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Google the search engine discussed on forums by members and individuals alike.

Sounding on the lips with tips and tricks.

Some beginners and newbie’s pull out the dirty tricks, hide it, slide it, white font it and ride it. Skip it!

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If you’ve owned a website for a while, you’ve probably heard the phrase “Alexa Rank”.

Although you wouldn’t guess it from the name, the Alexa ranking system is one that ranks every website on the Internet in order of traffic.

Each day, every website is ranked – the website with the most traffic is ranked first, the website with the second most traffic is ranked second, etc.

Unlike the Google PageRank system, you actually want your Alexa score to be lower, rather than higher.

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All websites on the internet are assigned a ranking by Google – this ranking is known as the “PageRank”.

There are a lot of mysteries behind the Google ranking system, partially because the algorithm that Google uses to formulate the rankings is top secret.

The ranking system is on a scale of zero to ten – zero being the worst and ten being the best.

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Google Sandbox is the name which has been given to Google’s new site filter.

It is believed that Google introduced the new site filter to discourage spam sites from adding vast quantities of bought links to a new site to improve page ranking.

Google regard new sites which have masses of links pointing to them from their launch as highly suspicious as the links are oftentimes considered not to be natural.

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1. Designing a Website With No Planning

Small business owners squander billions every year because they misunderstand the reality of marketing and rush into it headlong – particularly on the internet. A huge amount of this wasted money and effort is being spent on websites that are developed, posted and ignored.

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Google has announced the introduction of Google Social Search.

This service is available as part of a new experiment on Google Labs and getting started is pretty simple and straightforward. Login to your Google account and join the experiment christened “Google Social Search” – your job is done.

I honestly believe that the name is a bit misleading, especially in the present context and time. Real time search and social (read twitter) search have been widely discussed and talked about topics recently, and one may take Google Social Search to be related to real time search or twitter search. Well, Google Social Search has nothing to do with real time search or twitter search.

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One of the biggest false SEO marketing promises is “We will get your site on the front page of Google”. If it were really that easy to be on the first page of Google, everyone would be there, but there is only room for 10 websites for every keyword or key phrase. Ranking in the top 10 of thousands is not that simple.

Google wants to put the most authoritive sites on the first page of any given search result, which is why you frequently see sites like Wikipedia or Cambridge Dictionary at the top of the list. They are reputable authorities with reliable information. continue

Both written content and images from websites are extremely easy to copy. In the UK there is no official registration method in place to get copyright protection. As long as the original work which has been created falls into the copyright categories including written and pictorial content, photographs, videos, music and art, the owner will not have to do anything to establish copyright.

There are a number of worldwide conventions in place such as the Berne Convention that state there is no necessity to register works to be protected by copyright. This is in place whether or not the work is marked as copyright.

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Who is Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt, Matt Cutts, Jerry Yang, David Filo, Rand Fishkin, Jill Whalen, Aaron Wall, Timothy Berners-Lee, Barry Schwartz.

Here we give a brief insight into each of these individuals who have made massive contrubutions and, made the Internet and World Wide Web what it is today.
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Choosing a reliable web hosting service is an extremely important aspect of any website. The web hosting company needs to be reliable, efficient and offer a host of essential features.

Factors such as server downtime’s also need to be taken into consideration to ensure the website is running 100% of the time, if not, at least 99.999999%, allowing for any minor glitches that can be instantly fixed.

As such, time zones also need to be taken into consideration when selecting a web host. For example; a web hosting company’s downtime hours across the Atlantic in the United States will not be the same as in the UK. Depending on the region and times, this could lead to a direct impact on the profitability of a UK based website during core business trading hours.

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