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How Smart Web Designers Screw Up your SEO
Talented web designers do a great job creating great web sites but all too often in the process unknowingly wreck the likelihood of high rankings in search engines. Here’s how and what to do about it. Read
By: Baron Turner | 15/05/2007 | SEO
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Turnaround Finance - Solution by Vultures or Angels?
Turnaround finance involves troubled companies resorting to a third party equity provider to input equity. The intention is to resolve problems in return for a stake in the company. Is private equity given by vultures or angels? Banks, often seen as the vulture tend to err on the side of insolvency in order to get back their initial investment, though this attitude has improved somewhat over the last half decade. Angels want something out of the deal, but still exist by looking for carnage. Read
By: Baron Turner | 15/05/2007 | Finance
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The Web Landlords – is it Worth the Rent?
As businesses flock to the web, the concept of anyone being able to set up shop is declining more and more as business people find that the web is even more expensive than bricks and mortar in the High Street. Small companies that aren’t efficient and don’t offer worthwhile services are getting squeezed out by the same people that squeeze out the smaller bricks and mortar businesses in the brick and mortar High Street. Here’s how, and here’s a glimpse into the future of the online presence. Read
By: Baron Turner | 15/05/2007 | SEO
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Chess Computers: the Novag Carnelian II
Review of the Novag Carnelian II Chess Computer and it’s features. The younger sibling of the Citrine is an outstanding performer and eager to take on Kasparov. We look at it strengths and weaknesses and the merits of it’s modest price tag. Read
By: Baron Turner | 15/05/2007 | Art and Entertainment
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Microsoft and Ethics – Get Some Google Search Share at Any Cost
By herding people towards the new search utility in the IE7 browser, Microsoft skews the search results from Google to show sub-optimal results. It’s difficult to select the correct localised Google provider and once chosen the provider selection doesn’t persist through subsequent browser sessions. This makes no difference for searchers in the USA but a world of difference to searchers outside. They are constrained to choose Google.com for whichever region they are in, which shows more localised Read
By: Baron Turner | 15/05/2007 | Online Promotion
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Ineffective Dmoz
The weight Google gives DMOZ is highly dubious. Objectively the project is at a standstill. Webmasters who try getting sites listed in the directory find it almost impossible. Attempts to expedite make it worse, attempts to obtain status make it worse, many years can elapse before any inclusion is experienced, if at all. Corruption is widely cited. Time for a call to action! Read
By: Baron Turner | 15/05/2007 | SEO