Sad Pixel Ad Fad Over? Don't Get Mad, Buy HTML 'input' Tags for $100

MoWH.com Launches Offering HTML 'input' Tags for $100

Mosaics of Web History (MoWH), located at http://www.mowh.com, officially opened for business today. Instead of offering pixels for sale, this new site gives visitors the ability to purchase the very fabric of the internet -- HTML code; specifically, < input > tags.

Miami Beach, FL (PRWEB) January 4, 2006 -- Mosaics of Web History (MoWH), located at http://www.mowh.com, officially opened for business today. Instead of offering pixels for sale, this new site gives visitors the ability to purchase the very fabric of the internet -- HTML code; specifically, "< input >" tags.

Users either design a standard "< input type="button" >" or use the "< input type="image" >" tag to display a button image of their choice. Each button features the owner's message in its title attribute (which is visible by mousing over the button). Pushing a button takes the visitor to the owner's website of choice. Buttons are displayed on the http://www.mowh.com website for a term of five (5) years.

Mosaics of Web History is a cyber-museum of sorts, initially displaying 30 pages of 30 rows of 30 columns of HTML "< input >" buttons. Buyers can purchase buttons for $100 each. Together, the buttons act as tiles to create unique mosaics.

"MoWH offers a unique opportunity for buyers to commemorate, celebrate or promote using simple '< input >' buttons as art," said web designer and site creator Mike Fountain. "The site is interactive and addictive: everybody likes pushing other people's buttons."

Source:
http://www.mowh.com/files/pr_010206.asp

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Chitika Account Suspension Notice (N) - Chitika Meltdown...?

I had my Chitika account suspended the other day (December 29, 2005) and they will not respond to the calls, emails, and support ticket I entered on their site.

I wanted to know what the problem was and try to resolve it, but they won't get in touch with me no matter what I do. So I am starting the big job of pulling all of their ads from the sites I added them to. Man, what a pain!

My sites weren't making much from them anyway, I think they owe me $30-$40, but I had been working to try and generate more traffic to the sites that have their ads. Now they pull this BS.

So if you were considering using Chitika on your site(s), I would recommend instead that you copy the style of ads they were using and try that with some good affiliate programs. The ad style seemed to be effective, but the company really, really sucks.

I thought I waited long enough to make sure it was going to be worth the trouble, but at least now some of you won't have to go through what I am. The program from Google is so far the easiest, the best run, and pays very well so I can recommend that you try that completely.

Don't take my word for it, do a search in Google for "chitika sucks" or "shitika" (Not to be confused with the mushroom with a similar name...) and you will find a few others that are not happy with what seemed like a good system.

(hris

Keywords: Chitika, Chitika ads, Chitika advertising, contextual ads, eminimalls, e-minimalls, e mini malls, web publishers, best deals, Impulse Merchandising, eMiniMall services, Venkat Kolluri, Alden DoRosario, Dave Andre, Russell Franks

BlogMedia Announces the Launch of its Blog Network

 

BlogMedia Announces the Launch of its Blog Network

Online publishing house BlogMedia announces the launch of its network of blogs.

(PRWEB) January 3, 2006 -- BlogMedia, Inc., an online publisher of a unique variety of content, announces the launch of its new network of weblogs. The BlogMedia & Erati Media network consists of several sites across a wide range of themes, including management, technology, celebrities, comedy, sports, and many others. Each 'blog' focuses on specific subject areas and is written by experts in their respective fields.

“We launched the BlogMedia & Erati Media blog network because we wanted to connect our experts and those interested in a topic to interact in a way that allowed their passion and energy to flourish," said Matt Craven, Vice President of Online Services for BlogMedia, Inc. “We’re looking forward to being a part of a conversation between our experts and their readers.”

The BlogMedia network consists of two distinct segments. BlogMedia focuses on topics ranging from celebrity gossip (http://www.celebricious.com), to television shows (http://www.tvbloggin.com), to discussions about the current state of sports (http://www.sportyblog.com) and a look at the blogosphere through the eyes of http://www.bloggeridol.com.

