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Bloody Hell!  Meta Descriptions And Meta Keywords Are Back?

Bloody Hell! Meta Descriptions And Meta Keywords Are Back?

Those of you who’ve been marketing on the Internet since the 1990’s will remember the hazy far off days when “meta descriptions” where SEO magic, the biggest news on the news sites was somebody called Monica and a mysterious Presidential stain on her dress, and Linux was going to take over the desktop within 12 to 18 months.In 2010 things are different, right? Meta descriptions are out, nobody remembers Monica – or her dress, and Linux has taken over the desktop.

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Short 2010 SEO Checklist For ISV’s

There were a number of changes in how the search engines deal with our web sites in 2009. What follows is a brief list of some of things that may warrant attention by ISV’s in 2010.

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Yahoo And Download Sites – Looks Like A Pogrom – But Is It? Micro ISV's Beware.

Yahoo And Download Sites – Looks Like A Pogrom – But Is It? Micro ISV's Beware.

magine my delight today when I see the search term from Yahoo for “free live sound mixing software” and got the following result, page after page, for the download sites:

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Zero To Page One On Google In A Week – I Can Live With That – Content Still King On The Web Micro ISV Or Not

Zero To Page One On Google In A Week – I Can Live With That – Content Still King On The Web Micro ISV Or Not

Pleased to say my statements in respect of content really paid dividends with CDROO. The site went live on Sunday 7th of June 2009, previously it was offline, pointing to a “Currently Offline” page with no content, all database driven so therefore invisible to the search engines and no sitemap.xml file to cheat with. As of yesterday (just on a week later) CDROO has made it to page one in Google for what are, for that site, important keywords. Money where my mouth is time, so:

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June 2007 – June 2009 377 Days – Can We Go To Release For July 29th?

June 2007 – June 2009 377 Days – Can We Go To Release For July 29th?

I’ve decided to try to do the same thing starting Monday 15th of June 2009 through to July 29th 2009. If I fail to do so this time…I still honestly believe time periods of 30 days etc are generally bad news for development cycles. In this instance I’m literally bringing the pieces together into the UI and connecting them with glue and code.

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