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I just gained my 400th fan on Stumbleupon My growth rate on Stumble has been exponential the last couple of months. I think I had less that 100 fans 3 months ago. I changed the way I use Stumble and people seem to like it.

I don’t even call it a tactic, as the way I am using it is the way I would use it if it gathered no friends. Basically all I do is us it as a bookmarking tool and am very focussed on the topics I cover, which is online marketing.

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Posted by Oatmeal

Below is a list of command line tricks I’ve found to be very useful in web development that a surprising number of web developers don’t know about.

This is pretty straightforward: it’ll create asymbolic linkfrom name_of_link to /some/destination. If I’m sitting in/www/matthew/ and I entered the above command, a new file will becreated inside that directory that moves the user to /some/destinationif they CD to name_of_link. (It’s a shortcut, basically).

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Helpful Robot Tags You Might UseWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Tuesday, 4 of December , 2007 at 3:39 pm

The natural protocol for search engine robots when they crawl your pages is to index the page and follow all links. All major search engines will follow this protocol unless you tell them not to. Here are some helpful robot meta tags that you might use in order to give specific instructions to the search engines crawling your pages:

meta name=”robots” content=” …” - This meta tag is addressed to all search engines and whatever instructions you give will be followed by all the search engines.

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Google Universal Might Change SEO, But Not MuchWriting by Nick on Friday, 29 of June , 2007 at 9:55 am

It seems that everyone is talking about Universal Search now. How will it change SEO? What will I as a webmaster have to do differently? Yada yada yada

Same ol’ same ol’ …

Well, let me ease a few of your worries. Google’s Universal Search, if it catches on, won’t change SEO too much. It will change it really from one perspective and it’s not really a change. And, by the way, I expect the other major search engines (I don’t need to name drop do I?) will follow. But keep in mind that Google is just testing its Universal Search. It remains to be seen that searchers will like it and want to keep it. A really interesting scenario would be if Google ditches it based on feedback from users and Yahoo et. al. (oops, slipped out) rolls it out to a dissatisfied search public (can you hear me snickering in the background?).

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