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            <title>Earning from your blog with Amazon Associates</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Blogging can be fun, but earning and at the same time having fun is way much better. Here's how to make the most of your blog using some simple online tools. Adsense would probably top the list for most bloggers. Getting $100 a month can be very exciting, generating a 4 digit income will probably give you a career. But what if your not getting the $100 mark?<br /><br /><b>There are some other ways to earn more!<br /></b>Search engines loves text, the more you have them the better. However, most people would tend to get attracted to images so that's why Adsense offered image ads. Did you know that you can also use Amazon Associates to generate images for you? Well, you probably are using Amazon for your wish list. Now, earn some more using amazon to display images on your blog. Now are you stealing images from some other peoples' blog or website? Amazon Associates will fix that.<br /><br />For example, if you are writing about the basics of blogging and you will probably add pictures of books from the internet for reference purposes then using amazon associates will help earn more like this: <br /><br />

<span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470230177?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=tildemarkblog-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0470230177"><img src="http://www.tildemark.com/images/517zm3H0a1L._SL160_.jpg" border="0" /></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=tildemarkblog-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0470230177" alt="" style="border: medium none  ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" width="1" border="0" height="1" />
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<br /><b>Earning additional money can be as easy as this:</b><br /><a href="https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/">Get your Amazon Associates ID</a><br /><a href="ezinearticles.com">Get A topic to blog</a><br />No <a href="http://adsense.com/">Adsense</a> ads yet?<br />Attach Associates link or code<br />Publish your blog<br /><br />A few more notes:<br />Getting your site indexed on Google will be faster if you are using paid domain names for your blog like <a href="http://www.tildemark.com/">www.tildemark.com.</a> Tildemark blogs is hosted at <a href="http://www.cazimiweb.com/">Cazimi Web</a> for years now and so far this site has generated more than 20x the cost I used to run it.&nbsp;]]></description>
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            <title>Submitting Sitemaps to Search Engines Google, Yahoo and MSN</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Sitemaps are xml documents used by the search engines to index your website. it is not very crucial for your website but it will help the search engines do their job better. by pointing out the right way to index you will be like spoon feeding the contents to the search engines.<br /><br /><b>What you need</b><br /><ul><li>sitemap.xml</li><li>ftp access</li><li>basic html knowledge</li><li>lots of coffee</li></ul><br /><b>Creating sitemaps</b><br />There are many websites offering online tools to generate sitemaps, Google lists some of the <a href="http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/">sites offering sitemap generation</a>. you can actually make your own sitemap, follow the instructions in making your own sitemap from <a href="http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769">google sitemap guidelines</a>.<br /><br /><br /><b>Creating a Google webmaster tool account</b><br />You can create google webmaster account at <br /><a href="http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools">http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools</a><br /><br />Upload your sitemaps to your server using any ftp clients. You can upload them using the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_FTP_clients">ftp third party tools</a> from wikipedia.<br /><br /><b>Verify your sitemap</b><br />you can use meta tag edit or you can upload the Google code to your server then click on verify button. You can choose verify thru meta tag or via upload html file.<br /><br />Via meta tag<br />&lt;meta content="google verify code" name="verify-v1"&gt;<br /><br />Upload an html file with the file name similar to <br />google6f48fdc41162585b.html<br /><br /><b>Submit your sitemap to yahoo </b><br />To submit your sitemap to yahoo open a new browser window at<br /><a href="http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/">http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/</a><br /><br />Your sitemap will be in the form <br />http://www.domain.com/sitemap.xml <br /><br /><b>Submit your sitemap to msn</b><br />You can submit sitemaps to MSN by visiting MSN webmaster tools page at<br /><a href="http://webmaster.live.com/webmaster">http://webmaster.live.com/webmaster</a><br /><br />Download the verification file and upload it to your website.<br /><br />its in the filename: LiveSearchSiteAuth.xml<br />with the contentst similar to this:<br />&nbsp;<br />
<pr><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt;<br />&lt;users&gt;<br />&lt;user&gt;3FF5B0C37E4EF996E38A78AB4AC8F1D6&lt;/user&gt;<br />&lt;/users&gt;</code></pr><br /> 

