Archive for October, 2007
Wordpress Parent Automattic Rejects $200 Million Offer?
TechCrunch is reporting that Automattic, the parent company of both the Wordpress open source script and the Wordpress.com blog hosting site has rejected a buyout offer of $200 Million. The company has raised only $1.1 Million in founding, but Wordpress, the platform we use, is one of the most popular blogging platforms available (if not […]
Disclosure Policy
In the spirit of honesty and building trust with readers, I think every blog should create a disclosure policy saying that the blog may accept advertising and include affiliate links (if your blog accepts advertising and uses affiliate links). You should also say in a Disclosure Policy that you blog contains opinionated information and that […]
Video of the Day: How to Create Search Engine Friendly Titles
Aaron Wall from SeoBook has a great video post today about how to create search engine friendly titles .
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What is Google doing?
Worried about your PageRank drop? While you shouldn’t worry too much about PageRank, those who do care can take comfort in this, YouTube has a PageRank of 3. I think this makes it clear that there is some problem with the PageRank system that should soon be fixed.
I am pretty sure YouTube is important enough […]
Microsoft Gets Stake of FaceBook - Sets FaceBook Value at $15 Billion
Microsoft has just bought up a 1.6% stake in FaceBook for $240 million, which gives the start-up a valuation of $15 Billion. Thats right, $240 million for less than 2% of the company. The price is a bit ridiculous, but can still be seen as a good move for Microsoft as they finally get more […]
Page Rank Update - Major Downgrade
The blogosphere is buzzing today with news surrounding how many of the Internet’s top blogs and web properties were downgraded in page rank by Google due to the controversy surrounding selling links. Large blogs like ProBlogger (6 to 4), CopyBlogger (6 to 4), Search Engine Journal (7 to 4), Engadget ( 7 to 5), and others […]
Blog Action Day Stats
A few days ago on October 15th, tens of thousands of bloggers participated in Blog Action Day talking about how we can come together to help save the environment. Well, over 20,000 bloggers participated writing over 23,000 posts that were read by over 14.5 Million RSS Readers. I’d say that it was pretty successful.
Over at NorthxEast, […]
Why Forums are Great for Generating Post Ideas
Slow news days/writer’s block, they both happen. So what is a blogger to do when they simply cannot think of a topic to write about? Simple, search the forums in your blog’s niche. Forums are filled with people looking for and sharing information so look at what other people that are interested in your blog’s […]
