Chris Winfield from 10e20 wrote an interesting article yesterday on how to become a top Digg user without doing anything shady. The purpose of the article is to teach you how to become a top user so you can increase your odds of promoting stories to the homepage. As a top Digg user, I feel that the most people don’t understand the difference between a top Digg user and a normal user.
What Everyone Should Know About Yahoo Panama
With the end of 2006 Yahoo! officially uncovered the commonly known Panama Update. Since that time the accounts are being upgraded from the older systems to this fresh system. Not all the accounts have been upgraded, however, it is expected the task would be full and finally accomplished by the end of march, approximately. Yahoo! Panama is definitely a welcome change.
Should SEOs Avoid Sitemaps?
Rand Fishkin recently posted an interesting concept on his SEOmoz.org blog about sitemaps. For those of you keeping score at home, a sitemap is a document (typically xml) that sits on your server and helps search engine spiders crawl and index your site. Sounds great, right? Maybe… maybe not. Rand theorizes these sitemaps may actually be bad for your SEO efforts.
Wikipedia Should Change Its Name To Googlepedia
Wikipedia needs Google like plants need sunshine, according to the latest traffic analysis presented by Hitwise. Half of the online publicly-edited encyclopedia’s traffic comes from Google alone, with another 20 percent arising from the other search engines combined.
Should MyFeedz Really Be Called a Feed Reader?
I saw a few posts about MyFeedz yesterday and checked it out, and I noticed Robert just gave Myfeedz a test. He is a hardcore feed reader, so I value his opinion (even though we don’t always agree on everything).
I think Robert is being extremely polite about MyFeedz
MyFeedz Sucks as a Feed Reader
To qualify that, let me show you the "user experience" I went though, and how amazingly let down I felt having given it some of my time.
Free Software – Should it Be Free?
By now, you’ve probably heard about or read Mark Shuttleworth’s view on keeping free software free. Matt Asay has a take on Mark’s post here.
Malls Should Make Ready For Google Billboards
Google is a very powerful Internet company, but it’s still, for the most part, just an Internet company; consumers aren’t very likely to encounter the search engine and advertising giant unless they’re near a computer. That may change, though, given some recent patents that relate to digital billboard technology.
Online Advertisers Should Consider Smaller Sites
Online advertisers should be open to placing their ads on smaller sites and not always focus on large sites according to new research from Media-Screen. The “Net pop| Response” study found that small long-tail Web sites are valuable to consumers and online advertisers.
What Should A Home Server Cost?
The big unanswered question with Windows Home Server is how much it’ll cost you to get one.
Should Brand Owners Get a Cut from Google?
The Googlejet blog has a pretty original idea: Why not send a cut of brand name AdWords ads to the brand owner?