Ecommerce Sites and Content

For some reason people keep thinking that ecommerce sites are somehow different and do not need much content, beyond a brief description, similar to what you might see with a catalog. The search engines do not change HOW they evaluate the relevance of pages based on “what kind” of a page is being displayed. They could [...]

The Next Google Update
I would venture to guess that one of the most common questions on any webmaster forum involves someone asking, “When is the next Google update?” Although they are probably asking about visible PageRank updates in the Google toolbar, the answer involves a bit more than that. Visible PageRank is what you see in your Google toolbar. [...]

Good Old Fashioned Hard Work
It seems like everywhere I go, everyone is looking for shortcuts. People jump around from one affiliate program to the next, with little thought given to the product. It is all about which affiliate company pays the most, or which get rich scheme promises the most, the fastest. I see website owners scrounging for ways to [...]

How much money is a blog Worth?
Simon at Bloggasm has been asking himself a question that I hear increasing debate over ‘how much money is a blog worth?’ Simon’s seen attempt to put values at blogs which seem overblown (for example the one that Dane came up with at Business Opportunities which was based upon the WeblogsInc sale to AOL and how [...]

QFlea Virtual Flea Market
Started as a hobby by Charley Silverman in 1999, the QFLEA Virtual Flea Market is a community of more than 400 vendors working together to create the largest online flea market in the world. These vendors are hard-working people that sell a variety of items from their websites, including crafts, jewelry, clothing, personalized gifts, teddy [...]

Choosing a Niche for Your Information Product (or Blog)
Brian’s released a new video over at Tubetorial in his 7 Steps to Creating and Selling Niche Information Products series. This one is on working out what to make your product about. I like Brian’s approach because he doesn’t go in for the hype that surrounds a lot of information products and emphasizes that you [...]

Are You the Biggest Difference?
Are you the biggest difference for your business? Many years ago, a motivational speaker told me that the surest way to financial success was to find something that I absolutely love doing and then find a way to get paid for doing it. This is probably the best advice that I have ever received, and advice [...]

The Next Big Thing
Embedded software, Wireless Net, P2P, Real time movies, and Medicare are some of the often heard phrases used to describe the next big thing on the ..

Technorati Tag Link Generator
Blake writes a post on Technorati Tags and has developed a little Technorati Tag Link Generator tool that may be of some use to some of you who don’t have the functionality built into your blogging tools already (like some blog desktop publishers do). Here’s some tags I just used with the tool: technorati tags blog tools

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Custom Red Widgets
Search engines return search results in the exact order of their perceived relevance to the search phrase requested. The more relevant your site appears to be, to the search requested, the HIGHER your page will show in the results. You have a page that you want to be found easily in the search engines for the [...]