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            <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:16:04 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Optimizing your Movable Type 4 blog ready for SEO</title>
            <description><![CDATA[The default movable type 4 template does not display title, meta descriptions and meta keywords at the HTML header. This can be frustrating to some SEO freaks out there, although meta tags are not too important compared to the page content but its nice to see your descriptions in included in the search engines result page and not some random text. <br /><br />I have modified my header template to use the meta descriptions based on the page content. lots of MTIf tags are needed. If you are familiar with Movable Type Tags this will be easier for you. <br /><br />Here is my new title, meta description and meta keyword tag from the header template in movable type. <br /><br /><pre><code><br />&lt;MTIf name="entry_template"&gt;<br />&nbsp; &lt;title&gt;&lt;$MTGetVar name="page_title"$&gt; - &lt;$MTBlogName encode_html="1"$&gt;&lt;/title&gt;<br />&nbsp; &lt;MTElse&gt;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;MTIf name="main_index"&gt;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;title&gt;&lt;$MTBlogName encode_html="1"$&gt;&lt;/title&gt;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;meta name="description" content="&lt;$MTBlogDescription$&gt;" /&gt;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;MTElse&gt;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;title&gt;&lt;$MTBlogName encode_html="1"$&gt;: &lt;$MTGetVar name="page_title"$&gt;&lt;/title&gt;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;MTIfArchiveType type="Individual"&gt;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;meta name="description" content="&lt;$MTEntryExcerpt$&gt;" /&gt;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;meta name="keywords" content="&lt;$MTEntryKeywords$&gt;"&gt;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;MTElse&gt;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;MTIfArchiveType type="Category"&gt;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;meta name="description" content="&lt;$MTCategoryDescription$&gt;" /&gt;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/MTIfArchiveType&gt;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;MTElse&gt;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;MTIfArchiveType like="(Yearly|Monthly|Weekly|Daily)"&gt;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;meta name="description" content="&lt;$MTArchiveTitle$&gt; archive containing &lt;$MTArchiveCount$&gt; entries from &lt;$MTArchiveDate$&gt; to &lt;$MTArchiveDateEnd$&gt;." /&gt;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/MTIfArchiveType&gt;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/MTIfArchiveType&gt; <br />&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/MTIf&gt;<br />&lt;/MTIf&gt;<br /></code></pre>This is a work in progress I am still experimenting on how i could optimize it and display meta keyword in the headers as well.<br /><br />]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:50:47 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Adding Numbers on SERP Results to Google, Yahoo and MSN Live</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Using <a href="http://www.greasespot.net/">Greasemonkey</a> we can download <a href="http://userscripts.org/">userscripts</a> that automatically adds numbers as ranks into the search results page from Google, Yahoo and MSN live search engines. <br /><br />Install <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748">Greasemonkey</a> add on into <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/">firefox</a>, then download the following user scripts. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.tildemark.com/downloads/number_google_results.user.js">Numbered Google SERP results</a><br />Place a number on the Google SERP window<br /><br /><a href="http://www.tildemark.com/downloads/numbered_yahoo_results.user.js">Numbered Yahoo SERP results</a><br />Place a number on the Yahoo SERP window<br /><br /><a href="http://www.tildemark.com/downloads/numbered_msn_results.user.js">Numbered MSN Live SERP results</a><br />Place a number on the MSN Live SERP window<br /><br /><br />You might also be interested on the following scripts below<br /><br /><a href="http://www.tildemark.com/downloads/google100.user.js">Google 100</a> <br />Show 100 results at a time in the Google SERP window. <br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:52:51 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Adding www to your domain using 301 redirect with htaccess </title>
            <description><![CDATA[You can tell the server to automatically append www on each query to your website using .htaccess. That is all incoming requests to a non www query gets forwarded to the host with www prepended before the domain. Although google treats them equally now, yahoo and live search may not. So its still wise to add them to your website somehow. Its a great advantage to your site especialy in terms of search engine optimization. <br /><br />Here is the .htaccess script that forwards all request without www to your website having the www before the domain name. <br /><br />

