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E-commerce blog Get Elastic wrote a post describing how to use the no-follow attribute to “attribute on your internal links to control the flow of “Page Rank” throughout your site.” Here’s how they explain PageRank:
Page Rank (think Larry Page) [...]

Attention Online Newsers, I’m looking for your advice on the difference between writing for print and writing for web.
Here’s some general standards in web writing that I think we can skip:

Write short (or at least succinct)
Write in scan-able text (using bolding and subheads)
Include multimedia (although this isn’t really always necessary or correct)

But there’s a lot [...]

I’m late to the party on this one. The latimes.com’s Eric Ulken has a post about the top 10 blogging cities in the nation, citing Outside.in as the source.
Outside.in is a local blog aggregator that can help you find blogs in your area and read more about the topics that are on the minds of [...]

Hundreds of thousands of Michigan fifth- and sixth-graders must retake the Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP) test after details regarding an essay portion of the test were printed in the Jackson Citizen Patriot earlier this week.
According to a statement, a Cit Pat reporter was given permission to interview students about the MEAP test and was [...]