Archive for September, 2006

Search And Web 2.0

Internet search gets Web 2.0 style
By Elinor Mills
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
news analysis The big search engines are taking a cue from Dear Abby.
In an acknowledgement that some questions may be better answered by a human than a search engine algorithm, Yahoo, Microsoft and others are embracing so-called social search.
Social search generally refers to a […]

Saturday, September 30th, 2006

Microsoft’s Live Spaces

Okay, come on. First of all if you have a blog, it’s better to have it on your own domain name where you control all aspects of your blog. No blogger.com, wordpress.com, or windoze live space can compare to actually owning your blog.
They couldn’t be more original? This wannabe MySpace clone is pathetic. Want to […]

Friday, September 29th, 2006

How People Find Your Website

I continually stress on this blog for people to not rely on just search engines for their traffic. To do so is suicide. There are many ways people find your website. I have a website that does around $15,000 per month in sales. Not huge but successful. The big news? 40% of my traffic comes […]

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

Google And Click Fraud

Click Fraud: What does Google fear? Posted by Donna Bogatin
why did Google’s Business Product Manager, Trust & Safety, Shuman Ghosemajumder, go on the offensive the prior day at the Conference during an industry panel, by seeking to undermine the work of third party click fraud assessment services?
I report on Ghosemajumder’s tactics at the conference […]

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

Website Promotion Via Blog News

Using Blog PR to Promote Your Site
By Adam McFarland of iPrioritize
The recent trend of using the press release to promote an online business has emerged with good reason – good press costs very little and can do more for a business than thousands of dollars of marketing. Most businesses use press distribution services like PR […]

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

How To Get Great Links

Untapped Linking Tactics
By Kim Roach (c) 2006
Links are the pathways by which all information on the Internet is connected. Whether you are traveling your preferred search engine or your favorite website, your paths are directed by the links you come in contact with.
Because of this, links have become the lifeblood of the Internet. Major […]

Monday, September 25th, 2006

More About Which Search Engines To Target

In my last post I talked about where the shoppers are. Many SEO gurus will disagree with me on that as they tend to do often. However, I can show you proof that the buyers are using AOL, Yahoo, and MSN more than they use google.
Google Will Pay AOL Up to $400 Million in Ad […]

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

Search Engine Wars

Everyone seems obsessed with Google and I think that google has pulled off the public relations scam of the century. Not really on purpose, but it happens anyway. According to which source you look at on the web, google has either 60%, 55%, 50%, or 47% of all searches on the web. As a result […]

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006

The Blog Advantage

Most people have read they need to have a blog. There are a lot of reasons to have one for yourself as an individual and reasons your company should have a blog.
The Blog Advantage
Your website can be indexed by all the search engines like google. msn, and yahoo. Your blog can be indexed by all […]

Friday, September 22nd, 2006

Content Sources for Your Website

Hidden Content Sources for Your Website
By Kim Roach (c) 2006
As I travel through the Google search engine, there is one element that defines almost all of the top-ranking websites. It’s great content. People come online for information and those that offer the best content reap the greatest rewards.
Unfortunately, this type of content is hard […]

Thursday, September 21st, 2006