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Daryl H. Bryant - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Daryl H. Bryant, Founder, President and CEO of Hudson Horizons, has 10 years experience in the technology community and wields hands-on experience of many aspects of the Internet and technology industries.
Mr. Bryant has received a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics from Montclair State University in Upper Montclair, New Jersey.
Mr. Bryant has a wide range of experience in technical sales and management. His post-college career started at Knoa Corporation, a software company ... [More]
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- The Importance of SEO Friendly Content Management Systems
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:CMS] A Content Management System (CMS) is a software application used to create, edit, manage, and publish content consistently and efficiently. There are many types of CMS systems out there so when it's time to select a CMS to manage your website, you need to make sure you find one that is 100% SEO-Friendly and optimizes your pages for the search engines.
- Instant Website Design Quotes Provide A Great Way To Estimate Cost Of Web Projects
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Design] If your business is looking for a fast and efficient way to receive an estimated cost for your upcoming web project, without wasting any time, then I recommend using an instant website design quote to generate an online estimate. As a business owner, sometimes I just like to do my own research without being bothered by a salesperson. This is why I recommend you find a company that allows you to receive an estimated website design quote, directly on their website, without the sales pressure.
- How Your Business Can Survive A 2008 Recession
[Business] With the economy slowing, oil prices rising, and the value of the U.S. Dollar weakening, it is obvious that a 2008 recession is headed our way. Many are predicting that this could be the first U.S. recession since 2001.
- The Importance of Title Tags for Search Engine Optimization
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] As a Website Development and Internet Marketing Company, a major focus of ours when developing our client's websites is Search Engine Optimization (SEO) of the website's web pages. The first and foremost important thing for SEO is your website's Title Tags. If a website does not have Title Tags that properly define its pages then it will be extremely difficult to receive a good ranking in the search engines. There are many reasons why Title Tags are so important - the following will define Title Tags and outline the importance of their use for Search Engine Optimization.
- Top 10 Link Building Tips for Marketing Your Website
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] Link Building is the key to success on the Internet. Without good, quality, inbound links your website will be perceived as non-existent by the search engines. But with a solid link building campaign, you will let the search engines know your website exists and begin to receive higher rankings, guaranteed.
- Niche Search Engines - A Future Trend of Centralization
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Search-Engine-Marketing] As the Internet grows, the systems that collect and sort the immense amount of data needs to mature as well. As we move into the future, we see a trend - a trend of niches being formed to allow particular industries to gain access to information only relating to their type of business.
- New Jersey vs New York City Website Development Companies
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Development] The main reason why I recommend using a New Jersey-based Website Design and Development Company over a New York City based company is price. NYC companies need to charge more because their rent and expenses required to operate their business are much greater than those in New Jersey.
- The SEO Basics of Search Engine Optimization
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] If you have a website and you're not focusing on SEO then you better rethink what you're doing right away. Without performing SEO for your website, you will be missing out on potential business because your site will not be optimized for the search engines.
- How to Submit a Press Release Online - The 5 Steps to an Effective Submission
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Your company has just launched a great new product; you just landed a reputable client; you recently hired an established marketing executive to help promote your company and increase sales. Whatever your story is at the moment, get it out there today with a successful online press release submission.
- Increase Product Sales - Add Your Products to Google Product Search
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Ecommerce] If you're a product company and are looking for an affordable way to sell more products, then lo and behold! Google Product Search is exactly what you've been looking for. Google Product Search, formerly named Froogle, is a place where product companies can submit and list their products for FREE directly with Google's shopping search engine.
- Linkup With Your Contacts and Promote Your Skills Through the LinkedIn Network
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Social-Networking] LinkedIn is a great resource for any business professional looking to gain extra exposure and looking to linkup with new people in a particular industry. I highly recommend LinkedIn and am quite confident that if you designate the time to build your network and meet new people, it will naturally help to build your business.
- The Future of Cell Phone Mobile Connectivity
[Communications:Mobile-Cell-Phone] The future of cell phone use is eminent and thousands of companies are working hard to make this a safe and practical reality for us all. We'll be looking back in 20 years telling our children and/or grandchildren that we used to use a pay phone to make a phone call while away from our home.
