How Secure Is Your Domain?
Problems at RegisterFly.com shed light on loose oversight of Net addresses When Kevin Medina and John Naruszewicz joined forces nine years ago...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/17/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Toward a Better Digg
Digg revolutionized social bookmarking when it launched in 2004. Since then, it has become the undisputed champ of link ranking sites.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/17/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Top 10 Sites for Web Designers
Printed magazines are all well and good but they cant deliver up to the minute information and articles like an online magazine can.
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/17/2007 | Website Design & Development

12 Genuine Adsense Opportunities
There are lots of sites online displaying lists of hundreds or even thousands of keywords and their highest bid.
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/17/2007 | Adsense & Other Context Ads

Google Now Reporting Anchor Text Phrases
Hurray! Finally, you can get a report from Google of the top anchor text phrases used when people link to your site.
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/17/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

eBay Watch: Top Sellers, Free Store Offer, Alternative Auctions
After a quiet period following last year's store fee hikes, eBay is launching a promotion designed to bring in new subscribers by offering a free 30-day trial to those who have...
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/17/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

CSS+Javascript power. Fancy menu
When it comes to creating the navigation part of your Website, the first thing you might think of is an unordered list that you style as tabs.
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/17/2007 | Website Design & Development

Plugin Directory
One of the greatest things about WordPress has always been the amazing number of high-quality plugins available for the platform.
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/17/2007 | Website Design & Development

NameMedia Launches ActiveExchange Domain Sales Service
NameMedia, parent company of domain aftermarket Afternic, sales channel BuyDomains, and parking services ActiveAudience and GoldKey, just launched a new service called...
eBusiness News | Posting 3/17/2007 | Domaineering

Massive Press Releases Made Simple
PREasy.com Is an Online PR Submission Service Which Helped a Brick Repair Contractor Have Top Google Rankings.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/17/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Going beyond Google, with guides
An ambitious startup is trying to outdo Google's search technology with thousands of human guides. Business 2.0 Magazine reports.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/16/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Google Shows 'Datalicious' Anchor Phrases
More useful information for site publishers arrives from Google's Webmaster Central as they begin reporting on anchor text phrases linking to a website; Danny Sullivan coins...
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/16/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Social network traffic up 11.5 percent; MySpace still dominates
According to Hitwise, the US market share of Internet traffic to the top 20 social networking sites grew by 11.5 percent from January to February 2007, to account for...
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/16/2007 | Website Analytics

Display Ads Still Get the Job Done
Static ads remain an important arrow in the online marketing quiver. Vonage has brought the high tech of VoIP to the masses, but when it comes to online ads, ...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/16/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

MySpace 'MyStores' Tie Bands Closer to Community
Word of an announcement from SNOCAP, the music technology/online distribution company, was brewing earlier this week, and today they finally let the cat out of the...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/16/2007 | Digital Media

Cracking Google's 'secret sauce' algorithm
Rand Fishkin knows how valuable it is for a Web site to rank high in a Google search. But even this president of a search engine optimization firm was blown away by a proposal...
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/16/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

The 5 Most Common Mistakes Made By Startups
Entrepreneurs are no strangers to mistakes. Mistakes will happen - with considerable frequency - and the value in making those mistakes is learning from them and...
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/16/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

21st Century Girl Scouts marketing with MySpace
OK, even the Luddites among us get it by now. We live in an online age when friends and lovers connect via social networking sites, when politicians rely on the viral reach...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/16/2007 | eMail & Viral Marketing

More car sellers are doing it for themselves
The days of parking the ol' Family Truckster at a Safeway lot with a Day-Glo orange 'For Sale' sign in the window may be numbered.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/16/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Five Link Development Experts: A Group Interview
So, I asked a few of the more well known guys on links to do a kind of 'group interview' on link development a few months ago and I've been admittedly slow about getting the...
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/15/2007 | Link Building

Cisco to buy Web WebEx for $3.2B
Cisco Systems (CSCO) said Thursday that it has agreed to acquire Web conferencing company WebEx (WEBX) for about $3.2 billion in cash.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/15/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Social Networking Goes Niche
MySpace and Friendster's runaway popularity and exposure have helped spawn an array of targeted networking sites. Advertisers are noticing
eBusiness News | Posted 3/15/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

CSS-Based Navigation Menus: Modern Solutions
Navigation menus have to be intuitive, precise and easy-to-use. One simple, basic principle, which is common for all kinds of nav bars you would ever want to use for...
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/15/2007 | Website Design & Development

ComScore adds 'visits' to site measures
The online measurement service ComScore Media Metrix has come up with a new way of measuring Web traffic as new technologies increasingly make one of the current...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/15/2007 | Website Analytics

Microsoft buys speech recognition company Tellme
Microsoft announced Wednesday that it is buying privately held speech recognition maker Tellme Networks in a deal believed to be in the range of $800 million.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/15/2007 | Digital Media

