BizTechtonics - 10 years ago
I found an interesting tidbit on the FCC website about the regulation of the internet. It says: The FCC does not regulate the Internet or Internet Service Providers (ISPs). You may contact your state consumer protection office…. If that is the...
BizTechtonics - 10 years ago
In the current Net Neutrality debate, cable companies and internet service providers are claiming that they deserve more money from Netflix and YouTube and other content providers because they supposedly “create” the most traffic on their...
BizTechtonics - 10 years ago
As governments get more strapped for cash, they seek out new ways to get revenue. Unfortunately the laws they have on the books are not suitable for taxation of internet commerce. There are several government initiatives to redress that, such as the...
BizTechtonics - 10 years ago
I just finished watching the movie The Internship, a comedy about two out of work salesmen who try to get an internship at Google, and it got me thinking. As many of you know, Google has discontinued the Google Authorship program, and is getting ver...
BizTechtonics - 10 years ago
One of the biggest benefits of Google Authorship was the fact that the actual content creators, the authors, finally get the recognition they deserve for their hard work. Before Google Authorship, the focus was always on the website and the company&#...
BizTechtonics - 10 years ago
I see a lot of new websites make this mistake. They launch a new membership website, forums, double opt-in list or other website that requires people to signup and receive an email to verify their account. But because they did not do a gradual laun...
BizTechtonics - 10 years ago
There used to be this theory that if you poured money into the top of the economy, through loans, tax cuts, and direct investment, the money would trickle down to the bottom of the economy, to the workers, the stay-at home moms, and the children. Whi...
BizTechtonics - 10 years ago
Most people think of wealth and money as finite things, but in reality, wealth is infinite and it is actually possible for everyone to be wealthy. The reason why this is true is because wealth is actually created by producing value and the movement o...
BizTechtonics - 10 years ago
I had an interesting experience this morning while researching Rackspace for an article. Apparently if you go to their website, you automatically agree to a whole set of terms of use, including provisions that state that you can only link to their h...
BizTechtonics - 11 years ago
Yes, it is okay to pay bloggers, but depending on what they are blogging about and what jurisdiction they are in, there may be some disclosure requirements. For example, if you are asking them to review or write positive things about a company, produ...
BizTechtonics - 11 years ago
Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s Webspam team, has publicly and repeatedly stated that guest blogging for SEO purposes is dead.1 We are already seeing that Google is taking an aggressive stance towards link spam, especially on guest posts and...
BizTechtonics - 11 years ago
In order to help search engines like Google & Bing understand the weight and importance of links on a page, and to reduce link spam, perhaps we need to start labeling the purpose of the links on our websites and blogs. In a previous article, we t...
BizTechtonics - 11 years ago
In a controversial and much talked about post by Matt Cutts, entitled “The decay and fall of guest blogging for SEO,” the head of Google’s Webspam team declares that guest posting for SEO purposes is dead. In his post, which has been edit...
BizTechtonics - 11 years ago
Here are some things you can do to help market a content website: Have great content. Nothing keeps people coming back for more than great content. Also, search engines love updated and new content. Social Media Presence. Set up social media pages...
BizTechtonics - 11 years ago
HostDime and Regus would say it’s fine to charge you for services you never used, sternly standing behind the fine print in the contract you signed. But is it ethical and fair? As some of my readers discovered, HostDime and Regus don’t ca...