Are you looking for ways to increase your article writing productivity? Here are some useful tips that can tremendously help you:
1. Outline topics to be discussed. This is an important method that is often ov...
RSS, XML, Aggregators, Syndication, News readers - Posted on: 12/3/2007 4:44:46 PMThe terminology revolves around a new technology used to deliver articles, news and any type of information posted on the web in an electronic format. On your own time and at any given physical location; here is a bit of history.
Syndication vs. Duplicate Content - How can I avoid being penalized? - Posted on: 12/8/2007 1:08:33 PMFirst, a little background on Syndication. In general terms, syndicating means extending others the non-exclusive right to present your intellectual property to web readers around the world. Non-exclusively because people who re-publish your copy are not allowed to claim this work as if they auth...
Website Promotion - Fundamentals - Posted on: 12/12/2007 11:26:42 AMWebsite promotion basically refers to the process of submission of website and subsequent advertisement through banners, newsletters, etc. to attract and increase traffic to the website. Traffic refers to visitors and potential customers of the ...
Search Engines - Types and Features - Posted on: 12/12/2007 12:11:38 PMGetting the required information from the multitude sources of information appears to be an uphill task. This is where the search engine comes for making the task easy. This system for recovering information from the large internet database or w...
How can my Web pages be indexed quicker? - Posted on: 12/13/2007 6:59:22 PMIn the past, conventional ways to call the attention of major search engines such as Google and Yahoo required webmasters to submit their pages and build inbound links; these were the two main resources to accelerate indexing. However, even by employing these practices, it would still take anythi...
Search Engine Optimization as a Marketing Tool - Posted on: 12/14/2007 5:14:00 PMSearch engines provide search results by way of listing a large number of websites in order of ranks. Search engine optimization is the process of optimizing a website in such a way as to bring it up the ladder of ranks in the s...
Social Bookmarking Tool - Posted on: 12/18/2007 11:21:36 PMYou know how obsessed I am with Social Networking. So, today and honoring my
craze over the revolution of courious magical icons. I created a script that
will give all writers of static content, the opportunity to add Social
Bookmarking capability to their article...
Web Writing - Best Practices for Best Exposure - Posted on: 12/26/2007 9:29:04 PMI am sure you heard the phrase "Content is king" when it relates to SEO and Website marketing. It is, of course very important to apply all best SEO practices while designing your website or while posting on your blogs. However, there are two pieces that are more than crucual for sites to ...
Building Traffic without SEO - Posted on: 12/29/2007 7:25:19 PMBelieve it or not, SEO is not indispensable to build traffic. SEO is a more determined, structured and pre-defined way to exercise your right to be positioned based on your skills, but that does not ultimately determine your permanent position on the s...
Three Rules for Making Money With adSense - Posted on: 1/6/2008 6:43:03 PMThe key to making money on adSense is, first not to expect making a fortune with it. adSense is intented for residual income that adds up as you build your traffic. So bear in mind that you may be able to make decent money employing this affiliated option, but don't expect to live solel...
Writing For Traffic - Content For Visitors - Posted on: 1/15/2008 9:56:13 PMMy style has always been writing about my experience as I can only be an expert of what I have seen and proven. This time I would like to tell you about the power of writing and how it translates into the perfect ammunition to shoot for targeted traffic.
The more I read and heard the phra...
Link Authority, page rank, snow balls - Posted on: 1/21/2008 2:16:16 AMIt's again me, writing about a new experience as I continue to engage in the never-ending learning curve of internet presence. Here is what I learned this weekend; just like having money helps generate more money, ranking and authority just helps you further build upon its own.
Here is what...
Wordpress Links Translate Big Time. - Posted on: 1/22/2008 10:36:38 PMWriting blogs for Wordpress.com can give you a great advantage as a Web promoter. I have seen blog posts pick up ranking in weeks that other sites don't pick up in years of hard work. This is due to the well designed structure and community support that exists within the Wordpress conglomerate of...
About Link Directories Today - Posted on: 1/26/2008 4:18:58 AMAs with anything, the way the internet has evolved has of course brought a wide variety of flavors in all existing areas of life. Web Link Directories, as the original resource for searching, has evolved to become a mere SEO tool for backlink popularity. Search engines, with automatic crawlers and a...
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Is Knol A Fast-Track To High Google Placement? Well-respected search pundit Danny Sullivan put the newly-launched Google Knol to the test, to see if contributed pages found their way into a top-ten placement in Google's search results.
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Tired Old Goodmail Regroups, Becomes Net Neutrality Issue
Two year's ago there was a bit of a media frenzy surrounding Goodmail's apparent arrangement with AOL; if you don't recall the exact players you might remember national news coverage of the "email postage" scare in spring 2006. Well, Goodmail's back with a new CEO and a new plan: certifying video email.
