Community and ROI
The firms I talk to about community building seem to fall into two categories – those that want a Web community right now, and those that question the very value of communities.
YouTube Wars Enter Stage 3
It’s official, we are definitely in the middle of a massive multi-industry war on the level of the RIAA/filesharing and other major technology wars of recent memory. Today, the war entered its third major stage, with many of the opposition joining forces to announce a YouTube competitor, coming this summer.
The chronology:
Techniques for Stopping Blog Spam
Spam is one of those features that comes with a blog and stopping it isn’t quite as easy as it should be. Here are a few ideas to help you out.
More Favicon Q&A
Dear Kalena…
That is not what it was supposed to be -a link farm. It is 6 years of hard link-exchange work. All I know was – that link exchange helps to get attention from the search engines and that was why I started this. I could have done nicer things with my time than sitting night over night to exchange links. After 2 years other websites started asking me to exchange.
Why Can’t I See My Favicon?
Dear Kalena…
I have my own domain and I created a favicon. I did all I was supposed to do but still can’t see the ico. In Mozilla we can see it on our office computer, but on the two other computers we can’t see it on Explorer. I hope after 1.5 days of brain-wrecking trying….. you have the ground breaking answer for me. http://www.mohawkmotel.ca/favicon.ico
Thanks from Canada
Shirley
Why Combinator? Should You Join Paul Graham’s Gang?
April 2 is a significant date for many early-stage entrepreneurs as this is the deadline for applying to Paul Graham’s Y Combinator this summer. If you don’t know about Y Combinator, then I encourage you to read up on it as they are one of the few groups doing anything remotely interesting as it relates to very early-stage investment in startups (with an emphasis on software startups).
BlogHer: How to Build Your Audience
Elise Bauer, Simply Recipes and Learning Movable Type
Three things to thing about, with respect to building traffic:
Will Unison.ie be Banned From Google for Cloaking?
A nice little find by Niall Donegan who discusses Unison.ie cloaking:
A prime example of this is Unison.ie. When searching for current Irish news it usually ranks fairly high on Google, however all the pages require you register first before you view them. The registration gives no advantage to people like me who just want to a quick look at the latest news. I suspect that I’m not alone and that lots of people will just go back and look for another site.
Google BlogSearch, Ranking Blog Documents Patent
For a long time my blogs have performed amazingly well with Google Blog Search. I always appear in the relevant results quickly, and the results I obtain have some reasonable longevity, even when I am not the original source of a story.
Considering how much competition I often have for certain search terms which everyone seems to be writing about because of common interest, I must have been doing a number of things right.
Microsoft Loses About 5% Search Share in 2 Years
Ever since Microsoft launched its own search engine, we’ve heard their claims that they’d gain ground on Google and compete in anywhere from 3-5 years.
Well, as Business Week points out, in the two years since Microsoft dumped Inktomi, it’s not exactly headed in the right direction.