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Agreed. I love Yahoo! Pipes and people keep telling me "it's too hard". Too hard? It's easy as pie. Well, maybe "pi".
Well, Google deserves the criticism for non-transparency (and for not splitting a now $700/share stock, as I wrote on my personal blog). But Matt does not deserve criticism, even if he doesn't answer all questions - just the ones with easy answers. Even though I don't agree with Matt most of the time, even though i don't know him, he seems to be a really nice guy. That counts for a lot.
There's been these burps for over a month. A blog I used to own, which i sold to a friend, dropped from PR5 to PR0 - but he says it doesn't bother him.
At any rate, i'll i've seen on anyone's sites are drops, not gains.
The fundamental problem is a conflict of interest in Google's entire setup. "If you don't use our ads, we'll find a way to penalize you." But your ads don't monetize for most people. Who's going to work for free?
Ben - Definitely better than my "7 Principles of Building an Online Media Empire", which I forgot to post here. Great writing.
Definitely a noble idea. Though unless you know what you're talking about, it's a very difficult subject for the average person to write about. I've counselled a few friends out of it in the distant past, but its draining, and you have to tread very, very carefully.
@Michelle: Thanks for the heads-up. Apologies for not looking for a previous thread.
@Tim: That's true, though I'm guessing some site owners don't want a situation where every single post has a button with (potentially) low numbers.
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Loved the list, but found #31 amusing: Proofread. But "pities sake" should be "pity's sake". (Or is that intentional?) I promise not to kick you in the "hoonads", though.
When I click on the link to go to the story, I get a msg in Firefox (1.5x)):
You have chosen to open (big gap) which is a: application/x-httpd-php from http://voltier.com
I can go to the home page, but when I click on "blog", the same thing happens.
I agree with Andy, re CPU usage. And bandwidth.
If you expect your site to grow in subscriptions, it's nice if someone else is footing the bandwidth costs. With Feedburner, you minimize accesses to your feed and can still serve thousands without worrying about the cost.
If you're worried that their URLs are getting some topical authority, you can use a feed redirector plugin. This way, subscribers use feeds containing your domain name, not Feedburner. The same goes for search engines.
I use Feedburner regularly - have done so for over a year, I believe. I don't even think there's any alternate, other than a custom solution.
Love the terms. I haven't heard of most of them before. Very descriptive and memorable.
I have mostly the same problem as qwerty. I'm using FF 1.5x. The Sphinn count does not upgrade immediately at times. I'll also found over the last several days that Sphinn pages sometimes would not complete. They took a very long time to render in completion. I thought it might be a Wi-Fi problem, but I had not trouble at other sites.
SEO is like tofu: you take it and flavor it as the environment warrants. So if some tool "dies" tomorrow, you find the most appropriate replacements. If search engines don't die, neither will SEO. As long as good search engine rankings translates into higher revenue Search Engine Optimization has a place. If that means using the tools listed in the article, so be it.
Sorry, but don't tag Technorati or any other site except your own. Your tags/ categories should only point to your site, else the other site gets the benefit of the anchor text.
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I was just about to create a site with it, just before Sphinn launched. Now I'm a bit worried. This is one of those times when it'd be nice to have a few extra million lying around.
I'm disappointed. It's a good article, but the title is totally misleading, completely irrelevant. Unless i missed something.
How in heck is John Chow a "web 2.0" mogul? What application/ organization did he found?
Matt, it's not that simple. Someone at Google isn't informing you properly, despite that you obviously try to be honest. I've tried twice, even with digital proof, and the AdSense team makes it as difficult as possible. I don't have a printer or fax at home and no car to get to the nearest Office Depot. For me to "properly" launch a complaint to Google about scrapers stealing my content and publishing their Adsense code would be a great deal of difficulty on my part.
Google benefits from thieves running adsense, so why make it easy for legitimate content owners to complain?
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