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No Rankings after 2 years
Still no rankings, while other sites that do not have the meta-tags, alts, or content that this site has continue to climb in the rankings.

OmniExplorer_Bot/1.07
Anybody know about this spider they have hit my site every second for about 90 min. it seems like they looked at every page i have. omni-explorer.com gives a 404 page

Spam or no spam?
I've recently been working on a layout which incorporates a block of plain text that is hidden on the screen, but visible in the top right corner of the page when printed.

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By Mark Fleming

Google Search now has new functionality that will attempt to answer what it perceives to be a question that you've keyed into the search box. It's called Google Q&A.

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There's not really very much you need to understand to use it. You simply key in your search terms and Google determines if it appears you are looking for a fact, and if it thinks it might have that fact to give you. If it does, it will give it to you at the top of the search results page. For example, try searching for: [number of moons jupiter]

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