Compared to the continued spate of new product announcements from Google, things at Yahoo have seemed more sedate. Now, Yahoo promises to help organize an area that definitely needs help: podcasting. …
Blogger Sued Over Visitor Comments
In a rare intersection of search engine optimization and web community building, a blogger is facing a lawsuit from an SEO firm over comments left by visitors to his blog. The Wall Street Journal …
Give to Receive
It's far from being a novel idea, but the Duct Tape Marketing weblog reminds us that "Give and You Shall Receive." The article points out that one of the best ways to win the trust of potential …
Google’s Matt Cutts Launches Blog
Senior Google engineer Matt Cutts was the early "webmaster evangelist" at Google, and has probably done more than anyone to advance communications between the SEO community and search engines. Matt …
Left Brain Marketing
In Search Engine Guide: Seeking Marketing Talent With Left-Brain Minds, DM News makes the point that marketers who have relied on "right brain" creative-types for success need to start using both …
Seth Godin, “Expert” Advice, and Search Engine Marketing
Seth Godin, author of Permission Marketing, asks the rhetorical question, Where do you get your advice?. godin points at Al Gore's use of the late Johnny Carson as an image consultant as an example …
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Health Related Web Communities Breed “Cyberchondriacs”
An editorial at WSJ.com - The Doctor's Office - notes that just about every medical condition has its own web community. The author, Benjamin Brewer, is a physician who finds that a portion of his …
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The Long Tail
One of the great things about most Webmaster World of Search Conferences is the diversity of presentations. Having attended other conferences where speakers start repeating the same content and ideas …