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{ Monthly Archives } May 2008

How to obfuscate your DotNet Program

This posting is cut down version of the whole thread from a discussion took place towards the start of 2003. Zaphekiah One of my worries about .NET programs is that they are intrinsically easy to crack. I remember reading or seeing an interview with someone from Microsoft that said that a future release of .NET [...]

Cost is not the only measure of value

My feeling is that, in general, most people realise that if they want to buy a product that they will use again and again – perhaps for years – cost isn’t really a deciding factor. More than one customer has told me this. As stated in an earlier post, I think writing a non-trivial, valuable [...]

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How do you figure out what to charge for your Software products?

This posting was originally from our forum. motherswan How do you figure out what to charge for your products? I have experimented with pricing but have not reached any level of confidence that my prices make sense. There is such a wide range of competing products on the market with varying prices, including free, and [...]

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Keyword Selection Tool

Since I bought my SEO book the information seems already out of date, even for the online tools its suggested. I’ve been looking for a good keyword selection tool. I’ve found these, oddly the urls have changed from my book. http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/ Anyway, my original choice of ms access security seems a bad idea although [...]

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Choice of keywords for a satellite site?

All things considered I feel my effort / time to develop a product site with a keyword phrase, has to be well spent. So I really need to find out if my choice of keywords is correct before I jump in feet first. My keywords are MS Access Security. In my SEO book it says [...]

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How much text should you have on a web page?

The answer is – as much as you need to get a good spread of keywords and phrases. It is unlikely you will get good coverage of alternatives in 2 or 300 words. Since there is no penalty for having more text on a page – unless the page gets to be 45Kb in size [...]

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Thoughts on links between web pages

On any web page, there are two types of outbound links:- a. Links to other pages on the same site. b. Links to pages on other sites. Very roughly speaking, the PR for a page is divided up between all outbound links on the page – whether the link is of type a or b. [...]

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External Links and CMS

I’ve often thought that for my small sites and Content Management System (CMS) is a bit over the top. However, since I first noticed that I had lots of pages errors and lots of dead links, I thought it would be a good idea to have some way of easily managing external links on my [...]

Landing Pages

When I first created landing pages on my sites, I had heard that googlebot may not like them. My approach (which I think I must had read somewhere) is to have a page which concentrates on 2 or 3 three keyword. The content is lightly stuffed with keywords but it also human readable. I have [...]

Will a web page with a higher Google PageRank always be higher in SERPS?

Many people have heard of Google Pagerank – the number that Google assigns to each page on the web. In one sense the rank assigned to a page controls how high up the page appears in search results. The reality is more complicated and Google takes into account a number of factors when positioning pages [...]

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