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Okay great I will will write a quick article on Alias so you have a example.

I wold appericate if you post the article when you finish them, I was hoping for a fairly constant stream of article, not just a batch evey now and then.

Also a quick thing about flash, search engine have a problem with website whcih are purely flash. I might be worth bearing that in mind. Cheers Ed

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By fahiemulleh

pls tell me when you finish that article … yes , i will do steps to make sure constant stream …

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By nixies

Thanks constant steam woudl be very good. I ahve posted a example of a games review, I quite like the format, exspecaly the similar games at the bottom with liks to other games.

Give me a shout when you ahve posted the first article, I am keen to have a look. Thanks Ed

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By nixies

How are things going? Ed

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Now I need a replacement for this WillC Google IBL Check Results.

The problem with it is three fold.

1. The damm thing uses the Google backlinks hench making the whole thing slightly pointless.
Google does not report the correct number of backlink, it shows you a fraction of them usually. Usually you can trust them to show around 6% of the links, but, they also only use certain links, so the whole thing is too damm confusing (That was ultimately their aim so well done.)

2. It doesn’t even report all of them!
I would like a average of the first page however this seems to show only a couple, again probable the fault of google however it does again mean you cannot trust the tool.

3. It only accepts on phrase at a time.
I need to determine which keyphrases have the least comperetion, now using backlink for this isn’t the best way, but It the quickest most accurant way I can thing of. It is though a good idercation of the amount of work that needs to be done, for example if all the sites have 100,000 links their is a fair bet I am going to have to build 100,00 link or more.

SO here is a nother project a tool that works out the average back links for multiple different search term in one click. Think I will work on that next.

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I have finally put together what I think is a damm fine combination of Wordpress plugins to build the most Search Engine friendly online blog.

These are the problems that I have encountered and what plugin I have used to slove them.

Making the best content most Visable
First of all for a blog to be effective in the search engines it needs to be big, hench contain a lot of content. However this provides a problem that for the blog to contain a lot of content you need to sort this content so that the best content is the most readily availble. If your content is order just by the date it is entered, you are going to end up with people sorting through a load of content that is not relevant to you before they get to the good stuff. Now this isn’t so bad with a personal blog like this, categories do a good job, heir are only a few people in the world who would be interested in my worklog and work list, mainly collegus I know very well. However Some things like film reveiws and tech data may have a more wider audience. On other blog I have their is a large percentage of the content that makes abosulty no sense to be on the homepage.

I use two plugin to sort out these problems:
1.Adhesive now this is a plugin that makes a post sticky so that it remains at the two of the category that it is in.
2. Show on Front Page This plugin allows you to control if a plugin is shown on the front page. Meaning that posts that are very specific to a categorie and have no little general interest can be exculded fromt he front page.

Perventing Spammy Comments
Another probelm is perventing bots from posting on your blogs, A lot of Black hats SEO use blogs to post cpomment with lnks to their website on other people blogs. I use a combination of two plugin to fight this.
1. Trencaspammers this creates a image that has to be typed in to make sure that it is a uhman who is doing the posting.
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NoFollow, this plugin add the attribute, NO FOLLOW to any links that are adding into comments. Google realised that this is a huge issue and started to obay their attruibute, meaning that you don’t lose page rank because of spammy comments.

Encouraging the Search engine to index all the blog
For large blogs search engines won’t automatically index the whole site. What you need to do is convince the search engine that the sites is worth indexing. Their are a number of differtent factor that search engines will consider when indexing your site.
Firstly inbound links, search engines have long used inbound links to work out how important a website is. So the more inbound links the better, but if you want to get a large site index what you really want is inbound links that point deep into your site. Link into pervious years archive will convince the search engine that the content is still relevant and the searhc engine will then index all the of pages close to it.
Secondly, freshness of conent, if you want your site to stay index you will have to change the content regulary and kepe it upto date. This is not as easy as it looks also large blogs, it would be impossible to go in and update every post every day. What I recommend, is keep the part that need to be upto date, upto date.
Thridly, the URL that the pages have, this is a one where you can find a plugin to help you, personally I use:
1. Optimal title, this make sure that the title comes before the title of the bog.
2. MonthArchive, this amke sure that the monthly archive
Also try your best to get Mod_rewrite to make the URL better. This is vry important.

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1. What leadership position will each of the BIG3 have in the search industry?

I doubt that google will loose any of it lead, neither MSN or yahoo have made a big a impact as google.

2. Who has the potential in the future to challenge the market share of the BIG3?

No one around at the moment. It would have to be something completely new.

3. The BIG3 tend to focus on a more generic search. Is there a future for specialist search engines with more of an expert bias for more “intelligent” quality results?

Yes, they are already appearing for example igrep, and specisilist directories/search engines have been around for ages.

4. Search is one way of finding information. There are other methods, such as collaborative-filtering systems and virtual communities. With this in mind, does search, as a method of finding information, have a future?

Yes of course it does. This question is vague, search is a different beast to collaborative-filtering systems and virtual communities, it serve a different function, comparing them seems pointless.

5. Popular opinion within the industry predicts a dramatic shift of advertising revenue to online media. Do you agree with this assessment or is it wishful thinking?

It’s inebitiable, it’s already happening, it would be hard to disagree with it what with the massive increase in internet usage.

7. Is there a future in local search – both from the point of view of the search results and from the point of view of advertising?

Yes

8. Today it seems as if travel and finance are the largest spenders in online marketing. What are the next big spending industry sectors?
It will follow the markets, I perdict real estate.

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