Designing and Coding The Great Internet Blackout

By now, surely you know The Great Internet Blackout Is On. However, among all the participating sites, Designing and Coding The Great Internet Blackout can be very basic, or extremely complex.

So, who facilitated The Great Internet Blackout, on their website, with the best “Cool” factor and with the least browser problems?


Google changes the images used (Doodles) to represent their name on Google.com, quite often. So was blacking out the “Google” the best option?
Google Day Of SOPA/PIPA

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www or not to www? That is the Question.

Most people understand “www” in a web address, means World Wide Web, but is the “www” really necessary?

Many domain names used for the World Wide Web begin with www because of the long-standing practice of naming Internet hosts (servers) according to the services they provide. The hostname for a web server is often www, in the same way that it may be ftp for an FTP server, and news or nntp for a USENET news server. – Wikipedia

Sapphire Solutions owns the domain sapphiresolutionsltd.com and if we named the internet hosts according to the services they provided, we would have:

  • A Web Site at www.sapphiresolutionsltd.com
  • A FTP site at ftp.sapphiresolutionsltd.com
  • A NEWS site at nntp.sapphiresolutionsltd.com

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SEO Alert: Description Meta Tag and the Search Snippet

In Keyword Meta Tag not being used I included a video where Matt Cutts verified this to be true. However, he also stated Google will often use the Description Meta Tag to display as the Snippet.

Matt Cutts is a Software Engineer for Google. He works as the head of Google’s Webspam team. This means he plays a large roll in how search results are determined on the Google Search web site and probably has a lot to do with the Google Search Appliance.

When Matt says the Description Meta Tag is often used as the Snippet, in Google’s Search Results, I want to know more.

I’m pretty familiar with what a Snippet is, but others may not be. So, the first thing we want to do is to show what a snippet is and how it is used.

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SEO Alert: Keyword Meta Tag not being used!

There must be a lot of people who are falling for these emails promising better search results. There has to be, doesn’t there? I mean, why else would the ploy continue to circulate if it wasn’t effective?

I can see the draw. Someone sends an email, out of the blue, promising better search results, but its all just a big scam (read up on Search Engine Optimization Email Scams).

Try carrying on a conversation with these people. I’ve tried several times. I very simply ask:

How do you plan to get my web site on the front page of search results and what it will cost me?

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HTML Code: ASCII Special Characters (Hex F0-FF)

HTML Code: ASCII Special Characters (Hex F0-FF)

Dec: 240-255
Hex: F0-FF

HTML Code for: Small eth w/ Icelandic, Small n w/ Tilde, Small o w/ Grave Accent, Small o w/ Acute Accent, Small o w/ Circumflex Accent, Small o w/ Tilde, Small o w/ Dieresis/Umlaut Mark, Division Sign, Small o w/ Slash, Small u w/ Grave Accent, Small u w/ Acute Accent, Small u w/ Circumflex Accent, Small u w/ Dieresis/Umlaut Mark, Small y w/ Acute Accent, Small thorn w/ Icelandic & Small y w/ Dieresis/Umlaut Mark.

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