There's a reason I chose to build up my legion of Noble UV Minions the way I decided to do it (See "How to Become a Noble UV Minion and Like it".). I don't like repeating myself. I don't want to send out a separate email message, even if it is to a mailing list, for something that I've already written. Especially when the original material is automatically sent out every day.

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Before I begin, I'll tell you up front that I'm not a search engine optimization (SEO) expert of any kind. I've tested everything I'll be telling you to do and I've spent more than six months experimenting to find out what works and what doesn't. My blog now ranks on the first page of Google's and Yahoo's search engine result pages (SERPS), and is starting to rank well on the others, for hundreds of keywords, some with extremely short tails and even a few single-word keywords. Don't worry, I'll explain what all of it means as we go along.

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I was invited to try out Ask2link a few days ago. It's a new banner and text link ad service.

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I'm not sure if this is a multi-author blog or the author has multiple personalities. Your guess is as good as mine.

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After receiving a Google Alert with my domain name on it (for link:www.untwistedvortex.com), I found a website that had scraped 40 of my articles from my full feed, in their entirety, and put them up exactly as retrieved. The website in question, elanso.com, is based in China so it's not like I could get my point across even if I did find out who owned the site. Last week, I reported the site to Google and a day later, found they had 39 more articles than what I found before (for a total of 79).

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