Use Visa and MasterCard Gift Cards for Christmas Instead of Cash or Check

Visa gift card Do you still send Christmas cards to your relatives with a check or cash tucked inside? If you're still sending checks, you should see if sending a Visa or MasterCard gift card (in the form of a preloaded debit card) would be a better idea. If you're still sending cash, are you crazy?

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How to Reduce AdSense Impressions while Improving the Click-Through Rate (CTR)

terminator Before I tell you how to reduce AdSense impressions while improving the click-through rate (CTR) at the same time, I have to admit I dropped the ball on this one. Back in July, I published "Reducing AdSense Impressions from Robots", and then later inserted an update message saying I wasn't doing it that way. I meant to do a follow-up after testing, but I got sidetracked by real-world events.

These techniques require you to insert code which will set a condition. A condition of 0 will allow an AdSense block to be displayed while a condition of 1 will prevent it.

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The UV SEO Series – Part Five – Keywords

search In part one of "The UV SEO Series", I introduced the series. In part two, I wrote about having one website address. In part three, I wrote about internal linking strategies. In part four, I emphasized meta descriptions and meta tags. Today, I'm going to give you some ideas about keywords, keyword density and keyword placement.

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The UV SEO Series – Part Four – Meta

search In part one of "The UV SEO Series", I introduced the series. In part two, I wrote about having one website address. In part three, I wrote about internal linking strategies. Today, I'm going to emphasize meta descriptions and meta tags.

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The UV SEO Series – Part Two – One Website Address

search In part one of "The UV SEO Series", I introduced the series and didn't get into anything specific. This is part two and the beginning of the onsite SEO portion of the series. It's longer than I anticipated so please, take your time.

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Ask2link – Sell the Unused Space on Your Site

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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One Bad Scraper Foiled – Success with Google

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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