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There are a lot of little things that can junk up your code, but, for the most part, the search engines don't really care. It doesn't matter to them if your HTML validates or if you keep your code "clean" or not. When it comes to analyzing your pages for search engine rankings, none of that really matters a whole lot. But when it does matter,
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For years, eBay espoused an egalitarian view that all of its sellers should be treated equally.
But these days, the online marketplace is increasingly taking an opposite tack by offering discounts to its biggest sellers, hoping to lure more of their business.
The change in tactics, which coincides with efforts to revive the company's grow
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If a potential employer uses a social networking site to check out a job candidate and then rejects that person based on what they see, he or she could be charged with discrimination.
According to Workforce.com, a site that helps HR reps stay current with all matters HR, employers who use the data available on social networking sites like Faceb
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When a small business graduates from being home-based to having premises of its own, it's quite an accomplishment. But in this economy, some small company owners are deciding it makes more sense to move back home again.
Although a home-based business has become much more widely accepted, moving back when you're in financial distress might car
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Chances are most of your customers pay you within a reasonable amount of time. But sooner or later you will have to deal with a customer who pays very slowly or not at all. What can you do? And just as important, what can't you do to collect the money owed you?
Here is what you need to know.
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If you haven't noticed, some blogs are a lot stricter with their comment policies than others.
I have recently advocated using blog comments as a way of promoting your site, but not in a form that is in any way spammy. The best way to get traffic from blog comments is to link your name to your site. This will give them the opportunity to see
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Ubuntu's deep software catalog, focus on usability and active community combine with long-term support to put desktop Linux's best face forward.
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Whether you're running the Home or Professional version of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system, keep these dates in mind.
June 30, 2008: If your mind's set on using XP (like 60-plus percent of these poll-takers), this is the last day Microsoft will let hardware vendors and retailers install it on new computers, other than on budget-minde
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Public embarrassment at a hacking contest and vulnerability disclosures for a new browser made for a discouraging week for Mac security folks.
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With its ability to lower the cost of voice applications and spur additional deployments, open source VoIP could be the solution smaller businesses have been looking for.
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There's a brand new Google AdWords quality score metric, page load time. The new factor has just been added to the AdWords full dump of their help section. Page load time is the time it takes a web page to load in seconds. If the load time in slow, Google says it will impact your quality score. Why? Slow loading landing pages are bad for your use
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This is a great list of open source software alternatives. The author lists 50 of the most commonly used proprietary software solutions and offers a free alternative.
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At its simplest, a wiki is software that lets users work together to create and edit a collection of linked web pages. The online encyclopedia Wikipedia is the best-known example - its 85,000 contributors have written, edited, and policed the content of more than nine million entries. Like Wikipedia, all wikis benefit from the network effect: The m
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I'd like to point out a few small business technologies (in no particular order) that I can proudly say are worthwhile, reliable, and will—drum roll, please—work. (Submitters note: While this is a good article, I think he should have replaced MS SQL with MySQL. It works like a charm and has a small business price tag -- free)
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