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"If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing."

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JMBlog Archive for November, 2004

Google Page Rank help

Friday, November 19th, 2004

My client, Hollander Consultants (note their site has since been renamed) is rising through the search engine rankings at Google and Yahoo for its search terms based on the SEO work I did for them in September. Nice to see proof that when you stick to the basics of search engine optimiation, everything still clicks. I changed the file names of some of their files, made sure the key words they were looking for were present in the text on the page, added title attributes to the links from page to page and added alt tags to the …

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