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27.01.2009 Uncategorized No Comments

Blog Stew – It’s What’s for Dinner!

Blog Stew is an interesting “How I am doing it” blog from a relatively new but clearly up-and-coming web entrepreneur.

If you’re wanting to get started in the web business, these are the people to read — people who are in the same situation as you and building their way up.

Tom is filling the blog with lots of practical information about achieving success in the online world.  A lot of the “big name” SEO bloggers spend all of their time writing about SEO gossip and none of it sharing techniques and information you can really use.

Tom is also building resource pages to serve as reference guides for web entrepreneurs of all experience levels, such as his Link Building Database and List of Blog Directories.

Tom is a great writer; this is definitely a blog you’ll want to subscribe to.

25.01.2009 Uncategorized No Comments

Are You Ready for Mobile Search?

Elise, the Mobile Maven from CellPhones.org, has published a very interesting Guide to Mobile Search.

The number of people using mobile search increased 68% last year.Google’s new Android platform is sure to increase that number even faster.

With more than twice as many cell phones as computers in the world, mobile search has a lot of room to expand before it’s growth curve flattens out.

Are your web sites ready for mobile search? Have you optimized for relevant local search options? How do your web sites look when viewed on the tiny screens present on mobile handsets?

Elise’s extensive guide can help you to make sure your web sites benefit from our mobile future.

12.12.2008 Uncategorized No Comments

A New Webmaster Community

Net Builders is a new webmaster community. In fact, it is very new — the domain was only registered on 7 December. And yet, during that time it has taken off like a rocket ship.

Many people in the webmaster community have lamented the lack of a good public forum to meet people, engage in conversation, and do business.

Most existing webmaster forums have unnecessary rules which restrict conversation. Many of them hoard Page Rank by using nofollow links or disallowing links entirely. One popular webmaster forum even has a rule against mentioning the names of any of your sites. How can a webmaster get help with his website if he can’t share the name of his web site — it’s ridiculously irrational and it violates the spirit of the web.

Webmasters tend to be entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs get extremely excited about their projects — which is one of the reasons they succeed. It is moronic to try to prevent entrepreneurs from talking about their projects and then still expect them to contribute to your forum.

Another common failing of the existing webmaster communities is that they see themselves as forums and not as communities. They fail to involve their community members in management decisions which affect them. Participatory democracy isn’t a new idea off the web, but it does appear to be a new idea on the web. The existing crop of webmaster forums are ruled like autocratic fiefdoms. That hasn’t works Cuba, Zimbabwe, or North Korea. How can anyone expect that it will work well on the World Wide Web, where community members can leave just by typing in another URL.

I encourage you to visit NetBuilders.org and judge for yourself.