Jerry Leventer

If you believe that Google wants you to fail at SEO, then you must be living on another planet.
In July 2008, Google will be presenting their first ever webinar for webmasters. They will be demonstrating how to use their Trifecta of webmaster tools. Google WANTS you to be successful.
The date is July 8th, 2008 [...]

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I’m only now submittine my site to DMOZ, the Open Directory Project.
1. Read their guidelines here: DMOZ Submission Guidelines
2. Decide what category your site belongs under.
3. Wait a few months for their decision to include your site or not.
In their own words:
The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive
human-edited directory of the Web. It [...]

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I just upgraded to Version 2.2 of Alex Goodall’s IM-Index
This is a product I recommend. If you already have lots of downloads and project files on your hard drive, IM Index will allow you to more easily organize all your internet marketing projects and information.
And if you are just starting out, the IM [...]

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Back in January 2006, when I was looking for an online business coach, I posted on Allan Gardyne’s forum asking about two coaches I had heard about. Lynn Terry replied to my post and I went over to Self Starters Weekly Tips to check out her site. I found lots of friendly and helpful [...]

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I joined Sherman Hu’s Wordpress Tutorials in 2006. In 2007 he began his Huddle webinars for his members. Like everyone else I know who is attemting to find the best tools to get the job done, he has had his successes and failures.
Here’s what he has to say:
I’m returning home to Glance (desktop [...]

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I heard about a social networking tool called Zango and did some research on it. Here’s what I found …
Zango, formerly known as 180solutions and Hotbar, is one of the world’s largest distributors of adware. Last November (2007), Bellevue, Washington-based Zango settled charges with the Federal Trade Commission for $3 million. The FTC [...]

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I was watching Andy Jenkin’s StomperNet video about how to avoid having your pages filtered for duplicate content. One of the warnings is not to have stop words as the only difference between titles on two pages.
In order to know what those stop words are, I have listed them here.

an
click
go
links
most
other
two
what

and
com
has
me
msie
page
us
when

any
copy
have
ie
net
reserved
use
where

are
copyright
he
if
netscape
ring
view
which

as
copyrights
help
in
new
since
visitors
who

at
do
home
inc
no
site
was
why

be
edu
homepage
is
not
text
we
will

been
find
how
it
of
than
we’ve
with

best viewed with
htm
you
http
on
that
web
www

You can see [...]

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This Day In History:
1912: British explorer Robert Falcon Scott arrived at the South Pole only to find that Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen had been there a month earlier.
1896: The X-ray machine was first exhibited.
1778: James Cook became the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he named the “Sandwich Islands.”
Happy Birthday:
Actor/Director Kevin Costner [...]

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2007: Comet McNaught made perigee after coming close to the sun
2005: ESA’s SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovered elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron and other surface elements on the moon
2001: Wikipedia went online
1986: HBO and Cinemax paid cable television services initiated scrambling their national satellite feeds
1943: The world’s largest office [...]

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See my notes for this video in the comments to this post.
Here’s the email I received from Brad Fallon of StomperNet -
Brad Fallon Says:
Did you know that MySpace now gets more page views than Google?
It really makes you think, doesn’t it?
(Suggestion: Read this whole email, but If you want to save time [...]

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