Archive for February, 2007
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
For years, Meta Tags were considered to be some sort of "magic bullet" when it came to search engine optimization. As time passed, though, they lost some of their allure. For awhile, spammers hammered the "meta keywords" tag with tons of irrelevant phrases that would make the page ...
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
Bad news. If your Google Adsense ads suddenly just show nothing, or a box where the ads should be, chances are your website has been banned. This has happened to a few of my websites, and there's never any reason offered by Google. Personally, I consider this ...
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Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
Cisco has really been on the move lately. Earlier this month they purchased 5 Across, a social networking software company and today they announced plans to buy Reactivity, a small company that makes equipment to route XML internet traffic.
The company is based in Redwood, California and employs 56. The ...
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
Today Viacom announced that they had reached a licensing agreement with Joost to distribute video content.
This agreement was reached just weeks after having Youtube and Google pull 100,000 video clips that were in copyright voilations.
Joost will host content from Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central and Paramount studios.
No financial ...
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Monday, February 19th, 2007
Yahoo Co-founder Jerry Yang and his wife just announced that they are donating 75 million dollars to Stanford University.
Associated Press reported that Stanford plans to use $50 million of the donation for a new environmental studies center it hopes to finish by December, and $5 million for a 120,000-square-foot center ...
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Monday, February 19th, 2007
If you manage a content website, you'll soon learn that search engines treat you much better if you update constantly. Bloggers have been doing this for years, and the reason is quite obvious. Despite what you might think, it's not Toolbar PR which determines spider frequency, it's actually ...
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Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Have you recently noticed a new graphic that looks like a shopping cart in a Google ad?
Google has just added this feature to their advertising program so that vendors can clearly identify that they accept payments using Google Checkout. The ad pictured below gives you an idea of how companies ...
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Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Warner recently announced that they have signed agreements with Egypt's Orascom Telecom and Norwegian telecom group Telenor.
The deal with Orascom will give Warner the right to provide mobile products such as ringtones and full track downloads in countries including Algeria, Bangladesh, Italy, Pakistan, Tunisia and Egypt.
The agreeement with Telenor ...
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Tuesday, February 13th, 2007
In the old days (last year and before), Google used to be pretty quick about adding new content into their index. That's no longer the case. In fact, you can expect to wait much longer than you planned on. Google isn't easily fooled by low quality content. ...
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Monday, February 12th, 2007
Recently Viacom requested that online video content website Youtube.com remove 100,000 video clips after they failed to come to a distribution agreement for copyrighted content.
Today Viacom announced that they are going to make MTV's content available to all users online, eliminating the need for people to visit Youtube.
"We ...
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