Because I spend a lot of my time tweaking and optimizing for the search engines my own sites as well as client sites, I have a good sense of the various strategies and tactics being discussed by SEO professionals as well as business owners interested in finding an edge. Generally the strategies for achieving good results on the search engines are well known – produce quality content for a human audience, produce it regularly and figure out ways (tactics) to get other web sites to link back to you using descriptive link text. I currently own or manage over 100 web sites and blogs, many of which appear on the first page of search results for several relevant keywords (search phrases)
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Just the other day, I was in attendance at a meeting with one of my consulting clients, his paid advertising rep, and a rep from his web design vendor. I was there as the content consultant and provider – when I came on board, my client already had established relationships with a web design company and other vendors.
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What time is it? Not "approximately" but down to the nano-second. Check out the Atomic Clock Sync utility from WorldTimeServer.com. Now in Version 3.0, Atomic Clock Sync automatically synchronizes your computer's clock to National Institute of Standards and Technology.
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Gmail is certainly not an unknown product, but I am including it in my "useful tools" directory because it is such a good product. For those who do not know, Gmail is Google's free email service. Now, there are plenty of email services out there – what makes Gmail so much better than other services?
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In my view, one of the nicest things about the Internet relates to the multitude of "free" tools and resources out there. This free stuff may not last forever (if you are old enough to remember the original Napster – and its promise of "free" music, you know what I mean). In the meantime, I will periodically post reviews about some of the free stuff that I actually use.
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