The business model of videoblogging is hazardous but is yet another database race... and a major one this time. Not that I don't personally believe or rely anymore in the overly misused Adsense program, but we are talking serious operation costs here. Compared to websites similar in unique visitors / page views, Youtube (and others of the same kind) use huge amounts of...
Recently, with the success of YouTube, up to 40 videoblog platforms are trying to grasp a part of their marketshare. But what is it all about? The upcoming articles will be trying to identify how the emergence of videoblogging (aka vlogging) can benefit video amateurs and professionals, as well as SEO marketers, journalists and compani...
Hey folks, I need some help here. This is my first personal rant at SEOmoz and is not about SEO directly (so anyone looking for tips here should read randfish posts, by all means he's the holy wizard!). I need you help with one of our project. Let's say that it does gets exciting, there is a possibility to materialize great ideas from all of our readers by offering an ...
As I noted early this week, there's a lot to be desired from blog ranking and measurement tools. Technorati's measure of influence via links is the most common method used, followed closely by Alexa data (which can be badly skewed, particularly when the URL is inside a much larger host). At SEOmoz, we used several key indicators...
Let's say I wanted to compare the relative levels of inluence of two bloggers in the same field. Although no method other than direct access to their visitor stats is going to be entirely accurate, there are several pieces of data that can provide a clue as to how "far and wide" a blogger's readership extends: Alexa data - though i...
Big kudos to Barry Welford who pointed out Keotag at Cre8asite. The site offers a simple search tool for single-word tags (or combinations of them). It allows for direct, quick queries to 17 different "web 2.0" type engines (and Google), including Technorati, del....
Note: If you are unaware of The Project topic, please read the previous parts: The project: In the beginning (pt1)So, the ...
Like most people in the web industry I got several personal eternity projects waiting for execution. As unlikely as it may seem my recent 3 week sick leave (due to frontal sinusitis) provided me a change to finally tackle a project I had been planning for several years. And since I u...
With the popularity of RSS readers skyrocketing (particularly in tech-savvy fields like SEO and webdev), writers in these arenas are realizing how critical it is to have compelling titles and a great first few lines in order to get the RSS subscribers to click-through to the site. This morning, Donna identified one terrific metho...
Apparently, according to this page, displaying this "badge" will get me into legal trouble: trouble from these guys: ...
Came across BlogInfluence which purports to give a score to indicate your blog's relative level of importance in the sphere. The rough calculation is based on the number of Technorati and Yahoo! links you've got, added together with Bloglines subscriptions and multiplied by a factor that uses Google's PageRank. It's certainly not a perfe...
Irishwonder's writing about writely from an odd but noteworthy perspective: So, let’s start with the choice of the topic. Why is it good to write about Writely? Because you can get a trackback ping link from the Google bl...
I'm often found touting the importance of getting in front of the social tagging audience, whether they be folks at Digg, del.icio.us, Stumbleupon or the secondary sites. Beyond the obvious traffic and links, there are other big reasons to have sites in front of the Digg crowd. I've listed my top...
I stumbled onto (yes, literally with the StumbleUpon toolbar) Blogburst today and was relatively impressed with their content partners. The idea is that you submit your blog and the content (if accepted) gets fed to large publishers like the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Hou...
