Jon Holato

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Advanced Linking Strategy Tactic

If the cliché is correct in the SEO world that “content is king,” then backlinks would be queen. While a discussion on the importance of backlinks and what they mean to search engine rankings is out of the scope of this entry, I need to give importance to this post and will say that in general backlinks are highly valuable to a site because they give a site credibility in the eyes of the search engines, and often times search engines will take the link text as describing what the page its linking to is about.

Now that we understand why we need backlinks to our site, let’s take a deeper look into

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Secret Windows XP Theme: Royale Noir

I’ve been wanting to write an entry for this since I first received word over the weekend, but unfortunately free time isn’t always on my side; rather, it rarely is. There is a “secret” Windows XP theme circulating the Internet of late. Apparently during the development of the XP Media Center theme (Royale), Microsoft also produced a black version of the skin. It is purported that since the skin was never officially released there are some bugs in it, however I’ve had it activated for a few days now and have yet to experience any issues. For those questioning the validity of the skin,

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A jonholato.com Update

So it’s been a while since my last post. I’ve been super busy at work and will probably continue to get busier, however the good news is not all is lost. In my little spare time I have been working on tool for those in search engine optimization called SEO Robot. It’s still a rudimentary work in progress however it’s progressing nicely. I keep adding more and more functionality to the SEO Robot because I’m not quite sure how far I want to go with this one. For more information about this tool you can visit the SEO Robot page. I have also begun work on a search engine marketing glossary. There are others already in existence, however I plan to take mine beyond those into

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America: Freedom to Fascism

A documentary by Aaron Russo entitled America: Freedom to Fascism (full video) attacks certain characteristics of American government and society, most notably the Federal Reserve banking system and the notion of Federal Income Tax, and is a must watch for any American who is of voting age and pays taxes.

Russo begins the film with some historical background as to how the Federal Reserve and Federal Income Tax systems came into being in the early part of the 20th century as a result of the limitless greed of past bankers like Rockefeller, Morgan and others.

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What is Google Co-op?

1. What is Google Co-op?
2. How does Google Co-op work?

1. What is Google Co-op?

Users:

Google Co-op is an effort by Google to refine search engine results pages (SERPs) even further with the aid of organizations, businesses and individuals who label web pages that they find useful for particular topics. The end result is more relevant search results for users’ search queries. Also, users may subscribe to a contributor’s annotations if they wish; for example if a user is interested in diabetes related information he or she could

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Google Cruise

Last Thursday night, 9/28/2006, some of the good folks at Google decided to take some of us from the office out on a drinks/dinner/drinks/dessert/drinks/more drinks cruise on the Hudson River. =) It was their way of saying “thank you for doing business with us,” and we couldn’t have been happier to say “you’re welcome.”

We took the Calypso out of Chelsea Piers and headed up river, all the way to the George Washington Bridge. We turned around directly underneath the bridge, which was an amazing sight, as most people only drive on it and never get to

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