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If you’ve reached this post after searching for 01603200004 or 01603 200004 or +441603200004, it is likely that you have been receiving mystery calls from this number, once or twice a day.
They call every day, never leave a message, and you can’t call the number back - because all you get is the toot-toot of [...]

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I wanted to highlight an excellent article by Charlie Brooker about the impact of SEO requirements and the pressures of web-traffic-oriented journalism on the quality of news.
The article sets out to demonstrate its premise with the first paragraph and then explains it:
“Miley Cyrus, Angelina, Israel vs Palestine, iPhone, 9/11 conspiracy, Facebook, MySpace, and Britney Spears [...]

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How do I get my site into Microsoft Live Search?
Although Google is king, serious search engine marketing should not ignore Microsoft’s Live Search. Microsoft is investing significant resource into making its search engine live.com successful, and now is the time to ensure you are in on the action.
The steps you follow to get your site [...]

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Yahoo virus / malware report is a false positive (Avast)
Yahoo virus and malware reports from around the globe were found to be a false positive, captured by anti-virus program “Avast!”.
Concerned users were reporting the following message when they accessed yahoo.com:
“A virus was found!”
Malware name: VBS:malware-gen
Malware type: Virus/Worm
Avast was quick to inform users on [...]

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What is a no follow tag?
A no follow tag, or “nofollow” (if you want to be one of those hip new-speak people with “nospaces” between words), is a tag that websites and blogs sometimes add to stop search engine “spiders” or “bots” from following some of their links to external sites.
For example, when someone leaves [...]

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This is a continuation from: How do I get my site into Google? - SEO Article #1
SEO Article #2: “How to Write for Google“ (and some stuff about toads).
I’ll start with my usual caveat: you should write content that people would like to read, or as Google puts it: ‘Always focus on the users and [...]

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Getting your site into to Google is the easy part, getting it to appear in relevant Google searches is quite another. But let’s start with how you get your site into the world’s most popular search engine.
SEO Article #1: “How do I get my site into Google?“.
Step one: create your website before you submit it, [...]

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