The Erati Media division, (http://www.erati.com), is home to some of the most talented writers in online media. “Erati Media is a community of creators,” said David Krug, Community Director for Erati Media, “It’s a unique forum for talented, often overlooked, writers to leave a mark on mainstream media.” Sites such as http://biz.erati.com share information about personal leadership and small business management, while http://blog.erati.com discusses the world of blogging and provides reviews of other blog sites.

BlogMedia prefers to publish in a blog format because it provides continuously updated content as well the ability to facilitate interaction between the writers and the readers. Blogging is unique in so far as it bridges the gap between the writer and the reader. Providing the reader with a portal of consistent content has become increasingly important.

“We are not about to create another blog network for the sake of creating a blog network,” states Krug, “This is about fostering the talent behind quality content, and providing opportunities for success.”

"We believe that by giving talented individuals a unified forum for expressing themselves, we can fully harness the unbridled potential of this new media," states Craven. "In doing so, we feel that we can raise the quality standard for content while ushering in a new age of information exchange. As we grow, we will champion the highest quality content and combine it with our passion for connecting with our audience, and this will help us to lead the way into this new informational frontier."

About BlogMedia, Inc.

BlogMedia, Inc., http://www.blogmedia.biz, is a rapidly-growing privately owned online publisher of a unique variety of content, and is headquartered in Minnesota. BlogMedia is led by a team with extensive experience in online content development. The company works with expert authors from around the world to develop content and online services that allow passion and energy to flourish.

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Website: http://www.blogmedia.biz

Business.com Directory Traffic: Small Business How-To and Commercial Real Estate Top Professionals' Search Lists

 

Latest Top Business.com Directory Traffic; Small Business How-To and Commercial Real Estate Top Professionals’ Search Lists

Business.com, the leading search engine designed and organized for business, today announced the top directory traffic on its network, which highlights the business-to-business topics most important professionals.

Santa Monica, CA (PRWEB) December 22, 2005 -- Business.com, the leading search engine designed and organized for business, today announced the top directory traffic on its network.* The list highlights the business-to-business topics most important to the Company’s audience of more than 30 million professionals:

Starting A Small Business
Commercial Real Estate
Commercial Building Materials
Display Cases and Racks
Human Resources Management
Lead Generation
Currency Converters
Promotional Products
Virus Protection Software
Office Furniture

While general search engines offer broad results cluttered with consumer content, Business.com’s proprietary directory of more than 65,000 key industry terms deliver the most relevant results strictly related to products and services critical to the B2B sector. Business.com reaches a concentrated audience of people who hold decision-making power within their company.

The Company releases the top directory traffic to provide the market with a glimpse into industry-wide trends and unique needs of the small business market.

*Traffic for November, 2005.

About Business.com

Business.com is the leading search engine designed and organized strictly for business. It provides professionals easy access to business products, services, companies, news and other business information to help them get their jobs done more efficiently.

Business.com was founded in 1999 by eCompanies. With more than five years of growth and momentum, Business.com continues to attract leading strategic investors including Institutional Venture Partners, Evercore Partners, Reed Business Information, and McGraw Hill. Still privately-held, Business.com added Benchmark Capital as a preferred stockholder in 2004.

Today, Business.com serves the needs of more than 3 million business searchers each month across a wide array of industries and job functions. Business.com reaches another 32 million through its distribution network which includes partners such as Forbes.com, Businessweek.com, Inc.com, FastCompany, and Internet.com.

With a proprietary taxonomy and classification system consisting of over 65,000 business categories, the company is a leader in the next generation of search. By categorizing business results in an intuitive order and filtering out unrelated consumer content, Business.com is able to anticipate the needs of professionals and allows them to easily locate relevant business information. For more information, please visit www.business.com.

