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There was another Google update this week. So funny in the same week as Halloween.

Some people are calling it Google Slap 2007. SO what is Google Slap 2007? Google Slap is a Google punishment for all the link sellers. I mean it is really easy for Google to find out who is selling from textlinbrokers.com, Linkworth.com and other link selling sites.

So Google introduced some changes in Google algorithm and the sites that are selling links from Major link brokers got slapped big time.

But the Google slap was mainly for PR, and it did not affect rankings, traffic.....

So basically Google is preventing that all these sites stop selling links and so their PR drastically decreased.

Did Google Slapped my sites? Yes it did, but only one? It went from PR5 to PR3.

But still there are  major players and companies that are still buying links all the time, not through textlinkbrokers.com but from other sources like directly contacting other websites. If I make it simple, all the big companiessites are buying links. It is a huge market. I talked with several companies SEO's and ask them what are thes doingregarding SEO. Answer was: We buy links!

I know major players are spending even up to 100000 USD per month just for buying links. And small websites without enough budget can't compete. This is not fair, but that will never improve. Google will never win over spamming, gray hat seo. It wil never comea time where nobody will buylinks. Mark mywords. Even if Google is playing police all the time he will never found out all the big players. 

Matt Cutts might just check the top 10 for all the popular keywords. They are for sure buying links all the time.  

I mean I like Ramsey, I adore his show. But here is the revenge for that poor fat Chinese guy on Hells Kitchen that almost had a heart attack.

You bad Ramsey, he almost died under Hells Kitchen stress

My Photoshop contribution.

We just did a new batch of Jewelry Retouching. After we shoot the pictures, we use Photoshop to remove the background, all the artifacts, improve the color, exposure........

If you would like to use our services, please contact us.

Our clients told us that their website sales tripled after we retouched all their jewelry images. In fact, they got 5 times more newsletter subscribers and 6 times more phone calls.

Perfectly retouched images can do magic, you will double or even triple your sales. From my experience, it is worth investing in jewelry retouching and make your jewelry website more professional.

Our biggest clients gave us positive feedback and on average their sales tripled.

FEW OF OUR BEST JEWELRY SAMPLES

BEFORE AND AFTER JEWELRY IMAGES

Here is an example of how complicated the whole retouching process is, you can clearly see that all of the small stones are cut out and put on separate layer. And also the image is a little bit to sharpened for my taste, but the client wanted it like that. We get the maximum out of each image. Each image is a unique jewelry art that needs a special approach.

BEFORE AND AFTER JEWELRY PIECES

 RUBY DIAMOND BRACELET RETOUCHED 

RUBY GOLD BRACELET

GOLD BRACELET RETOUCHED

MULTI STONE JEWELRY BRACELET

 YELLOW GOLD DIAMOND RING RETOUCHED

 DIAMOND YELLOW GOLD NECKLACE RETOUCHED

ANOTHER GOOD EXAMPLE OF VERY ADVANCED RETOUCHING I JUST COMPLETED. In this example I had to do a lot of retouching. I did not want to brush over, because that would look fake, so I repaired each dot, stain on the shank. That took me around 1 hour. But the stones look so amazing. I sharpened them, enhanced colors, this is the diamond ring your would want to buy right?

DIAMOND RING RETOUCHED - I had to remove the black reflection completely and enhance the diamond

 YELLOW GOLD RUBY DIAMOND NECKLACE - cutout, enhancing ruby, diamonds, removing blemishes

BRACELET JEWELRY RETOUCH - the original was out of focus, it took me 1 hour to finish this piece, very advanced retouching 

 DIAMOND BRACELET - this piece took a long time to retouch, we cutout each diamond, took us 1 hour to retouch this

This one was tough, no shank to work with, and extremely bad photography. But my magic hands saved it after 30 minutes.This is ADVANCED PROFESSIONAL RETOUCHING.

Here is another sample of bad original shank, I had to recreate one from scratch. Sometimes clients want clean shanks like that. We can make that happen.
 

FEW OTHER SAMPLES THAT SHOW OUR DEDICATION TO DETAILS AND CUSTOMER 100% SATISFACTION

Joomla 1.5 RC2 Test Drive

New Joomla 1.5 RC2 is very good. It is not perfect but much improved from the latest 1.13 version. I have just tested it. It is much simpler to use, The admin section is improved, not so complicated for newbies anymore. Now you can much easily orientate thru the admin section of Joomla.

What is new in Joomla 1.5 RC2

1. Well they integrated SEO in the Joomla code. Now you do not have to use a special add-on for SEO in Joomla anymore. And that is a huge step. Drupal has it, so why Joomla would not have it. It is very simple, you can not set what the friendly url would be like, like in Drupal for example but still it is a step into right direction. I am still dissapointed because some strange characters appears instead of spaces between words and that is a BIG MINUS. I hope they will fix this ISSUE!!!!! I am sometimes disappointed that CMS makers just forget about SEO. I remember I had a personal chat with Geeklog (another CMS) maker about met titles, meta tags, meta description, meta keywords and he told me that that is just a snake oil. I could not believe that a Geeklog leader is such an idiot. Now if I have to build a CMS site it is Joomla or Drupal, no more Geeklog and other low proficient CMS.

    

2. The other thing I have noticed is that you don’t have static and non static content. SO I you want to make a page with intro you just select with a button where the article should devide between the whole article and the intro. It is really good and simple. BRAVO for that. I don’t want to explain more about that because it might get complicated. You will see it.

    

3. Another thing is that it has a very cool integrated WYSIWYG editor, the new version, and everything runs smoothly. You can upload pictures, resize them on the spot, you can use the url where the picture is and it is automatically pulled into the Joomla. This is really cool.

    

4. And also the code for the template seems to be simpler. That is a great plus. That is what I saw new for now. Joomla developers said that they improved the core Joomla code so that is good also.

So the time is coming to upgrade Joomla to 1.5, the upgrade will nt eb simple, but they claim they will make a special tool to move all the data to new Joomla setup.

Well I have to write this, this host is horrible. Their support is horrible. If you compare dot5hosting.com and Bluehost.com, it is like comparing a 1975 beetle and Porsche. It is that bad. Why?

Well their support is horrible. It seems that they employ retardet people. I had to setup 3 new websites for a client and I had to call them at least 15 times to ask them to add aditional domain to my server. You can not do it yourself like with other hosts, you have to ask a horrible TECH 2 (fancy name) support and they will do it after at least 10 emails, and 15 phone calls.

Yes that is not all. I tried to install another drupal site and something was wrong with install, these idiots just did not give all the rights to the database user so the installation of drupal was impossible. After that I have tried the Joomla 1.5, the new RC2 (release candidate 2) and still errors.

I am so sick of these horrible people. The support guy even screamed at me once, well what can I say, HORRIBLE EXPIRIENCE.

If you listen to me, never purchase an account with them.

Page titles are the most important factors for ranking on your page. Page title can be seen only in your html code under document head section. It can also be seen at the top of the browser.

Page title tags are different as your page text title. They represent more than 50 % importance to search engines as all the other factors together. So be sure to optimize your page title correctly.

So probably you are asking me how should I write the best page title, what is the best page title tag to have on my site. Well the answer is not easy. On recent SEO seminar I have heard a guy that was talking about page titles.

He said never to change page title tag of your site or page if that page is number 1 in search engines. As soon as you change your title a little bit, your ranking may drop from no.1 position to no. 20 for example.