website traffic flow and also increase your websites revenue potential.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;1)If you think logically about the internet there are millions of websites and pages available and so you have very little chance of getting significant amounts of traffic if you only have one web page online, so in order to take the first step to gaining more traffic you must produce more websites and more web pages on subjects that are of interest to the general internet viewing public.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;2)Having decided to produce more websites and web pages it is of the utmost importance that you research your subjects and look for the niche areas of interest that give you a better than fighting chance of getting your websites listed in the top few listings of the major search engines, These listing are the key to where your free traffic will come from.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;3)</description>
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<title>How to improve your websites search engine rankings</title>
<description>&lt;!--StartFragment --&gt;&amp;nbsp;One of your main goals when building a site is to receive a lot of traffic so that you can make some reasonable money out of your website. One of the main and best ways of getting more traffic to your site is for you to do some seo (search engine optimization).&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;There are many things involved when doing seo for your website. Some of these include the following:&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Designing your website&lt;BR&gt;This is a very important thing to consider when doing seo. This is because the better your site is optimised for the major search engines, the better your chance will be of you getting an improved ranking for your chosen keywords within the major search engines. To optimise your site you will need to use metatags, which contains your chosen keywords. You will also need to design your site so that it is not just full of images.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;You will need to add some good quality content to your web pages in the form of text. When writing text/information for your web pages you must consider using your chosen keywords throughout the content so that it has a good keyword density for your chosen keywords. It would probably be best to aim for a keyword density of around 7% - 9%. If you have a keyword density any higher than this, then the search engines may penalize you for spamming their search engines with your chosen keywords.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;The navigation of your site is also very important as when people arrive at your site you will want them to easily be able to navigate through your sites content. If they can</description>
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<title>Google's PR Explained</title>
<description>&lt;!--StartFragment --&gt;&amp;nbsp;An Introduction to PR&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;The complexities of Google's PR (Page Ranking) System have grown more difficult to understand since the Hilltop Algorithm was introduced. This beginner's guide to the PR system explains the basics of what PR is, what it does, and how it affects your site's rankings. This revolutionary search algorithm has made it to where the most relevant and popular sites with the best content do the best on Google's search page. Keep in mind, this algorithm is kept secret by Google for fear of it being exploited, but the basics have been released for study. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;In a nutshell, Google's Page Ranking is a system devised to rank pages based on their content and popularity and place them accordingly within the search results based on their relevance to the general topic. Or, in laymen's terms, it's a system to make sure sites are put where they need to be, both in search results and in rankings. A site dealing with pet care is not going to be listed in the top 10 when searching for &quot;web design,&quot; but depending on its content and popularity it could be well towards the top of the list on &quot;pet medicine&quot; or &quot;sick dog.&quot; &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;PR is on a scale of 0 to 10, with 10 being the highest ranking possible. Of course, only a very few sites have a PR 10 or even a PR 9 for that matter. PR 7 and PR 8 sites are considered very good sites, with lots of original, relevant content and a great deal of inbound links. You will usually find sites with a high PR at the top of the list under Google's search engine, and many others, since relevant content and lots of links is almost a prerequisite for being placed high in any of the major search engines on any of the major keywords. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;PR Spread &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;PR is set up to &quot;pass on&quot; from one site to another, or one page to another if it is within your own site. As the PR &quot;spreads&quot; throughout your site, you will get less and less utility from it. A link from a PR 5 site to your main page will give you a PR 4 link to your main page. Since your main page will be linked to other pages within your site, any links on your front page (up to 100 pages) will then receive a PR 3 link from your main page. It continues to trickle down, exponentially losing power until it peters out. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Keep in mind, however, that depending on what page linked to you, and how many links were on that page in the first place, your PR could be significantly lower than expected. If a PR 5 page links to your site, but has 300 other links on that single page, you may get anywhere from 0 to 4 PR. Thus it is beneficial to have a limited number of links on your main pages, due to the smaller amount of PR being passed down with the more links it is being passed to. Overall, a small, concise site with lots of inbound links and few outbound links would be the ideal &quot;PR trap,&quot; although relevant, original content is needed as well. