Yahoo: A Brief History of Yahoo! What You Need to Know

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 By: Jeff Casmer

Yahoo address    In January of 1994, two graduate students at Stanford University, Jerry Yang and David Filo created what we know today as Yahoo. Originally named Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web, Yahoo was a directory that organized other web sites into a hierarchy. The history of Yahoo begins.

Unlike other search engines, Yahoo gained swift popularity. Just twelve months after its creation, Yang and Filo had over one million hits on their year old search engine. The sheer volume of people using it prompted Filo and Yang to incorporate Yahoo early in 1995

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Poor Search Engine Rankings Caused by Duplicate Content Issues

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 By: Carsten Cumbrowski

duplicates    It is a problem to have identical or near duplicate versions of a webpage available at more than one URL, on one web site or many.

This can be an unintentional issue, because of site architecture etc., or something the webmaster is well aware of, such as syndicated contend and scraped/illegally copied content from other websites.

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Fight Spam! Strategies and Software to Take Back your Inbox

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 By: Casey Markee

spam poster   Efficiency and accuracy in communication may be more important today than at any time in human history.  The number of spam messages passed between individuals and businesses continues to increase significantly each day, to the point that some are literally overwhelmed by their sheer volume.  Now, more than ever, it is vital that true non-spam email messages be absolutely accurate and arrive at the correct location, on time.

According to most studies, Americans are doing their part in adding to the vast number of electronic messages, but they are also creating a huge number of unwanted, unnecessary messages.  One set of statistics shows that as many as 4 of every 10 spam items come from U.S. addresses. Europeans are far worse, however.  Half of all emails originating there are spam, according to some statistics.

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How The Heck Does Agloco Make Me Money?

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 When I first came across the concept of Agloco, I immediately thought to myself ” Yeah right, someone is going to pay me just to surf the net as I normally do anyway”…in other words, I was and am still somewhat sceptical. When, I checked it out, because I am the curious type, I came to the realization that I really had nothing to lose. If it crashes and dies a fiery internet death like so many others…too bad. But if it does take off and soars like a Googlean Eagle or a Yahoonian Hawk, I might actually make some money by doing diddly-squat.

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How To Sniff Out An Internet Scam

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By: Ba Kiwanuka

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Like any other environment that offers the average individual the opportunity to amass a substantial amount of wealth fairly quickly, the internet not surprisingly is rampant with scams. No doubt the situation today is far better than it was a few years back but that still does not negate the fact that the potential for you to get scammed is relatively high.

Sir Joshua Reynolds once remarked, “there’s no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking” an observation which has since proved to be the cornerstone of many a marketer’s success as well as that of the average scammer.

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Bloggers Need to Beware of Violating FTC Deceptive Practice Standards When Making Endorsements

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 By: Robert Masud

              handcuffed blogger by the FTC   The Federal Trade Commission (”the Commission or FTC”) has handed down an advisory opinion that may have dire consequences for companies that employ individuals who are involved in blogging and promote those companies products or services while blogging.  According to the Commission, this may hold true even if these employees are undertaking this blogging on their personal time and even if the company management has no idea of what may be going on.  The Commission advises that such a blogger must make readers aware of his or her connection with the company whose products or services he or she is endorsing.

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The E-mail Safelist Scam

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By: Ryan Smith              reading email 

Emailing to a list is considered the best way to get fast results in any marketing campaign. Unfortunately for the Internet Marketer, this can also lead to lawsuits if one is not careful. To most, the obvious solution is to join a marketing safelist and promote to it.

Safelists promote the hype that each member will earn thousands by submitting to their safelist. They continue the hype by promoting to the unwary that their ads will be seen and their sites visited. Certain types of sites like this can only marginally come close to making any sort of guarantee of visitors. These types of safelist operate a credit based system that awards viewers credits when they visit other member sites. Once they reach a certain credit threshold they, in turn, can send out their own message.

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Keyword Optimized Articles for Google’s Love

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By: Craig Rad 

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Keyword articles should deliver the content and information visitors are after, while also having a good keyword or keyphrase density, which will make the search engines score the pages they are on at higher levels. In general, it is recommended, for search engine optimization purposes, that you add at least 5 new pages of content once a week or once every two weeks. This helps the search engines see that your site is live, active, and they tend to place it in the top of the returned results, under these circumstances. Here are some other consideration regarding keyword optimized articles.

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A Simple 4 Step Approach To Have Google Crawl Your Site Today Guaranteed!

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 By: Mike Makler

Google Sitemap    This is Sizzling Hot, Google Now Gives you feedback. By Creating a Google Sitemap and using some free online tools anyone can get Google to crawl their Website within 24 Hours. As an Added bonus after Google Crawls your site they give you feedback about any problems their Spiders encountered. You Need to  take advantage of this amazing service from Google Today, just follow these 4 simple steps.

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Do Not Go Past Google, Do Not Collect $200

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 By: Daniel Moro

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Are you relying too heavily on one Pay-Per-Click advertising network for your affiliate marketing? Some affiliates rely on Google AdWords only, and they are losing out on a great deal of revenue. 

Many affiliates get into affiliate marketing after reading one of the popular ebooks on the topic that are sold online. But most of these ebooks concentrate on training people to use Google AdWords. I figure that is because Google has higher traffic volumes and because it is very easy to quickly set up your first affiliate campaigns. Many affiliates never get past AdWords, though, and that is where they are losing out.

You should already know that it’s never a good idea to put all your eggs in one basket. Particularly when that one basket has seen better days. I can assure you that relying heavily on one advertising network, particularly Google AdWords, is not a smart strategy for growing your affiliate marketing business.

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