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December 31, 2005
Measureable results from online advertisingBiz Community - Started in SA
Measureable results from online advertising
Biz Community - Started in SA about eight years ago, Clickatell is now the world's leading provider of Bulk SMS messaging services with clients in 180 countries - and no advertising budget for traditional media. Clickatell advertises online because that's where they ...
Web Designer's Guide to Search Engine Optimization (WebProNews)
Search Engine Optimization or SEO is the buzz word you will see everywhere in the internet nowsadays. Designing a website today is no longer about aesthetics. It must not only look good, it must be visible to the search engines as well.
Israel News Agency: A Peaceful Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur
Israel News Agency - Jerusalem----October 7.......Israel and the Jewish people have just celebrated Rosh Hashanah - the beginning of the Jewish new year. Its origin is Biblical "a sacred occasion commemorated with loud blasts of the shofar, the ram's horn." The term Rosh ...
2005 Search Engine Journal Blog Awards (WebProNews)
Many thanks to the readers and responders who nominated our blog as one of the top search engine optimization related blogs of 2005.
Search Engines and Algorithms: MetaSearch Engines, A Tool for SEO (SEO Chat)
In the previous articles we looked at the algorithms of a few top search engines. In this final article we are going to explore specialized search engines MetaSearches. In search engine optimization it is inefficient and not very wise to only optimize your site for one search engine as you will likely miss almost half or more of the search queries that arise in the course of a day. Cross
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Seniors share their wisdom by bloggingWeb logs, more often the
Seniors share their wisdom by blogging
Web logs, more often the domain of alienated adolescents and middle-aged pundits, are gaining a foothold as a new leisure-time option for senior citizens.
Jerry Wilson
Web Logs ('Blogs') and the Pharmaceutical Industry (Pharmaceutical Business Review)
Introduction Driven in part by the rising cost of medical care, healthcare blogs will become more popular and influential as consumers assume greater responsibility for their own healthcare.
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Internet Advertising SEO Soars to 12 Billion for 2005 Israel
Internet Advertising SEO Soars to 12 Billion for 2005
Israel News Agency - Jerusalem---December 4.....Ten years ago, when a select few of us marketing pros were just starting to create Websites, we had to give them away. We were not even sure that the e-mail addresses that we were using would not be obsolete by 1996. The ...
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Google Search Engine Being Sued Over Internet Phone System (Turks.US)
Google s free internet telephony system is causing a new stir. This one n the courts. They are being sued for copyright infringement by Rates Technology Inc. If the suit is successful, the action may cause Google being forced to shut down its Google Talk communication system.
Israel News Agency: A Peaceful Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur
Israel News Agency - Jerusalem----October 7.......Israel and the Jewish people have just celebrated Rosh Hashanah - the beginning of the Jewish new year. Its origin is Biblical "a sacred occasion commemorated with loud blasts of the shofar, the ram's horn." The term Rosh ...
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Job descriptions add ability to blog, aid PR - AZ
Job descriptions add ability to blog, aid PR - AZ Central.com
| Job descriptions add ability to blog, aid PR AZ Central.com, AZ - At times, individuals who run online journals known as blogs, or Web logs, have been a thorn in the side of big companies, generating bad buzz about products ... Blogging about your job can be a perilous pastime |
Amazon Blends Books, Blogs (NewsFactor)
Amazon Connect is a new feature aimed to enhance the connections between writers and their fans and to sell more books with author blogs and extended personal profile pages on the company's site.
Savages rule in land of blogs (Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
Of all the stories leading America's annual greatest-hits list, the one that subsumes the rest is the continuing evolution of information in the Age of Blogging.
US Military Personnel Using
BeSpacific - Sydney Morning Herald: US military finds soldiers'
News// Vibrator tricks Blogs into Revolution secret. Must read (Spong)
A new Revolution controll0R!!!1one!1
Blogging could come back to haunt some bloggers
National Post - OTTAWA -- You know the rule about not sending e-mails from your office you wouldn't want plastered near the water cooler? Well, turns out the same is true of
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December 30, 2005
Tom Cruise Creates New Slang: 'Jump The Couch' Click10.com -
Tom Cruise Creates New Slang: 'Jump The Couch'
Click10.com - NEW YORK -- When Tom Cruise jumped on Oprah's couch, a new slang term was born. And now, "jump the couch" has been named the Slang of the Year by the editors of the Historical Dictionary of American Slang. The dictionary defines "jump the couch" as ...
What is RSS?
RSS (an acronym for "Rich Site Summary" and later coined "Really Simple Syndication") is a way for web sites to summarize their content, such as news articles, to make it available in a different view.
