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Monthly Archives: October 2008

Second Commandment: Thou Shalt not Regret Disclosure.

Oops, I already told the interviewer what I am making. Now what?
All is not lost! Just because they know your current salary or salary expectations doesn’t mean you can’t negotiate for a fair market value.
Once you’ve broken the sound barrier, so to speak, on your salary, you at least have one advantage: no more tug-o-war [...]

Black-Hat SEO

Search engine optimization (SEO) is often divided into ethical and unethical practices. Black hat SEO refers to those practices generally thought of as cheating the system.
Black hat SEO can also refer to a consultant or specialist who uses unethical practices or sells deceptive techniques to others.
Black-Hat SEO Tactics:
Keyword Stuffing
This is probably one of the most [...]

10 Different Ways to Increase Traffic on Your Blogs

1. Write Unique Content: Unique content is the key to success in today’s blogging world. No one can stop your blog from getting on the top of the search engines and driving traffic like anything, if you spend an hour writing one thoughtful, and original post that is relevant to your target readers. Post regularly, [...]

7 Ways To Find ‘Real’ Search Engine Optimizers

Poor Search Capabilities Are Difficult To Fix: Searching is rather a very vital and complicated process that requires both skills and time. A number of products might be fake and real content might be far away from what you [...]

Business marketers ‘to focus on SEO in the near future’

Almost four in ten business marketers intend to concentrate primarily on search engine optimisation (SEO) in the next six months, a new survey has shown.
Carried out by the Online Marketing Blog, the poll of more than 400 marketing professionals revealed that the slowing economy will prompt 36 per cent of firms to focus on SEO [...]

SEO & W3C Compliance

From reading the title many of you are probably wondering what W3C compliance has to do with SEO and many more are probably wondering what W3C compliance is at all. Let’s begin by shedding some light on the later.
What Is W3C Compliance?
The W3C is the World Wide Web Consortium and basically, since 1994 the W3C [...]

The Semantic Web: An Introduction

The Semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which the semantics of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content. It derives from World Wide Web Consortium director Sir [...]

SEO Tops Recession Internet Marketing Tactics

So here we are, one quarter down and recession to go. Recession has become an unfortunate but popular topic in 2008. Some people follow strict definitions of what qualifies technically as a recession while others speak purely from opinion–or maybe they are speaking from the pinch they are feeling in their wallets. For most, they [...]

RSS, how it works?

The RSS system to publish articles and news over the web is very simple:

There are firstly some web pages, one want to be displayed by other websites.
This set of pages is the RSS feed.
An XML file that defines the RSS feed. This file holds URL, [...]

The 10 Commandments of Salary Negotiation: 1st Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Speak Too Soon

There is one, and only one, time to discuss salary in any detail: when they say they’re ready to make you an offer.
What if the employer asks about it before they’re ready to hire you?
You’ll feel like answering because we are all rewarded in school for answering questions. We eagerly raise our hand and offer [...]