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thanks for the help

i use a chinese software simply because it can handle regular http, ftp, bt and emule all together. It is very fast and reliable.

thank you for your help, i may ask my friends who is in States do it for me. But it would be handy if google provide this kind of service.

I know google and Yahoo somehow values different stuff when it ranks websites. Some good tips for Yahoo optimization: Keywords in URL alt text Site Explorer Prominence I don't want to copy the whole thing here, but this article explains it: Yahoo Optimization Feel free to share your experience of optimizing for Yahoo

it is certainly a good strategy for SEO especially for Yahoo and MSN, the keywords in domain name is very important. Nowadays, a lot of CMS comes with this feature or there are a lot of plugins for it. For example, talking about the biggest CMS, Joomla, there are extensions such as opensef, sh404 that once you install them, you site will be a seo friendly site. For google, you may want to focus more on link building and social bookmarking sites

if you have a new site or page, what you need to do is to get a quality backlink to your site, when i talk about 'quality backlink', i mean a link from a site that has a PR of 7, 8. I know some people has tried this with squidoo, they just did 2 posts on squidoo and then link back to their site, in 24 hours, the page is successfully indexed by Google

looks like US is heading into a recession and the Fed just again lowered the interest rates, this makes me believe that the US dollar will continue to drop and the sub prime mortgage crisis will take years to heal. Btw, Chinese yuan is getting stronger and stronger!

i just heard this news a few hours ago on TV, if this is gonna happen, then the search engine market will enter into a new stage. Live will own the rest of the 34% market share and i believe Google will make some strategic move to defend its current position.

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yes, i don' t think it is the right thing to do, Google is always smarter than you, so don't try to trick google, simply play white hat to earn money, you will regret if you get caught by Google

in one wordon page optimization and off page optimizationAs a webmaster, you should focus on on page first, because it is easy and is under your controlthen you would focus on off page optimization, this will take some time and you need some budget for it

I am interested to know if there is a tool does thisI can pretend a user from NY and search a keyword in Google and i want to see the search resultsThen i want to search the exact the same phrase and pretend to be a user from Canada, i want see if the search results are differentPS: I just want to test my keyword ranking for SEO purposes.Any ideas?

thank you for the great tips, but wouldn't it better if i use proxy? with proxy, i think you can pretend you come from different countries and you can try out lot of things. there is a site release the new and working proxy on a daily basis.

i would recommend you to use flock, to some extent, it looks really like firefox, but graphically, it looks much better than firefox and what impressed me the most is that you can use the extension for firefox on flock. Just try flock out, i am sure you will like it.

i tried to switch to linux a couple of years ago but i really really find it difficult to switch to it from Windows. I have to remember a lot bash commands to make things work, but for servers, i would say linux is much better than windows.