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Adobe Teams Up with Google and Yahoo for SWF SEO

editor — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:40:31 +0000

Adobe announced that they’ve made a special version of the Flash Player available to Google and Yahoo that allows them to fully index rich Internet applications and other SWF content. The content in rich Internet applications is now available to Google, and that means that RIAs should be easier to find in Google. This is one of the main issues that people ask about when talking about rich Internet applications, so its great to see Google, Yahoo and Adobe working together to solve this problem.

Adobe has created a special Flash player for the search engines that acts like a virtual user going through each application. It actually goes through the runtime of each Flash application and translates it into something the search engines can understand..

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Full article: http://www.enetlive.net/?p=16

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User Experience Design for Brands on the Web - So What?

editor — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:53:32 +0000

While the world is off bandwagoning on blog posts about Twitter and how much of an influence/frustration it is, I wanted to get back to the root of some things. I’ve been troubled a lot lately by just how bad it seems that web (online) experiences for brands are failing the consumers. The amount of money wasted on ignorance, well, I just don’t know.

As every good marketer should know–from Marketing 101–it is very important that you maintain a brand, or an extension of it. This means that you want people to not only use your product or service, but that you want them to see a benefit from it, and ultimately continue to use it in the future.

Once upon a time, within the past few months of my life, I gave a survey to about 60 or so people in regards to beverage websites that I asked them to view. It was a very simple survey (in exchange for answers, I offered consumers their pick from a grab bag of about $30 in CVS-purchased chocolates and candies–and yes, I had more than enough volunteers), with each person focusing on one of the 5 websites and then answering 10 questions. The first nine focused on rating things from 1-5 (for easy math), the last question asking whether or not the consumer would ever return to the website. Number ten was open-ended, and I asked for open comments, preferably focused upon what would prompt the consumer to return to the site.

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Full article: http://www.userglue.com/blog/2008/05/22/user-experience-design-for-brands-on-the-web-so-what/

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4 Hidden Benefits to Monetizing via Google AdSense

editor — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:21:46 +0000

In the past I have been a bit hard on AdSense, stating how it cannibalizes publishing, but there are some up sides to Google’s AdSense too. Many people talk about the ease of implementation, scalability, and lack of maintenance cost, but 4 more rarely talked about benefits are…

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Profit From Spam: If you have a pharmacy affiliate or payday loan site then many people will consider the site spam by default..

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Full article: http://www.seobook.com/4-hidden-benefits-monetizing-google-adsense

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Blogger vs. WordPress

editor — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:40:01 +0000

If you haven’t noticed, I just switched from Blogger to WordPress about a week ago. Both are excellent services however I do enjoy WordPress a lot more now that I am finally using it. Now let me break down what I’ve found.

Blogger

Blogger was a great, easy to set up service..

WordPress

WordPress is also pretty great. It does require a few extra steps to get started but everything is very well documented..

Full article: http://www.jonbishop.org/2008/05/blogger-vs-wordpress/

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WordPress 2.6 and New Features

editor — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:50:35 +0000

WordPress 2.6 has been released (download)The new version of WordPress includes some new features and improvements, such as post revisions, posting bookmarklet, theme preview and as well as support of Google Gears.

What’s new in WordPress 2.6?

Post revisions — ever miss the editing records of your blog post? WordPress 2.6 now included the wiki-like tracking for blog edits. It allows you to view who made what changes when to any post or page through a super-easy interface.

Blogging bookmarklet — drag the “Press This” bookmarklet to your browser’s bookmark bar. Then, whenever you see something interesting to blog about, just click on the bookmarklet..

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Full article: http://www.liewcf.com/blog/archives/2008/07/wordpress-26-new-features/

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Tips for Building Next Generation Web 2.0 Applications

editor — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:25:26 +0000

I’ve been spending a good amount of time the last several weeks getting ready for the workshop session I’ll be giving at Web 2.0 Expo next week in San Francisco on building next-generation Web 2.0 applications. What does “next generation” mean compared to what we were doing a couple of years ago with Web 2.0? A good number of things as it turns out.

Tips for Building Next Generation Web 2.0 Applications

First, understand the basics of Web 2.0. Here is a popular overview I wrote a little while back that has the essential design patterns of Web 2.0 as well as how they specifically plug into a viable business model.
Assemble a development team that is willing to learn. The market is moving at light speed at the moment and new models for designing, building, hosting, and distributing Web apps are emerging rapidly. Because of this, it’s fairly unlikely you’ll be able to hire the folks that already have the skills you need, so the next best thing is hiring people who are passionate about and able to learn the latest new things quickly.
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Full article: http://web2.wsj2.com/tips_for_building_next_generation_web_20_applications.htm

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Buying Sites for SEO

editor — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:30:32 +0000

Buying Sites For SEO - Forget the debate over buying links. How about buying entire web sites to gain success in search. This session looks at how to find the gems out there, criteria to consider, ways to negotiate and how to best leverage your new purchase. Tips, tricks, success stories, and painful lessons learned will be shared.

In 2004, he was listening to some guy named Chris on a panel and all these domains were out there that expired but were linked to by .gov and .edu websites. Most of you should know that these are pretty valuable links. They’re generally more trusted (at least in ‘04 and ‘05). A lot of people didn’t take Chris seriously at the time. He built a spider to find these sites and checked them against the Yahoo directory and DMOZ directory. After doing 1.5 months of work, 1500 domains were out there in the wild that had amazing links.

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Full article: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/017307.html

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Another 10 great Web 2.0 tools for Diagnostic Imaging Professionals

editor — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:01:20 +0000

Last time we touched on the definition of Web 2.0 and talked a little bit about the way it redefines our relationship to information. But as much as it is about creating and editing virtual information, Web 2.0 is about reviewing and ranking information, therefore it becomes possible to sort out misplaced or even false information through group feedback..

1. Auntminnie.com is your Radiologist Aunt. “AuntMinnie provides a forum for radiologists, business managers, technologists, members of organized medicine, and industry to meet, transact, research, and collaborate on topics within the field of radiology with the ease and speed that only the Internet can provide..

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Full article: http://tomographyblog.com

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Automatically Make Money Online Through Monetized Blogging: A Guide To Outsourcing Your Professional Blog’s Design

editor — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:57:07 +0000

Professional blogging represents a great way to automate your cash inflow. Bloggers like Darren Rowse and Steve Pavlina actually earn six-digit incomes annually from blogging! One of the critical elements of any money-making blog is a great design..

Ok. Here’s what we’re going to accomplish and how. I’m going to outline the general steps that I followed in outsourcing the design and implementation of my professional weblog. Special attention is given to how I developed and used an SOW to acquire and monitor the services of a third-party provider. I’ll also share my actual SOW so you can reuse it to build or re-design your own personal, professional, or business blog.

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Full article: http://smartlifeblog.com

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Joomla and (or vs) Drupal - Which One is Right for You?

editor — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:45:42 +0000

During the last few months we’ve had a lot of clients who are very technically knowledgeable and coming to us to find out more after picking up on the buzz around CMS systems and Drupal and Joomla in particular.

After talking and developing answers for several clients, we decided to put all we’d written into one document to help other people with this decision. This is not an Drupal vs Joomla discussion. Some disclaimers before we start:

An open acknowledgement that each choice is appropriate for different sites. Sometimes we have to tell clients that neither will work for what they want.
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Full article: http://www.glorilla.com

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