Graham English

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Where Do You Begin If You Think You’ve Been Penalized By Google?

Rand Fishkin has posted an excellent flow chart for determining how to handle a Google penalty.
Speaking of Google penalties, Google webmaster tools just added a form to report paid links.

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How To Master Musical Textures

If you need more compositional choices or your music needs more depth, you might want to play with the textural qualities of music. This won’t be difficult because I’ve prepared a textural dictionary for you.

Polyphonic, while literally meaning “many-voiced,” refers to multivoiced texture of considerable interlinear independence, often imitative; it is understood to have qualitative [...]

Huge List Of Music Databases

Some of my favorites:

Wikipedia Musical Genre: User built info for all genres.
Ishkur Electronic Music: Guide to electronic music & sample database.
Discogs.com: Record labels, artists and releases.
MusicBrainz.org: Music metadata tag creator.
Weirdomusic.com: Strange, wacky, odd, and just plain bizarre music.
Mutopia: Free sheet music archives.
Indie- Friendly Radio: Stations accepting indie artists.
Musipedia: Search notation & melodies.
GuitarGeek: Guitar rig database
mvdbase.com: [...]

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 songs (not ranked) that shaped Rock and Roll, based on the permanent exhibit of the same name (source available at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Website)
Want to study how to write a piece of revolutionary rock and roll? It’s a serious songwriter’s resource!