Posts tagged with 'Blogs and Blogging'
There was an interesting post yesterday on TechCrunch about the use of Google Trends to drive editorial.
Apparently, a number of publishers are leveraging the data from Google Trends to find hot keyword trends, and taking advantage of the blazing speed at which Google spiders new content on blogs and content sites to produce content catered specifically to those hot keywords.
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by Patrick Oak
10 October 2008 08:45am
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Billions of dollars in market cap. Gone. In minutes.
It wouldn't be surprising to learn of Apple shareholder heart attacks after a rumor that Apple CEO Steve Jobs suffered a massive one resulted in a quick but rapid drop in Apple's stock price last Friday.
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by Drama 2.0
08 October 2008 10:30am
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Online reputation monitoring is a growing market and there are a number of companies offering such solutions.
Yet some are overkill for most businesses and many firms simply can't justify the costs.
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by Patrick Oak
03 October 2008 08:40am
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I've discussed the economics of blogging before, and Technorati's State of the Blogosphere 2008 report has provided some interesting data to add to the discussion.
According to Technorati's survey, the mean avenue revenue for bloggers who are monetizing their blogs is more than $6,000.
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by Drama 2.0
29 September 2008 09:15am
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It always staggers me when I receive a badly-written press release or PR pitch, simply because there’s so much advice out there on how to do it right.
But if there’s one thing that I just can’t understand, it is when PR people ask you to do their job for them.
You can tell a PR has strayed out of their traditional comfort zone when you see this kind of demand in a press release: “Please contact me if you place any of the following information on your site.”
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by Chris Lake
26 September 2008 12:34pm
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Blog search engine Technorati has just released its annual State of the Blogosphere report and, if the figures are correct, the number of blogs is still growing. In fact, the blogosphere has almost doubled in a year.
According to the report, Technorati has indexed 133m blogs since the company started in 2002. The same figure in last year's report was just 70m, which suggests some impressive growth. Can it be so?
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by Graham Charlton
24 September 2008 11:55am
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If you have a website which is regularly publishing news items, then getting indexed by Google News is a crucial source of traffic.
First of all you need to make a request to have Google News index your content, but there are other requirements. So what else is Google looking for?
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by Graham Charlton
23 September 2008 11:24am
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Here’s a secret: journalists often look for one of three links when they visit a website. Can you guess what they are?
The key thing for a writer is to find what they’re looking for as quickly as possible. If they cannot find the answers online then they’ll need to quickly find some media contacts to call, or email.
As such, journalists typically scan the page for one of the following links…
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by Chris Lake
22 September 2008 16:47pm
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Twitter's popularity is growing and regardless of the skepticism that exists about it, marketers and businesses are taking notice.
If you're thinking about giving microblogging on Twitter a try or are already using Twitter, here are 10 Twitter tools that you can put to work.
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by Patrick Oak
22 September 2008 13:30pm
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Last week, E-consultancy's Graham Charlton discussed the benefits of running a corporate blog.
As more and more companies are asking employees to blog (or considering asking employees to blog) in an official capacity, one of the things that goes unrecognized is the importance of using a blogging platform that is easy to set up and easy to maintain for multiple users.
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by Patrick Oak
19 September 2008 11:44am
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