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You've found the blog of Jere Matlock, a web designer and writer. This journal is mostly about writing, web design and getting sites to the top of the search engines (SEO is my business). It is also full of opinions and observations about pretty much everything. If these things are not of interest to you, feel free to go now. Go on, shoo!

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By the way, if you feel like taking offense at something posted on this site, go right ahead, it won't bother me a bit. Kingsley Amis has a nice quote about that, in which I take solace and some pride when the flames arrive:

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

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Wordsinarow.com is now a PR 6

Very busy time for me - not a lot of time for blogging. Today I found out that my main website, www.wordsinarow.com has gained PageRank in the most recent updates at Google. Those are being called the “Jagger” update and seem to mostly be concerned with backlinks. Wordsinarow.com is now a PR 6. (Woohoo! That and $3.95 will get me a Latte Vente at Starbucks.)

BTW, in my experience the “link:” command at Google has been busted for about the last year. To find out the number of links to your site, you need to do a search like this:

jmblog.com -site:www.jmblog.com

That gives you a list of all the pages Google has indexed that contain a link to jmblog.com (or at least a reference to it) except those pages from the site www.jmblog.com. You can get a fairly accurate sense of how many links Google “knows about” for any site by putting it in a search string like that. Replace jmblog in that string with any domain name and it will give you fairly good resluts.

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