Hiding download pages and other pages from search engines

As you develop your website you will no doubt have various pages that are “backend” pages.   These pages might include download pages, thank you pages, policy pages, or whatever.   For web marketing we optimize our sites for search engines and we do not want these types of pages to show up in search engines.…

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Strategy for migrating from Live Mesh: Part 1

Many of you are aware that Microsoft has announced that Windows Live Mesh will be turned off on February 13th, 2013.  While SkyDrive really has some nice features, there are several features missing from SkyDrive that are in Live Mesh: SkyDrive is not a true better replacement for Live Mesh.  In fact, you are going…

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Differences Between Outlook and Windows Live Mail

Ok, Microsoft has two major mail clients – the kind that you run in Windows rather than access from the web using a browser.  I’ve often wondered if the free mail client that comes with Windows Live services, Windows Live Mail (WLM), could replace the onerous Outlook Mail that comes with Microsoft Office. Bottom line: …

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Windows Live Writer Fails to Download and Update Theme

I was having problems with Windows Live Writer being able to update the theme.  I tried almost everything I could think of: changing to/from static pages, performing a quick post then immediate update, deleting the account and setting it up again, etc.   Nothing I tried seemed to work. As I ware browsing the internet for…

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