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Robert Scoble and Rackspace have just launched the long anticipated Building43 in an effort Scoble describes as, "helping usher businesses into 2010." Said teammate Rocky Barbanica, "Companies can gain so much insight through the people on Twitter, Friendfeed and Facebook. We're hoping to help them talk and listen to their (Read More)
Submitted by Genuwine4532:
webmasters and marketers, eat, sleep and have nightmares about keywords. They are truly the lifeblood of our business and especially the SEO end of it.Keywords is how web surfers find our sites, how we target buyers and visitors and overall are essential to the success of our websites and blogs.Remember that the SERPS (sear (Read More)
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As much fun as we all have poring over lines of code every time an anonymous commenter alerts us to a broken link, missing image, or misspelled word, small-potatoes page edits are hardly the most enjoyable part of running and maintaining a website.A new tool called DeepTrawl allows site owners to proactively find such error (Read More)
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Time once again for the ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, our weekly roundup of upcoming social Web events. We publish it every weekend, as good a time as any to review your conference plans.Know of an event taking place that should appear here? Let us know in the comments below or contact us.Sponsor27 May – 3 June 2009: UK (vario (Read More)
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On May 19, TypeRoom launched their triple-tiered premium product, TypeRoom Professional. A bit like in-browser website creation and editing app Zimplit, which we reviewed yesterday, TypeRoom allows for simple and nearly instant web content editing without software and with little or no expertise in the subject.While the fre (Read More)
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There are a slew of social media aggregation sites willing, waiting, and wanting to pull your updates, videos, photos, links, music, "shares," "likes," and other content from all around the web. A few of them work well, some have really cool features, and others have critical mass.But none of them are as drop-dead good-look (Read More)
: @djdigit I didn't even see that it ran on MS servers...echh. I am not going to give up years of working on and learning *nix for an amusement. WTF are they thinking?
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Roughly 5% of Firefox users run a plugin called AdBlock Plus, which effectively blocks all display and text ads on web sites. There can be little doubt that the ethics of using a tool like this can get pretty tricky, though a lot of users do opt to block online ads, and given that this is mostly and all-or-nothing approach, (Read More)
JR's Internet Marketing Strategies:
There is so much malware out there that can downloaded to your computer without you even knowing it, referred to as “drive-by” malware that all you have to do is visit a website and if it is infected that virus will infect your PC as well.I have been infected twice in the past by these “drive-by” downloads and they had com (Read More)
JR's Internet Marketing Strategies:
Ultimately the best keywords are those that have lots of competition, often in the millions, because those are the ones that are searched for the most, cause and effect people! It is very difficult to rank for those keywords, but there is a way.When doing keyword research there are always long tail keywords. A long tail key (Read More)
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Google announced a new, smaller version of their sitelinks search feature on their official Webmaster Blog today. The new mini-sitelinks will appear on more than just the top search result, and will occupy a maximum of one line and four links per result. Sitelinks were originally added by Google to help people jump to more (Read More)
JR's Internet Marketing Strategies:
Looks like Google has done another toolbar Page Rank update, so check your sites.This blog remains a PR3. A few of my other sites went from PR0 to PR2 and PR1 to PR2. A couple of others went from PRo to PR1, a nice surprise since they are very new and I was not expecting a Page Rank increase this time around. Just goes to s (Read More)
Submitted by Genuwine4532:
One of the biggest challenges for webmasters is SERP placement. SERPS stands for Search Engine Rank Pages or Search Engine Result Pages. Getting indexed and ultimately to be placed on page 1 of those SERPS is the main goal of any SEO effort. In fact, it is the foundation of SEO for a website to rank for the keywords it is (Read More)
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Editor's note:This guest post was written by Aaron Strout and John Cass, two marketing professionals who are monitoring how the semantic web will help companies and marketers help consumers.What is the semantic web, you wonder? Don't worry, you're not alone. The term "semantic web," or "Web 3.0" as some folks have started c (Read More)
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Yahoo today announced a new feature for SearchMonkey that makes it very easy for site owners to embed flash videos, games, and documents directly on the Yahoo Search results page. The first sites to make use of this new feature are Hulu, Metacafe, and YouTube. Whenever a video from these sites appears in your search results (Read More)
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Everyone knows how well Barack Obama's presidential campaign made use of new media to raise money and market the candidate. We also know how big a role social technology played during inauguration week, from handheld flip HD footage appearing on network TV to people reporting on Twitter about what they liked and disliked. A (Read More)