Jerry Wilson
Blog app tit!
Christian Science Monitor - BLOGGER: Julie Powell, with her cat, Maxine, in her Queens, N.Y., kitchen, chronicled her experience cooking from Julia Child's 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking.' It used to be that, when you needed a recipe, you pulled out an index card, a ...
What's with Brandweek's take on blogs? (AdJab)
Filed under: Gripes , Online , Controversies Over at the Experience Economist, David Polinchock has a few words for Brandweek 's commentary about the lack of value of blogs as a whole, let along for marketing purposes. It seems that the folks at Brandweek don't see the point, considering that most blogs are written by people who "can't, you know, write." I mean, who would ever think
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The Year in Search: June 2005 (About.com) June 2005 at
The Year in Search: June 2005 (About.com)
June 2005 at About Web Search brought in the June Scavenger Hunt, how to find clipart and other graphics on the Web, and the basics of search engine optimization. Get...
2006 Predictions
WebProNews - It is that time of year again. Between the extra helpings of turkey soup and sandwiches, writers of every stripe are making lists of predictions for the coming twelve months. Last year, we got just over half our predictions correct. This year we hope ...
USONYX Unveils U-MIGRATE
WebHosting.Info - Offers free technical assistance to SMEs switching to USONYX's web and email hosting solutions. USONYX , a provider of web hosting services, recently announced that it has introduced U-MIGRATE, a program for SMEs to migrate their web and email ...
Web Designer's Guide to Search Engine Optimization (WebProNews)
Search Engine Optimization or SEO is the buzz word you will see everywhere in the internet nowsadays. Designing a website today is no longer about aesthetics. It must not only look good, it must be visible to the search engines as well.
Search Engines and Algorithms: MetaSearch Engines, A Tool for SEO (SEO Chat)
In the previous articles we looked at the algorithms of a few top search engines. In this final article we are going to explore specialized search engines MetaSearches. In search engine optimization it is inefficient and not very wise to only optimize your site for one search engine as you will likely miss almost half or more of the search queries that arise in the course of a day. Cross
How Search Engines Work (and Sometimes Don t)
You know how important it is to score high in the SERPs. But your site isn t reaching the first three pages and you don t understand why. It could
ClickCulture Launches New Bigelow Tea Web Site Local Web Development ...
dBusinessNews.com - Triangle: ClickCulture Launches New Bigelow Tea Web Site; Local Web Development Firm Redesigns Web Site For Leading Tea Manufacturer Triangle -- Lloyd Jacobs, CEO of ClickCulture, has ... Triangle: Story Named COO of Paragon Commercial Bank RALEIGH ...
BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY: Search engines lead to optimizing (Courier-Post)
Search engine optimization is a growing field, representing thousands of consultants who help clients design Web sites more friendly to search engines, according to Gannett News Service.
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Blogs offer taste of war in Iraq (BBC News) The
Blogs offer taste of war in Iraq (BBC News)
The wars in Afghanistan and now in Iraq will be known as the first wars to be blogged.
Year in Review: AOL Reinvents Itself (BetaNews)
2005 was a critical year for America Online in which it attempted to shed its image as an un-hip ISP and re-brand itself as a leading Internet destination. The company also launched the first ever major overhaul to AIM and embraced blogs. But can AOL really bring back the cool?
Blogging could come back to haunt some bloggers
National Post - OTTAWA -- You know the rule about not sending e-mails from your office you wouldn't want plastered near the water cooler? Well, turns out the same is true of
All
Knoxville News Sentinel - A blog about Knoxville-area music and other entertainment happenings. Randall Brown will offer info on upcoming events and activities and casual reviews of anything he wanders across. The Pickle Dish is a blog devoted to the passions of the Pickle ...
Lord of the
Chanute Tribune - Of all the stories leading America's annual greatest-hits list, the one that subsumes the rest is the continuing evolution of information in the Age of Blogging. Not since the birth of the printing press have our lives been so dramatically affected ...
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Measureable results from online advertisingBiz Community - Started in SA
Measureable results from online advertising
Biz Community - Started in SA about eight years ago, Clickatell is now the world's leading provider of Bulk SMS messaging services with clients in 180 countries - and no advertising budget for traditional media. Clickatell advertises online because that's where they ...
Allocating Your Web Site s Budget Properly
WebProNews - I had a client say something to me the other day that I thought was rather interesting. He mentioned that he almost considers SEO as a marketing expense even though its really a web expense. It was then that I realized that many people still do not ...
WebSourced trouble drags down parent's restated earnings
Triangle Business Journal - Reneged customer payments that led to a management shakeup at Morrisville's WebSourced cost its parent company on the top and bottom lines, according to financial restatements released Thursday. CGI Holding Corp. , which does business under the name ...