Media Contact:
Sara Myers
Tel: 310.586.4194

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Phone: 310.586.4194
Website: www.business.com

Network Solutions: Still the Domain Price Leader

I guess it's just like those gas stations that sell petrol at a price that is above most of the other stations. The higher cost makes some people think that their more expensive gas must be "better" in some way, otherwise they would not charge more, right?

 

So it is too with domain names. I just happened to be on the Network Solutions (Didn't they change to Verisign at some point...?) site and thought I would check their prices, expecting them to be the same old $30 a year that they used to be. At first I almost went into shock! It said they were only charging $8.95 a year!!!    Then I realized that it said that price was " 1 Year w/ Monthly Hosting". They actually give you the domain for free if you pay for a year of hosting. But if you just want a domain name for a year it's $34.99! Ouch, yup they're still at it.

 

Ok, I do see that there is a price break if you register for more than one year at a time, but why put the pressure on people to register for multiple years? Most other registrars don't do that.

 

So what's the difference between a NSI domain and a GoDaddy or other registrar's domain name? You got it, about $26! They are even charging $34.99 for .info domains, which can generally be had for a huge discount for the first year. Check out www.domainsite.com, my new favorite registrar as an example.

 

NSI also offers something I have not seen, the ability to register a domain for 100 years at only, ONLY $9.99 a year!. What a bargain! An what are the chances that we will have domain names, or have to pay for them in 100 years? I'd say it's pretty slim. Given that the profit on domain names is so huge, I don't expect them to get all that expensive in the future. Thank God, we were able to give NSI some competition. Can you imagine what domains would cost if they were the only provider...!?!?

 

(hris

 

 

Search Engine Marketing Firm iProspect Experiences Meteoric Growth In the Netherlands

 

Search Engine Marketing Firm iProspect Experiences Meteoric Growth In the Netherlands

Watertown, MA (PRWEB) November 7, 2005 -- iProspect, the Original® http://www.iprospect.com [Search Engine Marketing Firm], today announced that iProspect Netherlands has experienced tremendous growth during its first four months in business, already serving a number of major brands, including DHL and ING Card. A division of Aegis Group plc’s Isobar Communications digital network, iProspect looks to continue the global extension of its brand into the European and Asia-Pacific marketplaces.

http://www.iprospect.com/nl/[“iProspect Netherlands] was only launched at the end of June 2005, and already serves around 20 major brands -- substantial advertising accounts,” said Marc Noët, Managing Director, Isobar Communications Netherlands. “The search engine marketing knowledge and recognized ethical approach of the iProspect brand in the U.S. that have been duplicated in the Netherlands are two of the key factors in this rapid growth. Our original goal was to become the third largest SEM firm in the Netherlands within nine months. Having achieved this goal in less than half the time, we’ve re-set our sights on achieving absolute market leadership within the Netherlands search marketplace and further re-enforcing the leadership position Isobar Communications already has here," according to Noët.

“iProspect Netherlands’ tremendous growth is demonstrative of the respect the iProspect brand generates,” said Nigel Morris, CEO of Isobar worldwide. Morris continued, “The iProspect brand is globally recognized as the premier player in the search engine marketing arena. iProspect’s http://www.iprospect.com/whychoose/thought-leadership.htm [thought leadership] in the marketplace and reputation for excellence in process, technology, and results speak for themselves. Without question, it is a brand that fits perfectly with Isobar’s strategy to create a global network comprised of the very best digital agencies in all key disciplines. This should be seen as just one part of a global search strategy that is being rolled out in a carefully planned and rigorous way.”

iProspect Netherlands is the first of many planned global brand expansions into the European and Asia Pacific marketplaces. Leveraging the knowledge, expertise, and ethical standards resident at iProspect in the U.S., the Netherlands’ search engine marketing firm was able to ramp-up with impressive speed and land major brand advertisers by leveraging the trusted iProspect name.