- e-Newsletters - Submitting Your Way to Increased Sales
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Email-Marketing] With mass collaboration and communication at our fingertips, the Internet enables us to keep in contact with our clients with a few touches of the keys and a simple click of the mouse. But look how it was just 10 years ago - businesses would either have to phone their clients or send letters on a monthly basis to stay in touch.
- Strategic Partnerships are a Wonderful Thing
[Business:Strategic-Planning] An old philosophy in business is, "If you want it done right, you better do it by yourself." Well let me say that if this is your belief now, it will be difficult for your business to survive in the future. That is the old way of doing business and today I want to share with you my beliefs on the new way to run and operate a successful service business.
- Conquering Obstacles Within Your Business And In Life
[Self-Improvement:Success] In life we face new obstacles every day - some are challenging and others we breeze right through. But without obstacles, life would be a boring place. As I always say, "The greatest obstacles in life are the ones we've yet to conquer". - Daryl H. Bryant
- The Importance of Using Search Engine Friendly URLs
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] Using relevant keywords within the URLs of your website is commonly referred to as using "search engine friendly URLs" and is a basic concept where the URLs of each web page properly reflect the content that’s on that particular page.
- The Future of e-Business - Revamping Your Website to Modernize and Revolutionize Your Business
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Social-Media] Web 2.0 is a revolutionary view of the Internet and the social and business uses of advanced technologies. Daryl H. Bryant talks about how you can revamp your website using Web 2.0 technologies and at the same time modernize, revolutionize and take your business to the next level.
- e-Business 2.0 Emerges Alongside Web 2.0
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online] Web 2.0 has changed the way we think about the Web; whether you believe that Web 2.0 is a valid name or just some coined term by Tim O'Reilly used to define the "newer" websites that function as web-applications. According to Tim O'Reilly's article, "What is Web 2.0?" the difference between the initial Web and Web 2.0 lies within the following example.
- Sell More Products Online With Google Product Search
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Ecommerce] Do you have products to sell and want to get them in Google? If so, then you should submit your products to Google Base. By submitting your products to Google Base, you'll essentially be submitting them to the Google search engine. Once your product feed is approved, your products will appear in areas such as Google Product Search, Google Base and in many cases, the Google search engine itself.
- I Am Shopping For - The Best Way To Sell My Products Online
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Ecommerce] Retailers are constantly looking for better ways to sell their products Internet. In today's vastly changing online world, selling products through the means of shipping comparison websites have become a great way for retailers to drive more traffic to their website, increase sales and at the same time advertise and strengthen the brand of their business.
- Minimize Outstanding Invoices With an Electronic Invoicing Solution
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Ecommerce] On average, how long does it take your business to collect payments from your customers? Are you currently waiting to obtain payments for services rendered over one or two months ago? If so, then consider implementing an electronic invoicing solution that allows you to invoice your clients via email and accept payments through credit card, EFT (electronic funds transfer) or ACH (Automated Clearing House) direct deposit.
- Move Over Froogle - Make Room for Google Product Search
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Ecommerce] Back in 2002, Google launched Froogle, their product search engine. It's named was created by mixing the terms "frugal" and "Google" together. Last week, Google announced that they are converting Froogle over to a Google brand and naming it Google Product Search instead.
- The "Big Four" Now Support Auto-Discovery for Sitemap Files
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] There is some great news in the SEO world that will change the way webmaster process and submit Sitemaps to Google, Yahoo!, MSN and the newest member Ask. The four search players announced on April 11, 2007, that there is a new way to let the search engines know about your Sitemap file. The new process is being referred to as the “Auto-Discovery” of Sitemaps.
- Process ACH Direct Deposit Payments Online With an ACH Software Solution
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online] If you would like a quicker, more efficient and cost effective way to process payments online for your business, then you should look into setting up an ACH direct deposit processing payment solution. ACH direct deposits offer a better way to transfer, credit and debit funds to and from your client’s bank accounts with ease.
