Advanced Micro Devices filed more legal papers this week alleging monopolistic practices by Intel. Some of AMD’s allegations involving PC makers are the most intriguing. Moreover, the harshness of the language approaches that of the attacks from Nvidia’s CEO in previous weeks. In June 2005 AMD filed an antitrust complaint against Intel claiming that Intel [...]

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There are certain rules when using another person’s work which writers should take note of. When you use other people’s work without permission or full recognition of the source, it’s called plagiarism. In South Africa copyright is automatically assigned once the work is put into written or published form. In several countries copyright is obtained [...]

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Local search is the option at for instance Google to search for websites relevant to your topic for a specific region or country such as the UK. Many search engines now target specific regions, making it possible to locate information about businesses in your specific area: Internet protocol numbers. Partner sites, can guess a particular [...]

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It is not a myth. It will not help your site’s ranking, and can hurt ranking with certain search engines. A link to a non-relevant site which still has useful content may not influence your ranking, but a link to a blacklisted or sandbox site may do so. If you for instance place links to [...]

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Using unrelated keywords on your site is a cheap trick; it’s a quick way to get to the top of the first page of results. Is it ethical to use this method? Like I said it’s a cheap trick and it is not ethical. Using words that are frequently searched upon as your keywords to [...]

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Links from the open directories and many from the secondary directories count as a link directly to your site for the purpose of page rank. These links not only help search engines find your site but categorize it and can also help with the ranking of your site by acting as a “vote” for your [...]

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There are ways to create content, the first is to write your own content, the second is to convince someone else to create your content and the third is to find existing content and use that if it’s not copyrighted. No matter what you do, the important thing to keep in mind is that you [...]

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Page swapping is like duplicating content, placing one page at a site and then after the page has attained a good position you remove and replace it with a less optimized page. The problem with doing this is that the search engine re-indexes pages very quickly and you can never know when they will go [...]

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So just how much trouble can you get into when you break the rules? The worst price you can pay for pulling nasty tricks on the search engine is having your pages disqualified at your site or get kicked off the web. There are many more search penalties you can pay so try not to [...]

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It’s fact that an intelligent search engine has thousands of bots evaluating 10-20 billion pages and then returning the information in a fraction of a second. When you type in a single word the search engine finds thousands of pages that contain that word, it then ranks the pages and decides which should be at [...]

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