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October 31, 2002October 31, 2002webproworld

Google And Duplicate Content

I’ve been following the discussion about Google and mirrored information for some time. It is “common knowledge” that Google penalizes page rank when it determines that content is duplicated somewhere else. In fact, I’ve read many experts stating that there should be no duplicate domain names and no duplicate content anywhere.

On the face of it the arguments appear to be sound. Google obviously has several billion pages in it’s database and could, it appears, easily determine if content is duplicated. It also seems, again on the face of it, that it’s reasonable to check for duplicate content, as this is the “mark of a spammer” and not necessary on the web with hyperlinking available. At least, this is the common wisdom.

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October 31, 2002October 31, 2002webproworld

Copyright Law and How it Works

Important: This article contains opinions and information about copyright law. Keep in mind that I am not a lawyer and have not been a lawyer in any past life that I am aware of. If you have specific questions about copyright law you should contact the appropriate legal resources.

Everything original that you write (or draw or paint or whatever), regardless of whether it is an email, a painting, an image, a thesis, a web page, a paragraph on a forum, or anything else is automatically copyright protected by you. It does, of course, have to be recognizable as an original work. Thus, the word “the” in a forum would hardly qualify. The exceptions generally must be spelled out in a contract that is agreed upon. For example, Webmasterworld’s Terms Of Service (TOS) modifies the copyright to both webmasterworld and the original author.

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October 31, 2002October 31, 2002webproworld

Define Yourself to Find Market Share

Sometimes, finding the right product or service to make your own is to find someone else’s version of the same product or service and discovering ways to deliver it in a different way.

Someone once told me that I could not make it in a business because there were already people in that particular business!

The thought struck me as stupid. That is why we have other restaurants right. It was not enough to put a McDonalds in town, we also had to build a Burger King, Wendy’s, Carl’s Junior, Braums, Sonic and several more all of the local variety. All of them offer us hamburgers, so why do we need more than one of them?

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October 31, 2002October 31, 2002webproworld

How Hard Is It To Get Guaranteed Sales From Guaranteed Visitors ?

You will certainly have come across one of those “guaranteed visitors” deals already. Ads like : “Do you need traffic ? We’ll send 50,000 or even 100,000 visitors to your site – starting today” promise the solution to every webmaster’s nightmare about not getting enough visitors to his web site. Most of the times, these visitors are delivered in the form of pop-unders at high traffic sites.

Let’s suppose you’re an Internet marketer and you’re selling a $20 ebook. Then they make nice strategic numbers’ games like : If only 1% of those 50,000 bought your $20 ebook, you would make $10,000 from an investment of, let me say $180. If Internet marketing was that easy then why are the “gurus” telling us how important it is to get TARGETED traffic?

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October 31, 2002October 31, 2002webproworld

Erasure: One Step to Better Web Copy

The Roman poet Horace said, “You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time.” Two thousand years later, those words still hold true.

If you’re responsible for the content of a website or newsletter, then erasures – editing – can make your words worthy of being read a FIRST time. Erasures are one thing you can do (or rather undo) to raise your content and your promotional materials above the mediocre writing that dominates the net.

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October 31, 2002October 31, 2002webproworld

Collapsible Tree Structure and SEO

Q: Hi there, I have a question that I hope you can answer.

My company is currently working on the redesign of a few websites. My boss wants me to turn the navigation menu into a collapsible tree structure (like in Windoze Exploder :-P). Though I would be using text for the links and not images, my concern is that the tree will exist within a JavaScript in the HEAD tag. Are search engines going to see these links and be able to follow them? Of course, I will have a list of links in the page “footer” as well, is that enough?

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October 31, 2002October 31, 2002webproworld

Overcoming International Barriers related to e-Commerce

One of the great things about the internet is that with a credit card merchant account you can sell your product or service anywhere around the world with much ease.

To maximize the global reach of your products and services, it is vital to provide international customers with web pages localized in their native language, and customized to their cultural surroundings, and customs.

Simply translating your web site, into various languages is a very important first step, but it is not enough. When doing business internationally, besides language, you have to pay close attention to measurement units, currencies, and time and dates.

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October 31, 2002October 31, 2002webproworld

Coping With Spam Filters

If you haven’t yet heard about the chaos that Spam Filters are currently causing for publishers, then I am about to tell you EVERYTHING you’ll need to know on this subject. Many of our fellow publishers disregard the fact that Spam Filters DO in fact exist. For some reason just do NOT want to face the fact that, they are DESTROYING their businesses.

I write a column on Spam for DEMC small business ezine, so I do consider myself to be well educated on this subject. If you have any questions about what I am about to tell you, feel free to contact me at: http://www.OptinFrenzy.com

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October 31, 2002October 31, 2002webproworld

Website and Newsletter Promotion

If you are selling anything, you should have a website. If you are selling ebooks, you should consider it mandatory. How many people do you know who read ebooks but don’t access the Internet? None come to my mind.

The best thing about having a website is that you can quite probably do it free. Later, once you know what you’re doing, you can choose to buy a domain name and pay a hosting service if you want.

You can pay someone to design a gorgeous site for you, loaded with graphics, complete with a secure server and the option to buy right there, but I didn’t. My publisher does the selling. Writing a site yourself, loaded with information and a place to click to send someone to your publisher, is simple.

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October 30, 2002October 30, 2002webproworld

Dream The Impossible Dream – Turn Your Ideas Into Reality!

I’m sure you can recall having a sudden inspiration, a brainwave, a “bolt from the blue”, a brilliant idea striking you like a light being switched on inside your head. But for some reason you never developed that idea or brought it to fruition.

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