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Too Much Work? Never!
2007-06-12 18:50:00
Well, it feels good to get back here to the blog. After a blazing fast two-day “Visa” trip to Singapore, the workload involved in signing a major client here locally, and the launching of a client’s new website LPG Conversion Services, I am finally able to sit here for a few minutes and attempt to ...
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White Hat SEO
2007-06-06 16:47:00
I was recently insulted, appalled, and astounded when performing a search in Google for the keyphrase “White Hat SEO” and the website www.whitehatseo.com was returned as the No. 1 result. Has anyone viewed this site? It is amazing how they advocate the use of Black Hat SEO under the guise that White Hat SEO is ...
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Google Inc & Salesforce.com Inc = $519 per share!!
2007-06-06 14:43:00
Following Googl e ’s announcement of it’s partnership with online software pioneer Salesforce .com Inc. on Tuesday, the Big G stock soared to a new all-time high of $519. The “little search engine that could” has increased it’s market value more than six-fold since first becoming publicly offered at $85 per share in 1994. Google Inc was founded ...
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Redirect 410 - Gone Forever
2007-06-05 15:09:00
In my last post about redirects I comment on how using a Redirect 404 to your homepage on a NO LONGER AVAILABLE page was a form of SE (and human) deception. So, here I am going to explain what you should do if you remove (not move) a page from your webspace. This serves two ...
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Review The Bespeckled SEO And Get Paid For It
2007-06-05 14:44:00
I am offering $2.00 via PayPal to the first 5 people who publish a short review of this blog on their web/blogsite. I am doing this to (obviously) increase reader interest. I feel that I work hard in keeping the SEO community up-to-date on the latest. To ensure fairness, if you would like to review this site ...
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Google Street View Invades Privacy
2007-06-05 13:56:00
Google can’t get enough! They seem to truly enjoy invading peoples privacy online and offline. Google’s new map product Street View , at first glance,  is a super cool feature to one of the best online map systems available. Yet, if you browse around you will see some really embassasing and compromising situations that Google flaunts ...
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Redirect 404 or ErrorDocument?
2007-06-04 17:13:00
This is my second part in the three-part series on Redirect s.  In my honest White Hat SEO opinion, using the  Error Document 404 http://www.yourhomepage.com/ is just another way of trying to deceive both the spiders and your human visitors. While true, using this statement in .htaccess would indeed direct all requests to a NOT FOUND page back to your content ...
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The Google Search Engine - New And Improved?
2007-06-04 16:46:00
With Google ’s recent launch of Street Views to Google Maps, Google Gears, and the antitrust spotlight on Google, Inc., many SEOs (and non-SEOs) are asking this question…”Does Google still care about search?” In a recent post, Matt Cutts lists five things you didn’t know about Google search. Here are the highlights from Matt’s post. Google continues to ...
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Google Really Wants DoubleClick!!
2007-06-04 15:52:00
Seems like the Mountain View, California search giant is pulling out all the stops to ensure that it’s $3.1 billion bid for DoubleClick goes through. Googl e , Inc. has hired Makan Delrahim, a former deputy assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s antitrust division, to assist it in this investigation by the U.S. FTC. This story ...
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Croc Style Airwalk Recall - Payless Shoes
2007-06-04 15:36:00
Here in the Philippines we don’t have Payless Shoe s , but a fellow SEO has asked for assistance in getting this out. Apparently this Croc Style Airwalk shoe from Payless in the States has been recalled due to compelling evidence that if a child breaks the shoe and puts it in her mouth, he could choke ...
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Redirects 301, 404, 410 - Part 1
2007-05-31 16:56:00
Since this is a very important part of effective search engine optimization, I have decided to do a short three-part series on Redirect s. The first part in this series is 301. Before I explain all the different ways to AND not to redirect, I am first going to explain why this is so important to SEO ...
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Setting Limits With Overzealous Clients
2007-05-30 11:06:00
While I will not make a direct reference to any particular person or situation, this is my personal blog site. This is where I advise, teach, preach, lecture, and yes, sometimes even ventilate my frustrations and angers.  Rules for all clients to remember - 1. Just as your time is valuable, so is mine. If you choose ...
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We Keep Growing…Welcome Joanna Marie Cortez
2007-05-29 15:44:00
DCGWS Internet Solutions proudly announces the addition of Joanna Mari e Cortez to our design team. Joanna brings to the table her extensive knowledge in Content Management Systems and design layouts. Welcome Aboard!! content management systems, cortez, CSS, design layouts, joanna marie, Web Design
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Web Development Services @ DCGWS Internet Solutions
2007-05-29 13:27:00
From time to time I am questioned about my professional background and who I am. I am the Philippines Managing Director of DCGWS Internet Solutions , a fully registered IT services company registered with the Philippines Department of Trade & Industry as well as the Philippines Bureau of Internal Revenue. Our primary industry is web development services. In our first year of operations here in the Philippines, we have added 13 websites to our portfolio of clients. DCGWS Internet Solutions is also a duly registered sole proprietorship in the United States. We currently offer diverse and customizable web hosting packages. Our hosting packages utilize dedicated, semi-dedicated, and shared Apache server located at the premier datacenter in the United States, The Planet.  We also understand that many start ups simply cannot afford web development services, that is why we also offer beginner hosting plans and web templates in place of a complete web design package. You can view all ...
