Updates to Google’s Webmaster Central tools give webmasters more options for removing content from Google’s index.
Hosted Content, The Quest for the Perfect Link
Ask Google, search engines love links. Of course, they love some links more than others. For example, a simple link exchange (reciprocal link) doesn’t have as much value to search engines and so, it doesn’t receive the same weight as a non-reciprocal (one-way) link – the theory being that a one-way, in-bound link is a recommendation from a site owner to visit this linked site. The link, itself, is testament to the quality of the site being referred.
CBS To Offer Content On Joost
Internet television service Joost and CBS have entered into an agreement where the television broadcaster will make its content available on the Joost platform. Content that will be featured on Joost include the popular CSI franchise, CBS Evening News, and CBS Sportsline.
Content Tagging & Sharing Now Really Delicious
I’m probably a typical web user. Whenever I see a website page or a blog post that has something interesting, I’ll bookmark it in Firefox (or add it to favorites in Internet Explorer).
That’s the traditional way of keeping track of content out there you want to refer to again.
Is Linking To Pirated Content A Liability?
The online video copyright issue is set to get more intense as legal lines come closer into focus. The YouTube and Viacom case, in the unlikely event it sees a courtroom, would be large enough to solidify some ground rules. There are also international complications, which makes one wonder if the World Wide Web will one day necessitate a Virtual World Court.
Marketing: Content, Context, Community
In a previous article I talked about the 3 C’s of Marketing as explained at John Jantsch’s Duct Tape
Marketing.
Circulation of a Web Based Content Site & Ad Network
Once you have a trusted market position advertisers will buy in even if you hurt their business model or call their products crap:
Duplicate Content – The Need for it
First, what is duplicate content?
Duplicate content is republishing similar or the same information on multiple pages of a website or publishing the same content on multiple domains.
Ups and Downs of Socializing Content
There are many ups and downs to adding a user generated content section to a site. It has been interesting watching the effects of SEOMoz’s user generated content and points systems.
Duplicate Content of Biblical Proportions
It is Sunday although I am not a very religious person, thus I was, horror of horrors, outside shovelling snow around. It was drifting, and if I hadn’t done anything with it, it might have blocked the driveway for my wife Monday morning. Does your mind wander when you are doing a physical job that doesn’t require much other thought? Mine certainly does. Duplicate Content of Biblical Proportions