- It's Sales Conversions That Matter Most
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] Do you have or utilize the services of an SEO specialist? What is their primary focus? If it's to get you to the top of the search engines then let me forewarn you - in today's online world, search engine ranking is not and should not be the primary focus of any SEO specialist. If it is, then let me say one thing... they are not a specialist, find a new SEO!
- Optimize Your Google Base Data Feeds for Success
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] For all you Google Base fanatics out there, I have one very important question for you? Are you optimizing your Google Base data feeds for success? If not, I would like to explain a few basic things for why and how you should optimize your feeds before submitting them to Google Base.
- How To List Your Products In Froogle (Google Base) The Automated Way
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Ecommerce] Having your products submitted automatically to Froogle (Google Base) is great for product companies that use a database because the automated process can simply connect to your database everyday and compile a new list of product information. The process will then take this information and format it for insertion into the Froogle system. This automated method will save your business time, money and dramatically increase sales because the automated process will handle every the entire process for you.
- Minimize Your Credit Card Transactions – Process ACH Transactions for Your Business Instead
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Ecommerce] What types of payments does your business currently accept? You're probably saying cash, checks and credit cards – why what else is there? Well have you heard of or though about accepting ACH transactions? If you're wondering what ACH is and how to do it, continue reading this article and you will learn how processing ACH transactions will save your company time, money and simplify your business.
- Feed YouTube Videos Directly To Your Website Or Application
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:RSS] The YouTube API allows you to easily add YouTube videos to your website or application. Through the API, you gain access to key parts of the YouTube video repository and user community through the open API interface and RSS feeds.
- Why Website Squidoo Has Potential
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online] Michael Arrington's post on TechCrunch, "Squidoo - Seth Godin's Purple Albatross?" got me thinking and I must say I agree with some of Michael's points but I also disagree with some of his others.
- The Future of Social Networking Websites-Target Niche Groups
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Social-Networking] From virtual communities that allow members to upload and share their media to social content websites that permit users to “tag” and communicate their favorite blogs, articles and websites with one another, social networking websites are popping up everywhere we turn-but what is the future?
- MSN Live to Support Sitemap 0.90 Protocol-What Does This Really Mean?
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] Three months ago, Google and Yahoo! announced that they have joined forces to support a unified system of submitting Web pages to their crawlers. Google launched their Google Sitemaps protocol as part of their Webmaster Tools in June 2005 and Yahoo! recently with their Yahoo! Site Explorer.
On the sitemaps.org website, it states that Microsoft is also supporting this new protocol standard but the question that lies yet to be answered is - How is MSN Live's Sitemaps Submission product going to function?
- Google's Personalized Search Debate
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] Danny Sullivan does it again, with his in-depth look at Google's new personalized search feature – Google Ramps up Personalized Search… great article. The topic of personalized search results is stirring up the SEO world - some say it's a positive change, while others are suggesting it could potentially put a stop to SEO all together. Who's right, who's wrong, and what is personalized search anyway? Well here’s some basic information and my initial view on this topic.
- Overstock Merchant Auctions - List and Sell Your Items
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Auctions] For all of you eBay fanatics out there, Overstock.com has created a very similar website for merchants to sell items through auction-based listings that looks very promising. Lately, I've become extremely frustrated with all the competition on eBay so I wanted to search for another auction website where I could list my items for sale and not be overwhelmed by 100's of other item listings that are similar to mine.
- Do Alt and Title Attributes Help With SEO?
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] A highly talked about topic is the SEO world is, "Do Alt and Title Attributes Help with SEO?" Well to help shed a little light on this topic, I did some research and came up with a few good conclusions. I'm not suggesting these are 100% accurate but from my initial research they seem to be right on target. I welcome all other SEO experts to share their opinions on this topic by posting their comments – because as we all know, every little bit of information can help us all.
- Business 101: Always Pay Your Business Debts
[Business:Ethics] As business owners, we have a responsibility to pay our debts. Whether it's paying our bills, finalizing payment for a service provided, or paying our employees we are the ones who are accountable to ensure that all business expenses get paid in a timely manner.
