Yahoo News - Yahoo Go on Motorola too

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Yahoo already had a deal locking them into Nokia phones. Now the Yahoo mobile service, Yahoo Go, will be the default service available on Motorola phones too, starting in 2007. Here’s a quote from the I Need Hits Blog:

Yahoo! and Motorola have just announced a new deal that will see Yahoo! Go pre-installed on millions of Motorola handsets from early 2007. The new deal means that Yahoo! has now secured what could be market dominating deals with the world’s top two mobile phone manufacturers.

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July 24, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment 

One More Thing About Accessible Search

Continuing from the last post about the Accessible search article on IT Director - since it double posted, I might as well continue with a few more of my rambly thoughts…

For one thing, it seems that the results are further sorted by the simplicity of the site’s layouts, and their ability to still be understood without images. So I’m finding it a fun exercise to look at the results of mine and my client’s pages in regular Google versus the ones in the accessible version.

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July 24, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment 

Article of the Day from IT Director - Is Accessible Search Useful?

Interesting article over at IT-Director.com. The bulk of the first part of the article is quoted directly from the FAQ on Google’s new Accesible Search, which they announced on the 20th in their blog.

A quote:

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July 24, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment 

How Long Does It Take to See Traffic Results from Blogging?

You can see your first traffic from blogging literally overnight, mostly from your initial pinging, Will it be a lot of traffic? Not necessarily. If you post at the right time of day for your site, you may see as many as 100 visitors come to your blog in its first day, due to a new blog post, just from pinging. You can see more than that if you let your existing traffic know about your blog.

After a certain number of posts, to lay the foundation of an active feed, you will also start to see a trickle of traffic from promoting your RSS feed or blog in directories and feed-specfic search engines. That can happen as soon as three days in, and sometimes after 7 to 10 days. The timing you can expect will depend on your blog.

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July 23, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 4 Comments 

What is Blogging Success?

A lot of people wonder what makes a successful blog. Most of the time it becomes apparent to me that if someone is asking me that question, they don’t know why they’re blogging to begin with.

Success with blogging, and whether or not you have achieved it, will depend entirely on whether or not you have reached the goals you set with blogging to begin with.

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July 23, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 3 Comments 

So Let’s Talk About Something Taboo

We’re all friends here, right? And I’m not afraid to talk about things that concern my friends but aren’t considered polite conversation.

So I’d like to talk abut the sorted topic of coin.

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July 20, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 2 Comments 

[audio post] 7.20.06 - It’s All About the Questions

In this minicast:

* What's All About the Questions?
* How to Enter the New Contest by Responding to this Post
* How to Tell When You're the Victim of a Traffic Scam

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July 20, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment 

And Now, What You’ve Been Waiting So Patiently For

I did it. I finally did it.

Drum roll please……

I put out another edition of the Zero Cost Traffic Ezine.

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July 20, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 5 Comments 

Increase Your Blog Traffic Round-Up

It’s been a while since I’ve done a quick round-up of the free information here that you can use to increase your blog traffic. So here are a few of the more useful links. Later on, I’m doing a series on 21 Ways You Can Increase Your Blog Traffic. I don’t know if later on means later this afternoon or later this week, as I have a lot of ghostwriting to do today. Your best best is to make sure you’re subscribed to the feed, sign up to get the blog posts by email, or the less-frequent updates.

You can also cut to the chase and get a guide on turning a new blog into a search engine magnet, or a specialized report about how to do so specifically for your existing site.

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July 19, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 4 Comments 

Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Traffic pt 4

Here’s my favorite. The most common mental traffic hurdle, thinking the traffic will arrive by magic.

You can’t get a visitor to come to your site unless someone, at some time, expends either money, effort, or both for them to get there. Now, this spot started out as Free Traffic Tips for a reason. I believe that you can get a certain amount of on-going, sustainable traffic to your site without paying per head. You can start some free traffic waves that go on forever. Some of the best traffic I’ve ever gotten, that has converted the most visitors, has been totally free.

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July 18, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment 

Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Traffic pt 3

Sometimes the issue is that folks think they should get more traffic than logic can reasonably provide.

For example, a person might look up a popular keyword and see that a good ranking would get them 3300 visitors a day. So they call me up or write me and ask how I can get their site to that level.

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July 18, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 2 Comments 

Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Traffic pt 2

So, to continue, in the first place, I often get a person who doesn’t believe that you can get 100 real visitors in a day from a site, without spending a fortune, or without the process taking less than a year.

To which I paraphrease Henry Ford by saying “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re 100% right.”

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July 18, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment 

Google In Your Car? Interesting Idea.

Great article at Blogging Stocks, newly posted, about the idea of being able to Google in your car. I can dig it.

Now, caution, oh hasty re-blogger. This isn’t about a Google car appliance hitting the market, or anything of that nature. It’s a speculative article about where existing Google technology that is technically available when you’re in your car, could go. Dandy site, that Blogging Stocks.

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July 18, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment 

Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Traffic

What’s incredible is that over half of what I find to be the problem with solving a traffic problem is in solving the perception the person I’m talking to has with the possibility of getting visitors to their site. For whatever reason it is, they just can’t see their site on the first page of Google for their keyword, or that they could market their site to possible clients with traffic that doesn’t come from search engines.

These psychological hurdles typically fall into three categories. Read more

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July 18, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 4 Comments 

Feeling the Pressure

I had a conversation with a friend about the pressures of being in the public eye.

Now I’m just barely known, not even what you would officially call famous. I don’t get stopped in the street and no one is trying to fly over my compound in Namibia to see if they can get pictures of my family.

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July 18, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized | 2 Comments 

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