Archive for September, 2006
Just like "Contact Us" pages, the "About Us" sections on many websites are often treated like unloved stepchildren. However, you are neglecting "About Us" pages at your own peril - in many cases, the information contained on your about us pages may be a dealmaker or dealbraker for you.
If a prospective customer wants to find out more about your company, the "About Us" page is the most likely place he or she will turn to. So make sure your prospects find information that will answer their questions about who you are and why they should choose ...
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Google is seeking participants to test their new services and products.
Their User Experience Research Program recruits relevant Google users to test new developments across their service range. Interested participants are required to sign up and answer a simple online survey.
Based on your survey responses, Google will approach you when a suitable test case or research project arises. So if you love Google, or just want to get involved in their development process, then this is a great chance.
What's even better is that you get paid for the research and testing you complete. According to the ...
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As with all aspects of web site design don't forget your visitors needs, some keyword phrases aren't descriptive enough to use alone as a title, what you put in the title element is the text searches will see when they see a listing for your page in a Search Engines Results Pages (
SERPs).
If it doesn't appeal to your potential visitors they will not click through to your sites listing! This is precisely why the title of this page is
SEO Blog. This tells a potential visitor this page is part of an
SEO blog.
There are exceptions ...
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Federated Media recently added a new automotive category and some
20 assorted blogs, including Guy Kawasaki's, boosts the blog network's monthly impressions to "hundreds of millions," Federated's chairman,
John Battelle, said. However, the recent batch of acquisitions could be the last for a while as
Federated seeks to build the infrastructure needed to support further growth.
Competitor
AdBrite is also growing quickly, having recently added the
20,000th site to its network; the company plans to shortly introduce new demographic planning and campaign management tools. Though the network's roots are in blogs, it has expanded to other publisher ...
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With
Google NetPAC, the search giant joins fellow tech heavyweights in an attempt to influence Beltway politics via contributions to political candidates and causes.
Google has been at the forefront of the net neutrality debate in the context of a Senate communications bill.
Google and other internet companies maintain that net neutrality is vital for keeping the internet a consumer-friendly, user-driven environment; other tech giants - cable and telecom firms - tend to oppose net neutrality provisions.
Many major corporations - including
Microsoft,
Intel and
Oracle - already resort to
PAC donations as part of their political ...
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Windows Live Search, showing off a spartan but elegant design at Live.com that out-simples
Google's, will now power
MSN Search. Along with Live.com,
Live Local Search is also now out of beta (but only in the U.S. and U.K.). Both are part of
Microsoft's internet-based set of live services and software.
Derrick Connell, search business general manager, called the Live Search launch "a watershed moment" for
Microsoft.
Live Search allows users to search for news, images, video, blogs and RSS feeds via a single portal.
Microsoft claims the new search will return more precise results - and ...
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Yahoo Mail's
41.4 percent share of all display ads was more that three times that of closest competitor MySpace's
16.1 percent, according to
Nielsen/NetRatings AdRelevance data. MSN Hotmail was third, with
7.8 percent of display ads. Yahoo's share increased significantly from the previous month's
32.9 percent and the
7.6 percent in
August 2005.
Financial services companies accounted for
28.0 percent of online display ads in
August, followed by retail goods and services with
18 percent and web media with
14 percent.
The total number of
CPM display ads tracked by Nielsen (not pre-roll, partnerships and sponsorships) totaled ...
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Want to sell subscriptions for online content with your own membership
site? Selling online content via a password protected website has become
big business. Not only is it fast to set up (with the right tools), but
the start-up and running costs are minimal. Work from home entrepreneurs
and big businesses alike are lapping up this new found revenue source.
People are willing to pay for online content. In fact, the "Online
Publishers Association" revealed that pay-for content is emerging as a
hot revenue model. Business content, personals, match making, and
entertainment are the hottest niches. But even smaller niches, like DVD
authoring, ...
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Apple CEO
Steve Jobs unveiled a plug-in device that will stream music and video wirelessly between televisions and computers. Dubbed
iTV for now, the hardware will be released in early
2007. Apple also launched a new service allowing users to download movies ($12.99 for new releases, $9.99 for older films), and has distribution deals with four studios - all owned by
Disney, where
Jobs is a board member.
"Now, you can get great content online. It's playing now on a computer near you. You can play it on an iPod near you and it is coming to a ...
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The rent-a-priest website, based on a national database known as "God's Yellow Pages," offers believers access to some 2,500 Catholic priests.
Virtually all those priests have left their official ministries as a result of the
Roman Catholic Church's celibacy rule; some are gay. The priests conduct weddings, usually for a fee, and perform baptisms, last rites and funerals for free, in keeping with accepted practice.
"We are doing Jesus' work and apparently the church isn't,"
Louise Haggett, director of Celibacy Is The Issue (
CITI) ministries, is quoted as saying. ...
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