Just a few hours from now and we will be breathing the 2008 breeze. With that in mind, it's just but right to ponder on your web promotion strategy for the coming year. Remember, search engines do not have holidays to enjoy or take a rest.

If you are into article marketing (which is one of my techniques), never put an end to overwhelming positive results - continue the sequence. The power of article writing is anticipated to grow even better in the long term. The backlinks that you will receive through articles are priceless; and you won't be at risk for any form of Search Engine punishment.

Have you heard of eBay's sale of a PR7 link? For a reasonable price, you can possess a PR7 link - good grief! After working so hard to get a high PR link, you'll be really disappointed some individuals acquire it in just a flick of a finger. Good thing the sale has been outlawed.

So this 2008, the best thing to do is write, write, and write some more. Articles, releases, blog entries, comments, testimonials - name it; there's a lot of things to write about to boost the rankings of your web site at the same time satisfy visitors. May you have a great 2008 web promotion year!

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Just a few hours from now and we will be breathing the 2008 breeze. With that in mind, it's just but right to ponder on your web promotion strategy for the coming year. Remember, search engines do not have holidays to enjoy or take a rest.

If you are into article marketing (which is one of my techniques), never put an end to overwhelming positive results - continue the sequence. The power of article writing is anticipated to grow even better in the long term. The backlinks that you will receive through articles are priceless; and you won't be at risk for any form of Search Engine punishment.

Have you heard of eBay's sale of a PR7 link? For a reasonable price, you can possess a PR7 link - good grief! After working so hard to get a high PR link, you'll be really disappointed some individuals acquire it in just a flick of a finger. Good thing the sale has been outlawed.

So this 2008, the best thing to do is write, write, and write some more. Articles, releases, blog entries, comments, testimonials - name it; there's a lot of things to write about to boost the rankings of your web site at the same time satisfy visitors. May you have a great 2008 web promotion year!

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At this point, would you concede the claim of social search engines that they have better results?

Sure, the clout of major search engines cannot be overemphasized. But do you observe that the clout is slowly deteriorating? And with that scenario, would there be a possibility that social search engines could upstage them?

To stress, social search engines accelerate to offer more. Earlier, I have read this interesting release from BusinessWire. It reads:

EarthFrisk.Org launches the first Meta-Social Hybrid Search Engine, months before Wikipedia's planned launch in 2008 of their own community controlled search engine. With the motto “If you can't find it by using this site, it doesn't exist,” EarthFrisk.org finally fully unleashes the Web.

“For the first time we have believe we can offer a real alternative to the major search engines. We offer far more value to those utilizing Internet search. The new interface allows even better spam filtering as millions of eyeballs commenting and voting can beat any algorithm of any company,” added Lodispoto.

According to the release, EarthFrisk.Org hopes to harness “people power” and create an even better search experience. Is the goal too ambitious? Think again.

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What is the dollar value of a top ranking in Google? How can you increase your rankings? What has changed? This and many tips and tricks can be found in our 2008 summary.

Randfish has become one of my favorite sources for SEO tips. In case you missed it, he spent Christmas EVE offering up some easy ways to boost your traffic. Among them: Consolidate pages that are…

Filed under: Internet, Social Software, Web

Tweebay is an online auction service that uses Twitter to let people know about the items you’re selling. Here’s how it works. You follow Tweebay on Twitter and you’ll receive a direct message to verify your account. Then you can bid on auctions posted on the site or post new listings.

Auction terms should look familiar to anyone who has ever used eBay. You can upload a phoot, set a buy now price, or a reserve price. You can also set a postage price and choose your currency, although right now all listings are in British pounds. In Twitter-like style, you have to keep your descriptions under 240 characters.

There’s no feedback, which is one of the things that makes buying and selling from strangers on eBay possible. But since the people most likely to see your Tweebay listings are your Twitter friends, they may trust you enough to buy from you without seeing a feedback rating.

If the site takes off, that feedback issue could become a problem, since there’s nothing stopping you from visiting Tweebay.com and looking for auctions from people you don’t know (although the lack of a Search Engine makes the web page only moderately useful). And the site likely faces another problem: trademark infringement. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Tweebay change its name to something that sounds a bit less like eBay at some point.

