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Duplicate Content Explained

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

Jill Whalen recently clarified the details of duplicate content over at the 100% Organic section of Search Engine Land. She does a wonderful job of outlining the fact that many people misinterpret duplicate content penalties from duplicate content filters. All search engines basically want to do is provide the most relevant and current information. Therefore, any page displaying duplicate content will most likely rank enormously low. Obviously, deliberate duplication for sp@m-vertising reasons, such as adsense scraper pages, are extremely de-valued and may not even rank. Trust me, Jill does a much better job of explaining. Check out the article here: The Duplicate Content Penalty Myth.

Happy St. Paddy’s Day

Friday, March 16th, 2007

Here are a couple of my favorite Irish jokes

A young Irishman sat at a pub in the New World drinking beer and conversin’ with the barkeep. Another comes in and sits besides him.

He says how you do and hears the lilt and says you be Irish? Yes I am. The first man yells barkeep, give us another round and one for my friend here he’s from the mother country as well.

The second man asks, so where in the old country ye from. Dublin responds the first. Dublin you say - so am I and the second man hollers barkeep bring us another round and a shot of your best Irish whiskey for me and my friend here.

Afterwards the first man asks from where in Dublin and the second man responds with the street and the first man says well I’ll be - so am I and yells barkeep another pair of beers and Irish Whiskey for the pair of us.

The phone behind the bar rings and the barkeep answers it. The owner of the pub asks - how is business. The barkeep responds - not too bad - The O’Malley twins are here getting drunk again.

 

An Irish man walks into a pub. The bartender asks him, “What’ll you have?”

The man says, “Give me three pints of Guinness please.”

So the bartender brings him three pints and the man proceeds to alternately sip one, then the other, then the third until they’re gone. He then orders three more.

The bartender says, “Sir, I know you like them cold. You don’t have to order three at a time. I can keep an eye on it and when you get low I’ll bring you a fresh cold one.”

The man says, “You don’t understand. I have two brothers, one in Australia and one in the States. We made a vow to each other that every Saturday night we’d still drink together. So right now, my brothers have three Guinness Stouts too, and we’re drinking together.

The bartender thought that was a wonderful tradition.

Every week the man came in and ordered three beers. Then one week he came in and ordered only two. He drank them and then ordered two more.

The bartender said to him, “I know what your tradition is, and I’d just like to say that I’m sorry that one of your brothers died.”

The man said, “Oh, me brothers are fine, I just quit drinking.”

 

Two men were scuffling outside a pub when along came a huge Irishman - fists like hams - who started taking his coat off.

‘You’re fighting about Ireland, aren’t you?’ he demanded.

‘No, no,’ said both men in unison. ‘Honestly, it’s a personal matter, nothing to do with Ireland at all.’

‘Huh,’ muttered the Paddy, and shuffled off. Two seconds later he was back, tearing off his coat saying:

‘So Ireland’s not worth fighting about, eh?’