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;PR's Effect on Rankings &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;The effects of PR are plainly viewable to anybody with the Google Toolbar. Simply search for a keyword, and look at the PR rating of the top 10 sites. The highest PR will usually be on the top of the list, depending on content. If a PR 8, however, has a keyword that does not match their content, they will most likely be ranked lower than a PR 6 on the same keyword with more relevant content on the subject matter. A site with high, relevant, and original content, along with matching keywords and a multitude of links from related sites, will place extremely high on searches containing their keywords. A site with old content that is not updated often with links from non-related sites and keywords that do not relate directly to their content, on the other hand will probably not show up within the top 100 sites on the same search. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;So basically, PR is what drives listings on the Google Search Engine. How to optimize your site to take advantage of this system, however is the real challenge. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Utilizing PR &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;To make proper use of the PR system, many different things must be done to assure your website is &quot;acceptable&quot; within their guidelines. Basically, making your site more relevant to your topic will have a great effect on your PR ranking, especially if you are &quot;popular&quot; among those sites, or have many links coming from related sites. Each site on the internet has a Page Rank, assigned by Google, based on their content and popularity. To view the page rank of each site, download the Google Toolbar from their site. It will automatically show you the rank of the page you're on with a small counter on your task bar. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Now, obviously a &quot;good&quot; site links to you, it will have a better effect on your website's popularity. Say, for example, a PR 3 website puts a link on their links page to your main page. That link will be considered a PR 2 link to your site (PR - 1), giving you a PR of 2 on your main page. If, however, a PR 0 site adds a link to your site, there is almost no change. A link from a grayed-out site, which means they have a negative PR, will actually be a detriment to your PR, as they have been deemed a site not relevant to anything (or relevant, but banned) by Google. Of course, a link from a PR 7 site to your own will be drastically more effective in boosting your PR than even 20 PR 3 links would. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Getting Good Links &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;One of the most important things to remember about getting a high PR ranking is to get links from &quot;good&quot; sites. These include sites that are directly related to your own site in some way, and preferably sites with a high PR of their own. Good examples include award pages and directory listings. With relevant links coming from related sites with a high PR, your site will not only gain PR fast, but will gain in real popularity. High PR sites traditionally have high traffic due to their link volume and content. If there is a link to you, it is a sign that you have a good site on a related topic with good content as well, attracting visitors who didn't find exactly what they wanted. More visitors means more PR, which in turn gets you more visitors. You can see how important good links can be. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Try to steer away from sites with unrelated topics, as these will probably not help much, if any with your traffic, and may actually bring a penalty to your PR. Other sites to steer away from when trying to work up your PR would be FFAs, or Free For All link programs. These sites allow browsers to enter their link into a huge list (sometimes of thousands of other sites). Usually you will find that these sites have been &quot;grayed out,&quot; or given a negative PR effect by Google, bringing your PR down if you have a link from them. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Doorway pages are another thing to avoid. These are shorter, shallow sites that are created simply for putting as many keywords and links as possible on their pages in order to &quot;farm&quot; PR for higher rankings on Google. These, in general, once they are found are &quot;grayed out,&quot; as well as sites they link to. Enough links from these will assure that your site will not show up on Google's search at all. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Getting Good Content &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Good, original content is not as hard to obtain as some might think. By writing articles for your site you can provide pages of completely relevant and unique content, as long as the articles are on subject. A few articles will give you plenty of original content to get a fairly good &quot;relevance rating&quot; with Google, which contributes to your PR rating, and it will not trigger the dreaded &quot;duplicate content&quot; tag that will doom your site to obscurity. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;In addition, if you can get enough relevant content together, you can eventually become recognized as an &quot;expert&quot; in the field. With that status, you will get enough traffic to boost your PR even more. People are always in need of information, and if you provide good enough information, you will find yourself getting links from all over the internet. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;PR in a Nutshell - an Overview &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Basically, with enough unique content and relevant links, you can have a high PR site and be ready to take on the internet. Overall, things to keep in mind are to stay consistent with your main topic, both in links and in your content, and stay away from the &quot;no-no&quot; sites mentioned above. If you can do these things, you can gain a high PR and a good ranking with Google in a relatively short period of time. </description>
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<description>&lt;!--StartFragment --&gt;&amp;nbsp;Ranking well under the free listings in the major search engines basically mean one thing </description>
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<title>Bali web design</title>
<description>Bali web design</description>
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