Community building
Well, I said before I was planning to develop some forums, and I’ve started the process.
Whew, I forgot how hard it was to develop momentum with 1, let alone a few. :)
The first one I’ve set up is Web Hosting World - it was originally a web hosts review website, and I was going to [...]
Communities as the future of the internet
Ever since I set up my first attempt at an online community in 2001, I’ve seen online communities - focussed on forums - as a key to internet development.
I’ve repeatedly recommend that clients set up forums - either just for support, or else as a marketing tool in itself.
Why?
Firstly, it helps increase visibility.
If you [...]
Google confirms Adsense adds to index
Shoemoney reports that Matt Cutts has confirmed that the AdSense Mediabot is now collecting content for the Big Daddy search index.
This was something I’d suggested was responsible for Google recently losing part of its index - but hopefully they are through with whatever glitch was causing that problem.
Either way, Platinax is recovering it’s own index [...]
Google loses its index
Seems like Google has lost a section of its index again, especially for newer pages.
I’ve been very busy launching a couple of new forums over the past couple of months, and I’ve seen Google come in and index some of the pages - then waited for the deep crawl to grab the rest of the [...]
Corporate blogs that don’t get it
Blogs were the buzz-word over 2005 - you needed a blog to communicate with customers.
Right?
So why is it that companies that set up corporate blogs cripple the channels of communication?
Check out the blogs at Jupiter Research - here’s one by Michael Gartenberg.
Firstly, he’s talking, but you’re not allowed to answer. There is no allowance to [...]
Traffic for rankings
Threadwatch raises a discussion on Webmasterworld about Google possibly using traffic figures from the Google toolbar for ranking purposes.
It’s something I suggested would be inevitable last year.
The trouble is - following the traffic simply tells you where the well-trod places are.
And - much as though Google is loathe to see text links because it [...]
