I used to be a subscriber to Mashable. Then I realized one day – they post all the news they can get, and 99% of the sites out there are either 1) stupid or 2) crappy or 3) useless or (most likely) 4) all of the above. One of the biggest reasons I blogged was [...]
If one were to believe geeky sites like Digg, Microsoft, the venerable tech-giant, and eBay, the poster-boy of making money on the internet are on their last legs. Any day now, they are going to be kicked over, to be acquired by fill in the blank here. The latest one is about how eBay is [...]
Who Links To Me is a fairly popular tool – Yahoo reports almost one million backlinks. A simple site, it simply reports quickly on your backlinks and PageRank. But whats this! The PageRank image is directly from Blog Flux PageRank Checker. There is a little link on the bottom (almost impossible to see), and even [...]
The title I chose pretty much sums up what Original Signal does. On the face of it, it is one very purty website. No ads, the site displays headlines from the most influential blogs in each category, and even has a nice popup that only shows a a teaser of the content (even with a [...]
“How do I get more traffic to my site?” This has to be one of the most commonly asked questions on forums like SitePoint and WebmasterWorld Invariably, the answer is always the same: Write great content and people will link to you. What a bunch of poppycock. There is a lot of great content out [...]
Quite a lot of people have talked about how Wikipedia will become a search engine sponge with its use of nofollow for all external links. Best of those articles was one by Nicholas Carr, in which he talked about and linked to various blog posts about how, with all the inbound links Wikipedia has, it’s [...]
If there is any niche that has abused (and raped and pillaged) the definition of a ‘website directory’, the honor definitely belongs to web hosting directories. I just did a search for web hosting directory on Google. Lets look at the top 10 sites: Shill. Using the guise of ‘award winners’ they list every advertiser [...]
Recently the three leaders in the online local search field (Yelp, InsiderPages, and Judy’s Book) have gotten a lot of attention. With them (and ultra-niche sites like BackFence) laying off people left and right, the trumpet has started to sound. Local search does not work! What a load of poppycock. Local search does work. Hiring [...]
This has been quite the year for blogging. While a ton of people were already blogging (and actively acting as evangelists), it was in 2006 that blogging went fully mainstream. Everyone and their mother had blogs. All but one of my employees have a blog. Some people had predicted blogging would lose some of its [...]