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What does EMD stand for?

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EMD is an Exact Match Domain

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Is your Gmail Account Active. Yes/No

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Is your Gmail Account Active. Yes/No

Beware, this is NOT from Google, do not reply or respond if you receive this email. Received this email:

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Short Meta Descriptions Can Kill Your Website

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Short Meta Descriptions Can Kill Your Website

If you look at the graph above you will see the nice steady growth of a website. Then suddenly a drop! The site in question dropped from an average of over 100 unique visitors per day down to less than 5 per day. Quite a significant drop! Once I was sure the drop was going […]

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Website backups

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Website backups

How to automate website backups. Follow this very simple procedure to schedule your website backups. You will be glad you did.

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Avoid Ghost Town Posts

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Avoid Ghost Town Posts

How many times have you seen a post like this, you read the exciting description and get to the video, and hit play and then… “We’re sorry, this video is no longer available.” Argg.. frustrating right. Here is how to avoid this problem on your own blog. Each time you embed a youtube video, open […]

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Removing the Generator Tag from WordPress

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Removing the Generator Tag from WordPress

Before making changes to your theme, always make sure you backup your files. Within your themes directory is a file called functions.php. Simply add this line to that file between the php tags (ex: under the <?php tag ) remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘wp_generator’); This will remove the “generator” tag from appearing in the meta head section of […]

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Get Addicted to Smush It

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Get Addicted to Smush It

Smush_it update: Smush_it is now a Yahoo tool and can be found here: www.smushit.com/ysmush.it/ Smush_It will smush a few extra bytes out of your images to make them smaller. In my experience it  shaves a little bit off each image, but if you add up  a few “k” off each image, it could add up […]

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How to get your blog indexed in a flash.

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How to get your blog indexed in a flash.

So you have a brand new blog. How do you get your blog indexed quickly? One of the easiest steps to take is to submit it to some solid blog directories. One of the best lists is located at: http://www.toprankblog.com/rss-blog-directories/ I’ve found that getting listed on blogville (blogville.us) will get you indexed very quickly, as […]

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