An amazing 1,980,488 But the number of links are hopelessly out of date.
Apart from liking a clean looking search engine, with no images to slow me down, I just found Bing to have stale and less relevant results.
Meh, I hardly trust *any* reviews online. And affiliate links would be a strong disincentive to trust.
From robotstxt.org: Google, Yahoo and Bing have extended the protocol, but don't rely on it.
Yes, it's very useful. Think i'm going to click and follow a link someone can't even "vouch for"?
The problem with owning any alternative TLDdomain, is not owning the .com of the same name.
I would say it's of limited use for traffic or link. You can't play and win every little popularity contest on the web. Concentrate on those that...
For the sake of your job application, yes you can call yourself a LAMP programmer. But play with Linux more! It's its own reward.
NO, you don't need one. However, I like them because they allow tracking indexed page in webmaster tools. If you have an RSS feed you could submit...
If it has (had) PR, it will have links and maybe traffic. If it's relevant, you should give it a try for the low cost of the experiment.
Bing results are super stale. I can't wait months for updates, so I can optimize for Bing.
Yahoo and especially Dmoz feel like ghost towns. It you view source you can see the tumble weed. $300 for a deeply buried link is $300 down the drain.
The file which builds the feed is: wp-inclues/feed-rss2.php script as root element is ... weird.
Google Analytics because it more accurately shows real human visitors. Raw web logs are full of fake bots, and noise.
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