"We chose iProspect as part of our overall online media,” noted S. Schroeders, Distribution Manager at ING Card. Schroeders continued, ‘”Their specialized knowledge and dedication to http://www.iprospect.com/whychoose/search-engine-marketing-ethics.htm [search engine marketing ethics] made us choose them."

According to J.P. Duurland, Head of Marketing Communications at DHL, “iProspect Netherlands significantly positions DHL as a market leader in this rapidly growing online media channel.”

Acquired by Isobar Communications at the end of 2004, iProspect is respected worldwide for the quality of their tools, process, and people, and is considered a key component in its parent’s strategy to develop a global digital network.

“These are exciting times here at iProspect,” said Fredrick Marckini, the firm’s founder and CEO. “As the iProspect brand is launched in international markets, the opportunities for our clients to leverage true, in-country search marketing expertise is something we know will produce powerful results. By offering a true, in-country, search engine marketing network, the possibilities for leveraging best practices and the power of search internationally are significant.”

“Search engine marketing as a whole is barely scratching the surface of what’s possible in the United States alone,” said David Verklin, CEO of Carat North America and of Aegis Group’s Asia-Pacific division. “More and more, search engine marketing is a game that is played without borders to reach audiences all over the world. Through our planned expansion of the iProspect brand into Europe and Asia, we are building the next generation of search marketing capability. It’s not enough to be found by searchers within the borders of the U.S. We want to help our clients reach searchers from Holland, to France, Japan, South America and beyond. As more and more citizens of the world go online, they continue to rely on search to identify products and solutions, and it will take a truly global search engine marketing firm with ‘boots on the ground’ in each country to connect these searching audiences with brands. We’re excited about iProspect Netherlands’ early success in pursuit of that vision.”

About iProspect
http://www.iprospect.com [iProspect®] is the Original® Search Engine Marketing Firm. The company helps many of the world's most successful brands maximize their online marketing ROI through http://www.iprospect.com/services/search-engine-optimization-service.htm [natural search engine optimization], http://www.iprospect.com/services/paid-inclusion-management-service.htm [paid inclusion management] as a Yahoo! Search Submit Certified Ambassador, http://www.iprospect.com/services/pay-per-click-management-service.htm [pay per click advertising management] via their own patent-pending bid management agent called iSEBA™, and http://www.iprospect.com/services/web-analytics-service.htm [Web analytics] through their own SEM-configured version of WebTrends™. Located in Watertown, Massachusetts, the company can be contacted at 1-800-522-1152, or by visiting www.iprospect.com.

Questions regarding this release should be directed to iProspect Media Relations Manager, Colleen Reed, at 1-800-522-1152 x1203 or creed@iprospect.com.

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Phone: 617-923-7000
Website: http://www.iprospect.com

Authors Guild Sues Google, Citing "Massive Copyright Infringement"

 Authors Guild Sues Google, Citing “Massive Copyright Infringement”

September 20, 2005 Press Release

Contact: Paul Aiken
staff@authorsguild.org

NEW YORK — The Authors Guild and a Lincoln biographer, a children's book author, and a former Poet Laureate of the United States filed a class action suit today in federal court in Manhattan against Google over its unauthorized scanning and copying of books through its Google Library program. The suit alleges that the $90 billion search engine and advertising juggernaut is engaging in massive copyright infringement at the expense of the rights of individual writers.

Through its Library program, Google is reproducing works still under the protection of copyright as well as public domain works from the collection of the University of Michigan's library.

“This is a plain and brazen violation of copyright law,” said Authors Guild president Nick Taylor. “It's not up to Google or anyone other than the authors, the rightful owners of these copyrights, to decide whether and how their works will be copied.”

