*deep sigh*

PRELUDE (you can skip this part): Ok, so over the course of the past 2 years I’ve been listening to as many highly respected hip-hop albums as I could. Anyone who’s been around here a while might remember me asking questions like "Which albums from 1990-91 do you think deserve top 100 placement?" I asked those year by year, and then I’d listen to all the albums recommended and then build on my list of "GOAT albums IMO"

Well I got up to the 2000′s a few months ago, and I realized that most of the good recommendations I got in past questions came from Mechanical. So instead of asking a question for every year of the 2000′s I just went to his blog and listened to the first 50 of his Top 302 hip-hop albums of the 00′s. But of course, Mech’s opinion isn’t the only one that matters, and sometimes his opinions on albums are vastly different from mine, so…

ACTUAL QUESTION: What I need to know is, which albums released in the 2000′s do you think deserve top 100 placement OF ALL TIME, but they DON’T already appear on Mechanical’s top 50 list for the 00′s? Please star so that the knowledgeable people who aren’t on right now see this later. Here’s a link to Mech’s list: http://themechies.blogspot.com/2010/02/top-300-hip-hop-albums-of-00s.html

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hey tell me what you think of this guys email .
ihave a blog and a guy emailed me asking this:

"We would be interested in purchasing advertising in the form of a text-based link on your site.
The site I represent deals in fine jewelry, making it both relevant and of mutual benefit."
(thats from his first email to me )

what should i say . and do you think he’s doing some kind of scam or anything . my bf says it seems shady and that he seems like hes part of some spyware scam.

here is the email he sent me recently after i asked him for more details
"Thanks for your email.

I am looking to place a text link within a few short sentences, and maybe a title.
There is no image or banner with it, so it will require very little room. I can pay
you 0 to post the link for one year, payable upfront via Paypal.

Please let me know your thoughts when you can.
Best,
Richard"

paypal is pretty legit But im not sure what to make of this .
on his email part of his contact info was connected to this site http://www.patternspace.net/

(but he never said that was the site hes representing)

do you think it would be a bad idea to take him up on the offer?
do you think hes legit ?

oh and can you tell me what i should say or ask him ?

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There is a spot for a "podcast enclosure", or maybe there is another way to put music on blogs. I have seen blogs with music so i would like to know how to do that.

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i want to hide my blogs and extended network on myspace but all of the codes that ive tried leave a white space and the "so and so’s blurb’s" orange bar. does anyone if there’s a code that hides all these things?

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Background: About 6 years ago I was doing a pretty extensive job search, and was contacted back by a "recruiter" who requested my resume. I sent it in but never heard back, even when I called to follow up.

Roughly a year later, so 5 years ago, I had started and then closed a business and was job-searching again. As I googled around to see if there were any new ways to put together a professional resume, any new trends etc, I clicked a link and was slapped in the face when my OWN RESUME appeared on the site owned by "Professional Resume Writers."

Seems they place ads for employment, obtain resumes from innocent job-seeking applicants, then turn around to re-sell the stolen resumes to their "clients."

I don’t know if that’s ok or not ok in the legal sense, but I had written mine and I didn’t want them selling it.

So I contacted the business and requested that they remove my resume from their website. They ignored me, so after the third request (phone message and email), I reported them to the Better Business Bureau and other types of similar online business complaint services.

At that point, the business owners came UNGLUED and wrote several dozen pages of miscellaneous slanderous rhetoric about me which they are now broadcasting all over the Internet.

Their extensive posting of misinformation about me is pretty much evidence (to me anyway) that they were in fact guilty of stealing other people’s original work. Guess I hit a nerve.

They easily obtained my employer’s name, my home address, my phone info, and other personal data and proceeded to blast articles everywhere that I was a dishonest business person, that I was "deranged", that people should steer clear of doing business with me, etc etc etc.

This has caused so much stress for me that in addition to having to change jobs and change phone numbers, I actually was compelled to legally change my name. When you google my old name, because of the wording, the meta tags, and the search engine placement these people have utilized; it appears as though I’m untrustworthy, crazy, and even a criminal.

They even have my photo and contact information up on a website that they themselves maintain, that lists all of the slander they are posting about me.

Is there anything I can do about this? How can they be using my photo?

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Plain & Simple:

1. I want to create my own search engine.
2. I want to custom-brand the search engine.
3. Yes, in other words, I want to create my own "Yahoo!" or Google.
4. I am not interested in hearing your views regarding market dominance and how it interferes with the feasibility of this project.
5. I do not want the Google custom search module on my site, as it is NOT custom branded AND it limits my searches to the Google world.
Everybody, I want to thank you all for your answers. I’ve gotten some really useful input from some of you. Please, keep the answers coming, I think this is a question that many people are interested in.

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<a href="http://www.2simple4you.com/seo-elite-software.htm">SEO Elite Software</a> The Most Powerful Search Engine Marketing Software On The Web! <<<=== has anyone ever used these programs?

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I have few domain names that all are redirecting to one domain name. Currently i am using the html tag <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=mydomain.com/" />. I was hoping that all the redirected traffic will increase my main domain page rank due to the traffic.
But I read yesterday that this ‘refresh’ meta tag is actually bad for SEO. They mentioned there that search engine actually unindex domains like that and therefore i would lose that traffic and the domains would not show up in search results.

Can any one suggest me a good way to redirect the traffic from my secondary domains to my primary one? I would like to monitor the traffic in the secondary domains as well as in the primary domain. Currently i am using google analytics to give me traffic information about all the domains.

Please, when answering this question include whether your method is SEO friend, and how? And, also include whether i can monitor it with google analytics or maybe you can suggest other traffic analytics tool?

Thanks.

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I’m trying to make a moving graphic on ImageReady for my website using pretty high-quality pictures I made on Photoshop. Only, in order to have it be animated, I need to save it optimized in GIF format. However, when I do that the graphic I made loses a significant amount of quality. Although I’m an old pro at Photoshop, I’m relatively new with ImageReady.

I might be creating the graphic wrong, but when I save it in GIF format, it moves and stuff just fine, only in worse quality.

How do I fix this?
Is there another way?

Thank you!
Oh yes, I’ve also toyed around quite a bit on ImageReady. I’ve changed preferences and dabbled with the controls on the "Optimized" window/palette.

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if you want to target Los Angeles Real estate, is it necessary to include the "los angeles" part in your website when doing meta tags and keywords? Does google know where your website is?

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