I just got a MacBook Air and have been enjoying having the world's lightest laptop. It's an amazing piece of engineering and while it appears to have some critical features missing (like a DVD drive or Ethernet port) the fact...

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I have a small photography website J Layes Photography.com that has galleries and allows visitors to buy prints of my photographs. I have been approached by a company asking whether I'd allow them to post their advertising banner on my...

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My request for Adsense membership was turned down -- rejected! -- twice. Please suggest me what should I do? Should I remove some content?...

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This is a rather geeky SEO question, but I have heard that Google considers internal site links as relevant as external links and that it's smart to "nofollow" links that go to pages you don't want or need ranked in...

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I have rebuilt my website using the advice in your great book Growing Your Business with Google. I hope that I understood everything correctly! And, of course, I have a question for you: I understand that there are companies that...

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Hi Dave. I work at a small, new company and I've been hounding the CEO to start a corporate blog. He mainly interested in increasing Pagerank and I've explained that a corp-blog will help with Pagerank, page views, branding, et...

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I was doing a Google search earlier today and noticed that some of the matching results were labeled as "Supplemental Results". What the heck is a supplemental result?...

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We are considering changing our company name but do not want to lose our natural search ranking in Google. Is there is sytem by which we can transfer rank or a step by step process that we can go through...

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I'm pretty clued into computing, but when I read your weblog, I have to admit that I'm a bit baffled by some of the things you talk about. Specifically, can you please tell me two basic things: what's a URL...

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I just checked and apparently both the "domain.com" and "www.domain.com" work for my site, bringing up the same page with different URLs. According to an SEO buddy of mine, that's a bad thing. Is it? And if so, how can...

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Dave, I've bumped into a new service that claims to pay you for simply adding specific links to your weblog entries, which seems like a darn easy way to make some money as a blogger. The service is called Blogitive...

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I'm a bit baffled, to be honest. I'm getting comments left on my weblog that kinda/sorta seem like they're relevant, but don't entirely make sense and aren't relevant to the actual discussion, though they're more or less on topic. Is...

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I've been running my new weblog -- blog.getyouhealthy.com -- for a few months now and as far as I can tell Google still hasn't stopped by to visit my site or index me. I've heard about something called a "sandbox"...

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I have one site that is currently running Google Adsense. If I start another different site do I have to submit it to Google for approval? Or once you are in the program is that good enough?...

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Dave, maybe you can explain something for me: my Web site Freedom For Animals.org apparently has a PageRank of two out of ten (2/10), and I don't really understand what that means. Does it mean, for example, that my organization's...

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I've been trying to figure out all the mysterious jargon of the blogosphere, and one that's got me stumped is blogroll. Dave, what's a blogroll?...

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Just finished your new Google book and I'm dismayed to discover that my web site may be a link farm not a portal. The goal of this now updated site is to have students talk to other students via reviews...

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When I use the Google link: feature and I type a URL immediately after the colon (no space), I get far fewer results than when I separate the colon and the URL with one space or multiple spaces. I also...

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New to the web, paid a company back in March to register my new website with all the search engines. As I am now reading your book (Growing your Biz with Google) in August, I see that my website has...

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Dave, I've been reading and hearing about Google's mythical PageRank for quite a while, but what bugs me is that I haven't figured out how to ascertain my PageRank on a Mac. I know that Google has their Google Toolbar...

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Dave, I know that the NOFOLLOW attribute was introduced to prevent PageRank bleed through blog comment spam, but now that my site is automatically creating those NOFOLLOW links, I'm afraid that the search engines might assign some negative karma to...

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Hi Dave. I really love what you're doing with your AskDaveTaylor Web site and find it an amazing source of valuable and interesting information. Great job! However, unless you are completely omniscient, I imagine that you must get many more...

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Dave, I was reading this evening that there's a new HTML attribute in town called "nofollow" and that it's supposed to prevent weblog spam somehow? Can you explain what it's about and how it can possibly help prevent spam...

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Dave, I've been looking at a lot of different weblogs in the last few weeks and notice that while some list "Trackback" or "Pingback" right on their index page, others have that information on individual entry pages, and yet...

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Dave, I just read an article of yours where you say not to hide keyword-content with matching font and background color. I'm curious to know if the same is true for a hidden layer containing keyword-content? There is so...

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Dave, I reviewed the sections on Building Web Site Traffic and Search Engine Optimization but I still have a question for you: Once I have set up the pages correctly, do I still need to contact the Google Gods to...

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In case you don't get this magazine -- and you should if you're responsible for administering even a single Unix or Linux system -- I'm republishing the article here for your reading pleasure.

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Take a deep breath and let’s go back in time a few years, back to Windows 95. Think about people saying “Leenucks? What’s that?” and just maybe imagine being in a public place without 10% of the people chatting away on cellphones. Remember an upstart company called Netscape and a browser formerly known as NCSA Mosaic. And let’s go back just a little bit further…

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Dave, Help! My weblog is drowning in these seemingly nonsensical postings from people that have nothing to do with my discussion, yet don't actually point to any sort of existing Web site or even a valid email address. On the...

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I've been keeping an eye on a very interesting discussion about the difference between the Google pagerank of pages on a "www" domain name and the same page without the "www" prefix (e.g. "www.intuitive.com/index.html" versus "intuitive.com/index.html"). Google calculates pagerank based...

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Here's an email message that I received today, quite similar to email messages I receive at least a half-dozen times each day: I am contacting you about cross linking. I am interested in real life debt because it looks like...

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After hearing a lot about it, I went over to SitePoint and read an interesting article by a "search engine optimization expert" wherein he enumerates his list of fifteen of the most egregious techniques by which companies and individuals "spam"...

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In previous articles, I've written about the terrific Google Adsense program (see Partner with Google and make money! for a good starter on the subject), but after the Internet bust of the late 1990's, I never realized that I could...

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Most of the time on my weblog Free Web Money I talk about proactive things you can do to improve your search engine findability, your site's relevance for a specific key word or key phrase. For example, keyword density and...

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One question that comes up again and again with online entrepreneurs is whether it's worthwhile to register new domain names for different projects, and if it is, how the heck do you find good domain names!? First off, keyword-relevant domain...

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A core question for anyone on the Web, and certainly a question you should be asking if you're trying to monetize your Web site, is how the heck does Google figure out what sites are more relevant to a given...

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Imagine you were a really big company and walked into the offices at Google, saying "I'll offer you a deal: I'll add your advertisements to my Web Pages, you sell the ad space, and we'll split the revenue." Sound too...

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