Guest Blogging at Search Engine Guide This Week
It has been light posting over here this week as I have been busy guest blogging over at Search Engine Guide, filling in for Jennifer Laycock as she is currently on maternity leave after giving birth to a beautiful baby boy - Emmitt Charles Laycock. While the Google acquisition of YouTube dominated the news this week, there were a variety of additional things going on as well. I have provided a bullet list of all the topics I covered over the past couple of weeks. Enjoy!
- "No More Free Press Releases," says PRWeb - PRWeb ends free press release distribution. Good I say as it will weed out all the spammy releases that have surfaced over the years.
- Are Your Web Pages Haunted - That Is With Grammar Errors? - Ten common grammar errors that typically haunt web pages.
- Google Introduces Multiple Channels For AdSense Ad Units - You can now assign custom channels to a single AdSense unit.
- Let the Copyright Fights Begin! Google's First Battle Over YouTube Copyright Issues - Time Warner is the first to pick a
copyright fight with YouTube under Google's newly acquired ownership.
- Search The Web on Your Cell Phone With Ask.com Mobile - Ask launches mobile search making many of their cool tools
available on your cell phone.
- Who Is In Control of Your Online Reputation? - ClickZ article on managing your online reputation. What are consumers
saying about you? What to do about it when it turns sour.
- Blog Juice Calculator - Give It a Squeeze - New tool from the guys at Text Link Ads that measures how much juice your
blog has.
- New Study on the Convergence of Social Media and E-Commerce - A study that looks at the convergence of traditional
e-commerce and social media.
- Zoho Virtual Office Launched at Office 2.0 Conference - Zoho combines all their online productivity products into one
suite.
- Google Launches "Google Office", Well Almost - Google combines Writely and spreadsheet products into one suite, dubbed
"Docs & Spreadsheets."
- How Will Google Monetize YouTube? - Excellent article by Jennifer Slegg (Jensense) on how Google might work to monetize
newly acquired YouTube.
- Yahoo! To Join MSN and Google in Supporting NOODP Tag - Finally Yahoo follows suite behind MSN and Google giving
webmasters more control over how their web pages appear in the organic search listings>
- Widgets Live! - The First Conference Focusing on Widget Economy - The first ever conference on the emerging widget
economy.
- Yahoo!'s Digital Time Capsule - Yahoo is assembling a digital capsule and inviting people everywhere to submit items.
- Web Analytics Are Useless Without Action and Accountability - A look at holding the web development team accountable to
act on web analytics findings.
- Google Agrees To Acquire YouTube for a Record 1.65 Billion Dollars - The big news of the week, Google buys YouTube for
record price.
- Business.com Launches New Business Site - Work.com - Part Wikipedia, part blog and part directory - a new web site by
Business.com.
- Google Music Deals To Benefit Web Publishers? - How web publishers might benefit from Google's recent deals with Sony
BMG Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group.
- Things NOT To Do When Marketing Yourself on Web Forums - A rant of sorts based on my own experience moderating and
participating on forums.
- Should Age of Target Audience Determine Online Marketing Strategy? - Marketers looking for the best way to reach a
specific target audience should consider generational differences in search and media consumption habits.
- ClickTracks CEO John Marshall Interviewed - A summary of a recent interview conducted with John Marshall, CEO of
ClickTracks.
- Don't Forget About Your Users When Designing - Yahoo Publisher Blog releases an article on the subject of "designing
your web site with users in mind."
- 18 Things To Consider When Building a Website - Todd Mailcoat (aka Stuntdbl) does it again with advice on things to plan
for when building a web site.
- TeamSkaffe - A New Directory For Non Commercial Sites - Skaffe launches a new directory for non-commercial web sites.
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