I was once a business partner, in what would have been agreat new roller derby league in Florida. One business partner was a former roller derby skater and trainer named Erwin Miller. Our other business partner was (and remains) Pam Burke, a very knowledgeable...
A sad tale of a business that could have been
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Google and the Blog Directories: Get Listed
Google is the most important and most used search engine. Other search engines, including AOL Search, Yahoo, and others, use Google's listings as well.Is your blog indexed in Google's listings?The first thing to do is find out.Go to http://www.google.com...
Copyright on the Internet
Business bloggers are often concerned about the legal status of their posts.Are blogs in general, and business blogs and writing blogs in particular, protected by copyright?What is, and what is not, legally protected in your blog?Here are the 10 Big...
MyDoom Virus Removal Technique
The MyDoom computer virus is one of the nastiest ones to arrive in unnguarded e-mail boxes yet.I hope you have your virus protection up to date. Practice safe surfing!David Clain at Swagu expresses doubt that computer users will ever be able to do more...
Blog Revenue: Donations
Donations.Will they work as income for your blog?The answer is likely a maybe, with a lot of caveats.In order to receive any worthwhile amount of money, through reader donations, a blog would likely have to fulfil a number of requirements.There would...
Google PageRank: Don't Split It Up
Don't split up your Google Page Rank.Okay, you say. What's Google PageRank? And what is splitting it up?PageRank is Google's system for measuring the relative importance of a web page.Note carefully that PageRank is for each individual web page, not...
DMOZ Directory: Getting your blog included
Everyone talks about getting their site listed in the Open Directory Project, better known as DMOZ, but not everyone knows what to do about it.Here's some help.The Open Directory Project is probably the single most important internet directory. Its listings...
Carnival of the Capitalists
This week's edition of Carnival of the Capitalists is up and running at the esteemed political blog Winds of Change.For those of you unfamiliar with Winds of Change, it's a politically oriented blog that places a heavy emphasis on international news...
Google Goes to the Dance
Google is the dominant internet search engine.That is common knowledge. Powering the informational searches for Yahoo!, AOL, and many others, gives Google a pre-eminant position among internet searchers. There is unrest, in the ranks of the search engine...
Blogs updated faster at Technorati
Most of you are familiar with Technorati as a quick and convenient way to check which blogs are linking to yours.Technorati began a recent major upgrade of its system. The site has just introduced an enhanced Technorati Beta version, complete with some...
Practical Savings Advice
If you are concerned about US Social Security, Canada Pension Plan, or any other country's retirement "plan" not existing, when it's your time to retire, here's some help.Sugarmama maps out the basics of retirement savings. In dollars and sense.In effect,...
Writing Articles Increases Your Traffic
You say you want to get a lot more visitors to your blog or website?You say you have tried everything, and while each idea has added a few extra visitors here and there, none has given you some major bang for the buck?Try writing articles that appear...
Internet Browser Toolbars: Which One For You?
Internet browser toolbars. Have you installed one (or more) on your internet browser?The best known and most popular toolbars are from Google, Alexa, and Yahoo.For a complete evaluation of the features of each internet browser toolbar, and which one...
Anchor text: Give your links extra weight
Anchor text.No, it's not a tall sailing ship tale.I'm talking about the anchor text in your incoming links.Okay, you say, you'll bite. What's anchor text anyway?I'm glad you asked that question (with a bit of prompting). Anchor text is the wording that...
Carnival of the Capitalists: Up and Running
Carnival of the Capitalists is hosted this week by Bristish based blogger UnpersonsAs always there are a great assortment of tremendous entries posted. Topics include business, society, innovation, economics and investment, and politics.I have an entry...
Blog Publicity: An Idol Idea
Blog publicity requires some imaginative and innovative new ideas.One such idea is courtesy of blog idea machine Darren Rowse, of Living Room.In a brilliant variation on the popular television series American Idol, Darren has created Blogger IdolBy providing...
Blog topics: Finding ideas
I was taking a linking tour of blogs today.I used my favourite system of randomly selecting a blog name from other bloggers' lists of favourites. When I reach a new blog, I emply the same method again, and again. I never know where I'll wind up after...
Creative Thinking as a Way of Life
Creativity. What is it?When you think of creativity, you may be drawn to the idea it involves writers, painters, and other artists. Perhaps, you think creativity is for architects and website designers.In fact, everyone is creative. Creativity comes...
Creativity Adds Profitability
Creativity is a must for any company.If a business fails to generate new ideas, and new ways of doing things, it will stagnate. There are some businesses, that are able to grow and prosper, by using a rigid nd never changing formula. Most companies,...
Perception and reality
A person's reputation within an organization, and even outside of it, might not be backed up by the facts.In a series at Management By Baseball, it's decided that former New York Yankees, and now Houston Astros left handed pitcher Andy Pettitte, doesn't...
Keywords and visitor interests
Keywords are the terms, that people enter into the search box, when searching for information on the internet.If you are looking for cookie recipes, that's what you enter into the little box on your favourite search engine. You enter either "cookie recipes"...
Jeremy Wright's Ensight Blog Goes Big Time
Readers of the prestigious American newspaper The Washington Post, were treated to the words and opinions, of fellow blogger Jeremy Wright of Ensight. In an article about the leading search engine Google's Initial Public Offering (IPO) of its shares.In...
My Google PageRank article at SEO Chat
For those of you who are interested in the concept of Google PageRank, what it means, and approximately how it's calculated, I have written a Google PageRank article.My essay called Google PageRank Primer appears on the well known search engine optimization...
Carnival of the Capitalists
Don't forget to drop by Jeremy Wright's first rate Ensight blog.Jeremy is hosting this week's Carnival of the Capitalists at Ensight.For those of you who are not familiar with the Carnival of the Capitalists, it's a rotating weekly series of bloggers,...
Google Backlink Update
It has happened again.And only about two weeks since the last one too.A Google backlink update!For those of you who don't know, or perhaps don't even care, I'll explain. A Google backlink update is a big (and we are talking Pyramids huge here) event...
Blogging for dollars
Making money from your blog is a popular discussion theme.There are as many complaints about an inability to monetize blogs, as there are...well...bloggers.The idea of making a few blogging bucks is discussed on a number of well known, and less well...
Google algorithms: SEO made fun and easy
Search engine optimization techniques, are one of the major requests I receive daily, in my e-mail. Along with linking, content creation ideas, and promoting and marketing your blog, getting search engine high rankiings, is a very popular request.Enquiring...
Stemming and keywords in blogs
My columns on stemming and on keywords in blog posts, as part of the Google algorithm, has caused some confusion.My friend Tristam Bielecki of New Meeja and Blogopoly has alerted me to a possible contradiction in my posts.My thanks to Tristam for keeping...
Blogs and search engine optimization
The very term search engine optimization is probably enough to make you roll your eyes twice, yawn, and drop off to a sound sleep of boredom.Even the commonly used (at least among those who stay awake to think of such things) is SEO. That abbreviation...
Stemming: It's not just for plants anymore
In the recent Google update, known throughout the search engine optimization community, as "Florida", there was a storm of controversy about how Google located websites in web searches.Previously high ranking sites (those sitting proudly on Page One...
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