How Search Engines Work (and Sometimes Don t)
You know how important it is to score high in the SERPs. But your site isn t reaching the first three pages and you don t understand why. It could
Search Engines and Algorithms: Optimizing for MSN s RankNet Technology
The latest major change in the search engine giant MSN Search has been the inoculation of neural networks into its search engine algorithm something internal researchers call RankNet. This change
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December 29, 2005
A year of organics, blogs and cheese, glorious cheese (Seattle
A year of organics, blogs and cheese, glorious cheese (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
A look back at the year in dining, from Ballard's rival for "The New Ballard" title to the epidemic of one-word chef-owned restaurants.
US Military Personnel Using
BeSpacific - Sydney Morning Herald: US military finds soldiers'
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How Search Engines Work (and Sometimes Don t) You know how
How Search Engines Work (and Sometimes Don t)
You know how important it is to score high in the SERPs. But your site isn t reaching the first three pages and you don t understand why. It could
Transcript: Discussion with David Vise, Dec. 15
Washington Post - A deal with NASA? A subculture of former employees? What's really going on behind the walls of the Googleplex? Washington Post staff writer David A. Vise was online Thursday, Dec. 15 at 1 p.m. ET to dig into what makes Google Google. In a recent ...
Search Engine Optimization Overkill (Pandia)
There are a lot of good tactics that can help you imporve search engine rankings and traffic. However, you should definitely not overdo it, Bill Hartzer argues.
Google Search Engine Making Changes in Google Base (Turks.US)
Search Engine Google has made some changes in its Google Base. This free feature for classified ads search, event notices, and similar content is contributed by Google users.
Web Dictionary - Glossary of Web Search Terms (About.com)
Want to impress your friends with your vast knowledge of spidering, Boolean searches, and engine algorithms? This Search Terms Glossary will help you. This is a Web dictionary for web...
Search Engines and Algorithms: Optimizing for MSN s RankNet Technology
The latest major change in the search engine giant MSN Search has been the inoculation of neural networks into its search engine algorithm something internal researchers call RankNet. This change
The Google-AOL Deal: Commentary From The Cheap Seats
MediaPost - I'M FROM CANADA, AND UP here, we examine every hockey trade in minute detail. We look at who got what for whom, how the trade adds or detracts from the respective team's talent pools, and who came out the winner. So, the recent AOL-Google deal caught ...
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The Trappings of Blogs (InternetNews.com) They still seem to be
The Trappings of Blogs (InternetNews.com)
They still seem to be creating a content conundrum.
Will Pajamas Media Wake Up Blogs? (Wired News)
High-profile political bloggers create a portal highlighting the day's hottest content. But some in the blogosphere question the business model. By David Cohn.
iPods Threaten Conventional Radio
And it's radio's fault, mostly
Jerry Wilson
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Arizona High Tech Talent PartnershipAmbosMedios - Arizona High Tech Talent
Arizona High Tech Talent Partnership
AmbosMedios - Arizona High Tech Talent Partnership is a one-stop source for Integrated Marketing Solutions, Internet Marketing and
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Aspen Daily News - On Dec. 21 I rescoped out the Internet
Search Engines and Algorithms: MetaSearch Engines, A Tool for SEO (SEO Chat)
In the previous articles we looked at the algorithms of a few top search engines. In this final article we are going to explore specialized search engines MetaSearches. In search engine optimization it is inefficient and not very wise to only optimize your site for one search engine as you will likely miss almost half or more of the search queries that arise in the course of a day. Cross
Twas the Night Before Chrismas - with a Web Search Twist
search engines, search engine optimization, and general geekery. Happy Holidays! "Twas the night before
Online Marketing News Archive
MasterNewMedia.org - Internet marketing strategies, online marketing tools, Web promotion, PR, online visibility and exposure tactics. Ethical online marketing. Permission marketing. Viral marketing. Marketing as a conversation. Monetization of independent news resources ...
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Consumer Search Services Tackle MediaPost - LOOKING BACK AT 2005,
Consumer Search Services Tackle
MediaPost - LOOKING BACK AT 2005, CONSUMER search engines got better and better, delivering more relevant results and becoming smarter. In many cases they've evolved vertically for specialized uses, becoming more personalized and increasingly empowered by social ...
Independent music on move with Internet (International Herald Tribune)
Exploiting online message boards, music blogs and social networks, independent music companies are making big advances at the expense of the four global music conglomerates.
iPods Threaten Conventional Radio
And it's radio's fault, mostly
Jerry Wilson
Taking politics into 21st century
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - There came a time when if the average person wanted to be heard, he or she could type comments and musings on politics, government, anything really, into the computer and they could be read, literally, by anyone in the world. But for the most part ...
