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Link Report for November 25th through December 2nd

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

The Link Report

This is the Link Report for November 25th through December 2nd:

Please feel free to post your thoughts in the comment section below

To see all of our links please visit our Delicious page at Microsoft Launches its own Twitter… in China – Microsoft is making its own Twitter… in China. They are capitalizing on the popularity of their Instant Messenger client in that country.

  • Facebook’s Road to 350 Million Users – Mark Zuckerberg’s note about Facebook’s latest privacy changes also contained an announcement about another important milestone for Facebook: 350 million users.
  • Facebook CEO: Prepare for Some Big Privacy Changes – In a rare open letter, Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced a series of privacy changes, starting with the removal of regional networks.
  • What Will Comcast-NBC Mean for Hulu? – It looks like Comcast's purchase of 51% of NBC will not kill he online video site Hulu. Though we might be paying for the content in 2010.
  • What Users Like/Dislike About Google Wave [DATA] – The good the bad and the ugly of Google wave
  • Twitter Billboard Leads to Epic Fail [PIC] – A TV station in Alabama is learning that live Twitter billboards sometimes deliver unintended consequences.

    Editorial: Took me a while to get this one. Read the comments.

  • Tweetie 2.1 For iPhone Now LIVE in the App Store – Tweetie 2.1, the latest version of the popular iPhone Twitter client, went live in the app store today.
  • Twitter Ads Are Evil: Here’s Why – Advertisers are frustrated. You’re all having direct conversations with friends on Twitter, Facebook, blogs and the rest while totally bypassing the mass mediums they understand. Rather than consuming content all day on TV, in newspapers and on the radio, you’re engaging, one-to-one, with individuals you trust. They can’t get in the middle of that. They hate it.
  • Google Profiles Turn Into OpenIDs – As part of its push to go more social, Google has been attempting to unify its various account profiles into one Google Profile. And now it’s more useful. Google’s Brad Fitzpatrick has just tweeted out that Google Profiles can now be used as OpenIDs.
  • Small Businesses Look to E-Mail and Social Media – eMarketer – Three-quarters of small businesses will increase their spending on e-mail marketing in 2010, while nearly seven in 10 will put more dollars toward social media, according to VerticalResponse data.
  • Link Report for August 25th through August 26th

    Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

    The Link Report

    This is the Link Report for August 25th through August 26th:

    Please feel free to post your thoughts in the comment section below

    To see all of our links please visit our Delicious page at Delicious.com/goldsteinmedia

    Can A Website Be Over-Optimized?

    Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

    Google’s Matt Cutts did a video for the Webmaster Central YouTube channel yesterday answering a question on over-optimization of a Website. In essence he said no, the you can’t over use the NOFOLLOW tag, but often times in the search for better placement on the search engines people tend to spam a bit. They over use their keywords and make their site not user friendly. So in the end there are ways to hurt yourself in the search engines but only if you take a more black-hat approach to optimization.

    What are your thoughts? Post them below.

    Why Flash? There is no need to build a site in Flash

    Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

    http://www.roytanck.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/adobe_flash_logo.gifAdobe (formerly Macromedia) Flash is a great tool for interactivity and overall interaction. What it’s not good for is Web design. If you really, truly, want to get found on the Internet you don’t want your site in Flash. Yes, you can do really neat things with it. Make your cursor make sounds, have your buttons animate in a way that CSS and xHTML just can’t, but you need to ask yourself two questions. First, do all these “flashy” (pardon the pun) effects do anything to promote your product or your company? Second, is it really worth giving up some Search Engine find-ability for a little unnecessary glitz and glamour? In my opinion, no.

    There was a very interesting article in Search Engine Land blog yesterday. The author points out some very interesting points:

    But what about those that have a more basic Flash site that does indeed provide information? For them, I would ask, why Flash? If you don’t need to allow your visitors to interact with your website, then why not just use HTML with Flash accents? Because even if the search engines are indexing the information contained in Flash (more on this in a bit), there are other reasons not to use it. First and foremost, not every browser has Flash installed. In fact, currently on an iPhone, Flash shows up as a little blue cube. Second, many Flash-based sites use only one URL for the entire site. Besides the search engine implications of that, it is also a nightmare for bookmarking, as well as for most web analytics programs.

    via Are The Search Engines Really Indexing Flash?.

    So I leave you with this, if your site does not need the wow power and interactive feel of Flash, but you want to capitalize on the search results, leave Flash for another day or another project.


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