Did You take in the Buzz? Yahoo!’s Social News System Opens
August 19, 2008
I got a note from Yahoo! about an hour ago announcing that their buzz site is now open to the public. whether you recall my previous post on the topic, Yahoo! is in position to be a serious competitor to popular news site digg.com.
If You Own a Site, Sign On
Yahoo! buzz allows users to submit news stories, and these stories are voted up by the sites’ community of users. By submitting your ow…
Flip That House Site
August 5, 2008
Dave Hermansen did not own a bird or a cage when he bought bird-cage.com, an online store, for $1,800 three years ago. He simply saw a website that was “very, very poorly done”, and begged the owners to sell it to him. He thereupon redesigned the site, added advertising and drove up traffic. Last December, he sold it for $173,000.
This article caught my attention considering it got me think…
Two Equally Qualified humans Walk Into an Opportunity…
July 20, 2008
and only one of them comes out successful.
This phenomenon isn’t new. From job interviews, to getting a promotion at work, to making money on the World Wide Web. What is it that causes some citizens to succeed and others to fail? I’ve been busy lately with quite a bit of travel but I did have a few minutes to read the New York Times last week and came across this article which I bookm…
Rogers iPhone, Subway Sandwiches & Why Setting Fair Prices is Important
July 9, 2008
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For a company that prides themselves on customer satisfaction and hassle free operation (Apple), things in C…
The Future of Online Advertising
July 2, 2008
It’s Replacing your Television
I was watching some tv episodes tonight @ the site Hulu.com. It’s a great website backed by FOX and NBC to try and grab some revenue from those that would otherwise illegally download. It is only open to residents of the US, but whether you download and run HotSpotShield you can watch from anywhere. I’m in Canada and it works just fine.
After watchi…
5 Steps to Optimize Contextual Ads on Your Site
June 27, 2008
Check out this great video released by the Google Australia team;
Although it’s tailored to AdSense publishers, it’s adaptable to any other text based advertising program you run as well.
Orginal post by WhyDoWork
Reinvesting in Your Business - How Much?
June 24, 2008
A fairly common question I get is how much should I reinvest in growing my business every month? There’s really no easy reply to the question and it depends on quite a few factors but I’ll do my best to outline a few ‘profiles’ that you might fit.
You Have a singled-out Site Sales Page for a Product > $10
You have a faraway pitch, a few testimonials, and eventually gathe…
Fresh News from Google: Load duration Affects Your Keyword Quality Score
June 18, 2008
Something is brewing at Google. A few hours ago Google posted some interesting information to their Adwords blog. Here’s the juicy part:
In early March, we announced that we’d soon incorporate an additional factor into Quality Score, namely landing page load day — where load instance is defined as the amount of day it takes for a user to see the landing page after clicking an…
Internet Advertising Will Double in Five Years
June 13, 2008
Do you think no one is clicking ads anymore, Google Adsense is a waste of day, and banner ads are on the way out? IDC says you’re wrong.
Their latest release has some interesting projections on web advertising for that, and the years to come. Here’s the parts that matter:
Even though IDC anticipates that the threat of a potential recession will decrease ad expenditure across all media…
Morgan Freeman on Google Reconsideration Requests
June 9, 2008
IMPORTANT: Do NOT read any of the following without first watching that clip:
Get out of Jail Free
If you don’t know, the above clip is from the movie Shawshank Redemption, and for some reason every day I think about the topic of re-applying for something online that clip comes to mind. Try and map the discussion in that video to your own mistakes as a webmaster. whether you watch it direct…