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December 28, 2005
BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY: Search engines lead to optimizing (Courier-Post) Search
BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY: Search engines lead to optimizing (Courier-Post)
Search engine optimization is a growing field, representing thousands of consultants who help clients design Web sites more friendly to search engines, according to Gannett News Service.
Search Engines and Algorithms: MetaSearch Engines, A Tool for SEO
In the previous articles we looked at the algorithms of a few top search engines. In this article we are going to explore specialized search engines MetaSearches. Keep reading to
Fear Of The O-Word, Part 2
MediaPost - "ROHIT"--WHO RUNS A COMPANY IN India that handles
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Harry Potter tops Bush on blogs in 2005 (Harry Potter
Harry Potter tops Bush on blogs in 2005 (Harry Potter Automatic News Aggregator)
Trend-tracking site BlogPulse has announced its list of the top blogs and various categories in the "blogosphere" of 2005. Harry Potter was #1 on their list of most-mentioned "people" and, along with Donnie Darko at #17, was the only other winner in the top 20 who wasn't a real person. The act of blogging exploded this year as services made it easier for anyone to write just about anything and
Boing Boing, Harry Potter Tops In Blogs (WebProNews)
BlogPulse announced its lists of the top ten blogs and topics across a variety of categories in the blogosphere for 2005.
Best Search Engine Community Blog : 2005 Search Blogs Awards (Search Engine Journal)
Best Search Engine Community Blog : 2005 Search Blogs Awards Although Threadwatch and Search Engine Roundtable were both nominated for different awards for covering search engine news and search related issues, I felt that giving them their own category would help to differentiate these blogs a bit from the normal search ...
Lord of the blogs (Jewish World Review)
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Of all the stories leading America's annual greatest-hits list, the one that subsumes the rest is the continuing evolution of information in the Age of Blogging.
Will Pajamas Media Wake Up Blogs? (Wired News)
High-profile political bloggers create a portal highlighting the day's hottest content. But some in the blogosphere question the business model. By David Cohn.
Freedom of Speech Redefined By Blogs (RedNova)
By Bill Schackner, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Dec.
Amazon Hosting Author Blogs (ClickZ)
The new Amazon Connect program aims to keep readers coming back to Amazon to read blogs from their favorite authors.
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AOL, You've Got SEOWebProNews - As part of the deal
AOL, You've Got SEO
WebProNews - As part of the deal with Google, the
Search Engine Forums Spotlight (Search Engine Watch)
Links to the week's topics from search engine forums across the web: Wish List for Yahoo! Pay Per Click Marketing - Google Groans Under the Massive Data Load - Matt Cutts Explains How Google Crawls and Ranks Pages - Content is NOT king! and more.
Google Search Engine Could Sell AOL Stake in 2008 (Turks.US)
Google Inc, which just completed it s merger with AOL, giving Google a 5 percent stake in AOL, could sell that stake as soon as 2008, this per documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Aspen Daily News - On Dec. 21 I rescoped out the Internet
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MSNBC - If you're not one of the 25 million
MSNBC - If you're not one of the 25 million people worldwide who have read Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code," you have six months to get caught up before the movie opens on May 19, 2006. The cult of "The Da Vinci Code" will reach new heights with the release ...
What's with Brandweek's take on blogs? (AdJab)
Filed under: Gripes , Online , Controversies Over at the Experience Economist, David Polinchock has a few words for Brandweek 's commentary about the lack of value of blogs as a whole, let along for marketing purposes. It seems that the folks at Brandweek don't see the point, considering that most blogs are written by people who "can't, you know, write." I mean, who would ever think
US military finds soldiers' blogs too close for comfort (Sydney Morning Herald)
ANYONE wanting to hear daily insights into what it is like to be in a convoy hit by an explosion or ordered to pick up the body parts of comrades dismembered by a suicide bomber does not have to be there in person any more. -
David Davis Predicts 2006 the PR Year of Blogs and Podcasts - Newswire Today (press release)
| David Davis Predicts 2006 the PR Year of Blogs and Podcasts Newswire Today (press release), UK - 1. Blogging and podcasting will become the norm rather than the exception in the 21st century PR tool kit; 2. PR and press cuttings ... |
Top 13 Online Publishing Industry Blogs Named By MarketingSherpa's ContentBiz (PR Web via Yahoo! News)
Warren RI (PRWEB) December 27, 2005 -- The editors at ContentBiz, the weekly for business executives in online content, have announced their top 13 favorite industrty blogs. To see these and post comments, go to http://blog.contentbiz.com
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Lucianne.com - The
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December 27, 2005
Search Engine Optimization Through Article Syndication (PR Web) Obtaining quality
Search Engine Optimization Through Article Syndication (PR Web)
Obtaining quality one-way back links to your website has become a crucial strategy for building link popularity and improving search engine ranking. With the recent devaluing of reciprocal linking by the major search engines, relevant one-way links are more important that ever to the success of your business. [PRWEB Dec 22, 2005]
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The Net is a boon for indie labels (CNET) Exploiting
The Net is a boon for indie labels (CNET)
Exploiting online message boards, music blogs and social networks, independent music companies are making big advances.