- MySpace your Business: The Benefits of creating a MySpace Page for your Business
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] We all know about MySpace and its popularity amongst teens and young adults. We also know that MySpace has been known for its share of ups and downs and both good and bad publicity. But have you stopped to think about the idea of creating a MySpace page for your business? Do you see its potential to help increase your exposure, generate more leads and ultimately produce more sales?
- I Digg Blogs of all Types and Styles
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Blogging] To anyone that has a negative outlook on blogs - I challenge you to think about creating your own blog one day. Use it to express yourself or to share your knowledge on a subject you may be experienced in.
- Wikiasari – The Future Search Engine to Rival Google
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online] Jimmy Wales, the founder of popular Wikipedia (an online user-driven encyclopedia of sorts), is now in the works of producing a new type of search engine that is predicted to rival Google in 2007. The new Search Wikia, dubbed code word “Wikiasari” (supposedly not the future name to be used), will be a search engine that will take the algorithmic power of Google and combine it with the editorial community-based input of humans, similar to how Wikipedia operated. This idea is predicted to eliminate a lot of useless information that cannot necessarily be filtered out by a computer algorithm.
- Froogle Price Comparison with Google SMS - Should Retail Stores Beware?
[Business:Sales] In a world where the Internet competes directly with retail stores around the world, it's getting more difficult for the everyday mom-and-pop shops to stay in business because of the ever-increasing popularity for people to shop online.
- Google Sitemaps - Questions Answered by Vanessa Fox
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] With Google’s recent joint venture to collaborate with Yahoo and MSN to create a Sitemap submission protocol standard, there has been a lot of buzz generating lately for Google Sitemaps in the SEO world. This has caused many webmasters and business owners to regain focus on the true implications and question the validity of the Google Sitemaps program.
- What is Organic SEO? How to Effectively Maximize Your Website’s Visibility
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] An organic search is a process by which Internet users find websites in the SERPs, (Search Engine Result Pages), as opposed to using pay-per-click advertisement listings, such as Google AdWords, displayed alongside the organic search results.
- Capitalize on the Upcoming Holiday Season by Offering Website Promotions
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Site-Promotion] With the holidays vastly approaching, now is the perfect time to offer website promotions that will increase online sales... guaranteed! According to data supplied by Coremetrics, the upcoming holiday season is when most online retailers generate 20% - 40% of their annual eCommerce revenues and profits and historically, analysts have publicized "Cyber Monday," (the Monday after Thanksgiving) as the highest traffic day for online retailers.
- Writing for the Web - Increase your Ranking in the Search Engines
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] Writing and preparing content for the Web requires a different approach from writing and preparing content for print documents and publications. When writing for the Web, not only do you have to make it appealing and grammatically sound, you also need to focus on developing your content in a way that provides search engine optimization (SEO).
- Google and Yahoo! Unite to Support Common Sitemap Protocol
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] There is some great news in the SEO world that will change the way webmaster process and submit Sitemaps to Google, Yahoo! and soon others. Google and Yahoo! announced that they have teamed up to support a unified system of submitting Web pages to their crawlers.
- Index your Content in Days Rather than Months
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] As many of us know, the most common way our content becomes indexed in a search engine is through the process of search engine crawling. How it works is simple - a search engine's crawler comes and visits our website every so often, captures some data and updates their search index with this newly captured information.
- Win the Content Race with RSS - Real Simple Syndication
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:RSS] The Internet is a race – a race to see who can acquire the most content on their website or blog in the shortest period of time. Whether it’s text, images, data or video; the sites who obtain the most content are the ones who will generate the most traffic and ultimately sell for millions of dollars to larger corporation like Yahoo, Google, Fox or Microsoft.
- Be Creative - Utilize your Website as a Marketing Machine
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Last week I received an email from my father and it was link to an online marketing campaign sponsored by ESPN and GMC. The campaign is called "Keys to Victory." It's an online contest that allows the website visitor to select the football team, who they think will win, for the upcoming Monday Night NFL game, register online, and be entered to potentially win a brand-new 2007 GMS Sierra pickup truck. I then noticed that ESPN also formed several other contests, in sponsorship with other companies, to help promote their products online – WOW, what a great concept.
