Author Archives: Admin

Monetizing a Forum

Posted on December 18, 2011 by Admin

Forums are widely used to develop communities. For a website, they had a whole new source of traffic and the opportunity for getting more from the long tail search results. Forums cost money to run and there is considerable need … Continue reading →

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How To Improve Your Alexa Ranking

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Admin

{content hacked; needs to be rewritten}

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Google’s ‘supplemental index’

Posted on August 24, 2011 by Admin

There is now no such thing, so do not worry about it. In Google’s words: “In 2003, Google introduced a “supplemental index” as a way of showing more documents to users. Most webmasters will probably snicker about that statement, since … Continue reading →

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The Google link: operator

Posted on August 20, 2011 by Admin

The Google Link: operator causes a lot of angst among newbie webmasters. The purpose of the operator was to find all the links that link to a particular URL or web page, but more recently it only shows a small … Continue reading →

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DMOZ or Open Directory Project

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Admin

DMOZ is the Open Directory Project is a web directory owned by AOL, but run by volunteers. It is the largest web directory listing almost 5 million sites. DMOZ make the database of its directory available to other to create … Continue reading →

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