Social networking is the center of web 2.0 and Google desperately wants to get into the game. They have Orkut.com but this doesn’t really count as it has a pithy userbase compared to myspace.com and facebook.com. In order for Google to truly compete in the online social revolution is to play strong and dirty. Just…
Yahoo site explorer is the best tool to use to find incoming links to your site, and without them SEO’s would not know much about the strategic link building practices of their associates. Recently yahoo started showing erratic backlink results and caused much speculation in the SEO world that they were on the verge of…
If you engage in large scale link buying or your website sells text link advertisements it is likely that you lost Google Page Rank yesterday. The PR update on October 23 has wreaked havoc on the green line, and many website owners are forgoing green peace for green war on google. Google has given webmasters…
I was searching for information about why my AuctionAds were performing so poorly, and I came upon another ad network offering from Media Whiz, ShoppingAds. Shopping Ads uses the same basic premise as the Auction Ads network by displaying relevant ads from aggregators. The big difference is that while AuctionAds is CPA (pays per sale)…
There’s been a lot of talk about the WidgetBucks ad network so I thought I would signup and try it out. I believe that every affiliate program or advertising network should be tested to see if it works. So I signed up with WidgetBucks.com and I have to say the design impressed me. In a…
With Google Analytics, the worlds #1 search engine has more data about your website than you do. Installing analytics on your website gives Google the keys to your business, and allows for easy manipulation of your ranking. Google emphatically denies they use analytics and Search Engine Results Pages click behavior to determine placement, but I…
I read about Bidvertiser pay per click ads in a marketing blog and I thought I’d try them out. Every advertising network and affiliate program deserves to be tested – this is the only way you will find out what works for your site. So I signed up for Bidvertiser and let the fun begin.…
Normally I find Michael Arrington’s blog posts self fulfilling and entertaining – he is a great technology gossip and loves skewering venture capitalists. He has done a great job of it, with over 600 thousand readers. Today he shows us the lighter side of Silicon Valley, one with compassion, feeling, and emotions. Tin Woodman, there…
With the advent of Graham Langdon’s MillionDollarWiki.com people are jumping on the wiki money making bandwagon. It seems like a safe bet with the original Million Dollar Wiki having an incredibly strong start. Graham has created a new online market using the free mediawiki code and I think its a great idea. Wikipedia.org is an…
Stuntdbl rants about search engine optimization and notes that most SEO’s talk, blog, complain and pontificate about optimization instead of actually doing the work necessary to get pages good placement. From his site: Optimal is the best case scenario in any given set of circumstances. Optimized is creating a site that gives users and bots…
