I’d like to say thanks to the people who sponsored the blog this month, without them there wouldn’t be regular posts here.

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Thanks to This Month’s Sponsors July 2010
I’d like to say thanks to the people who sponsored the blog this month, without them there wouldn’t be regular posts here.

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Thanks to This Month’s Sponsors July 2010
While UGC and Reviews can often be a mixed blessing , as long as Google continues to reward rich snippets with enhanced visual listings, it’s probably a good idea to try to make reviews part of your website strategy. For those of you who haven’t seen rich snippets and reviews in action, here’s a sample of what they currently look like To qualify for this program you have to have reviews, format your data using microformats , and submit your website for inclusion in the rich snippet program . While it may change in the future, currently you need to have site level approval, so let’s clear the hardest hurdle: getting the review data.

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How To Get Customer Reviews on Your Website
About a month ago I went to a client meeting where they had a glass whiteboard in the conference room.

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Clarus Glass Whiteboard Review
One of the things I often say that most bloggers get wrong is they sacrifice keyword focus for being clever, cute, or entertaining.

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How to Write Keyword Focused Articles and Posts About Timely Topics
Anyone over the age of 30 who spends any amount of time online has to be aware of the gradual erosion of online privacy and how we are slowly moving to a point where our online life has become opted-in by default. … sacrifice your privacy on the altar faster than an Aztec Priest could ever rip out your still-beating heart … A disturbing trend among people in the valley and other technology centric locations is the subjugation or near-complete surrender of one’s work, one’s copyright, intellectual property, and sometimes complete self to the great computer singularity (a concept I am shamelessly stealing from Jaron Lanier ).

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Thanks to This Month’s Sponsors June 2010
Clay Shirky has a new book out called “ Cognitive Surplus ” in which he examines how the internet is changing us as a society from consumers and how we are using our newly found surplus of time, energy, and brain power to create, share, and connect with each other.

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Book Review – Clay Shirky’s Cognitive Surplus
Recently Slots.com sold for 5.5 million dollars , when the general public looks at a domain sale of six to seven figures it erupts feelings of envy, mysticism, curiosity and plain head scratching disbelief. Much to the delight of companies such as Godaddy.com people go out in droves registering hundreds to thousands of domains treating the url’s like virtual lottery tickets. Let’s be realistic, companies do not sink thousands of dollars into an investment unless there is a calculated ROI, here we explore the reasons such as SEO value, branding power and conversion.

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$5 million spent on a domain? Here’s why.