Coolest Google Rumour

Late January, Michael Eisenberg, partner at Benchmark Capital – (and he should know, Benchmark Capital are one of the investors in Second Life) mentioned this on his blog:
 “Google is working on turning Google Earth into a virtual world a la SecondLife”
Google Earth ( a 3d mockup of the planet generated from satellite photo’s) is terrific, [...]

How to Link Bait

The idea of generating traffic to your website seems daunting for many; people often use not too clever ideas, sometimes learning about the Google death penalty as a result.
You don’t want that.  If people can’t find your site, they won’t come to your site; if they don’t come to your site – no surprise – [...]

4 Cool Free Tools for Webmasters

domaintools.com
whois record, domain name, registrar and contact, indexed data, Wikipedia info, SEO
Validator.w3.org
Browsers accept Web pages and try to display them even if they’re not legal HTML. Usually this means that the browser will try to make educated guesses about what you probably meant. The problem is that different browsers (or even different versions of the [...]

The Art of the Blog

A recent study by MRI research and CBS chief research officer David Poltrack, only 8% of Americans read blogs.  This figure is based on a survey of 20,000 people.
Yet here I am telling you to blog.  Huh?
Eight percent of people read blogs on a regular basis. 
Search Engines READ blogs; better, search engines LOVE blogs.
Blogs update [...]