- Increase Product Sales and Simplify your Business with a Content Management System
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:CMS] We are all familiar with Amazon and its tremendous success over the past several years. Even though Amazon is not as profitable as it would like to be, they definitely did one thing right – and that was to create one of the most recognized online brands in the world. Their website is one of the most well-known and trusted websites to purchase products from on the Internet and every product company would love to replicate what Amazon has done in just 12 years in business.
- Relevant Content is the Key to Generating Successful Website Traffic
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Traffic-Building] Everyone wants to know how to increase traffic to their website because as we all know - increased traffic equals increased sales. For many, it’s the unanswered question that they struggle to find an answer for every day as they try to expand their business online. Well, today I’m going to show you how you can increase traffic to your website in the most effective manner possible. I’m going to provide you with a cost-effective solution that will increase traffic to your website through organic search marketing.
- The Web Development Company of the Future
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Development] As the Internet is rapidly changing, it’s difficult for many Web development companies and solution providers to stay abreast of all the latest industry developments and as more advanced technology becomes readily available, companies desire more for their website. Businesses no longer want a static website, they are in need of a more dynamic, customizable and interactive site for their business.
- Why Google Sitemaps are so Important for the Success of your Business
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] Search engines have become so powerful and vital to the success of every business. Whether or not you think Google is God, Satan or just an ordinary search engine, the fact still holds true that the success of every business on the Internet is in part determined by the results of their search engine marketing. Because Google is so popular, the companies who are most visible in Google are the companies who find great success because of their search engine optimization efforts.
- The Beauty of Drop Shipping Products through the Internet
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Ecommerce] Having the ability to sell another company’s products on the Internet without having to worry about the accounting, inventory, and shipping of the products is a great way to grow an online retail business with minimal resources. This idea that I am referring to is the process of drop shipping.
- Forget Ranking - Focus to Increase your Website's Visibility Instead
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] In today's e-marketing world it all comes down to the amount of content you have and the page rank of your pages in Google. So to get my clients focused and headed in the right direction, I ask them to completely change their search engine vocabulary. Instead of saying, "How do I increase my ranking in Google?" - I ask them to say, "How do I increase my website's visibility in Google?" This small change in vocabulary is a huge change in behavior.
- A Guaranteed Strategy To Successfully Launch A Product Online
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Product-Launching] Launching a product on the Internet can be a daunting task if you're not educated on the basics of how to successfully generate an online buzz. Today I'm going to provide you with a basic strategy to follow when launching your product online. There are many additional ways to get your product out there but these are the basics, so let's start here first. Are you ready? Ok, great, let's get down to the basics of how to generate that buzz and successfully launch your product online.
- RSS and the Future of Content Distribution
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:RSS] RSS, Real Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary, is an XML-based format (using the Resource Description Framework (RDF) that provides an open method of syndicating and aggregating Web content. Using RSS files, you can create a data feed that supplies headlines, links, and article summaries from your website to others. Users can have constantly updated content from websites delivered to them via a news reader (aggregator), a piece of software specifically tailored to receive these types of feeds.
- Yahoo!'s New Site Explorer - Submit and Track Your Website Today
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online] Yahoo! recently expanded their search engine service and now offers users the ability to access information that Yahoo! has about a site's online presence. You can see which sites and sub-pages are indexed by Yahoo! Search, track sites that link into a webpage, and view the most popular pages from any site.
- Web-based Systems and a Formula for Success
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Development] Does your business have a lot of overhead? Do you feel like your spending too much money in certain areas of your business? If you said no then you’re either untruthful or you are not fully aware of the ways in which you can minimize your resources to save money and reduce your company’s overhead. The following article explains the positive consequences of implementing a Web-based system to manage and automate certain aspects of your business.
- Why Should I Implement Google Sitemaps for My Website?
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] What is one major goal of every business owner with a website? I'm sure you can come up with many answers to this question but the one that sticks out in my mind is their goal to increase website traffic. Every business owner should be concerned about how much traffic they are receiving to their website and is most likely thinking about the various ways they can improve on this. Increased traffic equals increased sales - it's that simple.
