Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle

October 23, 2007

Some hobbies take on a life of their own; others change the world. In early 1994, Stanford Ph.D. students Jerry Yang and David Filo posted a list of their favorite sites on the Web. The exact date they posted the links is lost to history, but we do know the list’s original name: “Jerry and [...]

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WordTracker Summary

August 30, 2007

No. – The rank of the search term; sorted from the terms that Wordtracker thinks may be most competitive (based on the KEI number) down to the least competitive.
Keyword – The search term.
KEI Analysis – The Keyword Effectiveness Index is one way to consider keyword competitiveness. The KEI compares the Count result with the number [...]

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Overture Keyword Selector Tool

August 30, 2007

With the Overture keyword tool you’ll discover hundreds of keywords and phrases your target market is typing into Yahoo and other internet search engines. The “Count” list tells us how many people typed in that particular keyword over the last month. (Note: Overture only counts the words typed into the Yahoo search engine and its [...]

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Google Bomb

August 10, 2007

An attempt to influence the ranking of a given site in results returned by Google search engine. Accomplished by linking many sites to the target site with ‘bomb’ keywords used as the link text. A notable Google bomb was: Google search for ‘miserable failure’. ‘Bomb’ refers to the effect of having massive amounts of links [...]

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The Key to your Success is Desire

July 9, 2007

Reality forms around your commitment to succeed.
Your desires will in time externalize themselves into concrete fact.
If you’re willing to pay the price, any of your circumstances will change.
If you want something badly enough, you’re sure to get it.
Obstacles don’t matter very much.
Pain or other circumstances can be there.
But, if you want something badly enough, you’ll [...]

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Keyword Effectiveness Index-KEI

July 9, 2007

The KEI compares the number of searches for a keyword with the number of search results to pinpoint which keywords are most effective for your SEO campaign.
According to the KEI definition, the best keywords are those that have many searches and that don’t have much competition in the search results.
Suppose the number of searches for [...]

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How to obtain non-reciprocal links

June 26, 2007

Develop depth of content worthy of incoming links. Keep adding about one webpage per week.
Search for Sites to “Add URL.” Search using two phrases in quotation marks: “Suggest link” +”keyword”.
Write a “Give Away” Article. Write articles such as “How to Improve Your Walk.” Design it carefully — from the title, description meta tag, headings, body [...]

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How to be Successful

June 20, 2007

THERE IS A GOOD SIDE TO EVERY SITUATION
An optimist sees the opportunity in every calamity.
A pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
The optimist sees the doughnut, the pessimist the hole.
To find success become an optimist.
Learn to develop success from any failure.
Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
No elements can do so [...]

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KISS your SEO

June 17, 2007

Some of you know me for using advance SEO techniques, such as cloaking or deep directory submissions, and developing new ideas, such as experimenting with cascading style sheets and absolute positioning. Everyone is trying to get some sort of advantage in order to get those coveted high rankings, analyzing the search engines and the top [...]

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Hits are Irrelevant

June 17, 2007

A common myth these days revolves around the usage of the term “Hits” This term “Hits” is often used synonymously with “Visitors” It is extremely important to understand that a hit is not a visitor. A hit is basically triggered as any action from the server. In other words, it might be 1 hit for [...]

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Risk

June 16, 2007

ACCEPT RISK AS A NORMAL PART OF LIVING.
Taking risks is a necessity if you want to find success.
View risk as part of the process of exploring your world.
Always take note of its lessons and move on.
The difference between greatness and mediocrity is how often you take risks.
Forget about the consequences of risk taking.
Risk opens you [...]

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Use Your Imagination

June 16, 2007

Your mind is your mental workshop.
You can build anything you want in it.
Visualize what you want.
See it, feel it, believe in it.
Make your mental blue print, and then begin construction.
See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.
Use your imagination to perceive your new reality
even when it is not fully materialized.
Remember, [...]

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Food for Thought

June 13, 2007

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints; we spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less.
We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time; we have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but [...]

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Reason

June 11, 2007

The Purpose of education is to teach a person to reason. Education itself provides only knowledge.
That’s important, but it’s not the key to everything. Knowledge must be applied. The manner in which we apply wisdom and knowledge is called reason. Without the ability to reason, all other things become valueless. We have never sufficiently emphasized [...]

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Out Run

June 3, 2007

EVERY MORNING in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows that it must run faster than a lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must out run the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle — [...]

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Mind

June 3, 2007

YOU CAN MAKE no greater investment than an investment into your own mind. You can’t expect to withdraw wisdom and information if you don’t make any deposits into your mind bank. Start each day thinking, and your mind will continue to think all day. Make the effort. As the scientists have told us, we need [...]

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Money

June 3, 2007

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not the appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
~ Henrik Ibsen

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Live your dreams

June 2, 2007

YOU HAVE THE POWER TO LIVE YOUR DREAMS.
The day you take complete responsibility for yourself,
the day you stop making any excuses,
that’s the day you start to the top.
No one can do it for you.
Only you can make it happen.
You’re the only one that has to live your life.
Your success on any major scale requires you [...]

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Cookbooks and Diet Books

June 2, 2007

The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it.
~ Andy Rooney

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Enthusiasm

June 2, 2007

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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