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
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Please note that this is only possible to websites that are hosted in either Linux or Unix servers running Apache]]></description>
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            <title>What is RSS?</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.tildemark.com/images/rss-dummies.jpg"><img alt="rss-dummies.jpg" src="http://www.tildemark.com/images/rss-dummies-thumb-200x250.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" width="200" height="250" /></a></span><b>What is RSS?</b><br />RSS is a document format for reading frequently updated websites in the internet. Similar to other document format like the MS Word documents or the PDF documents, the RSS also needs an interpreter called the "RSS Reader" as the MS Word Application for your MS Word documents and acrobat reader for your PDF documents. Each RSS document is called a "feed" or commonly as RSS Feed. RSS feeds are seen with the icon having an orange background with arcs usually found on the side bar of a blog. <br /><br /><b>How can RSS feed help me?</b><br />RSS are designed to help us read frequently updated websites in just one neat and simple application called the "RSS Reader". I use these programs at home to read my favorite blogs or forum and at work to read the messages from my projects. With this, i do not need to go to each of the websites i often visit just to check for any update but instead the RSS Reader does this for me. RSS Readers really made my life more easier as RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication<br /><br /><b>How do i get RSS?</b><br />You will need an RSS Reader, there are lots of applications that enables you to read RSS documents. Personally, I use the <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/">Google Reader</a> but you might prefer some other applications. Lets just use it because it the only reader use for now. If you have a <a href="http://www.google.com/accounts">Google account</a> then you can use it to read RSS feeds from there. Just click on the "add subscription" link and paste in your RSS feed. Now on the blogs that you read look for the RSS Logo, copy and paste the URL to your favorite RSS Reader in my case its <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/">Google Reader</a>. Some feeds are marked private meaning you will need a password before we could read the contents. Some readers accepts authentication, at the office is use <a href="http://www.sharpreader.net/">Sharp Reader</a> Software.<br /><br /><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.tildemark.com/images/rss-logo.jpg"><img alt="rss-logo.jpg" src="http://www.tildemark.com/images/rss-logo-thumb-200x200.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" width="200" height="200" /></a></span><b>How do I know the link I got is RSS?</b><br />The RSS reader is written in plain text, if you will try to open an RSS document with a text editor, you can actually read it but you might have a little more time understanding because of the way its written. The format the RSS document is written is called XML. XML is like an older brother of the other common technical word called HTML. XML and HTML are not the topic here so lets just ignore them for now. You will know its RSS because every RSS feed has this somewhere at the beginning of the document: &lt;?xml version="1.0"&gt; and it has an orange icon with a arcs in it. You can try using <a href="http://www.tildemark.com/index.xml">Tildemark Blogs RSS feed</a> to use is as a sample or maybe subscribe to it. <br /><br /> <div><br /></div>]]></description>
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            <title>writing accessibility CSS code for the color blind</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Not being able to see the differences between colors is a bit trouble some. Imagine yourself looking at the traffic light and not seeing and red color. These people will see yellowish brown color instead of the red color. Red-green color blind is also called <i>Protanopia</i>, people that are less sensitive to red light and <i>Deuteranopia </i>for people who are less sensitive to the green light.