Archive for June, 2006

Working with yourself or a group on the internet

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

If you're in the website development game, you reach a point where you decide on working with others, or if you bring in more people for collaborations. I personally have been very reluctant to do any projects with people, and the few that I started with others dried up ...

The free marketing aspects of Web 2.0 are incredible

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

The most exciting aspect of "Web 2.0" to certain people has to be the ease and speed of adaptation that's been seen by the biggest players. When a company can become an overnight sensation without paying millions for advertising, this savings goes straight to the bottom line. Systems ...

Living off Google free traffic is harder every day

Monday, June 5th, 2006

Ever since Google went public, it's been getting tougher to get free traffic from Google. They make nearly constant algo changes, and the discount almost all backlinks which are counted by other search engines. In some ways, Google spends so much time analyzing links, that the idea of ...

Instead of looking for links, try attracting links

Sunday, June 4th, 2006

Search engine marketers spend too much time looking for links. Instead, they should let links come looking for their website. What's the best way to do this? Give people something to link to, and make it easy for them to do so. What types of web ...

Finding a tightly defined niche can lead to online success

Friday, June 2nd, 2006

If you're into search engine marketing, you're already very familiar with the concept of niches. Niches relate pretty closely to keywords, for the most part, but with some more thought, you can define them even better. If you're really new to internet marketing, your best bet is going ...

Shoemoney contest update - Yahoo figuring it out

Thursday, June 1st, 2006

Yahoo is the first of the major search engines to figure out that Shoemoney has been replaced. MSN and Google are acting stupid, so I might need to force feed them the right answer. You know how Google is: always moving around, ever shifting. The Google winner ...

Ask.com offers new Bloglines Blog search service

Thursday, June 1st, 2006

Great news for fans of Bloglines. According to Techcrunch today, Ask.com is releasing a new blog search for their Bloglines. This should produce some additional value for Bloglines, and it also helps establish Ask.com as more of a leader in search. It's a chance for them to ...