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Black Spike

	P3 International P7911 Sol Mate Solar Powered Mole & Gopher Chaser List Price: $19.99 Sale Price: $12.59
	P3 P7911 SOL MATE® MOLE REPELLER

	Top Dog Spiked Black Leather Dog Collar 5/8 x 14 inch Sale Price: $8.95
	A 14" inch long and 5/8 inch wide black leather collar with spikes. (Made with genuine leather)

Tenacious D - The Complete Master Works List Price: $13.98 Sale Price: $7.99

If you're not a Tenacious D fan already, The Complete Master Works might make you an instant convert (or scare you away; it all depends). One thing's for sure: If you thought "the D" were nothing more than a novelty act, this two-disc feast will set you straight, proving that classically trained guitarist Kyle Gass and fast-rising comedy star Jack Black (School of Rock) are a bona fide acoustic power duo, scorching the pop-cultural landscape with their satirically scathing lyrics while qualifying as legitimate musicians with awesome chops and just enough insanity to make them dangerous on stage...

	Do It A Cappella (1990 Television Show) List Price: $8.96 Sale Price: $49.95

	Musical Depreciation List Price: $11.98 Sale Price: $13.84

	Best of Spike Jones - Volume 1 [VHS] List Price: $14.95 Sale Price: $14.99

	Best of Spike Jones 2 [VHS] List Price: $19.95 Sale Price: $10.69

	Kings of Comedy Collection [VHS] List Price: $15.99 Sale Price: $0.99
	The Original Kings of Comedy achieves the seemingly impossible task of capturing the rollicking and sly comedy routines of stand-up and sitcom vets Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer, and Bernie Mac and the magic of experiencing a live concert show...

	Love and Basketball (New Line Platinum Series) List Price: $14.98 Sale Price: $5.00
	A couple who have known each other since childhood and who taught each other how to play basketball reach a crossroads in their relationship.

	Malcolm X (Two-Disc Special Edition) List Price: $26.98 Sale Price: $9.91
	Biography of the controversial black leader traces his rise from street criminal to national figure.

	Crooklyn List Price: $19.98 Sale Price: $4.83
	THE WIFE AND CHILDREN OF A JOBLESS JAZZ MUSICIAN DEAL WITHEVERYDAY LIFE IN 1970'S BROOKLYN.

	Halsa Wellness Acupressure Mat (Black) List Price: $39.95 Sale Price: $39.95
	The acupressure mat is widely used throughout Europe, particularly in Sweden, where over 500,000 have been sold only in the last two years. The hälsa wellness mat is for anybody that wants to increase their energy levels and live a healthier life...

	Caravan Large Spike Looking Design With Flat Teeth And Body With Patent Covered Spring In Black Hair Claw List Price: $8.00 Sale Price: $8.00
	As mentioned in VOGUE each fashion hair accessory is a true piece of art!

	Acoustic Research Spikemaster SM-BB8S 8 Outlet, Satellite Protection Surge Protector (Black) List Price: $49.99 Sale Price: $14.25
	RECOTON SM-BB8S, 8 OUTLET SURGE SUPPRESSOR WITH COAX AND PHONE L

	Dayton DSS4-BC Black Chrome Speaker Spike Set 4 Pcs. List Price: $34.99 Sale Price: $25.00
	By rigidly coupling a loudspeaker enclosure to a floor by means of a "spiking" system, it is possible to dramatically improve clarity, stereo imaging and bass response. This is very apparent with subwoofer systems...

	Black Speaker Spike List Price: $0.99 Sale Price: $0.48
	By rigidly coupling a loudspeaker enclosure to a floor by means of a "spiking" system, it is possible to dramatically improve clarity, stereo imaging, and tighten up bass response. This black oxide finished steel spike measures 3/4" across the flats (may be tightened with a 3/4" wrench) and 1" high when mounted...

	Dayton DSS2-BC Black Chrome Spike Set 4 Pcs. List Price: $9.99 Sale Price: $7.85
	Rigidly coupling a loudspeaker enclosure to a floor by means of a "spiking" system dramatically improves clarity, stereo imaging, and bass response. This is especially apparent with subwoofer systems. These attractive spikes are precision machined from solid brass and then plated with a durable finish...

Im a black male and i wanted to know how can i spike my hair?

I really need to know what type of hair products i can use to get my hair straight so i can spike it.

First get a relaxer if your hair is very coarse. Then gel it up and just rub your hands thru it...or pick it with a wide-tooth comb...then let it air dry in that spikey do. You are done...Voila!

Trick or Treat...Beware of the Black Hat

I thought it might be a really good time to about White Hats and Black Hats, so let’s start off with some old-fashioned definitions:

White Hat Practices:  Ethical SEO practices.  White Hat refers to honest, above-the-board SEO techniques used by well-meaning industry experts to help optimize a website and its pages and to realize higher search engine rankings and drive more qualified traffic to that site.  These practices are wholeheartedly approved by Search Engines and the SEO industry at large.

Black Hat Practices:   Unethical SEO practices.  Black Hat refers to deceptive SEO techniques employed by companies looking to “trick” the search engines into realizing higher engine rankings.  These practices are not acceptable in any form to the engines and industry.

