So, what does a Google Chrome beta bring? Speed, and lots of it. According to Google, it’s 25% faster on our V8 benchmark and 35% faster on the Sunspider benchmark than the current stable channel version and almost twice as fast when compared to their original beta version.

Some of the new features you can try out include form auto fill, full page zoom and auto scroll (both thanks to a new version of WebKit), and a cool new way to drag tabs out to get a side-by-side view (shown below).

Download Google Chrome Beta here.

Source: Official Google Chrome Blog

Although there is no such thing as a general duplicate content penalty it is difficult to get high rankings for a web page whose content can also be found on other web pages. If you want to avoid problems with duplicate content, the following tips and illustrations will help you.

What is duplicate content and what do search engines do about it?

• Duplicate content is if two or more different web pages contain the same or nearly the same content.
• Duplicate content can occur within a single website and across many different websites.
• Web pages can be considered duplicate even if they are not 100% identical.
• Search engines want to list only one version of duplicate content on their search result pages.

Search engines want to return as many different options as possible in their result lists. That’s why they filter all duplicates in the search results and display only one version.

How do search engines determine which web page will be used for the search results?

• When search engines find a web page, they compare it to previously found web pages to determine whether it is a duplicate or not:
• Web pages that are hosted by known spam sites will be removed from the list:
• The remaining web pages will be sorted based on the number and the quality of their inbound links:
• The web page with the best inbound links will be chosen for the search results

How to avoid duplicate content on your own websites

• Hide duplicate content from search engines
  If you offer different versions of your website content (regular view, mobile view, print view, etc.) then search engines might pick the wrong variation for the search results. Add a noindex meta tag to your duplicate content versions so that search engines don’t index the duplicate content (you can use IBP’s website optimization editor to do it).
• Require backlinks if you syndicate your web page content
  If you syndicate your content to third parties, search engines might favor the version published by one of your partners. Require a back link from your partners to the original document on your own website so that search engines can find out from which web page the content comes. Duplicate content can cause problems with your search engine rankings. If you follow the tips above, search engine spiders should index your web pages correctly. Also make sure that the web page content that search engine spiders index on your website has been optimized so that search engines can give your web pages the best possible rankings in the search results.

There’s this bright, shiny object called "Web 2.0" that everyone seems to be fascinated with lately. A lot of the heavy hitters in Internet marketing have been flocking to it like magpies, claiming it’s the "next big thing" in Internet marketing. They say if you don’t base all your marketing efforts on it, your business is DOOMED TO FAIL. Yikes! Before you get caught up in all the hype, let’s just take a moment to consider what Web 2.0 actually IS, and whether it’s worth two seconds of your time.

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Whether you are a professional, a student, or simply an overworked stay-at-home mom, cloud computing services can and probably already do make your life easier – whether you realize it or not. There are several apps that are designed to make life run a little more smoothly, and to help streamline operations at both business and at home. Several cloud based apps are great just for personal use, allowing users excellent ways to store music, photos, and personal files without having to waste precious memory.

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Hotmail POP3 access on the way? No, it’s here! POP3 technology has now rolled out to Hotmail customers WORLDWIDE! And, at last I can access my Hotmail (or Windows Live Mail) from Gmail.

What is POP3? It is a protocol that allows retrieval of your emails in almost any email program that you’ve installed on your mobile phone or PC. Here’s all the information you might need when setting this up in your email program:

POP server: pop3.live.com (Port 995)  
POP SSL required? Yes
User name: Your Windows Live ID, for example yourname@hotmail.com
Password: The password you usually use to sign in to Hotmail or Windows Live
SMTP server: smtp.live.com (Port 25 or 587)  
Authentication required? Yes (this matches your POP username and password)
TLS/SSL required? Yes

In addition to POP3, Microsoft offers additional technologies that can provide you with an even richer experience of your E-mail. Try viewing your Hotmail using Windows Live Mail, Microsoft Office Outlook via the Outlook Connector, or Windows Live for Windows Mobile phone.

Looking for help with Hotmail? Visit the Windows Live Hotmail Solution Center! The Solution Center has instructions on how to set up your e-mail software to send and receive Windows Live Hotmail messages using POP3. You’ll also find instructions on how to set up Hotmail on the web to give you POP3 access to a non-Windows Live e-mail account. If you have problems using POP3 access, Windows Live Hotmail Solution Center also has links to report a problem with Hotmail.

Source: LiveSide

Good news, you don’t have to wish you knew how to use video infomercials to boost sales of any product or service you offer. Because you’re about to learn a few secrets that until now only a few online marketers have been using to boost their earnings online. Read on to discover five amazing tips on how to get started pulling in enormous amounts of cash using video and increasing their websites conversions.

#1 – Videos are effective. In fact, videos are the perfect way to promote practically anything on the Internet because everyone is so accustom to watching commercials on TV. Commercials are appealing because they allow the audience to see and hear the offer. That’s important for a number of reasons, including the fact that some people are better able to understand and retain visual information rather than if it’s just in aural or written form.

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The words that are used in the links to your website have an effect on the search engine rankings of your website for these keywords. For example, if very many websites use the word "blue widget" to link to your website, it is likely that your website will get a high ranking on Google for the keyword "blue widget".

How many keywords does Google consider?

It’s absolutely certain that Google considers the words in the links to your site. The question is, how many words or characters does Google count in a link? Is there an optimal length for text links? Blogger Shaun Anderson did a test to find the answer.

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