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A few days ago I decided to create a new website. I’ve already got a couple of them, for now all blogs, and all of them running on WordPress Multi User. But now I wanted to create a new, independent site with a different URL. Since I’ve got large amount of server disc space I [...]

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Website designers, bloggers, doing translations into other languages? Are you looking for some cool animated little flags to add to your site or blog? Download them here for free. GIF animated country flags from 47 different countries can be downloaded here.
The GIF format of the country flags ranges from 34 by 26 pixels up to [...]

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First find a “proxy server.” Simply search the internet for “proxy servers”. (Even a good proxy server might not work later. Therefore, learn how to find them. For these instructions, we will use an actual proxy server in Taiwan with the technical specs “address 139.223.199.194″ and “port 8080″.)
Then proceed as follows:
Go to SETTINGS.
Go to CONTROL [...]

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I just signed up with Twitter. This site allows you to add short notes with links (up to 120 per hour).
Twitter can be used to promote your site or blog, or just to let other people know what you are doing at the moment, like in facebook.
If you use Wordpress and want to get more [...]

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Google is providing a huge amount of different services. And the Google team is adding new ones all the time. The latest, quite nifty one is what I would call the “Google Health Watch”.
By counting the search terms on e.g. “flu vaccine” “flu medicine” or flu cure” per region, Google can create a World Map [...]

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The Barack Obama e-mail contact list contains several millions of e-mail addresses and contact information, gathered during the last 21 months. Are we going to see an “Online Presidency” under President-elect Obama?
Mainstream Media plans for the integration of the Internet as one more media type to contact Supporters have been made by Obama Aids.
Some of [...]

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It’s done. On November 4, 2008 Federal Communications Commission published an agreement which will allow the unused Television Frequencies to be used for unlicensed public use.
As you may remember, on older TV sets, one had to use a knob to tune in the different TV Stations. And from Station to Station there usually was quite [...]

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The latest trick used by Cyber Criminals: E-Mail Spam with a link to Video of President-elect Barack Obama Victory Speech. Upon clicking the link you will be directed to a Website that appears quite official. It displays the America.gov link, even though this isn’t the Sites real URL. An official presidential Seal is displayed as [...]

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I’ve received this E-Mail today. It is about how to get Best Position Search Results with MSN.
Here is the text of the E-Mail:

A couple really smart guys Discovered a System to get #1 Rankings
for practically ANY keyword phrase they [...]

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Even if there are people out there who state that SEO is a delicate issue, do not worry because it isn’t that much of a mystery after all.
Of course there are all these technical expressions with which experts are juggling day in day out (SERPs, SEM, Page Rank, Vertical Search, Algorithms or Keyword Density), words that must confuse the novice, but with a little training and the comprehension of a few basic concepts everybody can handle their own SEO activities.
SEO, or Search Engine Optimization is what the Gurus refer to when it comes to having your Web Site or Blog specific content listed on a good position in the major known Search Engines like Google, Yahoo or MSN. The individual content of your pages is getting analyzed by the Crawlers or Bots and then some Algorithms will determinate the keywords for which your content will be shown as a search result.
So, for example let us say that someone is performing a search for a specific keyword with Google search, and that keyword happens to be the subject of your article or page content, then you will want your page URL get listed as high on top of the list as possible.

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