Web Tune-Up Pros

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS Feed. Thanks for visiting!As I predicted a while back, Google is now bringing its version of AdSense ads to the videos on YouTube, which it bought for $1.65 billion and is no doubt anxious to recoup some of its investment.
According to a [...]

As a college instructor, I constantly warn my students about (actually, I forbid them from) using Wikipedia as a research source.  Since it’s a wiki, or open source, anyone can go in there and edit anything on Wikipedia.
Now, along comes CalTech student Virgil Griffith (whose e-mail address is at SantaFe.edu–go figure) and his Wikiscanner online feature [...]

(I’m reprinting this because it has concise information in it, though not really worded for the lay webmaster, and it contains some great links.)
By Adrian McLean
Search Engine Optimisation is becoming increasingly important in today’s marketplace. Would you like to do your own SEO? If the answer’s yes, let’s begin.

The search engine companies out there, headed by Google, Yahoo and MSN, not only store the search terms that people type in but also record the searchers’ IP addresses at the same time.
In other words, they could theoretically compile a list of everything you’ve searched for since you first entered cyberspace and make it available to [...]

Aaron Wall, author of the indispensable SEO Book, has a posting in which he blasts Google for giving out free links to sites that use its Google Checkout.  This is especially interesting since the Google site giving out these links has a Page Rank of 8, so these are quite valuable links.
The rub lies in [...]