Why Blog?
To blog or not to blog? That's the question - answered.
Jerry Wilson
iPods Threaten Conventional Radio
And it's radio's fault, mostly
Jerry Wilson
US military finds soldiers' blogs too close for comfort (Sydney Morning Herald)
ANYONE wanting to hear daily insights into what it is like to be in a convoy hit by an explosion or ordered to pick up the body parts of comrades dismembered by a suicide bomber does not have to be there in person any more. -
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Search Giant Google Proposes IPO After Merger With AOL (Turks.US)
Search Giant Google Proposes IPO After Merger With AOL (Turks.US)
The new Google $1 billion investment in America Online might lead to an IPO in 2008, giving the online search engine leader and AOL parent company Time Warner, the opportunity to capitalize on an Internet advertising boom that they both are hoping to generate through their partnership.
Fear Of The O-Word, Part 2
MediaPost - "ROHIT"--WHO RUNS A COMPANY IN India that handles
The Google Side of Your Brain
NewsFactor Network - Even though it has existed for nearly as long as the Web,
Search engine rank ensures site's success (BizJournals)
The famous movie quote "if you build it, they will come" only applies to baseball stadiums -- not Web sites.
Transcript: Discussion with David Vise, Dec. 15
Washington Post - A deal with NASA? A subculture of former employees? What's really going on behind the walls of the Googleplex? Washington Post staff writer David A. Vise was online Thursday, Dec. 15 at 1 p.m. ET to dig into what makes Google Google. In a recent ...
All-in-One Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tool: ClickSplash.com
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tool called ClickSplash.com. ClickSplash is an ASP (application service provider) system that allows users to automatically optimize their own websites in an effort to improve their
Online Marketing News Archive
MasterNewMedia.org - Internet marketing strategies, online marketing tools, Web promotion, PR, online visibility and exposure tactics. Ethical online marketing. Permission marketing. Viral marketing. Marketing as a conversation. Monetization of independent news resources ...
2006: The Year Services Become King
CRM Buyer - The shift to a services model over products inside best-of-breed vendors will be one of the most noticeable trends in 2006. That's just one of several predictions for 2006 but will influence many other aspects of how CRM and enterprise software gets ...
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Free Expression Can Be Costly When Bloggers Bad-Mouth JobsUnwitting employee
Free Expression Can Be Costly When Bloggers Bad-Mouth Jobs
Unwitting employee loses job over blog entries
Jerry Wilson
Former FLS youth writer now
Free Lance-Star - Those teenagers who can't wait to get out of Fredericksburg because they think it has nothing to offer should think again. Some people, like Whitney Matheson, a former teen writer at The Free Lance-Star, take advantage of the opportunities offered ...
Photo of the Day (12/25/2005) Merry Christmas (Gadling)
Well, getting to this a bit late, but as you can see, it's all about the Christmas spirit. Today's POTD of Santa at Eastern Market (hey, I used to live right next to Eastern Market!) comes from ohad . Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments Ads by Google
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December 26, 2005
Atlanta Search Engine Positioning Service Prominent Placement Adds New Account
Atlanta Search Engine Positioning Service Prominent Placement Adds New Account Manager (PR Web)
Rapidly Growing Atlanta Search Engine Positioning Service Names Star Bradshaw to Company s Client-Focused, Results-Based Search Marketing Team [PRWEB Dec 24, 2005]
Search Engine Optimization Overkill (Pandia)
There are a lot of good tactics that can help you imporve search engine rankings and traffic. However, you should definitely not overdo it, Bill Hartzer argues.
PRWeb, Unitus Join Forces to Fight Poverty
dBusinessNews.com - Offering comprehensive Web design services to new economy enterprises across a wide range of platforms and technologies, Web Design Studio takes pride in delivering big-business Internet solutions to small and medium-sized businesses. SEATTLE ...