Smart technology fights online fakes
This is already shaping up to be a banner year for one Internet industry. Unfortunately, it's the fraud business.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/15/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Copyright Law: 12 Do's and Dont's
As the blogging phenomenon expands copyright concerns become quite important. Technology makes it really easy to copy, modify and share information, whether we...
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/15/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

RaiseCapital, a site where entrepreneurs can pitch VCs
RaiseCapital is a new Web site that lets entrepreneurs submit their business plan and capital needs, in hopes of drawing attention from a VC.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/15/2007 | Venture Capital

PayPal Versus Traditional Merchant Account Providers
You already have enough on your plate trying to increase revenue, decrease costs, combat churn, provide support, and the list goes on. Adding payment processing to your...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/15/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Are GigaOm readers any different from TechCrunch?
What can I say, I was curious. To satisfy my own curiosity, I set out to answer the big question -- Are GigaOm readers any different from those of TechCrunch?
eBusiness News | Posted 3/15/2007 | Website Analytics

Exclusive: MySpace News Pics!
MySpace News is for real. A leaked document from MySpace's parent company, Fox Interactive Media, confirms the existence of its rumored Digg-style news...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/14/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Reckoning Day For Venture Capitalists?
Some venture capitalists are known for making speedy decisions, communicating clearly, treating portfolio companies fairly, and guiding their startups to a win for all stakeholders.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/14/2007 | Venture Capital

Viacom And Google - The Next Day
A showdown between a content creator and the dominant search advertising company over the YouTube video sharing site continued to draw speculation over how the...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/14/2007 | Digital Media

Interview with Google's Matt Cutts about Next-Generation Search
Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing the head of Google's Webspam team, Matt Cutts. The topic of our conversation was Next-Generation Search.
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/14/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

How to Leverage Web 2.0 & Social Media Sites to Market Your Brand...
Either the term Web 2.0 makes your blood boil, or you've taken to throwing it around like a free Google frisbee. If you're in the camp whose collective feeling is one of seething...
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/14/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Wired Relaunch This Week: Exclusive (fuzzy) Screenshots
Wired Magazine has been working on a back and front end site overhaul since the print and online versions of the brand were reunited last year by Condé Naste.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/14/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

7th Annual Weblog Awards
Though many are congratulating Twitter for its win in the blog category of the SXSW 10th Annual Web Awards because it qualified as a site that revolutionizes the power of...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/14/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

74 CSS Gallery Roundup
I use galleries for basic inspiration and knowledge. I did a google and there are millions of them... so I ranked them on there usefulness TO ME...
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/14/2007 | Website Design & Development

Zlio gives you a Web store, so you can make money
We've written about the emerging set of companies, like Agloco and eMax, that promise to make you wealthier as you surf the Web.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/14/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

The quest for the perfect online ad
Web advertisers are moving beyond search, using powerful science to figure out what you want - sometimes before you even know.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/14/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Blogging's not the enemy, says Dan Rather
If any figure from the world of mainstream journalism could be forgiven for nursing a grudge toward new media, Dan Rather comes to mind.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/14/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

EBay Still the Leader in Online Shopping Sites
EBay's still king of the online shopping ring, and then some, according to numbers released by Hitwise. Amazon, Wal-Mart, Craigslist, and Target...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/14/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Analytics Tool ROI
Recently, there have been a lot of conversations on Yahoo's Web Analytics Forum about the ROI (define) of Web analytics tools.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/14/2007 | Website Analytics

Viacom sues Google, YouTube for $1 billion
MTV owner Viacom Inc. sued the popular video-sharing site YouTube and its corporate parent, Google Inc., Tuesday, seeking more than $1 billion in damages on claims...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/13/2007 | Digital Media

Weaving The Web To Your Taste
Hossein Eslambolchi's service will scour the Net for the media you want. Within telecom circles, some regard Hossein Eslambolchi as the savior of Ma Bell....
eBusiness News | Posted 3/13/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

WikiSeek Launches Community Edited Search Engine
WikiSeek should not be confused with Wikia's upcoming search engine (although I did). Both, however, are developing community-edited search engines...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/13/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Ex-Disney CEO Launches Web Video Venture
Although he is no longer the head of Disney, Michael Eisner continues to stir media with the Tornante Company, which he founded in 2005.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/13/2007 | Digital Media

Why Search Engine Optimization is Crucial for Your Small Business
In many instances small and mid sized business owners are not 100% sure that Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the right solution for the online marketing needs...
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/13/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Eurekster raises $5.5M for custom search engine
Eurekster, a San Francisco company that tailors search engines for bloggers and other publishers to put on their sites, has raised $5.5 million in a second round of financing.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/13/2007 | Venture Capital

