The following are the top voted Web news stories on Share.WebsiteMagazine.com for July 27, 2007.
: Feeling pressure from U.S. and European Union legislators, the major search engine providers have now all fallen into step by providing greater visibility into the types of data they collect.
:Digg Inc., a reader-powered news site, fired Google Inc. as its online advertising partner Wednesday in favor of a company Digg's top executive described as young and willing to take risks: Microsoft Corp
: One in five online Americans view video over the Internet on any given day, thanks to speedier Internet connections and a wider selection of clips, a study finds.
While perusing a new social network for the advertising industry, I noticed an interesting question posted regarding whether meta tags were relevant to search engine optimization.
: Frank Rose has an excellent piece in this month's Wired suggesting that advertisers are wasting millions of dollars by building "pavilions" in the 3-D world that nobody visits.
: Search engine visibility for your site is greatly improved for local search results by optimizing your images, especially given Google's and Yahoo's implementation of universal search.
: Social networking sites have become an increasingly popular way for people to connect professionally but, once you've added someone to your contact list, what then?
: Microsoft should be able to extricate itself from the implications of the General Public License version 3, according to a leading Australian intellectual property lawyer
: Despite all of the "so-called experts" predicting the rise of Yahoo, Ask, or MSN, Google is not losing any ground in search volume. In fact, they are growing stronger every day.
: While it may be a unique source of this type of data, Technorati provides a lousy basis for accurately ranking blogs and appears to be very easily fooled by anyone actively working to increase their Technorati ranking.
: Congress is once again embroiled in a question that comes up every three or four years: To what degree does the Internet merit special federal protection from state and local tax collectors?
What do you want to see the Webmaster Central team do next? About 10 months ago, Google Blogoscoped asked what people wanted next. It's time to ask that question again, because the team has made great progress.
Top Website Magazine Posts:
- : According to a company official, Microsoft will launch their new analytics package, Gatineau, later this summer in beta testing. The test will be limited and all signs point to testing by invite only.
- : If you needed another reason to be convinced of online video's explosion on the Web, and why it should be part of your marketing mix, keep reading.
- : dotMobi has introduced dev.mobi, a tool to help developers optimize their sites for the mobile Web.
- : Microsoft Corp. just announced it has agreed to acquire AdECN, Inc., an advertising exchange platform.