- China - Building a Better Internet
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online] In research labs throughout China, engineers are busy working on another project that the Chinese government plans to reveal at the 2008 Summer Olympics - China's Next Generation Internet (CNGI), a faster, more secure, more mobile version of the current one. If this becomes a reality, which supposedly is already well into the development phase, CNGI's impact will be felt for decades.
- 5 Surefire Ways to Increase Online Product Sales
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Ecommerce] So you have an online business and your selling products off your website. Let’s say you’re making sales but you’re not making as many as you would like. The following outlines a few surefire ways to help increase the sales of your products off your website.
- Lots of Changes Bubbling Over at Facebook.com
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Security] The popular social networking site, Facebook, has stirred up two major security and privacy concerns amongst their existing 9 million members. The first concern was regarding a change Facebook made a few days ago that revealed a new feature which allow other users to keep tabs on changes to their friends' profiles, photographs and other personal information - is the latest example of increasing privacy concerns among social networking sites' predominantly young adult audience.
- Starbucks is Being Sued for $114 Million for Faulty Email Campaign
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Email-Marketing] Lawsuits in America have now gone too far. This one tops them all and is more ridiculous than the McDonald’s lawsuit that awarded $2.9 million to an 81-year-old woman scalded by McDonald's coffee. Wow, I didn’t know coffee was supposed to be hot - come on now!
- Yahoo Adds Blog Content to the Largest Business Website
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Blogging] The birth of the blog has led to an explosion in content on the Internet. Many blogs are receiving millions of hits, adding hundreds of articles and getting unbelievable exposure every single day. The attention some of these blogs are receiving has led to many larger companies paying for and adding the blog content to their website. This idea of using someone else’s content for your own publishing purposes is referred to as Micro-publishing.
- Microsoft Windows Vista - Release Candidate 1 (RC1) - Finally Here
[Computers-and-Technology:Software] The long awaited Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 is finally here. A few days ago, Microsoft released Windows Vista RC1 (a test version) to allow 5 million users, their largest test program ever, to download and test the operating system. If the RC1 version receives positive results, then we should expect to see Windows Vista to be meet the set release date of November 2006 for enterprise customers and January 2007 for consumers.
- 9/11 - We Will Never Forget
[News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion] Five years ago, September 11, 2001, I was heading to work in New York City as I have done every single day. I remember thinking to myself what a beautiful day it was – there was not a cloud in the sky. So I got to work about 8:00, got my cup of coffee and sat down to check my email as usual. About 30 minutes later, someone came up to our office and said a plane just flew into the World Trade Center. My first thought was that a private plane was flying to low, lost control and accidentally clipped the World Trade Center.
- Xanga Violates the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
[Legal:Cyber-Law] Social networking website Xanga was fined $1 million for violating the Children's Online Privacy Act. Xanga was allowing members, under the age of 13, to register online for a portfolio without their parent's consent, the FTC – Federal Trade Commission announced Thursday.
- Amazon Kicks It Off with Movie Downloads
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Movies-TV] Amazon announced the launch of their new video download service – Amazon Unbox.
This new service will allow users to download video from thousands of TV show, movies and more using Amazon's online store.
- Videoblogging (Vlog) – The Next Internet Craze
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Blogging] Ok, so by now we all know what a blog is and many of us run and operate a blog of our very own. But have you heard of a vlog? If not, no worries, it’s something that has been around for less than one year. A vlog, or video blog, is a weblog which uses video as its primary presentation format. It is primarily a medium for distributing video content. Vlog posts are usually accompanied by text, images, and additional meta data to provide a context or overview for the video. Vlogs or videoblogs are created by vloggers or videobloggers, while the act itself is referred to as vlogging or videoblogging.
- US Unemployment Rates Down in August
[News-and-Society:Economics] Housing prices have leveled in the majority of the US and the Fed, worried about an economic slowdown, leaves rates unchanged. These are legitimate red flags for us business owners to be concerned about the expectations of the economy and the future of our businesses. Should we hire or should we minimize some of our resources to prepare our companies for a near future economic slip?
