Yes- I know.. This is almost old news, but I’m playing catch up .
V7n has a new service where they sell contextual links at http://contextual.v7n.com/. In a post entitled “Undetectable” spam, Matt Cutts pointed out that the link scheme
probably violates our quality guidelines and the guidelines of other major search engines.
V7n’s response:
The links […]

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I haven’t paid much attention to Orkut. Myspace, Youtube and forums keep me busy.
Oh, lets not forget Yahoo 360, Migente,del.icio.us and the now stale Blackplanet.
Is there a need for another social networking community?

Sizlopedia’s Happy Birthday Orkut post has forced me to take a closer look.
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“We expect Central Park to be launched in July, and the rest of the parks in the late summer,” the Department of Parks and Recreation said. Among those green spaces going on-line for public Wi-Fi access will be Washington Square, Union Square, Brooklyn’s Prospect Park and Flushing Meadows.
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Creating unique content is always a difficult task for me. I do know that "not so great" content is better than no content. And even though I know "better" now, I don’t always have time to implement what I’ve learned.
My new "discovery" is article databases! Webmasters are selling hundreds of categorized articles that can […]

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Elursrebmem, v7ndotcom, v7ndotcom-elursrebmem - Important keywords for the new Seo contest that V7n is having until May 15th.
The SEO contest is being hosted by v7n.com . Sites must be ranked within the top 5 of Google results for V7ndotcom Elursrebmem in order to win .
Elursrebmem is “Members rule” spelled backwards.
The latest Google entries:
http://base.google.com/base/search?q…nG=Search+Base
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=…em&sa=N&tab=wn
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I just found a wonderful  time saver!  A detailed list of 157 places where you can submit your blog/RSS feed.
Here are a few other places which aren’t on the list:
RSS Submissions - http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-submission.htm
Podcast Submissions - http://www.podcasting-tools.com/submit-podcasts.htm
Blog Submissions - http://www.blog-connection.com/submit-blogs.htm

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I was surprised to find this handy little tool:  Google Sponsored Links Search - which allows you to very quickly find out who is advertising for any given term.
NICE!

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I have been trying to make a conscientious effort to include hephenated keywords in my urls.
Some have called it useless.  A test done at PR Weaver’s blog Concludes:

This test shows that keywords in URL are taken into account by Google, MSN (beta), Yahoo! and Exalead algorithms.
This test does not show how much it helps for […]

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I prefer not to use Flash. Flash prevents a site from reaching a wider audience as  a few people are still using dial up.
flash sites are horrible to rank because of the lack of content. The best you can do is add a html version of the site as an option or in the sitemap […]

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 Go to technorati and claim your blog:http://technorati.com/account/blogs/
Your blog will then show up in their blog search.  A search for "new york news" shows my  New York Entertainment blog as #1.
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