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Mike Banks Valentine writes this excellent piece on the plight of new websites in their quest to be ranked by Google. “As a search engine optimization specialist I often optimize existing web pages for small business clients, upload them to the site and see pages re-indexed by Google within a ...more

Free Webmoney has posted a great list of resources for people wanting to explore online advertising options. Its a good starting point on a variety of different topics.

‘Blogging is driven by personal brand: authority and trust. This cannot be manufactured, and cannot be imparted to newbies just by affixing a media brand to them. Blogging will change everything it touches: classified, the blurring of oped and so-called factual journalism, and the duality between advertisers as content and ...more

Peter Davidson has a post worth reading titled Thinking About Product Blogs. ‘Many product blogs(PB) and small biz blogs(SBB) fail to define narrowly enough their audience and what they want to accomplish with their blog. Are you writing for existing customers or prospective customers? Both is the common answer. I ...more

I’ve been asked to submit a very short piece into a magazine with some basic tips for beginner bloggers which I thought I’d share here. They are not Rocket Science – pretty basic – but a good starting point for someone starting out in Blogging. – Keep it simple. Start ...more

Seth’s Godin has an interesting post unpacking three types of blogs. He classifies them as: 1. News Blogs – Chronicling the News of the day on a variety of topics from Politics to Gadgetry to Recipies. 2. Writers Blogs – Where a writer rants, raves, monologues, writes – generally original ...more

FindWhat has just started their own advertising system similar to that of Google’s Adsense program. Clickz.com has the story and writes: ‘FindWhat.com today debuted AdRevenue Xpress, an automated distribution partner program targeting small to mid-sized businesses. The distribution method is similar to Google’s AdSense, but it uses category- or keyword-targeting, ...more

Just found this interesting article on Business Blogging. “Jonathan Schwartz is a blogging addict. He is also the president and chief operating officer of Sun Microsystems (SUNW) — a company at the forefront of a new marketing and communications trend that mixes blogging with business. (For the rapidly shrinking minority ...more

The Daily Rundown (link removed as the site is no longer there)has this interesting piece of analysis about what people are searching for on Google. ‘ 28% of Google searches are for a “product name”, 9% are for a “brand name” and 5% are searches for a “company name”. “Brand” ...more