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2009 Epic Fail. Glad Its Over. Towards 2010

If 2008 was a good year, and in many ways it was for me, 2009 was an Epic Fail.  I mean EPIC. It began with good intentions.  An application to finish that was six months overdue and the core of my start-up.  By years end I’d made less progress than in the last six months [...]
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Google, DNS Geo-Location, Delisting, Moving Servers, SERP, Blind Mice And I've Run Out Of Patience

I've been happy enough to talk on this blog, in a number of articles, about how writing content for my own websites propels them rather nicely into at least page one, if not in the first few results of page one, on Google painlessly and consistently. So it's only fair that I also talk about the converse - the opposite - when it happens. I'm referring to the sickening lurch that's began just over a few months ago on Google. Hard to spot because at first it's not across the board. Nope, it's been slow, gathering momentum since April, into May and then the BOOM! in June. What am I waffling on about?
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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

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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CDROO Launched – A Micro ISV Resource For Royalty Free Music And Sound + An Offer To Readers

CDROO is a store that sells royalty free music and sound effects. This basically means that when you need a piece of music or special effect for a video, podcast, voice over or training tool you are able to buy professionally recorded music without having to worry about the complexities of obtaining performance rights.
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