&nbsp; Some study determined that about 10% of the male population are color blind. I am happy I do not belong to those 10%. <br /><br />That is why link urls should stay underlined to help people with color blindness see it immediately. since we are not able to adjust CSS being used on the website we browse, we will just instead use our own CSS page by specifying it on our browser. if you are color blind, this page will help you a lot. If you are not color blind, i don't recommend you using it because it would be weird. <br /><br />First lets create our own CSS file and specify it via our browser settings later. <br /><br /><code><br />* {<br />&nbsp; color: #000 !important;<br />&nbsp; background: #fff !important;<br />}<br /><br />a {<br />&nbsp; text-decoration: underline !important;<br />&nbsp; color: #fff !important;<br />&nbsp; background: #000 !important;<br />}<br /></code><br /><br />the <b>!important</b> specifier must be present on your CSS codes to tell the browser its important and must override the other CSS codes. <br /><br />Using Internet Explorer navigate to&nbsp; <br /><ul><li><b>Tools </b>-&gt;<b> Internet Options</b></li><li>Click on the <b>Accessibility</b> button</li><li>Place a check on the '<b>Format documents using my style sheet</b>' option</li><li><b>Browse</b> to the location where you saved your CSS file above.</li><li>then click <b>OK</b></li></ul>If you are using Firefox go to your profile folder and edit your userCrome.css file of your userContent.css file. just copy-paste the CSS code above to the bottom portion of the file. <br />  ]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:58:21 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Keyword competition tool called Stomper Ranker</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Stompernet just released a firefox extension that displays the rank of a site on the top 3 search engines namely, Google, Yahoo and Live. I'm a fan of the StomperNet videos myself and i believe this tool is a good addition to most seo professionals. Stomper Ranker tool allows you to easily see your competitors in ranks in a graphical view based on the search keyword we use. The green represents Google, Red is Yahoo and Blue is Live. Just hover your mouse pointer to each dot to see which site is currently performing well on the ranks. The line denotes the same site url.<br /><br />You may download the <a href="http://about.stompernet.com/tools/ranker/">Stomper Ranker</a> extension at the StomperNet site.<br /><br /><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.tildemark.com/images/ranker.jpg"><img alt="ranker.jpg" src="http://www.tildemark.com/images/ranker-thumb-400x231.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="231" width="400" /></a></span><br /> <div><br /></div><div><br /></div>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:03:55 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Removing google public service ads on adsense</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="public-service-ads.jpg" src="http://www.tildemark.com/images/public-service-ads.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="216" width="324" /></span> <div>You usually get this when you first added your adsense codes to your site. Its alright to get this during this time as adsense wasn't able to get a cache of your keywords yet. It may take some time to get revenue generating ads on your site specially if your content has less meaningful keywords in it. According to the google help center, it would take approximately 48 hours to remove the Gulf Hurricane Relief ad on your site. If its been there for weeks then your copy might have some problems in it.<br /><br /><b>Editing robots.txt</b><br />There are several ways to remove the PSA from appearing on your site, but the most efficient way is to change your content. First things first, your robots.txt might have been configured to disallow adsense crawlers from visiting your site. If you are able to edit your robots.txt file, you may add the following code below:<br /><br />User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
<br />Disallow:<br /> <br /><b>Avoid iFrames or Frames</b><br />If you have placed your adsense code in an iFrame then the crawler will have no way of getting relevant keywords thus displaying in the Public&nbsp; Service&nbsp; Ads. Google crawlers will have a hard time figuring out which content to get for the ads inside frames so its best not to place your ads in a separate frame or simply avoid using frames on your site just to be safe.