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Web Quicklinks, Friday 14 December 2007

An amazing photo, a long ugly URL

Del.icio-us linking
Not familiar with social media sites such as del.icio.us and the great resource and opportunity they represent your business or organisation?

This blog post explains what del.icio.us is and how it and other social media sites can be one of the most powerful resources for your link building efforts.
http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/social-media/delicious-link-building

End of the captcha?

Have organised high tech criminals broken the captcha system? Captchas are the challenge - response questions used on web forms to try and ensure the form is being filled out by a human, not an automated bot or spamming tool. This article is a fascinating coverage of the issue, with some great examples of captchas:

It seems an awful lot of programmers subscribe to the “add some crazy patterns and/or colors to the text and pray for the best” school of CAPTCHA design. That’s not only sloppy, it just doesn’t work. The top of this chart is littered with their failed attempts. On some sites, this is OK. They don’t need the same world-class level of protection from bots and scripts that Ticketmaster does– there’s tremendous financial incentive for scalpers to break their system.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001001.html

Case candy

A beautiful computer case - stained glass, via boingboing.net I want one for Christmas.

Accidental Millionaire
Finally a story to gladden your entrepreneurial heart and restore hope. Yes the story of another accidental 10 something or 20 something year-old internet millionaire.

Every day countless webmaster forums and newsgroups are abuzz with the latest theories, received wisdom and rantings on how to achieve search engine results nirvana for your web site.

For many the game is all about gaining inbound links from authority web sites. For others the focus is on-page factors such as page title, meta tags and keyword density and placement. Many swear by trust factors, or domain and site age. Topic stability over time and other longevity factors. And so it goes.

The truth of course is there’s no one silver bullet or Secret. Yes these factors are all important elements in the collective mix, but unless you have very deep pockets it’s virtually impossible to focus on more than a couple of elements of search engine optimisation at a time.

The trick is to focus on the one which gives you most overall leverage and return for your limited resources. Read the rest of this entry »