It is increasingly interesting to witness the mashup of trends as various businesses experiment with and figure out new media.
Turning Content Into a Valuable Keyword List
One of the comments on the article I wrote for Wordtracker mentioned WordsFinder, which allows you to create a list of keywords from a piece of content. Their tool uses the Yahoo! Term Extraction Tool, and also provides a few additional keywords next to the results.
Three other easy ways to get similar information are
YouTube Content Filter Could Come In September
YouTube wants to implement a content-filtering system this fall. It also (presumably) wants world peace and free energy, and it’s anybody’s guess which of these three outcomes is most likely to occur.
Armstrong In Associated Content Conflict of Interest?
Elinor Mills is asking whether Google’s Tim Armstrong involvement with Associated Content is a conflict of interest. Associated Content creates content optimized for Google – so it can earn revenue from AdSense ads – and that raises questions about Armstrong sitting on the company’s board of directors.
Unique Content Sources in Saturated Markets
Hamlet Batista commented on my last post that a problem with blogging is that many people look to the same sources for inspiration and information to blog about. Even in the most saturated markets there are a wide array of unique data sources. Here are some of my favorites:
When Legal Has to Review Content…
Question: We have a multi-week turnaround on our content which makes it hard for us to write about fresh news. Is there an easy way to get past compliance, legal, and information only formatting requirements?
Answer: This is in no way legal advice, but here are a few ideas that might work…
Are There Enough Users Generating Content?
It looks like eMarketer is afraid of the impending UGC creator shortage. That, or they’re crying wolf.
Ways Webmasters Create Duplicate Content
At the recent SMX Advanced Conference in Seattle one of the big sessions was on duplicate content. There is great blow by blow coverage in posts by Vanessa Fox and by Chris Boggs.
Google Could Get Content License In China
It’s not a sure thing – “preliminary regulatory approval” is all that Google’s gotten so far – but it appears the Mountain View-based corporation is on its way to receiving an Internet content license in China.
Ensure that Google Knows It’s Your Content
If you run a blog, you might have noticed several “shadow blogs” which scrape your content, omit your name in the credits, but display big ads instead.