Archive for September, 2006

Work On Your “About Us” Page

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 […]

Get Paid To Do Google Research!

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 […]

Title Tag Optimization

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 […]

Blog Networks Expanding

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 […]

Google Gets Political

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 […]

Windows Live Search Comes Alive

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 […]

Yahoo Mail Reaping Profits

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 […]

Starting Your Own Paid Membership Site

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 […]

Apple Now On Your TV

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 […]

Can’t Get A Priest? Rent One Online

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 […]