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Right before the weekend I have some sound tips for you. I keep it very short, because everybody's time is very valuable. The tips are for the areas:

• Personal Development
• Search Engine Optimization
• Getting Paid by Clickbank

I thought also, it is finally time to use that rainbow photo I had taken several weeks ago. It was sitting idle on my server for quite some time. Do you share my association between that rainbow and those tips?


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I did not write about Web Development for quite a while. After reading an article about the use of X-Robot Tags today, I though it's time, again.

The Basics

You retrieve content from the Web by typing a Web address into your browser and the addressed Web server will send you the requested resource, like a regular HTML Web page, a PDF document, a JPEG image, a video or Flash Movie, a XML file, etc.

The browser and Web server communicate using he HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol ↑) and before the requested data is actually sent, they exchange HTTP Request and HTTP Response headers with information about the document, the browser, and the server. The X-Robots-Tag Directive is an optional element (a directive) of such a HTTP Response Header. It was introduced by Google this year. Now, Yahoo has announced 2 weeks ago, that they support it, too.

You might recall that there is a (X)HTML Meta Tag that allows to restrict the access control for search engine. But they only work for (X)HTML documents. Now the X-Robots-Tag Directive allows the same for any non-(X)HTML resource like video-, audio-files, images, etc.

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Welcome to the December 3, 2007 edition of Webmaster Articles Blog Carnival!

My name is John and I am your host. This edition is packed with a great variety of articles. You'll meet “old friends”, as well as new fellows in the carnival scene. I am hosting this carnival for the first time, and I was pretty much impressed by the high quality of the submitted posts and Blogs. No problem with Spam Blogs (Splogs) at all. Might be the technology part of this carnival that doesn't attract so many spammers as compared to the business related carnivals.

Thanks to everyone who contributed.

Each of the 41 articles below is handpicked. I suggest that you do not only look at the articles, look at those Blogs, too. I have found a lot of great recent posts on those Blogs, too. Check it out. Maybe this carnival should be run at least every month. My comments are open, so just say what you think.

Question of the day: Who will be the next host for this carnival?

Write a note to the organizer (↑).
Get more exposure for your Blog
Volunteers preferred.

You also can submit your article to the next edition already. More info at the bottom of this post.

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It seems that I am in the mood of discovering more and more browser toolbars this month. Just recently I have recommended 3 browser toolbars, which are available for Firefox and Internet Explorer (IE).

• Google Toolbar and Alexa Sparky to check your rankings and the
  
  
• Stuble Upon Toolbar for discovering new Web sites and being part of the Stumble community of 3 million people Web enthusiasts.

Andy Beard says Google Toolbar Is Not Family Safe (↑) and removed it. Well, that might be true, simply don't let your Kids on your computer. There are many more areas of danger.

Today I have another 2 toolbars that I want to tell you about. Since I am using Firefox, I did not even check, if those or similar ones are available for IE.

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Have you ever read about META Tags, TITLE Tags, DESCRIPTIONS, etc. in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) guidelines?

Most of them are very vague and don't give you any examples. Even worse are most of the free and even paid so-called Meta Tag Optimizers. Stay away from them! They will cause more damage than good. They usually don't provide more functionality than your text editor. Really! Some services will simply email you back the document that you have completed by yourself in their Web form. What a waste of time. Here is the deal:

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