[via TechCrunch]

Tweebay: What if eBay was powered by Twitter? originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Search Engine privacy has gotten its fair share of attention in the media recently, partly because Congress took an interest in the matter during an election year. If you don't fully understand…

Filed under: Internet, Web services, Social Software, Search, web 2.0, Web

For a surprisingly long time, there’s been no way to look up Twitter users by name. Twitter used to offer a people search feature, but removed it when the service was experiencing some technical difficulties. Today the microblogging service has relaunched Twitter Name Search with a few improvements thrown in for good measure.

The new name search is faster and attempts to find names that are similar to the words you type into the engine. So if you mispell a name, Twitter will try to help you find the correct user anyway.

Results are ranked by the number of followers each user has. You can search for users by clicking the “find people” button on the upper right side of the page.

[via VentureBeat]

Twitter relaunches people search originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This week, we’re bringing you our Christmas puzzle instead of the main article. Can you find the hidden message?

Filed under: Internet, Linux, Open Source, Social Software

Now that Adobe AIR is officially available for Linux, you can run plenty of popular desktop clients for Twitter in Linux. Twhirl, Alert Thingy, and TweetDeck all run on Adobe AIR. But if you’re looking for a native Linux application that can handle Twitter status updates and much more, there’s Gwibber.

Like Twhirl and other desktop Twitter apps, Gwibber will show you a list of the most recent updates from your contacts and let you respond with short messages. In addition to Twitter, Gwibber supports updates from Digg, Jaiku, Facebook, Flickr, Indenti.ca and the now defunct Pownce.

One thing that’s a bit confusing is that Gwibber doesn’t provide a clear way to tell which messages are coming from which services. For instance, I added my Twitter and Flickr accounts to Gwibber and the only way I could tell that some of the updates were from Flickr was because they were accompanied by thumnail photos.

Gwibber packages are available for Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, and Fedora.

[via MakeUseOf]

Gwibber brings Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and more to Linux desktops originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Randfish posted an excellent tip last month for anyone considering an SEO effort for their website:…

Does Google use the bounce rate of a web page to specify the position of that page in the search results? What does this mean for your website rankings and what can you do to get a better bounce rate?

Filed under: E-mail, Yahoo!, Social Software, Web

Yahoo! has been talking about plans to make its web-based email inbox smarter and more social by integrating other web services for months. Now the company is spelling out what that means a bit more clearly. VentureBeat reports the company held an event today where it showed off a demo of the next generation email inbox with a new sidebar with support for web applications like WordPress, Xoopit, and Flixter.

The new Yahoo! Mail will also feature Flickr integration, allowing users to share photos by logging into their Flickr accounts from their email inbox. Yahoo! Mail will also be able to mine your personal data to figure out who your closest contacts are. It will then be able to prioritize emails from those contacts.

Yahoo! will also be rolling out a new version of the Yahoo! Toolbar with access to your web applications and adding a new section to the My Yahoo! homepage where you can access the same apps. TechCrunch snagged an image of the new toolbar, which is scheduled for a beta release next week.

Update: And the official announcement is up on the Yahoo! Mail blog. Check out a video demo of the new Yahoo! Mail after the break.

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Yahoo! lays out plans for Inbox app integration originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Social Software, Search, Web

search engines are great at answering some types of questions. Want to know what Barack Obama’s kids names are? No problem. Google can help. But some questions are a bit trickier, like “what’s the best way to find a new tech job after you’ve been laid off?” Mahalo wants to be able to answer both types of questions.

Mahalo launched about a year and a half ago as a sort of human-powered Search Engine. Now the site has curated search results for around 100,000 search terms. They’re sort of like Google search results, except human beings have helped select the items they think you’d be most interested to highlight.

And today the company launched Mahalo Answers, which fills several functions. First, it allows anyone at all to post a question and get answers from Mahalo employees or anyone else who feels the urge to post an answer. Mahalo may incorporate those answers into its general search results, which helps flesh out the content on the main Mahalo.com page. But there’s another way Mahalo, and you, can make money using Mahalo answers.

When you’re asking a question you can offer a “tip” for the best answers. Tips are paid in Mahalo Dollars, which is another way of saying US dollars. But Mahalo takes a cut of 25% when you withdraw any money in your account. So if you’ve made $100 by providing top notch answers to questions, you can either ask 10 questions and provide $10 tips yourself or you can withdraw $75.

