Link Bait Tips
Most of you know the importance of links when it comes to respectable search engine rankings. You need one to get the other. However, how do you go about attracting these prospective linkers? If you talk to the search engine gurus, one thing they tell is produce content others will want to link to. Another […]
What Marissa Mayer and Google Know
Marissa Mayer from Google was up next at the Web 2.0 Summit to talk about a key point Google has learned.
News Search vs Social News
Danny Sullivan has posted a very interesting and THOROUGH description of how the Search Engine Watch Blog had two different stories get major play on Digg and Google News at the same time. This provided an opportunity for a comparison and it was interesting to read that Google News sent significantly more traffic than being on the home page of Digg.
Lycos Launches Social Networking for Cinema
In an effort to reinvent itself as an online entertainment portal, Lycos has launched a new service that combines streaming video and real-time chat. Lycos Cinema will allow users to simultaneously watch and comment on films in the confines of a virtual screening room.
Google, Yahoo Pushback Against NYSE
The financial advertising market has been a lucrative one for major Internet players, but they feel price increases for access to the data from the New York Stock Exchange merits a legal challenge.
Google Earth Updates Give History Lesson
Google is usually on the cutting edge, or at least near it. The company’s latest “innovations” are intentionally out of date, though. Google Earth will now feature historical maps dating back as far as the 17th century.
Will UndoTV Be “UndoneTV”?
The creators of the defunct TechTV have plans to launch a new project called UndoTV. The focus of UndoTv will be all things tech. The site will feature uploading of photo, video, audio and text. Creators Leo Laporte and Chris Pirillo hope to capture an audience of not just tech folks but technophobes as well.
There Is No Web 3.0
John Markoff writes in the NY Times that Web 3.0 is coming.
Nick Douglas Gone From Valleywag
Et tu, Nick Denton? It appears that young Nick Douglas, the brash young gossip-monger behind Valleywag, has left the building.
Blogging Tips and Mistakes to Avoid
For every Matt Cutts and Danny Sullivan, there is John Q. Blogger who just can’t seem to increase the readership of his blog. Opinions are a dime-a-dozen in cyberspace, but there are steps that bloggers can take to make their blogs more attractive to potential visitors.