Black hat techniques are often employed by companies looking for a “quick fix” and aiming to temporarily spike search engine rankings for a given site.  These practitioners are fully aware that their success will only be fleeting, because that site will be blacklisted or banished altogether from the major search engines once their unsavory methods are uncovered.  Companies caught using black hat techniques will immediately suffer a sharp drop in engine rankings, and long-term damage to their brand and reputation.  Companies seeking SEO support need to better appreciate how damaging black hat techniques can be to the reputation of their company, their brand and/or their website.  They are advised to steer clear of companies practicing these methods.

There are many black hat techniques, so let’s identify some of them.  This list is by no means exhaustive, but at least it will encompass some of the more well-known methods:

1. Cloaking – also referred to as “sneaky redirects”, this technique features to programs that send search engine spiders to website pages never viewed by users.
2. Doorway pages – also known as “crawler only” pages, these pages are created just for search engine eyes.  They try to artificially achieve high search engine rankings for a certain search term by repeatedly incorporating the same keywords and phrases in the body of text.  This technique is related to keyword stuffing.
3. Hidden Text – this method involves the placing of keywords on a page which match the background color of the actual site, thereby rendering this text completely invisible to the human site visitor.
4. Hidden Links – similar to hidden text techniques, this method involves placing links that are specifically designed to be spidered but cannot be viewed by the user.
5. Duplication – the creation of multiple pages, domains or subdomains which essentially contain duplicate content.  Creating multiple copies of the same page under different URLs is an example of this.  Many sites provide text-only or printer-friendly versions of pages which feature the exact same content as the corresponding graphic-rich pages.  If you do have duplicate pages, you are advised by the engines to employ a robots.txt file to at least block duplicates from being spidered.  Duplicate content is usually unintentional (such as a standard web page or print friendly page), but sometimes it is by design, such as when a site recycles content to artificially increase its traffic.

There is no doubt that black hat methods, often used in excess, can lead to short-term gains but invariably at the expense of long-term pain.  These underhanded techniques pose such a serious and pervasive problem for the SEO industry that search engines such as Google and Yahoo dedicate large parts of their Webmaster Guidelines to discussing them.  If these engines somehow catch you practicing black hat stuff, you might be kissing your online reputation goodbye.  You might be blacklisted and/or banned altogether, and it could be years, if ever, before you could once again gain engine respect.

A final word on black hats:  the industry does not talk about these practices that much, which for some only lends to their mystique appeal.  Sometimes the temptation to wear black hats is too great for SEO practitioners, and has actually led to the development of grey hat methods.  As you might expect, this compromising approach is not as honest as white hat but not as dishonest as black hat.   Let’s use an example from duplication to illustrate. An ethical white hat SEO expert would be inclined to establish just a single site, whereas an unethical black hat SEO expert would devise hundreds of mirror sites to link to the main site, thereby artificially exaggerating that site’s importance to users and tricking the engines.  A grey hat SEO person might establish secondary sites that are not duplicates of the original one, have some unique content and don’t lure users into visiting an irrelevant place.  This practice might actually add some content value and optimize the original site without raising the ire of the search engines.  As in life, there is always a middle ground in the SEO world.

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	P3 International P7911 Sol Mate Solar Powered Mole & Gopher Chaser List Price: $19.99 Sale Price: $12.59
	P3 P7911 SOL MATE® MOLE REPELLER

	Top Dog Spiked Black Leather Dog Collar 5/8 x 14 inch Sale Price: $8.95
	A 14" inch long and 5/8 inch wide black leather collar with spikes. (Made with genuine leather)

	Best of Spike Jones - Volume 1 [VHS] List Price: $14.95 Sale Price: $14.99

	Best of Spike Jones 2 [VHS] List Price: $19.95 Sale Price: $10.69

	Kings of Comedy Collection [VHS] List Price: $15.99 Sale Price: $0.99
	The Original Kings of Comedy achieves the seemingly impossible task of capturing the rollicking and sly comedy routines of stand-up and sitcom vets Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer, and Bernie Mac and the magic of experiencing a live concert show...

	Love and Basketball (New Line Platinum Series) List Price: $14.98 Sale Price: $5.00
	Gina Prince-Bythewood, a former college athlete, puts a spin on this one-on-one tale of Love and Basketball. Sanaa Lathan (The Best Man) is the fiercely driven, hot-tempered Monica, a tomboy who gives her all for basketball...

Malcolm X (Two-Disc Special Edition) List Price: $26.98 Sale Price: $9.91

Just as Do the Right Thing was the capstone of Spike Lee's earlier career, Malcolm X marked the next milestone in the filmmaker's artistic maturity. It seemed everything Lee had done up to that point was to prepare him for this epic biography of America's fiery civil-rights leader, who is superbly played by Oscar-nominated Denzel Washington, from his early days as a zoot-suited hustler known as "Detroit Red" to his spiritual maturity after his pilgrimage to Mecca, as a Black Muslim by the name of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz...

	Crooklyn List Price: $19.98 Sale Price: $4.83
	THE WIFE AND CHILDREN OF A JOBLESS JAZZ MUSICIAN DEAL WITHEVERYDAY LIFE IN 1970'S BROOKLYN.

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