Continue reading Mahalo Answers takes on Yahoo! Answers with money

Mahalo Answers takes on Yahoo! Answers with money originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Internet, Commercial, Freeware, Open Source, P2P, Social Software, Beta

Limewire is one of the oldest filesharing programs around, and it’s by far the most popular. The Limewire development team continues to work hard on version 5, which promises to bring some very big changes to the application. After taking a look at Wired’s write up of the Alpha version, I decided to download it and see what all the fuss was about.

Remember, the gallery images and download I’m linking to are pre-beta. If you’re not an early adopter or interested in testing potentially buggy software, don’t download this version.

Let’s take a look, shall we?

Continue reading Limewire 5 Alpha screenshot tour

Limewire 5 Alpha screenshot tour originally appeared on Download Squad on Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In an online webmaster forum, a webmaster described the link experiment that he did with his websites. He tried to find out how linking to the home page affected his rankings. Can too many links to the home page of your website have a negative effect on your rankings?

SubmitEdge had a good piece online late last month about the possible reasons that your new site still isn't showing up in Google…

The number one possible reason is pretty simple: maybe no one has linked to you. While you can submit your site to Google, the people over there index you mostly based on other people's links to your site. Ethical, voluntary Links. You can buy links, but Google ignores those Links once they figure that out…

Time is also a factor. You may just be in a bigger hurry than Google is. After all, they have a lot of sites to crawl. You should also consider the reliability of your host. If your site's server is down much, Google may have done their crawl and found your site inaccessible.

Finally, some web designs make it hard for Google to crawl your site. Google has some guidelines for site designers that you should consider.

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Andrea Gingerich

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AIM Blast is a new AOL Instant Messenger feature that makes me feel old, because I just realized that it’s been a decade since I first wondered why there was no way to IM multiple buddies without opening a chatroom. Well, it’s finally here, and it works pretty well. You can’t make a Blast Group from within AIM, but if you go to blast.aim.com, you can set up and edit a group from there. Blast seems to work with third-party AIM clients, although AOL says that Meebo may have some problems with it.

The Blast Group will then show up on your buddy list, and any IM you send to it will go to everyone in the group. The group acts like a normal AIM account, it just puts people’s individual screennames in front of their messages, so you know who’s talking. When you invite people (using your group admin page), they’ll get a message in AIM asking them to accept or decline. Once they’re in, they can IM the group, unless you make it admin-only. That makes your group more like a notification system than a chat, but that may work better for some people.

AIM Blast: finally, you can IM multiple buddies at once originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Has your website lost its rankings in Google? Did your rankings drop or did your website vanish completely from Google? Many things can cause a ranking drop. This article explains what you can do to get your rankings back.

Filed under: Web services, Open Source, Social Software, Browsers

OpenID is a really great concept. The ability to use a single digital identity across the web and avoid having to sign up for yet another user account is a real productivity boon. More and more high profile sites and services are adopting OpenID, but the project still hasn’t gained the traction that many of us think it deserves. This is partially because it still isn’t easy to use OpenID — or even find out if a site supports OpenID — on all services. MySpace, Flock and Vidoop think they’ve come across a solution: let the browser handle it.

Back in June, MySpace announced support for OpenID and also became an OpenID provider. In order to help users more easily manage their online identity across other sites and services, MySpace teamed up with Flock and Vidoop to create OpenID for Flock, available today at https://extensions.flock.com. OpenID for Flock is an open source plugin, part of the larger Identity in the Browser (IDIB) project which is focused on having the browser, not the user handle, authenticate and mange multiple user identities.

I had the chance to demo the plugin yesterday and it is pretty cool. Essentially, once installed an OpenID icon appears on the right of Flock’s chrome bar. The extension scans a page for OpenID compatibility, and if a site supports OpenID, the icon starts to glow. You can then automatically choose to populate the OpenID fields with your designated OpenID URL or associate that site with a specific OpenID account. You can manage all of your OpenIDs, choose what sites to associate certain profiles with and view the login history and OpenID-to-site-relationship with each site.

Continue reading MySpace, Flock and Vidoop release OpenID for Flock plugin

MySpace, Flock and Vidoop release OpenID for Flock plugin originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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