Doing Good and Link Bait

Sacrificing Top Placing in Blog Awards

A key metric typically used to measure blog popularity is the number of bloglines subscribers or feedburner subscribers. These measures give an idea of the number of subscribers you have to your RSS feed. In theory, this represents your “subscriber core” and indicates how ’sticky’ your content is. You might think this blog fares abysmally, according to Text Link Ads “Blog Juice” calculator.

ContextWeb’s ADSDAQ Goes Live

DoubleClick may be working on a "NASDAQ-like exchange" for online display ads, but today ContextWeb has opened their ADSDAQ platform live, discussed here recently.

Big Brands Clueless On Site Search

Visiting the website for a major consumer brand should lead people to a useful, easily found site search if desired. Vivisimo's VP of Marketing, Rebecca Thompson, gleefully mocked several big name brands for their unimpressive site search efforts.

Moving a WordPress Blog

Having recently moved a few Wordpress blogs from one host to another, I thought I’d write up a quick ho-to. It’s actually quite painless.

Joost Squeezes New Content Deals

Internet television service Joost, has announced partnerships with five major content owners including Turner Broadcasting System who will distribute content such as CNN news programs and talk shows on the online network. Joost Squeezes New Content Deals