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Hasbro Sues Creators Of Scrabulous
Hasbro has sued the makers of the popular Facebook App, Scrabulous, saying it infringes on the copyrights of its game, Scrabble. Scrabulous has more than half a million players on Facebook while Hasbro licensee Electronic Arts launched its version of Scrabble on the social network this month has just over 8,000 players. read more  
Microsoft, Facebook Seal Search And Ad Deal
Not happy with Facebook's search and advertising system? Well, Microsoft's going to try its hand at improving things. A new deal between the two companies should bring Live Search aboard before winter begins. read more  
Spam King Makes Jail Break
A man dubbed "The Spam King" has escaped from a minimum-security federal prison in Colorado. Edward "Eddie" Davidson, 35 was sentenced in April to 21 months in prison for sending massive amounts of unsolicited fraudulent emails promoting penny stocks as good investments. Davidson was also ordered to pay $714,139 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service and ordered to turn over gold coins and other property he purchased through his scheme. He had been in the Florence, Colorado prison for about a month and a half when he escaped. read more  
TrueAnthem Next Nail In Music Label Coffins Widgets, advertising, and a couple of prominent music acts listed among the early participants in TrueAnthem's efforts show us why the music world doesn't end at the labels' doorsteps.
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Amid Economic Woes, Microsoft Pushes Into Your Home More money spent on gas and groceries means less for luxuries. In the past that meant more people going to the movies and picking up used musical instruments. Now, Microsoft wants to be an entertainment outlet, serving games, videos, and oh yes, advertising.
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LinkedIn Learns Spanish
Spanish is everywhere; there may be around 360 million native speakers worldwide, and even little children in Lexington, Kentucky are being taught it in school. So LinkedIn is leaping at a big opportunity by making its site available in Spanish. read more  
British Man Wins Facebook Libel Case
A UK businessman has won a libel case and $44,000 in damages at London's High Court after false allegations were made about him on Facebook. Mathew Firsht sued a former friend for creating a bogus profile on the site that featured personal information about him and untrue claims about his sexual orientation. read more  
Twitter Bug Torches Follower Lists
A slew of Twitter users posted this morning the disappearance of significant portions of followers and followees from their accounts. Has Twitter lost swaths of user data? Or is it the side effect of ousting "aggressive followers," who Twitter equates with spammers? Are followers worth much?
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Full RSS Feeds Won't Get You Banned
Toads cause warts; new clothes on Easter bring good luck; and Google penalizes sites for having full RSS feeds. MentalFloss.com issued a "never mind" on that last superstition after Matt Cutts dropped a little science. Pay any attention at all in this industry and you'll find desperate Web marketers and publishers grasping at any explanation of why their site has suddenly been delisted from Google's search rankings. As all of us know, that's the Power of the Goog. read more  
Web Site Warns Drivers About Speed Traps
Njection.com is a Web site that provides drivers information on the location of red light cameras and speed traps by allowing users to upload locations of such places which are then displayed on a map Drivers in the U.S. can download information directly to their in- car GPS device for $40 a year and have access to continually updated files pointing out the locations of speed traps and red light cameras. Access to information about speed traps on the site is free. read more  
Baidu Reports Positive Second Quarter
While that Microsoft-Yahoo business stole the show for a while, Baidu's found its way into the spotlight again. The Chinese search engine company had an admirable second quarter, beating analysts' estimates in some important respects. read more  
UK Cracks Down On Internet Music Piracy
Britain's major online service providers have joined a government initiated plan to deal with the illegal downloading of music and films. Internet service providers will send warning letters to users who are suspected of illegal file sharing. Around 6 million Britons are believed to have downloaded files illegally over the past year, costing the music and film industries millions in lost revenue. read more  
Facebook Connect Hooks Up With Sites Logging into Facebook provides access to a variety of other content sites like Digg and Citysearch, with Facebook Connect serving as a single sign-on ID.
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Microsoft Reorgs, Johnson Prunes Juniper CEO Post Another executive shuffle took place at Microsoft after Platform & Services Division president Kevin Johnson ditched the company in favor of the CEO role at Juniper Networks.
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Digg Offers Little To Rumored Buyer Google Eric Schmidt and company could have a $200 million check waiting for social media site Digg. Google shareholders may be wondering why.
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Compete: The Kids Are Alright On Facebook A first glance at a comparison of social networks today - Facebook and LinkedIn - appeared to show Facebook losing its young college audience.
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China Cracking Down On Online Dissidents
Chinese police have arrested a well-known online dissident for violating his terms of probation, as the country seeks to crackdown on critics in the run up to the Olympic Games. Du Daobin, from the central province of Hebei, received a suspended sentence for what the Chinese government says was subversion in 2004 and was detained by police for posting online essays in support of another dissident. read more  
How Long Does It Take To Find Porn On YouTube?
If you understood the subtitle reference, congratulations, you're old enough to watch porn, and probably run for President. If you didn't get it, you're awfully young and let me explain something before we move on: My understanding is that there are dirty movies on the Internet; I am told dirty movies are also called "porn" and you can't see them on TV or YouTube. read more  
Hitwise: Still Hope For YouTube Competitors
YouTube is dominant enough among video websites that, in order to keep its rivals from getting squished together at the bottom, it had to be removed from a graph showing Australian market shares. Still, MSN Video and CNET TV are doing well under its rule. read more  
Mexico’s Telmex Set To Launch IPTV
Mexico's primary provider of fixed-line phone service, Telmex, is prepared to introduce Internet-based television and is waiting for the government's approval to launch the service. Telmex, controlled by Carlos Slim, one the world's wealthiest men has seen profits and ad revenue decline in the last several quarter's, due to increased competition from cell phone and cable providers. read more  
Google Says Google News Not Priceless
Despite no ads or any obvious revenue generation, Google News is worth $100 million to Google, according to VP Marissa Mayer.
