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Use DuckDuckGo Instead of Google

October 26, 2020 Category: News Comments: No comments

Google Tracks You – DuckDuckGo DOES NOT

You share your most intimate secrets with your search engine without even thinking: medical, financial and personal issues, along with all the day to day things that make you, well, you. All of that personal information should be private, but on Google it’s not. On Google, your searches are tracked, mined, and packaged up into a data profile for advertisers to follow you around the Internet through those intrusive and annoying ever-present banner ads, using Google’s massive ad networks, embedded across millions of sites and apps.

In fact, it’s a myth that you need to track people to make money in web search. When you search ‘car’ we can show you a car ad without knowing anything about you...

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New Mexico Outdoors Sports Guide Launches YouTube Channel

April 12, 2019 Category: News, Taos Web Design Comments: One comment

New Mexico Outdoor Sports Guide e-zine with news, classifieds and videos about fly fishing, hiking, camping, kayaking, canoeing, skiing, hunting, whitewater rafting, off roading, photography and vacations launches YouTube Channel.

Visit the channel here.

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New SEO CMS Website and Online Store Launched

January 19, 2019 Category: News, Taos Web Design Comments: No comments

Virgin Valley Precious Opals and Jewelry

The Virgin Valley opal fields of northern Nevada produce a wide variety of precious black, crystal, white, fire, and lemon opal. The black fire opal is the official gemstone of Nevada. Most of the precious opal is partial wood replacement.

Precious opal shows a variable interplay of internal colors, and though it is a mineraloid, it has an internal structure. At microscopic scales, precious opal is composed of silica spheres some 150 to 300 nm in diameter in a hexagonal or cubic close-packed lattice. It was shown that these ordered silica spheres produce the internal colors by causing the interference and diffraction of light passing through the micro-structure of the opal.

The regularity of the sizes and the packing of these spheres d...

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Frequent Web Site Changes Impact on Search Engine Ranking

November 3, 2005 Category: News Comments: No comments

If you are making changes only for the search engines and waiting for them to appear, you will drive yourself crazy trying to figure out why this or that happened when it did. There are a ton of factors you can't control: algo changes, new competitors, changing competitors, server issues, even database issues where you may see different indexes from one day to the next in the search engines.Read More

Google Bowling Can Bowl Over Your Web Site’s Search Engine Ranking

November 3, 2005 Category: News Comments: No comments

Have you heard about the latest "sport" in dirty online business? It's called Google Bowling and it represents a gaping flaw in Google's system that allows your competitors to sabotage your site to the point of getting it banned or penalized.

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Google Library

November 3, 2005 Category: News Comments: No comments

Google is being sued because of copyright wrangles centering on its Google Print online library project.Read More

Google Search Engine Optimization Secrets

November 2, 2005 Category: News Comments: No comments

Google is by far the most popular search engine available today for both ordinary surfers and webmasters alike.

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Strategies For High Search Engine Ranking

November 2, 2005 Category: News Comments: No comments

Over the past week, SEOs and SEMs have noted some significant changes in the search engine results delivered by Google. Google appears to be actively cleaning its listings by targeting sites using suspicious link-building techniques. A couple of well-known search engine marketing sites have vanished from Google results under keyword phrases they dominated just last week.

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Google PageRank

November 2, 2005 Category: News Comments: No comments

Google's order of results is automatically determined by more than 100 factors, including our PageRank algorithm. Please check out our Technology Overview page for more details. Due to the nature of our business and our interest in protecting the integrity of our search results, we limit the information we make available to the public about our ranking system.

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Link Popularity and Search Engine Rank

November 2, 2005 Category: News Comments: No comments

More and more search engines are using link popularity as a ranking criterion. It all started with Google, and now other search engines, such as MSN, Inktomi, AltaVista, HotBot, Northern Light, and Excite, also use link popularity in their algorithms.

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Why Google is the Most Popular Search Engine

November 2, 2005 Category: News Comments: No comments

Surfers like it because of the highly relevant results it gives and the speed at which it delivers them. This is due to its complex text matching algorithm and of course the Pagerank™ system that this engine uses. More on the Pagerank™ system later.

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Importance of Backlinks and Search Engine Rank

November 2, 2005 Category: News Comments: No comments

Start by referring to your strategic keyword phrases. Let's say you sell antiques, and to get higher search engine rankings for that product page you want to boost link popularity for your Web page regarding your keyword phrase.

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Search Engine Optimization Myths

November 2, 2005 Category: News Comments: No comments

Some search engine positive and negative ranking factors mentioned in the website are still valid for Search Engine Optimization and not just all myths. That is not to say that there are not many Seo Myths or old practices preached around.

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SEO Techniques for Top 10 Search Engine Rankings

November 2, 2005 Category: News Comments: No comments

All major engines claim to prefer Web sites with high-quality content. In addition to improving your rankings, enhancing the quality of your Web site will also help convert more visitors to SALES. Don't fall into the trap of creating dozens of "cookie-cutter" pages that are devoid of valuable content or are lacking in aesthetics.

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Search Engine Optimizations Tricks that Backfire!

November 2, 2005 Category: News Comments: No comments

One common scam is the creation of "shadow" domains that funnel users to a site by using deceptive redirects. These shadow domains often will be owned by the SEO who claims to be working on a client's behalf. However, if the relationship sours, the SEO may point the domain to a different site, or even to a competitor's domain. If that happens, the client has paid to develop a competing site owned entirely by the SEO.

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SEO – Search Engine Optimization

November 2, 2005 Category: News Comments: No comments

SEO is an abbreviation for "search engine optimizer." Many SEOs provide useful services for website owners, from writing copy to giving advice on site architecture and helping to find relevant directories to which a site can be submitted. However, a few unethical SEOs have given the industry a black eye through their overly aggressive marketing efforts and their attempts to unfairly manipulate search engine results.

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Why High Search Engine Rankings are So Important

November 2, 2005 Category: News Comments: No comments

85% of internet traffic is generated by search engines, submitting your web site to all major search engines (like Yahoo, Google) is the most effective way of promoting your web site on the Internet. In order to maintain a search engine placing near the top for your chosen 'keyword' it is essential to regularly submit your web site details to these web directories and engines.

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Search Engine Keyword Optimization

November 2, 2005 Category: News Comments: No comments

Findings are as a result of ongoing optimization experiments of  network of web sites on Google.

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Google Page Ranking Methods

November 2, 2005 Category: News Comments: No comments

The basics Google's order of results is automatically determined by more than 100 factors, including our PageRank algorithm.

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How to get Top 10 Ranking in Google

November 2, 2005 Category: News Comments: No comments

Google is a fully automated search engine, which employs robots known as 'spiders' to crawl the web on a monthly basis and find sites for inclusion in the Google index

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