Archive for March, 2008

How Competitive Will the Web be in 3 Years? 5 Years?

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Introducing Answer Sniper I just came across AnswerSniper, a $147 software product created to help you find open questions to answer on Yahoo! Answers by keeping you up to date with the latest open questions for keywords you select. Can you imagine paying for software for the privilege of finding questions ...

The Changing Face of Link Buying

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

As Google clearly states (with their actions), bartering for links is fine as long as money is not part of the exchange (or if there is editorial discrimination and relevancy when it is). What is the guiding principal for bartering links? Massa said: When do other people WANT to accept your ...

The Economics of Credibility

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Everyone who is popular gains detractors along the way. And detractors tend to flock together and vote for other people who share their opinions. That trend virtually guarantees any valuable brand will have dirt ranking somewhere in the search results. The more valuable the brand gets the more people who ...

On My Reading List

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Traveling, jet lag, early meetings, not a lot of time to write. But I did draft two big piece on the plane, and hope to polish them on the way home. That said, here are the things that caught my eye as important over the past 36 hours: Search with privacy ...

How Much is 1 Website Visitors Worth to You?

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Part of the reason so many people beg, borrow, and steal for search engine traffic is because so many people have the same thin business models offering the same stuff. Rather than thinking of ways to differentiate or look within for ways to increase value, we figure just getting a ...

Google: Patterns in the Click Fraud Cloud

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

A short post on the Google blog about how the company uses log files to ferret out click fraud. Worth noting ....

Travel Day

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Yesterday I had eye an opening day at Yahoo and Google, I plan to write up each in the coming days. But today I am traveling, so posting will be light.

Reporting Day

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

I'm driving down to the Valley today to see folks at Google and Yahoo. Light day for writing, but hope to gain some insights.

Yahoo, Google, MySpace Launch NotFaceBook Coalition

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Er...I mean the OpenSocial Foundation. This marks Yahoo's formal joining up. Expect Facebook to join too. Wire coverage. From a release sent to me by Yahoo: Yahoo! supports OpenSocial; Yahoo!, MySpace and Google to form non-profit OpenSocial Foundation Community organization to assure neutrality and longevity of specification for building social applications across the ...

Link = Vote? Want Some Personalized Free Professional Help?

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Last week I got this via email Hello, How would you like getting a logo’s (or) icon’s (or) seo report (or)template (or) Banner (or) Article (or) Header designed free of cost for your website. We are giving away these services as a promotional measure for free of cost. In return we ...