- Google Applications for your Business
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online] Want communication software for your business without the heavy cost? Google now offers Google Apps for your Domain to allow you to offer email, IM, calendar tools and web publishing pages to your employees, at no cost, using the beta version of Google Apps for your Domain.
- Greatly Reduce your Landline Costs
[Communications:VOIP] How much are you spending on your landline phone charges every month? Are you paying more than you'd like to? Well if you have a home-based or a small business, then Skype might be an excellent way to greatly minimize your monthly phone costs.
- How a Blog Can Benefit Your Website
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Blogging] Ok, so the latest craze on the Internet is ‘blogging’. I’m sure you’ve heard of it. If you have not heard of blogging, then maybe you’ve heard of a blog. If you’re still unsure what I’m talking about then maybe you should get out more.
- Google AdWords - a Good vs. Bad Campaign
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:PPC-Advertising] Google AdWords ads connect you with new customers at the precise moment when they're looking for your products or services. According to Google, the Google Network reaches more than 80% of Internet users.
- Internet Video Traffic is Souring
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Video-Streaming] As the Internet continues to expand, video is taking hold and is responsible for the newest explosion in online traffic. Whether it's an online news website like MSN, a sports website like ESPN or simply an email from your friends, video is a likely candidate for viewing content online. It's almost not considered fun anymore unless there is some type of video involved in your online experience.
- New Google News Archive - Explore History Events as they Happened
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] Today Google Inc. launches a new news archive search that allows you to search and explore historical archives and create timelines to view the results from particular time periods.
- Increase Online Sales with Rich Internet Applications
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Web-Development] As more Internet consumers begin to use broadband connections for their personal use, the more options you have to incorporate rich Internet applications (RIA) into your website. A Rich Internet application will provide your users with a new and improved web experience that is mutually interactive, engaging and flexible. RIAs provide the instant response that is received when using desktop applications but now on the web. Examples of RIAs can be a product configurator, an Internet Bot, or an intuitive audio and video site. Now many of these use heavy amounts of bandwidth but as more people move to broadband there will be no issue in terms of page load time.
- What is Google Checkout?
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Ecommerce] PayPal, a global leader in secure online payment solutions with over 100 million account members worldwide has just met their match. Google has just launched their new secure online payment solution called Google Checkout, which will work very similar to how PayPal operates.
- Google Removes Froogle Link from Home Page
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online] Google removes the Froogle link from their home page and replaces it with a link to Google Video. Google says this was a philosophical switch to help their users find new video content rather than to drive more traffic to a particular section of Google.
- Increase Product Sales by Using Froogle
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online] It costs nothing to reach thousands or possibly millions of online shoppers by listing your items with Froogle, Google's free shopping search engine. You can link each one of your products in the Froogle search directly with your website.
- The Internet - Affecting Retail Department Stores?
[Business:Sales] Today, retailers face a tremendous amount of competition, more than ever before. The Internet has allowed millions of new startup retailers to launch with minimal resources. Some of these new Internet retailers do not even warehouse their own products, they simply drop ship other retailers products, making it much easier for them to keep their resources low and use their revenue made from sales to put back into marketing of their websites.
- Google Teams up with Two Heavy Hitters
[Arts-and-Entertainment] Google has won one of the most sought-after deals in the search engine market, beating out Yahoo, MSN, and Ask, becoming the exclusive provider of search functionality and search advertising to MySpace and other News Corp. websites.
- Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, Will Be Missed
[News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion] He wrestled crocodiles, faced fierce lions and handled the most venomous snakes in the world. Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter, has passed away and left us with some aw inspiring and captivating memories throughout the past 14 years of his life.
- Directories, Communities and Forums - Utilizing your Free Resources
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] What better way to market your company then for free? You're probably saying, "Yeah right! You can't market for free." Well today I'm here to tell you how you can. Now don't get too excited, this is not groundbreaking information. It's actually an extremely simple idea but it truly works.
- Benefits of Adding News to Your Website
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] You’ve just signed a huge new contract. Your company has just launched a great new product. You have just formed an advantageous strategic partnership that will bring new business leads for years to come.
