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Community and ROI
The firms I talk to about community building seem to fall into two categories - those that want a Web community right…
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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…
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…
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…
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.
