Tips on how to find related keyword phrases for keywords that are rarely searched for.

Writing a web service using apache axis 1.3 and deploying in tomcat generates wsdl with wsdl:types element in wsdl:definitions. Integrating this

Lots of Photoshop tips, tricks, videos and free goodies to keep us distracted while we pine for CS3 to arrive at the door... (posted by Jennifer Apple for www.PhotoshopSupport.com)

Paravue has announced Turbo Mask, an image masking tool designed for graphic and web designers, photographers, and motion graphic artists that work with Adobe Photoshop CS and Photoshop CS Extended. (posted by Jennifer Apple for www.PhotoshopSupport.com)

Need a game plan for making the most of the Search Engine Strategies conference in New York next week? Greg Jarboe has tips from a veteran conference-goer.

Found in the search marketing forums: Quality Score Calculation; Submitting Video to Search Engines; Confusing Keyword Research Results; and more.

Last month I started a series of posts covering some of the new VB and C# language features that are coming as part of the Visual Studio and .NET Framework "Orcas" release. Here are the first two posts in the series: Automatic Properties, Object Initializer and Collection Initializers Extension Methods Today's blog post covers another fundamental new language feature: Lambda Expressions . What are Lambda Expressions? C# 2.0 (which shipped with VS 2005) introduced the concept of anonymous methods, which allow code blocks to be written "in-line" where delegate values are expected. Lambda Expressions provide a more concise, functional syntax for writing anonymous methods. They end up being super useful when writing LINQ query expressions - since...(read more)

If you buy targeted advertising and have a quality site it doesn't hurt to buy a bit of exposure the get the ball rolling. If you can break even while buying and selling ads that send visitors to / through your site without making it look cheap, tacky, or untrustworthy you are ahead, because that traffic will improve the algorithmic trustworthiness of your site. Exposure breeds exposure, etc.

If you watch TV, the things you see people talking about are what many people are searching for.

Currently there is little risk to using Google cost per action ads, but long-term I think the risk proposition is much uglier than most people appreciate. 5 reasons Adam Smith would be proud of Google.

If you are empathetic towards a market and have interests aligned with a market you do not need to understand how search engines work. Search engines follow people.

Effectively building a site's link profile consists of thinking of different types of goals you must satisfy to rank.

SSL enables browsers to communicate with a web-server over a secure channel that prevents eavesdropping, tampering and message forgery. You should always use SSL for login pages where users are entering usernames/passwords, as well as for all other sensitive pages on sites (for example: account pages that show financial or personal information). Configuring SSL on Windows with previous versions of IIS has been a pain. Figuring out how to install and manage a certificate, and then associate it with a web-site, is something I bet most web developers don't know how to enable. The good news is that IIS 7.0 makes it radically easier to configure and enable SSL. IIS 7.0 also now has built-in support for creating "Self Signed Certificates" that enable...(read more)

It was my great pleasure to be at the face to face OpenAjax Alliance meetings for the first time last month. Thanks to the nice people at IBM for hosting them. I really enjoyed the discussions with Alex from Dojo , Gideon from OpenSpot and many others. There were also great demos of OpenAjax-based interoperability. It was also the occasion for me to visit New-York where I hadn't been in more than fifteen years. After the initial shock of not recognizing the skyline from the plane, which affected me more than I expected, I just realized how much I love the atmosphere of a city where people actually walk. It reminded me in a way of Paris, where I lived most of my life. Here are some pictures... Atlas in New-York A walk in the park. The weather...(read more)

Many people are recycling and reformatting various ideas to promote them in lists of top 10 xyz's. The problem with formatting them as such is that one can get similar from going to Del.icio.us or StumbleUpon. If you add context to your page, and state why the top 10 things are the best your page is much more linkworthy.

Someone had posted a comment on my blog asking how I get my VPC images down to a reasonable size, so I figured I'd share it here. It's not the most fun process, but it does manage to get a VPC image down from about 5+ gigs, to about 1.5 or so. To start, make sure you do not have undo disks turned on. Create a backup copy of your VPC image, you'll need this later, and it's good to have in case anything goes wrong. In the Add/Remove Components in the control panel, remove any software (applications and Windows components) that you don't need Clear the DLL cache at the command prompt, type " sfc /cachesize=1 " reboot the computer at the command prompt, type " sfc /purgecache " Delete all $something$ files from the %windir% directory except $hf_mig$....(read more)

Before you start the process of replicating your mail file to your computer (local), you should check to make sure you have enough free space on your hard drive. ?To check the size of your mail (actually, of any Notes database) you use the Properties Box. ? You can open the Properties Box by either pressing ALT+ENTER on your keyboard, choosing File - Database - Properties from the menus, or clicking the ? toolbar icon.

With the Properties Box open, switch to the second tab "i" for Information. ? There you can see the size of your mail file.

Wondering what happened to all that talk of DExt? Well, here's a clue.

SEO for Firefox now numbers the search results, and allows you to re-sort the search results by any variable.