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Here's hoping you had a fun and romantic Valentine's Day! Believe it or not, we had all of you fondly in our thoughts as we put together this newsletter. (It must have been the chocolate). So without further ado, let's dive right into our belated Valentine for you.
We'll start with the article we're highlighting for you this week from eWeek. If you're a reseller, you'll definitely want to check it out, because it covers the 12 top executives who've done the most for the channel in the past year. Michael Dell is one of them; if you want to know who the others are, and why they received this honor, you'll have to check it out yourself.

In Greek mythology, the Hydra was a creature who could not be defeated, as each time one of its heads was cut off, two more would sprout back in its place. It seems that SEO mythology is no different; every time one SEO myth is debunked, two more SEO myths crop back up in its place, only adding to the confusion about search engine optimization.

Hercules was able to defeat the Hydra by cutting off its heads and then burning the stumps before new heads could grow back. What SEO needs is a hero, an SEO Hercules, to come and save us from the Hydra of SEO Mythology. Let's go through some of the more pervasive SEO myths and see if we can put a torch to them.
Get the Facts

Myth: All I need to do is figure out the magic bullet, and I will be at the top of the search engines.

In case Yahoo! is second biggest search engine and includes super big network of webs we will talk about how to optimize your page to this system. The Yahoo search algorithm is based on that of Inktomi which Yahoo! purchased back in 2002 as part of their plan to stop serving google results to search queries.

The Yahoo SEO Factors:

On Yahoo! the major areas are as follows:
• Keyword density
• Site structure
• Backlinks
• Aging
Submition on http://dir.yahoo.com/ is super bonus for YAHOO Page Rank.

will be more later

The term “linkbait” has been around at least since 2005. Nick Wilson is sometimes credited with coining the term. It’s a great way to lure visitors to your site, but some SEO authorities now claim that it’s not such a good idea. Who’s right?

This is no small question, because the answer determines where a site owner must invest his time, money and effort. For those who are somewhat lost right now, “linkbait” is content that has been created with the intention of attracting lots of interest. Linkbait creators hope their content is discussed (and linked to) in lots of blogs, submitted to social sites such as Digg, and so forth. Dedicated linkbait creators even participate actively in social sites and post comments on blogs to help spread the word. If their linkbait goes viral, they’re ecstatic.

Every day i brows google analytics, it gets errored like:

An Error Has Been Detected Please try again. If you are experiencing long delays, please reduce the selected date range or disable date comparison. Thank you for your patience. © 2007 Google Analytics Home Privacy Policy Contact us...

I get it using Internet Explorer v7, v6 and also on Firefox.
Do you know what kind of problem here is?

407,728.017 Watt hours saved on 14 jan 1:05.

How is Blackle saving energy?

Blackle was created by Heap Media to remind us all of the need to take small steps in our everyday lives to save energy. Blackle searches are powered by Google Custom Search.
Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. "Image displayed is primarily a function of the user's color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open application windows; a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen." Roberson et al, 2002

what is Bounce Rate and how important it is to your site views and page rank (PR)?

Bounce Rate (often confused with Exit Rate - see reference) is a term used in website traffic analysis. A Bounce occurs when a website visitor leaves a page or a site without visiting any other pages before a certain session timeout elapses. There is no standard minimum or maximum time limit a visitor must leave by in order for a bounce to occur. Rather, this is determined by the session timeout of the analytics tracking software. A commonly used session timeout value is 30 minutes. In this case, if a visitor views a page and leaves his browser idle for 31 minutes, they will register as a "Bounce". If they then continue to navigate after this delay, a new session will occur and the last page they view before exiting or timing out again will result in another "Bounce". Thus, it is important to note the dependency between bounces and sessions.

hi, friend of mine posted the link: http://www.microsoft.com/ces/ and i decided to install this Microsoft new product. First tried to do on Firefox and it showed me an error:
Microsoft Silverlight could not be installed on your computer.
Install Failed. More information with the link to http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/help.aspx?errorID=2


That contain such a text:

   1.  Create a new folder on drive C called SilverlightTemp.
   2. Save the Silverlight download to this folder.
   3. Click Start, click Run, type cmd.exe, and then click OK.
   4. In the cmd.exe window, type cd C:\SilverlightTemp\, and then press Enter.
   5. This step depends on which version of Silverlight you are installing.

In case Google fucked me with 403 error, i found interesting information about all internet errors that leads HTTP.

Introduction to errors

Any client (e.g. your Web browser or our CheckUpDown robot) goes through the following cycle when it communicates with your Web server:

* Obtain an IP address from the IP name of your site (your site URL without the leading 'http://'). This lookup (conversion of IP name to IP address) is provided by domain name servers (DNSs).
* Open an IP socket connection to that IP address.
* Write an HTTP data stream through that socket.
* Receive an HTTP data stream back from your Web server in response. This data stream contains status codes whose values are determined by the HTTP protocol. Parse this data stream for status codes and other useful information.