Adding news to your website can prove to be highly beneficial in many ways. If you're thinking about adding something new to your website, one thing to consider would be to add in a news section. First off, it’s relatively inexpensive to build and maintain a news section. Secondly, it can offer several benefits for your company.
- What Is Google Base?
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] For all of you who are looking for a simple explanation of Google Base, here you go...
Google Base is a place where you can easily submit all types of online and offline content. The items you submit to Google Base will be included in the Base directory and depending on your items relevance, can be posted in such places like Google, Froogle and Google Maps. The items you submit can include labels and attributes that help describe what you’re uploading so people can easily locate your items. Attributes are words or phrases that help describe the characteristics and qualities of your items. For any given attribute you may enter multiple values separated by commas. Labels are any keywords or phrases – such as recipe, event, or product – that can be used to classify or describe your item.
- Reap the Benefits of an Online Business
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online] In my mind, there are two types of business-people in this world. The first type is the entrepreneur who runs their business the old-fashioned way because they feel that they have a better grasp and can run a more effective and stable business with their hands-on approach. For the purpose of this article I'm going to refer to them as "Old-fashioned". The second is the entrepreneur who believes in using the latest Internet technology and industry standards to help operate their business in hopes to minimize resources and catapult their business forward. For the purpose of this article I'm going to refer to them as the "Internet Enthusiast".
- BPL - Broadband Over Power Lines?
[Communications:Broadband-Internet] Ok, hear me out on this one. I’m sitting at my computer in my home office last night, reading articles to help me come up with the next idea for “The e-Business Resource” blog and I came across an article written by Gary Beach, a publisher at CIO.com. His article talks about a new technology coined by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) called BPL or Broadband over Power Lines. BPL is a terms that defines the ability to connect to the Web, via a high-speed Internet connection, through a standard power line. Does this means that you can plug your computer directly into a standard electrical outlet and connect to the Internet? Yes, exactly!
- The Internet - A Huge Surge in Entrepreneurs
[Business:Entrepreneurialism] Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the founders of Google, Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay, Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and Tom Anderson the founder of MySpace... what do all of these people have in common with each other? Well first of all, they are the founders of some of the most popular websites on the Internet. Secondly, these five people are true entrepreneurs in a true sense of Entrepreneurship.
- Affiliate Programs - 3 Simple Steps to Get Started
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Affiliate-Revenue] The Internet has made is easier than ever for webmasters to earn money on the side with part-time effort. Sometimes all you have to do is help drive traffic to another site and other times you simply need to help other companies make sales from their site, almost acting as a sales representative for the company. You earn a fee for the traffic you provide or make a commission for the sale you help the company make. The way to make money that I am referring to is called an Affiliate Program.
- Email - The New and Effective Customer Service Solution
[Business:Customer-Service] Do you remember the days when the only way to communicate with someone was either in person or on the phone? It actually does not seem that long ago does it? Where has the time gone? Times have changed and they've changed fast. Now you can communicate through email, instant messaging (IM), voice over IP (VOIP), video conferencing, web chat, and the list goes on. All of this really happened in the last three years or so.
- Content Management for Websites and the Importance for the Small Business
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:CMS] Through my years of Web Consulting, the leading complaint that I hear all the time from small business owners is that they cannot find good, reliable and affordable local Web help for their business. This issue has caused most small business websites to be old, out-of-date, and not reflect the branding and true image of their company.
- Submit your Products to Froogle
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Ecommerce] It costs nothing to reach thousands or possibly millions of online shoppers by listing your items with Froogle, Google's free shopping search engine. You can link each one of your products in the Froogle search directly with your website.
- Search Engine Optimization - Ten Mistakes to Avoid
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] Why has my website's rank decreased in the major search engines?
If you are asking yourself this question, then you may have been a victim of being penalized by the search engines for performing illegal Search Engine Optimization techniques within your website. If this is the case you may have possibly been banned completely and in order to resolve the problem, you must first assess what you did wrong.
- Search Engine Optimization - Ten Steps to Follow
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:SEO] How do I increase the rank of my website in the major search engines? This is probably the most commonly asked question relating to websites and the Internet and unfortunately is probably the hardest one to answer for most.
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