Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.
[Adfunk Sport News] Baseball 3 From Adfunk Sport News: The first baseman's job consists largely of making force plays at first base on ground balls hit to the other infielders. The first baseman also fields balls hit near first base, but because the position is less demanding than the others, the team's strongest hitter is often also their first baseman. The second baseman covers the area to the right of second base and provides backup for the first baseman. The shortstop fills the critical gap between second and third bases””where right-handed batters generally hit ground balls””and also covers second or third base and the near part of left field.
the Duke of URL: Never having done this before, I have no idea how this will effect my search engine listings and rankings. Prior to the move (completed on August 4, 2004), www.belchfire.net had over 150,000 backlinks on the major search engines (Google, MSN, Yahoo, AllTheWeb, etc.). I've redirected the top pages and sections using 301 http response codes, (i.e. http://www.belchfire.net/xpthemes.html redirects to http://themes.belchfire.net/index.php?act=Downloads and sends a 301 'Moved Permanently' response to the client), but until Google and other sites update at the end of the month, I'm holding my breath that I don't lose all the links and listings I've worked so hard to maintain over the last three years.
SEO Today Article: Yahoo! Directory Makes Big Changes: Make a keyword the first word in your Title, Description and URL if feasible because the first word is more valuable than subsequent keywords. Also try to keep your keywords together. The new formula places more weight on the first word in a search phrase, and on keywords grouped together rather than those separated by non-keywords. For example, "small business software solutions" is more powerful than "software solutions for small business" because the word "for" separates the keywords in the second phrase.
ChristopherA's 360 Comments: http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-kp41HTcyc7R8xmkLlEOgVEiCaUbL9IwqZyT7?p=22I'm told that you can embed pictures when you use the "View HTML Source" button when posting blog entries. However, there is a trick -- you have to remember to specify the size (width= height=), and that size must smaller than the size of a blog entry.<br /> <br /> Here is a test: <img src="http://lifewithalacrity.blogs.com/chris_allen(100x100).gif" alt="Image" height="100" width="100" alt="Image" /><br /> <br /> Note that there is still the bug in the HTML editor where that you shouldn't use quotes when entering tag properties, i.e. use src=picture.html rather then src="picture.html". What you'll find is that when you save the proper quotes will be added if you go edit your blog post again.<br /> <br /> I also note that you can't enter in style property for an image tag. If you try entering style=float:right; it get's stripped out.<br />
Tool to analyze Japanese keyword in web log file: Your web stats program displays 2 Japanese key words but unable to display correctly. Select the zone that contains those Japanese keywords and copy onto the clipboard. The example comes from the listing of 123Loganalyzer but you can use other web stats programs in the same manner.
SEOmoz | Search Optimization Advice & Resources: This tool compares a site's ranking position for a keyword phrase across several search engines and the allin set of searches at Google against the ranking position at Google. It also measures the site's link building progress against the median of the top 20 competitors for the search phrase to see how much better/worse the site's performance is.
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