Topix.net Buys .Com Domain For $1 Million; Worries About Google Rank
Topix.net, the news search site majority owned by Gannett, McClatchy and Tribune, has bought its .com domain after paying a Canadian company $1 million in January...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/13/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Why does my site look different in IE than in Firefox?
This is a common question in the CSS forums and one I encounter almost on a daily basis. Therefore I am going to go right back to basics for this article and explain the...
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/13/2007 | Website Design & Development

Yahoo Velocity: Not all is dire in the land of Yahoo!
Yahoo has been the target of a lot of critics over the past year or so for not living up to its potential. The number of people calling for the ouster of Terry Semel...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/13/2007 | Website Analytics

Online Movie Marketing Spend Creeps Upward
Think movies are marketed heavily online? That's just special effects. The 2006 numbers are in, and Hollywood has increased the percentage of its marketing budget that it...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/13/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

SXSW Panel: Business side of web design
A 40 step review of good processes and habits to run a Web design business. I just sat in one of the "quicky" panels here in the afternoon.
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/13/2007 | Website Design & Development

Faux Column CSS Layouts
here are 42 Faux Column CSS Layouts available for download. All of these css layouts use a background image to make it look like all the columns are of equal height.
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/13/2007 | Website Design & Development

Google Warning Against Letting Your Search Results Get Indexed
The days of doing a Google search that brings up results leading to search results from other sites are heading for a close.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/13/2007 | Search Marketing

EBay suffers another setback in China
A joint venture company in China operated by Internet auction pioneer eBay Inc. and China's Tom Online Inc. appears to be hitting a rough patch even before the venture...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/13/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

30-second spots that cost $50
Los Angeles startup Spot Runner is betting that there are big bucks in helping little guys buy TV commercials on the cheap. Business 2.0 Magazine reports.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/12/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Google Could Dish Satellite TV Ads
It has long been a dream of Google CEO Eric Schmidt's that he not have to see advertising for certain products of a feminine nature while watching a football game.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/12/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Who Owns the Live Music of Days Gone By?
Radio and TV show archives have become valuable prizes in the desperate search for new content for Web sites and DVDs.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/12/2007 | Digital Media

Is Web Advertising Doomed? (A Next Net Video)
Last week, in conjunction with Business 2.0's March cover package, I organized a roundtable with the CEOs from this year's Next Net 25 list (which is why my postings...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/12/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

PR is Dead, Long Live SEO!
These days, the lines between search marketing and public relations are blurring. Sure, the PR world will always rule the traditional media because of long standing journalistic...
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/12/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

We lived and died by our blogs; now, not so much
As South by Southwest Interactive begins, we wonder what will be the future of the online diary. The last entry on Austinite Kirsten Nothstine's blog, "Cicada," is dated...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/12/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Web 2.0 Marketing, Analytics, and Getting Psyched for SES NY!
With the wind chill factor at -2 degrees in New York on Tuesday, 3/6/07, I attended an awesome seminar at the New York Hilton, 'The New Age of Web 2.0 Marketing...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/12/2007 | Website Analytics

71 CSS Menus for free
11 CSS navigation menus : at Exploding Boy - 12 more CSS Navigation Menus. : at Exploding Boy - 14 Free Vertical CSS Menus : at Exploding Boy - 2-level...
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/12/2007 | Website Design & Development

Making Money From A Blog
I never started John Chow dot Com to make money. This was just a place for me to post my miscellaneous ramblings about whatever was on my mind.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/12/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Phishing for Answers on eBay
eBay CEO Meg Whitman has outlined an aggressive plan the online auction giant plans to follow to combat online fraud known as 'phishing' scams, but so far analysts aren't biting.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/12/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Top 50 Advertisers by Media Value in January, 2007
The top Internet advertisers by media value. The data are provided by TNS Media Intelligence. 1 LendingTree.com 13,603.6 Fin...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/11/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Link Building : Measuring Directory Value
I'm always looking for tips on link building and am a fan of using directory links as part of the overall link building mix; usually somewhere around 3-5%.
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/11/2007 | Link Building

Moniker Domain Name Auction Rakes in $4.3M
The live domain name auction yesterday in Las Vegas resulted in $4.3M in sales; more to come in silent auction.
eBusiness News | Posting 3/11/2007 | Domaineering

The Future Internets That Never Happened
"A new company is paving the way for a more automated Internet," shouts the New York Times. Oh god. New internets are like perpetual motion machines: they get "invented"...
eBusiness News | Posted 3/11/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Black Hat SEO
Search Engine Optimization is the game in town, and black hat SEO's are all about getting your site banned from the only search engine game in town, Google.
eBusiness Information | Posted 3/11/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

TV Guide for the Web?
The old complaint about having 100 TV channels and nothing to watch is being made obsolete by the explosion of video and audio content on the Internet.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/11/2007 | Digital Media

International domain names succeed in testing
Internationalized domain names have moved a step closer to reality, following ICANN's announcement that it had successfully completed testing.
eBusiness News | Posted 3/11/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names