The individual plaintiffs are Herbert Mitgang, a former New York Times editorial writer and the author of numerous fiction and nonfiction books, including “The Fiery Trial: A Life of Lincoln,” published by Viking Press; Betty Miles, the award-winning author of many works for children and young adults, and the co-author of “Just Think,” published by Alfred A. Knopf; and Daniel Hoffman, the author and editor of many volumes of poetry, translation, and literary criticism, including “Barbarous Knowledge: Myth in the Poetry of Yeats, Graves and Muir” and “Striking the Stones,” both published by Oxford University Press. Mr. Hoffman was the 1973-74 Poet Laureate of the United States.

Google has agreements with four academic libraries — those of Stanford, Harvard, Oxford and the University of Michigan — and with the New York Public Library to create digital copies of substantial parts of their collections and to make those collections available for searching online. Google has not sought the approval of the authors of these works for this program.

The complaint seeks damages and an injunction to halt further infringements.

The Authors Guild (www.authorsguild.org), the largest society of published writers in the United States, represents more than 8,000 authors.

The Authors Guild is the nation's largest and oldest society of published authors and the leading writers' advocate for fair compensation, effective copyright protection, and free expression.

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[Editor Comments: Another dinosaur roars in the valley of the vested industries. Let's see.... Open source software, Music file sharing (Ever make an 8-track or cassette copy for a friend? Of course not, you only know about exchanging files and burning CD's. You think you invented a way to make the cost of commercial music more reasonable, but you're late to the party even if the tools you use are light-years beyond what went before.), an now full-text search of books online. Can Open Publishing be far behind? Maybe.

 

None of these have killed the industries they appeared to be undermining, and the same is true for the printed word. Even if they full-text of the books was made available on-line, who the hell curls up with a good CRT? Oooops! sorry, I meant LCD! Print the book on your printer? Maybe if it's really small or you have a duplex laser printer. Your safe from theft from those with Inkjets for sure.

 

Man, don't sue, give it a chance with a sample of titles. Once you see how cool this is going to be, and provide additional revenue options for you, yer gonna wonder what you all upset about in the first place...!  -(hris ]

 

 

 

FeedShot Unleashes Blog Search Submission Service

 

FeedShot Unleashes Blog Search Submission Service

(PRWEB) October 3, 2005 -- FeedShot (http://www.feedshot.com) has released a beta version of its blog search submission service, currently submitting RSS and Atom feeds to 19 search engines and aggregators. The service is free and in beta, with plans for a production launch in late October.

"I was tired of telling my friends and colleagues to visit 50 blog search engines in order to submit their feed. I kept waiting for someone to release a submission service, but after searching for a few weeks decided to write my own." said FeatureCreep, the author of the FeedShot service.

"The response has been overwhelming." he noted, referencing the more than 25,000 outgoing submissions FeedShot has sent since it opened a week ago. "We're trying to stay on pace of adding 2-3 new search engines per week, and we've received a few addition requests from search engines themselves."

With a marketing effort consisting of "sending emails to the blogs I frequent," FeedShot hopes to continue its low-cost, grass roots marketing effort that makes it feasible for it to serve the blogging community. "If we had to pay for advertising it never would have happened. Bloggers have a lot of power these days."

In addition to increasing the number of sites it supports, FeedShot has thoughts of expanding into the pinging space, and to begin offering some type of premium submission services. When asked about the specifics of those services, FeatureCreep responded "Five days ago I had no idea FeedShot would be such a success. Needless to say, I'm still working on what's next."

FeedShot hosts a blog discussing the day-to-day struggles of running the FeedShot service, located at http://www.feedshot.com/blog/.

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Phone: 408-555-1212
Website: www.feedshot.com

SEO

>I am very interested in what other I-searchers have found and
>follow re: char length in Meta description and optimizing "other"
>tags.
- Kelly Blazes, SearchReturn Digest #009

Up until last Spring, we used to use a large set of meta tags, about 50. We did this for many years and had very good results from all our client projects. We knew that many of the tags were just taking up space, but felt if they were being recognized that it would benefit the site, and thought we might be getting some benefit for "making the effort". Since we spent quite a bit of time on the tags and provided them with the appropriate data and not just a bunch of keyword phrases in all of them, we felt it was worth the effort. We also used to add the description as an HTML comment, since we had seen that it was often picked up instead of the decryption tag. These methods never hurt and seemed to help. Results for all projects we very positive so we never did any testing. We also use to spend time on a site's ALT tags.