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AOL to Buy Blog Site In Bid to Expand ReachAmerica
AOL to Buy Blog Site In Bid to Expand Reach
America Online Inc. yesterday agreed to buy Weblogs Inc., the publisher of 85 freelance online sites about cars, movies, parenting, travel and other subjects, the latest move by the Dulles-based Internet service to increase the size of its audience and profit from ads.
Jerry Wilson
Bulletin seeks area writers to keep Web logs (Norwich Bulletin)
Are you a blogger waiting to be heard? NorwichBulletin.com is looking for readers to write blogs on a variety of topics. A blog is a Web log; a diary of sorts for the writer to share his or her thoughts and opinions on a topic they're passionate about.
Monte Burke On Sports (Forbes)
National sports blogs and team specific blogs will keep growing in popularity as alternative-news outlets.
What Is Blogging?
ABC News -
Web pages,
Memphis Commercial Appeal - A recent "Dear Abby" should have been posted in the "employment" section of the newspaper. A Chicago employer wrote: "Dear Abby: "Please warn your readers that their Web pages and
Riverside police probe comments on
Daily Breeze - RIVERSIDE -- The Police Department is investigating whether employees wrote Internet messages deriding female officers and minority neighborhood residents. People claiming to be officers wrote to the Web log of Mary Shelton, a reporter for the local ...
Everyone's a design expert in interactive blogs (Seattle Times)
For people obsessed with design, the advent of design-focused Web journals, or blogs, has been a wonderful, terrible development. Wonderful because these idiosyncratic...
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Seniors share their wisdom by bloggingWeb logs, more often the
Seniors share their wisdom by blogging
Web logs, more often the domain of alienated adolescents and middle-aged pundits, are gaining a foothold as a new leisure-time option for senior citizens.
Jerry Wilson
Happy Holidays! (Joystiq)
Happy Holidays to all the gamers out there. May the days bring many free games and exciting times. Thanks for all the tips, feedback, and comments. - Team Joystiq Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments Ads by Google
Better Late Than Never
GovExec.com - More than a decade after the passage of a law designed to protect the employment rights of military service members, the Labor Department has finalized the first-ever set of regulations addressing its implementation. The 1994 Uniformed Services ...
One blog created 'every second'
The blogosphere is continuing to grow, with a weblog created every second, according to blog trackers Technorati.
Jerry Wilson
What Is Blogging?
ABC News -
Online Elves Busy With Holiday
Personal Tech Pipeline - By Laurie Sullivan Courtesy of TechWeb News An Irish telecommunications provider, which offers voice, data and Internet services, has set up a novel way for children to communicate electronically with Santa Claus. The company, Eircom, launched a ...
Le Chic Shall Inherit Les Blogs (Wired News)
A Parisian catwalk model and Unix programmer named Anina drags the fashion industry into the world of blogs and moblogs. By Robert Andrews.
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Nobody s view of Google is the same anymore Since the
Nobody s view of Google is the same anymore
Since the launch of Google Search History, most of the search results we get are personalized. Personalized search, combined with local search, means no-one gets the same view of Google s
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December 25, 2005
Do InternetNews.com - Does a new push for standards for
Do
InternetNews.com - Does a new push for standards for structured content answer a need, or does it represent a power struggle in the blogosphere? Some 30 startups announced the Structured Blogging Initiative on Tuesday evening at the Syndicate conference, saying they ...
tech.life@school | Teenagers have a voice in blogs - Philadelphia Inquirer
| tech.life@school | Teenagers have a voice in blogs Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - ... Teen Content Creators and Consumers reports on two areas of youth culture: their creative activity in the form of blogs and Web sites and their consumption of ... |
Pundits Find Freedom, and Audiences Through Blogs - Editor & Publisher
| Pundits Find Freedom, and Audiences Through Blogs Editor & Publisher - NEW YORK At least three syndicated creators started blogs this fall -- joining a small but growing group of cartoonists and columnists who have taken that ... |
Colleges using blogs to attract students (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
On a Monday this month, the admissions officers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had pizza for lunch.
