Free the Internet - February 20, 2009 - 6th Ed.

Welcome to the 6-th, February 20, 2009, edition of the Free the Internet Blog Carnival. Some statistics: Submitted Articles - 86. Published Articles - 34. I want to thank all the authors contributing to the issue. Some articles were excluded from the review, since their topic of discussion did not match the main target of the carnival. I am sorry, that not all submissions were accepted, as some of the excluded articles carried a significant value.

Britannica Blog presents Why Bloggers Blog | Britannica Blog posted at Britannica Blog, saying, "Tom McMahon strikes again, getting at the heart of why bloggers do what they do"

Tim Grice presents Be A Search Engine Optimisation Expert - Using Key Concepts Of On Page Seo posted at Search Engine Optimisation, saying, "Whether you want to be a search engine optimisation expert or just want to see your site rank a little higher for your chosen keywords, you are going to need to know the principle concepts of inputting rich keyword text into your web pages."

Wayne John presents What is Cache - How to Clear or Delete Cache posted at Wayne John, saying, "When is the last time you cleared your cache? Do you know what cache is? Do you know how to clear your cache? If the term cache eludes you, you’re probably in good company. It’s pronounced ’cash’, yes, just like Johnny, and not ’cashay’ as if you were from West Los Angeles."

Sarah Scrafford presents 50+ Free Open Courseware Classes for Social Media Mavens posted at Online Best Colleges.com.

Tim Grice presents Seo Advice - Link Building posted at Search Engine Optimisation, saying, "It is familiar seo advice to hear how important inbound links are to your site and site ranking. Both reciprocal and inbound links have the potential to bring you a lot of traffic and not just from the search engines. Both reciprocal and inbound links can effect your current rankings within the major search engines, however they somewhat differ in strengh."

Fiona King presents 100 Free iPhone Apps That Will Make You Smarter posted at Online Best Colleges.com.

Patricia Turner presents 101 Killer Open Courseware Projects from Around the World: Ivy League and Beyond posted at The .Edu Toolbox.

Patricia Turner presents 10 Best Free Speech Web Hosts Compared ? 2009 posted at WHDb.

Margaret Garcia presents 50 Great Learning Tools & Video Games for Nurses & Health Professionals posted at Online Nursing Degree Guide.

Tim Grice presents Seo Expert Services - Site Visibility Issues posted at Search Engine Optimisation, saying, "Any form of expert seo services should also include a service which detects and fixes potential site visibility issues. When we talk about site visibility what we are really referring to is the compliance of a page’s source code with the requirements of the search engine spiders or bots."

Prashant K Shukla presents SEO and Meta Tags | My Smart SEO posted at Prashant K Shukla, saying, "SEO and Meta Tags - Meta Tags play significant role in SEO and if we take utmost care in building these tags, result would be the perfect optimization of our website."

Erika Collin presents 100 Amazing Video and Image Collections for Space Geeks posted at Online Best Colleges.com.

Heather Johnson presents 100 Useful Web Tools to Survive-and Thrive-in a Recession posted at e-Justice Blog.

Prashant K Shukla presents Role of Meta Title Tag in SEO | My Smart SEO posted at Prashant K Shukla, saying, "Meta tags are the blocks which contain information about the contents of your web page and they exist into the head area of your web page. They are basically meant to communicate with the search engine. The Meta Keywords Tag and Meta Description Tag also need to be taken care of and optimized equally in addition to that of Meta Title Tag to secure a place at the top of the search engines and in convincing a search engine that your site’s contents are more relevant than that of your competitor’s."

Andy presents How to Easily Get Tons of Free Targeted Traffic To Your Blog posted at Personal Hack, saying, "This is a great technique that I learned about from other bloggers."

Margaret Garcia presents The Top 50 Philosophy Blogs posted at Web Design Schools Guide.

Heather Johnson presents 50 Best People Search Engines to Track Down Anyone posted at Masters in Criminal Justice.

Erika Collin presents List-mania: 100+ Web Tools for Editing, Maintaining, Remixing Lists posted at eLearning Gurus.

Tim Grice presents Is SEO A Dieing Art? posted at Search Engine Optimisation, saying, "There has been a lot of talk recently in the SEO world about Google’s new personalised search and how it will affect the industry."

Erika Collin presents 50 Must-Have Firefox Extensions for e-Learning & Researching posted at The .Edu Toolbox.

JobandCareer Advice presents If WordPress Is Good Enough For Jeff Johnson Then It Must Be Good posted at We Build Your Blog, saying, "Find out why the big name Internet gurus use WordPress"

Sarah presents Miss Virtual Reality: free webhosting posted at Miss Virtual Reality.

Heather Johnson presents Who Knows What About You? 25 Free Tools to Find Out posted at e-Justice Blog.

Heather Johnson presents Learning Gone Wild: 100 Most Hilarious (But Informative) DIY Guides on the Web posted at Learn-gasm.

Sarah Scrafford presents 100 Free and Useful Open Courseware Classes for Web Workers posted at Learn-gasm.

Raily Arena presents Reverse Cellular Phone Lookups: Why Paid Versions Work Better posted at How to Find Phone Number.

Jesse presents Free Giveaway Fridays - Feb 6 posted at insideWebmaster.

Jamie Munro presents How to get indexed by Google in ONE hour posted at End Your If, saying, "Want to gain quality organic traffic? Read this article and get indexed by Google in one hour!"

Kathryn presents Hundreds Of Resources for Writers posted at Real Words, saying, "Links to hundreds of free classes, applications and other resources that are of benefit to people who write for the web."

Kevin Fleming presents 41 Places to Watch TV Online for Free posted at Satellite TV Guru.

B.M. Garrett presents The top three free gaming websites posted at Gen Digi, saying, "f this is your first time hearing about free games on websites then you are very fortunate, and if you already know about this phenomenon then try reading the whole article as maybe you skipped visiting a website dedicated for games that we highly recommend."

Gilbert Van Norman presents Getting a FREE Laptop posted at Free Stuff Online, saying, "Getting a Free Laptop"

Silicon Valley Blogger presents Free Stock Charting Tool To Check Stocks, Chart Market Trends posted at The Digerati Life, saying, "Thanks!"

Annette Berlin presents The Best of eHow posted at Craft Stew, saying, "eHow has free instructions for thousand of crafts and projects. Here are some of the favorites."

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