Then last year I took a 1-page site of a client and as a favor optimized the page with only title tag, meta description tag, and keywords meta tag. I then started adding pages of content on a regular basis, all with just basic, simple optimization for what was on the page.

The results were startling.

This was a favor to a client, so we did no keyword research, and only optimized the tags quickly based on page content. In addition, this was not a "proper" site but only had information about the client's business on the home page. Still, about 6 months after the traffic had increased by many times, the client was actually contacted and secured a project from someone in California (We are in Minnesota). The reason I did this for free is that the client is my oldest one and he did not see the need for a web site, much less SEO. He now realizes what I've been talking about for the past 5-6 years and if he wasn't so busy with exiting clients, I'm sure he would have us to help him with a proper site & submission of the site. We only put up about 6 links to the site and submitted to maybe 15 search engines and directories, a far cry from the 180 that we normally do.

As a result of this experiment, we now only use those 3 tags in our optimization, and do not optimize H tags or other things that you hear people talk about. They may help, but they also increase the time/cost and until what we do stops working, we won't be making things more complex.

For tag lengths, we have changed what we use a little:

Title tag: Up to 85 characters max, but some do go over without noticeable harm. I like at least 60 and generally use 70 chars.

Description: We use to always use as close to the 255 character limit, but we are seeing more and more sites limit this to about 150 with some at 200 and some at 100 chars. We try to craft the description so that if it is cut off at those points, it will still look and read well. We may standardize on 150 since it's a bit of work to match those cutoff points.

Keywords tags: Not very important, but if you use common sense, it may help. We used to have a 1,000 character limit, but now try to keep it down to about 400-600 chars. If you are going to use keyword phrases, use commas to separate them. We use to really fill this up with many variations of what was on the page as well as things not on the page. This was limited to words that meant the same, but different spellings and different combinations of what was on the page. Now it's less work just picking things from our keyword results that are about the same as what is on the page.

We use as many scored keyword phrases as possible in titles and descriptions, tempered with use of good English and advertising copy.

Thank you,
Chris Nielsen
BizProLink-Internet.com

Redzee.com, Redzeeguru.com, LP keywords, and related sites to avoid.

This company seems to have morphed into another version selling the same kind of keyword bidding that is only available to browsers who have chosen to "upgrade" their browser and become infested with something they were not aware of, and may not want. They also sucker people in with a free toolbar.

 

If you are looking for information on one of these sites, you may be interested that all of these are hosted on the same server and also connected with www.webwisemedia.com and www.redzee.com.

 

www.G-hance.com

www.Getredzee.com

www.Ghance.com

www.Goredzee.com

www.Kazaaghost.com

www.Keywordsguru.com

www.Leadrankings.com

www.Linkpositioning.com

www.Linkpositions.com

www.Linkpositions.net

www.Linkrankings.com

www.Myredzee.com

www.Positionlinks.com

www.Positionsguru.com

www.Positionwindow.com

www.Redzeesearch.com

www.Rocketranking.com

www.Rocketresults.com

www.Search-climbers.com

www.Searchelevators.com

www.Trafficwindows.com

www.Windowbillboard.com

www.Windowbillboards.com

www.Windowposition.com

www.Windowposition.net

www.Windowpositions.com

www.Windowpositions.net

www.Windowsposition.com

www.Windowsposition.net

www.Windowspositions.net

www.Winspeedtechnologies.com

www.Redzeeguru.com

 

Other words of interest are LP, LP Keywords, browser upgrades, browser upgrade, wise media, natural keyword positioning technology, browser add-ins.