<br /><br /><b>Choose&nbsp; your content wisely</b><br />Content is the most important factor in determining the adsense ads that is displayed on your website. the more content you the greater chances of getting a relevant ad. Make sure you have enough content for the crawler to read. Also, the google crawler can't read images, audio files, flash content, java applets or anything except plain text. If you have a small amount of content and you have set your ads to display only images then this might be the reason for displaying only PSA ads. Try changing your adsense codes to display text and images ads. <br /><br /><b>Negative Keywords</b><br />Avoid negative keywords, this includes anything that is related to d%ath, sickness, p%rnography, dr%gs, etc. At anytime avoid mentioning these words on all of your content, but opps there you go i have just listed them here anyway. <br /><br /><b>Avoid automatic refresh<br /></b>If yous page contains the HTML auto refresh code, it might also be the reason why your site is displaying public service ads. Remove the meta refresh code from your page and observe if the PSA ads have been removed. The meta refresh code looks like this one below, remove them:<br /><br />&lt;meta http-equiv="Refresh"&gt;<br /><br /><b>Adsense ad in a login page</b><br />Placing ads on a page that requires user access does not allow the google crawler to visit the page to get the relevant keywords therefore displaying public service ads instead. Avoid placing adsense code behind a login page. <br /><br /><b>Avoid Session Ids on URLs</b><br />Adsense also relies heavily on the URL to display relevant ads. Having a session id on the url confuses the crawler to ad a relevant keyword because your URL keeps on changing. You may use the input type hidden HTML attribute instead of placing the session id in the urls<br /><br /><b>Unsupported localization</b><br />If you site is displaying other language aside from English then this might be the reason why its displaying public service ads. Here's a list of country currently supported by adsense. <br />Arabic&nbsp; <br />Bulgarian <br />Chinese (simplified) <br />Chinese (traditional) <br />Croatian <br />Czech <br />Danish <br />Dutch <br />English <br />Finnish <br />French <br />German <br />Greek <br />Hebrew <br />Hungarian<br />Italian<br />Japanese<br />Korean<br />Norwegian<br />Polish<br />Portuguese<br />Romanian<br />Russian<br />Serbian<br />Slovak<br />Spanish<br />Swedish<br />Turkish<br /></div>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 10:22:01 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Google ads in video thru video overlay</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.tildemark.com/images/overlay.jpg"><img alt="overlay.jpg" src="http://www.tildemark.com/images/overlay-thumb-200x149.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="149" width="200" /></a></span> <div>Imagine yourself watching your favorite star wars movie, didn't it get into your mind on where you could buy those double edge light sabers? you would even beg for a fake replica, just to get one. What if while watching the movie, you could click on the light saber which brings you to its shopping cart! Isn't that cool? no, its uber cool! <br /><br />Although it's not exactly whats happening right now but eventually the road is going that way. As what i have remembered it was just last month when i saw it at <a href="http://www.overlay.tv/">overlay.tv</a>. Imagine the number of potential customers coming from the movie industry. This is a whole new market opened for us. <br /><br />What is a <a href="http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/v/video_overlay.htm">Video Overlay</a>? It is supposed to be placing a full screen video into a display or a window. When it came, most people added educational information via texts to the video that is currently being watched at the bottom portion on the display. I don't know who's the genius that came up with the idea of adding ads to the video. Whats even clever is that it allows us to click on the product itself inside the running video (of course the video pauses when you hover your mouse over). Video overlay is different from the ones we used to see at youtube, this time it allows us to click within the video itself.<br /><br />Anyway its a new method of monetizing my blogs and an additional revenue, I'm currently studying on how can i implement it with my sites. Currently adsense is offering <a href="http://www.google.com/ads/videoadsolutions/demos.html#">two ad formats</a> namely the InVideo overlay and the Text Overlay. You might want to read <a href="http://www.google.com/ads/videoadsolutions/">google video advertising solutions</a> first to know more on how you can implement it yourself. You can then <a href="https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=video_joinbeta">apply for its beta release</a> and start adding in into your sites.<br /><br /><br /></div>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:22:09 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Search Engine Stop Words</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Search engines ignore these keywords because they are common in most articles, may also slow down the search process and they does not contribute to relevance. These stop words contains conjunctions, prepositions, and articles. </p>

