This is a story about blog traffic. It happened earlier today.
There have been many ‘strange stat’ days in the short history of this blog. Today was one of them.
Some of you reading this may say, well, you just went HOT on Sphinn. That wasn’t it. Others know we’re seen fairly often on TechMeMe. Not today.
This is almost funny, but also a lesson of sorts.
About 9:30 this morning, my wife called and said “I can’t get into my e-mail”. Barb is a Hotmail user and I’m a Gmail user. I tried accessing Hotmail and I couldn’t get there either, or to our beta Office Live Test.
I put a couple of direct ‘Twitters’ out to a friends in the Northeast (at the time thinking that it was probably regional). Everyone was going up then down, etc. with Hotmail, Live.com and other MS sites. Read the rest of this entry »
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Well, if there’s on thing Technorati is currently great for, it’s to find out whose scraping your content.
I dropped a note to a friend last week about 9 sites that were literally picking up each one of my posts (here and elsewhere) and evidently auto-inserting a different author’s name, and making slight modifications to the content…, I suppose to cover copyright issues.
I also noticed intense scraping of TechMeMe and others.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery? Here we go again?
Technorati’s needed a little ‘tune-up’ for some time so before they fix this (each scrape adds to your authority??!!), you may want to head over and see whose ‘borrowing’ your stuff.
Amazing.
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From a look at the comments since the original post on PPC pricing changes on the Yahoo Search Blog, it looks like Yahoo has just handed MSN Search more business?
As announced earlier this week, Yahoo is implementing a new pricing scheme for buying keywords based on quality, in some ways, similar to the way Google does.
In some ‘niche’ markets and other cases, it could be a (big) plus for some keyword buyers as the 10 cents minimum is going away. For those in highly competitive spaces, it could mean higher prices.
The ‘account interface’ is being changed as well and the FAQ’s have been posted by Yahoo here.
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I started using Google’s Shared Reader about 8 months ago, when it appeared that the entire tech (SEM?) community was using it (and yes, Twitter) to stay abreast of what was going on around them.
About two months ago, I inserted a subscribe link (to our shared feed) on this blog (still there, on the right) along with a graphic of the latest stories (including ours) that we shared beneath it.
It served numerous purposes including keeping our readers up-to-date when blogging in the middle of the night wasn’t a good idea. (Yes, those are the posts that you see ‘edit’ under because I was half asleep?). Generally, NOT a good idea 
I first learned about ReadBurner from Louis Gray’s blog. Louis has carved out a cool niche in this area, following the various shared feed aggregators as they appear on the scene, among them SharedReader , RSSMeMe, and most recently LinkRiver.
Lots of developers out there, looking to make our lives a little easier?
Back to analytics and the reason for this post.
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Without much fanfare, Google Sites went live early this morning.
The collaborative website ‘easy creation tool’ is now part of Google apps online, a growing suite of web-based business tools.
This is, in fact, a direct competitor to Microsoft’s Office Live which began offering free websites, online collaboration, and a (somewhat buggy) online website creation tool last year.
A similar but much less robust offering from Google know as Google Page Creator has been available free for some time, as well as enterprise e-mail using GMail.
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