Internet Business

There was some controversy over google giving preference to some of its own products within search results. I dont think this is the right thing to do, imagine the money they could make by acquiring new companies and pushing them to the top of their search results. But they would also lose a lot of [...]

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PayPerPost.com had intentions to purchase a part of Performancing.com which appeared to be unprofitable and was rumored to be shut down by Performancing. However, the deal did not go ahead, and after reading this article at Techcrunch, you will see why it is always a good idea to keep the transactions of any deal secret, [...]

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According to the weekly dnjournal sales report, the domain antispyware.com sold for US$550,000 via the domain sales site afternic. According to overture, the term “anti spyware” is searched for 78,605 times a month. The domain with the extension “antispyware.com” gets an overture search result of 205 times for November 06. The domain appears to being [...]

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This is a rather interesting article on why Yahoo should surrender and use Google advertising, in much the same way as a number of other smaller search engines have. It mentions that as a result, Yahoo could increase their average search revenue from $0.10 to $0.17 adding US$1.5 billion to their bottom line. I cant [...]

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Read this article over at lifehack, which provided six tips for improving your blog. One of the most important tips is to allow comments, what makes blogs so popular, is that readers can interact with the author and also other readers. Due to blog spam, there is a tendency to want to disallow comments, but [...]

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Read about this job at the calcanis.com blog. He is looking for a full-time graphic designer/web designer/information architect to work in Santa Monica, LA. Jason Calcanis is one of the people behind the sale of weblogsinc to AOL, for US$25 million. He is a highly intelligent man, now working as an “Entrepreneur in Action” at [...]

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According to the dnjournal weekly sales report, the domain Announce.com sold for US$90,000. With recent high domain sales, and given the high quality of the domain name, being a dictionary .com domain, that is hardly surprising. What I found very interesting was that the domain was purchased two and a half years ago via a [...]

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As a webmaster, I like to find out my rankings for certain keywords via the major search engines. msn’s search engine live.com kept defaulting to local australian results. The way to get US results is on the live.com homepage, click on the options link and select your language and region as English (United States).

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I was searching for what the best google analytics plugin was for wordpress, and found a three or so, but eventually decided on this one http://www.oratransplant.nl/uga/. Whilst I can’t yet comment on how good it is, I can say that it was extremely easy to setup. Simply a matter of uploading one file, activating it [...]

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Having used wordpress in the past, and with some of the best known blogs on the internet using wordpress, the choice of blogging software was really a simple choice. Wordpress has a large number of themes available at http://themes.wordpress.net/. To get this blog started, I went with the Tiga theme, I may change it later [...]

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