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Codename "Astoria": Data Services for the Web – Pablo Castro's … Posted on Apr 30, 07 at 5:31 pm.

One of the topics we have been looking at lately is how "new" internet applications use data in the web environment. Project codename "Astoria" reflects our current thinking on the topic. Instead of telling "what we are going to build", ...

Paid Links Posted on Apr 30, 07 at 10:50 am.

To buy or not to buy, that is the question. The head of Google's Webspam team was advising over a year ago that “...if you sell links, you should mark them with the nofollow tag. – Matt Cutts”. A more recent post has caused alarm bells to ring in the minds of those who buy or sell links. The post in question details how to report any sites you find that are selling or buying links.

SEO Book’s SEO for Firefox Extension Posted on Apr 22, 07 at 6:46 pm.

This video introduces the SEO for Firefox extension by Aaron Wall, which displays many useful marketing data while you browse the web, e.g. Google PageRank, Age, Links: (Yahoo! Linkdomain), the number of times a URL has been bookmarked on Del.icio.us, an estimate of the total number of links to a site from blogs using Technorati, Alexa rank, and many more. This extension can be a very valuable SEO tool. read more