Transit Union Blog Raises Consumer Ire
MediaPost - WHILE
Former Visto Co-Founder Blogs About Patent Suit Against Microsoft (Pocket PC Thoughts)
"Many press reports and blogs in the last week have implied errors in their coverage of Visto's legal action, including the notion that Visto is suing Microsoft for patent infringement using the intellectual property that Visto had licensed the day before from RIM antagonist NTP. Though I haven't been involved in Visto for many years, I do know that Microsoft is actually infringing Visto's own,
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AOL, You've Got SEOWebProNews - As part of the deal
AOL, You've Got SEO
WebProNews - As part of the deal with Google, the
All-in-One Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tool: ClickSplash.com (PR Web)
Info Cubic LLC has announced the release of a revolutionary new all-in-one Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tool called ClickSplash.com. ClickSplash is an ASP (application service provider) system that allows users to automatically optimize their own websites in an effort to improve their ranking on the major search engines. [PRWEB Dec 19, 2005]
Search Engines and Algorithms: Optimizing for Yahoo! Search and AltaVista
Yahoo is considered the number one search engine above all other search engines. Yahoo search queries make up approximately 28 of all search engine traffic. And just in raw traffic
The Google Side of Your Brain
NewsFactor Network - Even though it has existed for nearly as long as the Web,
Search Engine Optimization Through Article Syndication
search engine ranking. With the recent devaluing of reciprocal linking by the major search engines, relevant one-way links are more important that ever to the success of your business. [PRWEB
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Transit Union Blog Raises Consumer IreMediaPost - WHILE Education bloggers
Transit Union Blog Raises Consumer Ire
MediaPost - WHILE
Education bloggers vie for national recognition
eSchool Online - Discover the latest news and information on technology products and services! Go inside the 'Product News Update' Explore over 4,000 company profiles--with product profiles, research and white papers, and funding solutions! Go inside the 'Technology ...
The Top Ten Reasons to Publish an Ezine AND a Blog
More about blogging. This article is for Ezine publishers who are wondering whethering they should take the plunge into blogging.
Jerry Wilson
Blog Power
Independents chipping away at Fourth Estate
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Lions and Tigers and Blogs, Oh My! - Comixpedia
| Lions and Tigers and Blogs, Oh My! Comixpedia, AZ - by Tangent on Dec 24, 2005 - 09:20 AM. by zamphir on Dec 24, 2005 - 01:45 PM. by kjc on Dec 24, 2005 - 04:11 PM. Ok, Jon's apology ... |
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Twas the Night Before Chrismas - with a Web Search
Twas the Night Before Chrismas - with a Web Search Twist (About.com)
Here's my (pitiful) twist on the classic Clement Clarke Moore poem, "Twas the Night Before Christmas", with search engines, search engine optimization, and general geekery. Happy Holidays! "Twas the night before...
Atlanta Search Engine Positioning Service Prominent Placement Adds New Account Manager (PR Web)
Rapidly Growing Atlanta Search Engine Positioning Service Names Star Bradshaw to Company s Client-Focused, Results-Based Search Marketing Team [PRWEB Dec 24, 2005]
Search Engine Optimization Through Article Syndication (PR Web)
Obtaining quality one-way back links to your website has become a crucial strategy for building link popularity and improving search engine ranking. With the recent devaluing of reciprocal linking by the major search engines, relevant one-way links are more important that ever to the success of your business. [PRWEB Dec 22, 2005]
HiSoftware Releases Hi-Caption Studio v8 Captioning Software for ...
dBusinessNews.com - Concord: HiSoftware Releases Hi-Caption Studio v8 Captioning Software for Multimedia Files Concord - HiSoftware, a leading provider of software, services and ... Concord: BAE SYSTEMS Completes Flight Tests Of F-22A Digital Electronic Warfare System ...
2006: The Year Services Become King
CRM Buyer - The shift to a services model over products inside best-of-breed vendors will be one of the most noticeable trends in 2006. That's just one of several predictions for 2006 but will influence many other aspects of how CRM and enterprise software gets ...
The Google-AOL Deal: Commentary From The Cheap Seats
MediaPost - I'M FROM CANADA, AND UP here, we examine every hockey trade in minute detail. We look at who got what for whom, how the trade adds or detracts from the respective team's talent pools, and who came out the winner. So, the recent AOL-Google deal caught ...
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Freedom of speech redefined by blogs (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) Jessica Prokop
Freedom of speech redefined by blogs (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Jessica Prokop thought the textbook for her class at Seton Hill University was biased and that its author "seems like a bitter man." In the annals of student rants, nothing extraordinary there.
Web pages,
Memphis Commercial Appeal - A recent "Dear Abby" should have been posted in the "employment" section of the newspaper. A Chicago employer wrote: "Dear Abby: "Please warn your readers that their Web pages and
Seniors share their wisdom by blogging
Web logs, more often the domain of alienated adolescents and middle-aged pundits, are gaining a foothold as a new leisure-time option for senior citizens.
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Kudos to CBS's Roberts for Picking Up Democrat Harman's Defense of ...
News Busters - Though Bob Schieffer introduced Wednesday's CBS Evening News by using loaded language as he pointed out how, to protest the President's decision to continue spying on American citizens, a federal judge took the unprecedented step of resigning from ...
