Search Engines
Google Announces Interest Based Advertising
A lot of bloggers use Google Adsense, so this is an announcement from Google which is likely relevant to you. I got an email last night which stated:
We’re writing to let you know about the upcoming launch of interest-based advertising, which will require you to review and make any necessary changes to your site’s privacy [...]
10 Point Crash Course in Blog SEO
Getting your blog into the search engines is important. That’s obvious. I think a lot of beginning bloggers tend to over-think it, though. In this post, I’m going to give you a rapid-fire overview of what I think is important for you to think about moving forward when it comes to getting your stuff into [...]
Does Online Video Sacrifice SEO Benefits?
I am a big believer that social media (and I’m going to include video and blogs under that header) has gone a long way to make SEO a much less important thing. That said, though, there is no doubt that SEO is still alive and well. Videos, though, aren’t indexable. Are you wasting your SEO [...]
Are Adsense Publishers Scared About the Economy?
I got an email from the Director of Adsense and it starts out as follows:
We understand that the recent economic turmoil has created a lot of uncertainty in the lives of AdSense publishers. During these difficult times, we’re continuing to invest in innovations that improve publisher monetization and advertiser value in the content network.
The email [...]
Lively.com? What the F**k Is Google Thinking?
Remember Orkut? The social network might be popular in Brazil, but it is a tiny fish when compared to Myspace or Facebook.
Now we have Lively, a new virtual reality site which, as Andy Beal puts it, will be the the Orkut to Second Life.
My question? WHY?
As Google posts in their blog,
A while ago, I looked [...]
Writing Headlines For Social Media or Search Engines?
The other evening, I attended a search engine optimization meeting here in the Tampa area. It was organized by Loren Baker of Search Engine Journal. Since he does SEO for a living, I asked him his thoughts on how social media was changing the field of SEO. One of the questions that I raised was [...]
Google Just Won’t Launch What Matters - To Do List
I saw the story about Google launching Friend Connect. Cool. Yeah, whatever. My question is when are they going to finally plug the gaping hole in their Google Apps package: the to do list.
I am a Google whore. I love the company’s products. They are generally well executed. But, it just floors me that they [...]
Microsoft-Yahoo Story DOMINATES Techmeme
Like a lot of bloggers, I follow Techmeme to get the buzz in the blogopshere. Today, the story about Microsoft bidding to buy Yahoo is completely DOMINATING Techmeme. I think every blogger, and probably their grandmothers, are talking about this story.
To illustrate, look at this compiled screenshot of Techmeme as it is right now. The [...]
Google Presents…
From Google’s official blog:
Starting today, presentations — whether imported from existing files or created using the new slide editor — are listed alongside documents and spreadsheets in the Google Docs document list. They can be edited, shared, and published using the familiar Google Docs interface, with several collaborators working on a slide deck simultaneously, in [...]
Has Google Penalized Your Site?
YoungEntrepreneur.com has posted a quick piece about Google penalizing your site. In it, they mention that Google has, last week, reinstituted the practice of emailing webmasters in the event that they are blacklisted. They were doing that originally, but they had stopped in favor of simply posting notices into Webmaster Tools. The problem is that [...]
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