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Breaking news: the changing relationship between blogs and mainstream media Panellists: Richard Sambrook, John Kelly and Jonathan Ford
Chair: David Levy

I’ve made it, under cover at the Oxford Social Media Convention 2009, where a host of web boffins will elucidate the social, political, and economic effects of social media. I say under cover, because registration was full when I tried, and I’ve gone anyway to see what I can squeeze into. Wish me luck!

What do you call 19 SEO groaners? This blog post.
What’s likely to get your ship sunk by pirates?
Canonical issues.

An affiliate program, for the uninitiated, is basically an interface between you as an online merchant and affiliates. Affiliates are typically webmasters who want to “monetize their traffic” by placing your advertisements on their blog or website. Payouts to affiliates are typically based on performance, usually on a cost-per-action (CPA) or Revenue Share [...]

It’s been about a month since Microsoft and Yahoo finalized a deal to consolidate search products. Through this deal, (1) Microsoft’s new search engine Bing will power Yahoo’s search results, (2) self-serve PPC ads will be handled through Microsoft’s Ad Center, and (3) Yahoo will sell “premium search advertiser” services for both companies. And with [...]

Sadly, you can’t really teach anyone to be funny. You’re either funny, or you’re not. Most people think they’re hilarious because they tell jokes that sometimes cause milk to shoot out of their friends’ and co-workers’ noses, but when it comes time to bring the funny to people who’ve never met them or [...]

Content is one of the easiest aspects of SEO to do badly. In a far from unrelated point, it’s also one of the cheaper ways to get some SEO work done. It’s not hard to find error-ridden content providers (still) going on about keyword density, when the main thing you need them to say is [...]

The difficulty when speaking at conferences is to select and present the best content within a 15 to 20 minutes time-frame. I thought it would be great to drop some content related to our presentation at HostingCon 2009 for the marketing track this Wednesday August 12th.The Session is called Top Social Media Strategies and we’ve [...]

The first edition of Wordcamp Montreal was organized this past week-end at la SAT (a nice change from the usual boring hotel venues!).  I was excited to go along with two of my work colleagues, both of which are advanced and experienced Wordpress users. My main goal going into this was to really see what [...]

The web may be a great place to find and share information, but it is also a pit of unchecked facts, uncensored opinion and terrible spelling. Though you certainly do not need a degree in journalism, communications or literature to create content for the web, at the base of any good article is quality writing.