Blog Power
Independents chipping away at Fourth Estate
Jerry Wilson
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December 24, 2005
Blogging Finds Politics Takes a Back Seat to Other ContentAxcess
Blogging Finds Politics Takes a Back Seat to Other Content
Axcess News - (AXcess News) Cincinnati, OH - A 2005 year-end review of blogging finds that politics took a back seat to discussions about entertainment, technology, natural disasters and the evolution of
Everyone's a design expert in interactive blogs (Seattle Times)
For people obsessed with design, the advent of design-focused Web journals, or blogs, has been a wonderful, terrible development. Wonderful because these idiosyncratic...
Best SEO Blog of 2005 : Best Search Blogs Awards - Search Engine Journal
| Best SEO Blog of 2005 : Best Search Blogs Awards Search Engine Journal - What perhaps may be the most expanding niche of search engine related blogs in 2005, SEO blogs have followed the transformation of the Search Engine ... 2005 Search Engine Blogs Awards : Blog Search, Search Marketing ... |
What's with Brandweek's take on blogs? (AdJab)
Filed under: Gripes , Online , Controversies Over at the Experience Economist, David Polinchock has a few words for Brandweek 's commentary about the lack of value of blogs as a whole, let along for marketing purposes. It seems that the folks at Brandweek don't see the point, considering that most blogs are written by people who "can't, you know, write." I mean, who would ever think
TypePad Sites Inaccessible to Users
WHIR - Supercharge Your Hosting Business! Click here to join the Microsoft Hosting Program, a free resource that provides the knowledge & tools necessary to rapidly grow your hosting business. Lower your costs and increase revenue! While TypePad-hosted ...
Online Elves Busy With Blogs, E-Mails, Sleigh Tracking - InformationWeek
| Online Elves Busy With Blogs, E-Mails, Sleigh Tracking InformationWeek, NY - It's not only the children E-mailing Santa Claus. The top five requests from adults include a relationship, car, house, job and ... |
The Top Ten Reasons to Publish an Ezine AND a Blog
More about blogging. This article is for Ezine publishers who are wondering whethering they should take the plunge into blogging.
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Fear Of The O-Word, Part 2MediaPost - "ROHIT"--WHO RUNS A
Fear Of The O-Word, Part 2
MediaPost - "ROHIT"--WHO RUNS A COMPANY IN India that handles
AOL, You've Got SEO
WebProNews - As part of the deal with Google, the
Nobody s view of Google is the same anymore
Since the launch of Google Search History, most of the search results we get are personalized. Personalized search, combined with local search, means no-one gets the same view of Google s
Googleites Gripe About Sloppy Service
eWeek - 1,286 telephone interviews with business continuity planners show that many U.S. companies are gambling their futures. View t ... Concerto and Aspect are now one company Concerto Software and Aspect Communications have joined forces to create Aspect ...
The Google-AOL Deal: Commentary From The Cheap Seats
MediaPost - I'M FROM CANADA, AND UP here, we examine every hockey trade in minute detail. We look at who got what for whom, how the trade adds or detracts from the respective team's talent pools, and who came out the winner. So, the recent AOL-Google deal caught ...
2005
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What Is Blogging?ABC News -
What Is Blogging?
ABC News -
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December 23, 2005
What is RSS?RSS (an acronym for "Rich Site Summary" and
What is RSS?
RSS (an acronym for "Rich Site Summary" and later coined "Really Simple Syndication") is a way for web sites to summarize their content, such as news articles, to make it available in a different view.
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Management Memo
Kane County Chronicle - "Worker fired for blog postings" stated a recent headline from a news wire story ( Kane County Chronicle , Nov. 17). The story related how a 19- year-old worker began posting personal messages on a Web log Internet site. But when his employer learned ...
Italy in the Travel Blogs: St. Nick and the Government Wine Bar - About - News & Issues
| Italy in the Travel Blogs: St. Nick and the Government Wine Bar About - News & Issues, NY - Italians celebrate St. Nicholas in a feast day on December 6th. But did you know that St. Nick is buried in the coast town of Bari ... |
AOL to Buy Blog Site In Bid to Expand Reach
America Online Inc. yesterday agreed to buy Weblogs Inc., the publisher of 85 freelance online sites about cars, movies, parenting, travel and other subjects, the latest move by the Dulles-based Internet service to increase the size of its audience and profit from ads.
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Corporate Blogging Guidelines
Corporate blogging guidelines are fast becoming a staple (pun intended) of many company employee handbooks.
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Celeb blogs: Boys who heard the music (rediff.com)
Some celebrities do maintain their own Web sites and journals unassisted.