eBay: Going, Going, Yahoo Auctions Gone

Those “Highlander” movies (and the television series) are fairly fuzzy memories for me, but I’m quite sure that they involved a bunch of guys running around, chopping each other’s heads off, and absorbing each other’s power.  Well, Yahoo Auctions pretty much decapitated itself, but that act effectively leaves eBay as “the only one.”

Optimize for Local Search Traffic

Getting local search engine traffic is one of the things that small businesses aspire to. Some even don't know they can increase the amount of local visitors by improving their website. So what can a local small business do to get the long-wanted local traffic? What is local search? Before we list things to do on your site to improve your local search engine traffic,…

Avoid Duplicate Typepad Homepages

I had a client recently ask me about a blog that was using TypePad’s domain mapping feature and it was causing duplicate homepage URLs for the blog.

Build Your Own Amazon.com

My friend Scott Beale is taking a little heat over at his blog Laughing Squid for promoting Amazon's latest offering to let bloggers and others build online stores where they can promote the products and artists that they support.