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Google, Antitrust, & the FTC - DoubleClick
2007-05-29 12:13:00
Last week I reported on Googl e ’s $3.1 billion bid for DoubleClic k, an online ad-management technology company. Well, looks like that caught more than this humble SEO’s attention. The Federal Trade Commision has now launched a probe into this proposed acquisition for possible anti-trust violations. Read more of the FTC Probes Google. 1 billion, acquisition, base business, business index, doubleclick, federal trade commision, google, mlive, Search Engine Marketing, seo, xml
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CSS Tutorial - Conditional Comments
2007-05-28 15:31:00
As a follow up to my post of last week “CSS & Browser Incompatibility”, this week I am going to discuss how to make your websites look great in the majority of the popular browsers. First of all, if you don’t already have it installed, download the latest version of Firefox. I always create my design ...
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Google?s Privacy Matters and the European Union
2007-05-28 13:47:00
Seems like Google is being investigated on the grand scale for possibly violately user’s privacy. Yesterday, an independant European panel launched an invertigation probing into the G’s ways of retaining a user’s information. Google has agreed to open a dialogue with the panel after certain pressures were applied by the E.U. officials asking whether Google had ...
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Google + Human Genetics + Cookie Analysis = ?
2007-05-24 19:54:00
Google finally reveals what they plan to do with, according their mission statement, their intent to “organize and control the world’s information.”  Google recently invested a hefty $5.45 million in a human genetics firm called 23andMe. This coupled with the Big G’s $4.26 billion bid for DoubleClick, a company who helps build a complete profile about ...
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?Googled? Term Papers? Essay Services BANNED!!!
2007-05-24 19:18:00
Looking to cheat on your next term paper? Well, don’t look for Google to help you. In a move that was a long time coming, the G decides to ban the ads from the essay services companies used by millions of procrastinating students. These service companies will now join the list of such already banned sites ...
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Google Hell Part Deux
2007-05-24 18:41:00
In this 2nd edition to Googl e Hell - Supplemental Results I will discuss ways to 1) avoid Google Hell, and 2) if you have found pages in Google Hell, how to get them out of there. “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” is an old addage that applies very well here. If ...
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Graphic Design
2007-05-24 16:05:00
We at DCGWS Internet Solutions are proud to announce and welcome to our design team, Ross Undazan who took our very poor and unoriginal logo and gave it life as can be seen here. Thanks Ross and Welcome Aboard!! Graph ic Design , ross undazan, Uncategorized, Web Design
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Blog Review
2007-05-23 16:37:00
Darin, Not sure what a Nintendo Wii is, but I like your blog and would love to give you a link! Here it is, straight from your examples: Darin.CC is a blog about Search Engine Marketing. He is offering to link to your blog if you review his blog and you could win a Free Nintendo Wii ...
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CSS Print Media
2007-05-23 16:21:00
Ever have a client that needs his/her website to look beautiful on screen and on paper? I have and currently do. After stumbling around for days changing this and changing that, only to end up frustrated with myself and seething at my client (almost to the point of telling him “Hey, do you want a ...
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DMOZ Downfall or Dead? Overall Strategy?
2007-05-20 19:10:00
It would be ridiculous for me to suggest that a new or existing website not attempt to get a link in the DMOZ directory. They are by far the most reputable of all the human-edited directories out there. There is no paid submission to the DMOZ. If you submit your website to them, they will probably ...
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Google Hell As Matt Cutts Sees It
2007-05-20 12:27:00
Many SEOs claim that having pages in Google ’s Supplemental Index is an indication that the G has found something wrong with your pages. Duplicate content, low quality backlinks, doorway pages, cloaked pages can cause your pages to wind up in Supplemental Results. Here is what I have determined based on my own experiences with Google. Make ...
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Text Link Ads
2007-05-18 18:55:00
OK, this site has now been accepted into Text Link Ads program. I’m now waiting to find out how much the links are going to sell for. As a SEO specialist, I spend most of my time and efforts on aiding my clients acheive high ranking, using backlinking, directory submissions and on-page optimization techniques. I ...
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Shopping Carts
2007-05-17 18:59:00
For the last 2 months I have been working on a client’s project. He wanted a shopping cart with a few plugins. I accepted his project and began working on the initial design. I asked him which plugins he wanted installed. He emailed his list to me and to my dismay there were a total ...
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Google PageRank Update April/May 2007
2007-05-03 05:17:00
A few days ago I received and email from someone telling me that I was an incompetent SEO because I can’t even market my own websites. This person never even asked me how long this site has been online. This morning this poor SEO woke up to PR4. Here is a brief listing of recent ...
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Lessons Learned
2007-04-14 18:43:00
This has really been a tough month for us at DCGWS i-Net Solutions. I recently changed domain names in hopes that a keyword-rich domain name would immediately boost my search engine traffic…man, was I mistaken! My traffic has trickled down to next to nothing. If Yahoo and Google were as easy to please as MSN ...
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SEO Basics
2007-03-02 15:12:00
First I would like to welcome everyone to my site. This is the first posting I am making at this new site. I hope you find it informative and accurate. Basic SEO can be described simply as the efforts to optimize your web content and code so that your page returns higher results from the search ...
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