How does zero equal $100 million? As one of Google's many for free peripheral services, enough people sort of ride the Google wave over to the search engine from the News page. In Google's estimation, all that referral traffic is worth a pretty penny.
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Google Opens Knol For Knowledge-Sharing
We've noted time and time again the way in which Wikipedia receives loads of traffic from Google, and to be honest, there's no clear sign that this will change. But Google has gone so far as to launch Knol, a sort of would-be competitor. read more  
Esquire Embracing E Ink In October For their 75th Anniversary, Esquire Magazine plans something special: an electronic paper cover, complete with moving words and images.
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Sphinn Takes On Upcoming Spammers The SEO-friendly social media site Sphinn may have been a little too friendly with submitters, something they addressed with a recent site change.
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Miri Systems Aims To Reduce Online Fraud
Miri Systems, a privately owned developer of the Miri Card designed to allow credit card users make secure transactions online by providing a unique number for each purchase recently spoke to WebProNews about its technology. read more  
Google Loses Head Of Sales And Finance To Glam
Google North America finds itself down a head of sales and finance this morning. Michael Adair has moved away from the search giant and is joining Glam Media as vice president of corporate development and finance. read more  
Child Online Protection Act Struck Down
A federal court has upheld a ban on a law that would criminalize protected speech on the Internet. The American Civil Liberties Union challenged the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) on behalf of a coalition of writers, artists and health educators who use the Internet to communicate constitutionally protected speech. read more  
Google Hearts Digg Rumors Resurface
For the third time this year speculation has aroused around an impending sale of Digg.com to Google. Is the third time a charm? We may not know for a couple of weeks, but at least this latest round of slow-news-day maybes has a rumored letter of intent and a believe-it-or-not deadline.
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Facebook Preparing To Give Some Apps An Edge
Some Facebook apps are useful, polished pieces of software. Others are examples of spammy, unattractive crap. And Facebook seems ready to separate the two, as it's introducing at least that many tiers into which apps will be divided. read more  
Online Presence Vital For Offline Retail
The Internet plays an increasingly essential role in retail for brick and mortar retailers, even for purchases made in-store according to a new survey from Nielsen Online. People who had recently made consumer electronics purchases in a brick and mortar store, 80 percent bought from a store whose Web site they visited first. In addition 53 percent purchased from a retailer on whose Web site they had spent the most time. read more  
Click Fraud Rate Up, Botnets Blamed Criminals who automate their way to profit at the expense of pay per click advertisers likely drove an increase in illicit clicks in Q2 2008.
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Yahoo Geeks Out Over Semantic Search One word may have two different meanings, depending on the context of their usage. Yahoo hopes to find the key in search that enables its engine to understand the difference.
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Yahoo Disappoints Wall Street A nearly 19 percent drop in net profits gave Yahoo investors no joy during the Internet company's second quarter earnings call.
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Old News Is Good News For Bible Fans
If you can read Old Greek, you're in for a real treat. If not, you're in for "selected translations," which is almost as nice. Hey, at least the Codex Sinaiticus, scribed about 350 A.D. and containing the oldest known versions of the New Testament and some of the Old, won't be translated by Google's (or anybody else's) automated mess.
For you Biblical scholars out there, the codex is disappointingly post-Constantine, but delightfully (presumably) pre-Jerome.
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Americans Favor Movie Downloads Over Video Stores
The majority (94%) of Americans believe they make a bigger impact on the environment by downloading a movie online instead of renting or buying a movie at a video store according to a new survey from digital entertainment company CinemaNow. According to the survey downloading movies is more convenient and environmentally friendly then driving to a local video store. Sixty-four percent said the biggest advantage of downloading online was not having to drive to get a movie or wait for a movie in the mail. read more  
Viacom CEO: Google's Infringement A Calculated Risk
No doubt the high priced attorneys working for Viacom will have to prove CEO Philippe's Dauman's words in court—or at least sell them well enough to convince those that matter.
The rhetoric reporters recorded last night was far from clouded: Eric Schmidt and Google had no intention of fighting copyright violations on YouTube so long as it helped them get to the top of the online video market.
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Facebook's Market Share Still Climbing In The UK
New Hitwise numbers regarding social networks in the UK are out, and from the looks of things, Facebook is on a very nice roll. Top competitors MySpace and Bebo have been rather less fortunate. read more  
Microsoft Looks To Users For New Xbox Games
Microsoft has announced that it will start offering user-generated games for their Xbox 360 gaming console through the online Xbox Live service. The company said it will start selling user-generated games later this year on its online Xbox Live service and share as much as 70 percent of the revenue with game developers. read more  
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