<p>In contrary, when we are optimizing for a keyword that contains any of the stop words(e.g. IT, one, two etc), it would then become troublesome for the seo department. So, it is best to choose the right keywords to optimize for your website beforehand. </p>

<p>a<br />
able<br />
about<br />
above<br />
abroad<br />
according<br />
accordingly<br />
across<br />
actually<br />
ad<br />
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            <pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:13:17 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Top Searched Keywords</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.google.com">Google</a> lists their mosts searched keywords at the <a href="http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html">Zeitgeist</a> website. You can also search for <a href="http://www.google.com/press/intl-zeitgeist.html">top keywords</a> by country. </p>

<p><a href="http://www.yahoo.com">Yahoo</a> also has its own version but it looks like a blog rather than a list, they call it <a href="http://buzz.yahoo.com/">Yahoo Buzz</a>.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.lycos.com/">Lycos</a> also has its own list <a href="http://50.lycos.com/">here</a>.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/">ZDNet</a> has an interesting <a href="http://downloads.zdnet.com/topsearch.aspx">list of keywords</a> here, so much for those top celebrities..</p>

<p>If you can afford <a href="http://www.wordtracker.com/">WordTracker</a>, its much better if we search from there. However, they also have a list of <a href="http://wordtracker.com/topkeywords.html">top searched keywords</a> online. </p>

<p>We could also search for most searched keywords at Ask.com from <a href="http://about.ask.com/en/docs/iq/iq.shtml">here</a>.</p>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:17:26 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>SEO Challenge</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Here's a website with an <a href="http://www.linkvendor.com/seo-tools/seo-challenge.html">seo challenge</a> service. It lets you compare websites with something i do not know.? I tried www.google.com and www.yahoo.com and somehow i do not know why google lost over to yahoo not to mention the annoying captcha. </p>

<p>i am suspecting its the number of backlinks to the site, that what makes yahoo.com the winner. anyway, they should have described it at least...</p>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2007 23:54:14 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Google hints</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p><img alt="google_adsense_logo.jpg" src="http://www.tildemark.com/images/google_adsense_logo.jpg" width="150" height="80" /></p>

<p>I thought it was just a hearsay until i saw it at the <a href="http://www.neopets.com">neopets</a> website. Just keep on refreshing the page until the google ad displays. Take a look at the source code and you will see the google_hint option on google ad script. it looked something like this:</p>

<p><strong>google_hints = "microsoft instant messenger pizza hut virgin mobile doughnut disney world fruit snacks";</strong></p>

<p>Definitely its going to help you display targeted ads to your site specially if its not displaying any relevant ads. The only problem i could see here is that it might be abused just like what happened to the meta keywords which was called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyword_stuffing">keyword stuffing</a>. The main reason why the search engines are nowadays ignoring them. However, you will need to contact google before you can use the code. I dont really know the process and i haven't tested it yet. Total number of characters on google_hints should not exceed by 1024 characters.</p>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 00:51:26 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Opt out from DMOZ description</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>Most description from SERPs generated from top search engines came from <a href="http://www.dmoz.org/">Open Directory Project (ODP)</a> and not from the actual site description. Now, most of the <a href="http://mattcutts.com/blog/google-supports-meta-noodp-tag">site owners</a> do not like this to happen since most of the descriptions there are outdated or maybe incorrect.</p>

<p><a href="http://sitemaps.blogspot.com/2006/07/more-control-over-page-snippets.html">Google</a> now supports META NOODP while <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2006/05/22/603917.aspx">MSN</a> gives out their support for the opt out from <a href="http://www.dmoz.org/">DMOZ</a> months ago. After adding this code your site header allow 1 day to 3 weeks to see results depending on how often is your site gets crawled.</p>

<p>Tell all robots not to use site description from DMOZ: <br />
<code>&lt;META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOODP"&gt;</code></p>

<p>Also works for attribute combination:<br />
<code>&lt;META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOODP, NOFOLLOW"&gt;</code></p>

<p>We could specifically direct Googlebot not to use DMOZ descriptions by: <br />
<code>&lt;META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOODP"&gt;</code></p>

<p>Or MSN by:<br />
<code>&lt;META Name="msnbot" CONTENT="NOODP"&gt;</code></p>

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Note:<br />
SERPs - Search Engine Result Page</p>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:46:43 +0800</pubDate>
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