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Many people may not know what TCP/IP is nor what its effect is on the internet.  The fact is, without TCP/IP there would be no internet.  And it is because of the American military that the internet exists.

I watched a program the other night in which they tracked down an ‘evil spammer’ to his home town and confronted him.  The way the show described the guy you would have thought he was someone nefarious.  But I started thinking, what is spam and who is more responsible?  The spammer or the spammee?

When AOL bought Time Warner a few years ago, many thought that AOL/Time Warner would become THE next media empire.  Of course this never happened, in fact, recently Time Warner removed the “AOL” from the company name.  So I started looking around at other online companies, and while many think Google or MSN will be the next major media site, I disagree.  I began looking at Yahoo and found some interesting things.  Could changes at Yahoo! make it the next likely to make a run for the media empire title?

What does over 4 years in the SEO/SEM business feel like?

I thought I’d write this, my first article more as an introduction into who I am, and some of the things I’ve seen in my time in the industry.

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The Register has a new interesting article, an interview with a link spammer. In the article this link spammer from London who gos by the name “Sam” shares information on how and why the link spamming is done.

Read the article here.

Hello All,

I have posted this link before but with Google always increasing penalizations for duplicate content, I figured it was a good time to post it again.  This is a great tool for checking pages on your site to see if they are too similar.

Similar Page Checker

I just sent an email to Digital Tigers.com asking them if they would trade some of our SEO services for a few of their multi-monitor setups.  I am particularly interested in this model Triple 19” LCD’s.

If any of you guys decide to buy one of these setup be sure to let them know that I sent you, perhaps they will give me a break.  My dual 19” CRT’s just arent cutting it anymore.  :)

Rob Sullivan from http://www.enquiro.com thinks so - and makes a case for it in this article on content vs. context bublished by Portal Partner Press

Do you receive dozens/hundreds of emails a day?  Not spam email but actual email from customers, business aquaintances etc..?

If you do you probably have a hard time keeping them all organized.  Inevitably some of them will go unanswered and you willl lose sells, customers, important information, or worse.

I’ve written a quick article for disorganized Outlook users that could be very helpful especially if you receive a lot of important emails on a regular basis.

It has been reported by a moderator at SEO Chat that Microsoft is using hidden doorway pages that redirect, full of keyword content that makes no sense to an actual person. An example of these pages was given Here.

Observation:  the number of pages in Google’s index as indicated by their homepage display has been stuck at 4,285,199,774 since August 2003.

Observation: Googles uses a 4-byte variable for its document ID (this is built into Linux) and the maximum number of combinations it can produce is 4,294,967,296.

Possible Conclusion?: Google has run out of document IDs and is even now scrambling to re-write their software before they can add any pages to their index. This might help explain a few things such as - many sites getting dropped from the index, no PR updates in over 2 months (engineers & machines are busy with more important tasks), massive automatic penalization of sites.....

Here’s where I found this info.

This link gives direct access to the overture view bid data: overture view bid More...

Selling text ads is a normal practice probably since websites began to be used for commercial purposes. When Google came up with its PageRank algorithm, and people started to have access to the PageRank value through the Google toolbar (http://toolbar.google.com), they also gave (unwillingly?) the possibility to measure the value of a page.

Google owns PageRank and does not allow anybody to buy, sell or trade PageRank. Often people mistake buying, selling and trading links for buying, selling or trading pagerank, but there is a fundamental difference.

As of today it has been 64 days since the last recorded Page Rank update on the Toolbar. This is the longest recorded time between updates ever!

Since 2000 there have been 49 recorded updates, the longest between them before now was 61 days. Click Here to see a full list of every recorded PR update.