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It is a fact that people avoid sponsored search results and rarely make it past page two of their result listings on Google. So how do you get your business to the top and keep it there? It has been predicted that Internet sales will make up nearly half of all purchases by 2012. As a result, being at the top of organic search results can literally transform your business. Get to the Top on Google: Tips and Techniques to Get Your Site to the Top of the Search Engine Rankings-and Stay There is the first book to comprehensively address all aspects of modern day search engine marketing through a straightforward methodology, which includes an up-to-date assessment of the impact of Web 2.0 on marketing strategies. Thorough and accessible, Get to the Top on...

Focusing on Direct3D 8.x, this book shows a wide array of specialized vertex and pixel shader programming tricks from industry experts. Vertex and pixel shader programming allows graphics and game developers to create photorealistic graphics on the personal computer for the first time. And with DirectX, programmers have access to an assembly language interface to the transformation and lighting hardware (vertex shaders) and the pixel pipeline (pixel shaders). This book begins with an introduction to vertex and pixel shader programming and moves on to a wide array of specialised shader tricks contributed by 27 experts in game and graphics programming. These range from character animation and lighting to photorealistic faces and non-photorealistic rend...

The Linux Cookbook shows Linux users at all levels how to perform a variety of everyday computer tasks such as: printing stationery; converting and managing files; editing and formatting text; working with digital audio; and creating and manipulating graphics. The quick-reference, "cookbook"-style format, includes step-by-step Linux "recipes."...