Do Ugly Sites Sell More?
I came across The Surprising Truth About Ugly Websites, an article pointing out the benefits of having an ugly website. Can it be true that ugly websites sell more than their attractive counterparts? I don’t think so.
Dell’s Second Life Location
At the bottom of Dell Computers’ home page, there’s a pull-down menu you can use to load a version of the home page in the language of your country.
Redefining Quality Content For The Web
When I first started writing for the web as a freelancer, my conception of content was, naturally, focused on writing. As I was drawn further and further into the online world and my understanding of the web grew, I realized that content applies to a broader spectrum of web-related mediums besides writing. Recently I was browsing online and thinking about some forums I’d visited that were debating the definitions of quality content; needless to say, it got me thinking.
Yahoo and Reuters to Pay for User Generated Photos
Have Camera Phone? Yahoo and Reuters Want You to Work for Their News Service – New York Times : An interesting article this morning in the New York Times about a joint effort on behalf of Reuters and Yahoo! to attempt to monetize Yahoo!’s large and constantly updated collection of user photos.
Google’s Incomplete SEO Advice
If you do any research on SEO you’ll find this statement repeated more then any other – “make sites for users not for search engines.” It even appears in the the guidelines of the webmaster help center right on Google.com. It’s one of the core fundamentals in what’s considered “white hat” SEO or SEO that conforms to all of the search engine guidelines in the interests of improving the web.
Baidu Targets Japanese Market
Top Chinese search engine, Baidu, announced plans on Monday to enter the Japanese market in the near future.
When the OS Doesn’t Matter
What happens when the operating system you use doesn’t really matter any more?
SEO for Web 2.0
On Wednesday I went to a Silicon Valley WebGuild event at Google on what I thought would be a discussion on SEO for Web 2.0. I thought I would hear discussions on optimizing Flex and AJAX and learning how we could make these Web 2.0 Technologies more search engine friendly. Instead, the discussion was more focused on how Web 2.0 companies were using SEO. Which is completely different, especially when you consider that the two Web 2.0 companies featured -LinkedIn and Engage – acknowledge their success to viral marketing as opposed to SEO.
Update: Apple iPhone Details
New details emerge regarding the specifics of the Apple iPhone; Palm CEO says it is no threat.
AskCity From Ask.com
Ask.com has taken its existing maps service, combined it with content from parent-company IAC’s CitySearch and Ticketmaster, stirred the ingredients and baked at 400F for 20 minutes. The result? A great new way to search for business, events, movies and maps using a new service called AskCity.