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GoDaddy SmartSpace – you could win one of three $5,000 grand prizes

Seo Men — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:59:14 +0000

Create a blog or video testimonial to show how SmartSpace helps you make the most of the Web. If your message convinces our judges that you’ve found the best, most creative use for GoDaddy SmartSpace, you could win one of three $5,000 grand prizes or one of ten $1,000 runner-up awards – PLUS, all winners receive FREE SmartSpace for life! So how smart are you? Get smart, get cash…

Winning up to $5,000 in cash prizes and SmartSpace for life can be as easy as 1-2-3!

Build your SmartSpace site (if you don’t have SmartSpace, purchase below for as little as $4.49/mo).
Blog/video/podcast about how you use SmartSpace, post it online, and tell your friends.
Enter your “SmartSpace” story in the form below, be sure to include a link to your story.

Contest Rules! …but this contest ends April 15, 2009, so hurry!

Create your best SmartSpace – godaddy.com

GoDaddy.com is the world’s largest domain name registrar and is the flagship company of The Go Daddy Group, Inc. As an ICANN-accredited domain registrar, Go Daddy has more names under management than any other registrar, offers products at prices up to 70% less than the competition and supports them all with world-class 24/7 live customer service.

Blogging Tips From an Expert Blogger

Seo Men — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:18:04 +0000

Blogging Tips from an Expert. What makes some blogs better than others? How important are subscribers, Google PageRank, and Technorati score? What can you do to make your blog stand out? Jim Kukral and Paul Richlovsky of fathomseo.com/blog discuss some blogging tips for what really makes a good blog.

More info: http://www.fathomseo.com/blog/

OpenID Gaining Critical Mass, Yahoo Announces Support

Seo Men — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:00:02 +0000

OpenID is a single sign-in infrastructure that potentially alleviates the need to create new passwords and user names for every new site one joins or visits. There’s been lots of discussion about OpenID and who’s in, who’s almost in, and so on. Today, Yahoo formally joined (and fully legitimized) the effort. Microsoft Passport was originally conceived to be a similar system but failed to gain support and broad adoption. While it’s a great convenience for end users and intended to “open up” the process of signing in to sites, the strange paradox of OpenID is that it potentially reinforces a relationship between a user and his/her open ID “home.” That is, the master login that a person uses: AOL screenname, WordPress login, or, now, Yahoo login.

As Yahoo explains: When you are on a web site that supports OpenID login, simply look for a Yahoo! login button. Or if you see a text box with an OpenID icon, simply type in “yahoo.com”. You will be sent to Yahoo! to verify your Yahoo! ID and password, and then you will be able to continue on.

OpenID Logo

OpenID is thematically related to another, broader issue: data portability. The latter is very much like the idea of a unified login/password system except that it applies to data much more broadly. In theory, “data portability” would allow interoperability among various participating sites. However, the issues surrounding data portability are much more complex than OpenID. At the heart of the debate over data portability are questions of who “owns” or controls data and user privacy.

Yahoo’s 248 million registered users globally now become part of the system. Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook have all been associated with discussions to support OpenID, though have not formally announced that support. Now, with Yahoo’s participation secured, it should just be a matter of time before other big names join (AOL and Plaxo are also currently on the list of supporting companies.)

Semantic Web and SEO

Seo Men — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:23:34 +0000

What is The Semantic Web?

The Semantic Web is a (currently theoretical) future state of the World Wide Web where information is machine-processable, rather than just machine-renderable for human viewing. Software will then be able to better find, organise and merge the data as it will have more “understanding” of the meaning of the data.

For example, if I go to a web page about a particular conference, my calendar software would be able to interpret the web page to extract the date, time and location of the conference. This may then allow it to show me available flights for the conference or transfer the data directly to my car’s GPS system. This is a simple example, but demonstrates the power The Semantic Web could provide.

The are many different technologies which have been proposed to describe this “meaning” to computers including: Resource Description Framework (RDF), RDF Schema (RDFS), Web Ontology Language (OWL (sic)), XML and many more. The discussion of these is beyond the scope of this article.

How could The Semantic Web effect search?

The Semantic Web will allow search engines to be much more intelligent and give answers to more general queries. For example, rather then searching for “Florida Holidays”, I may be able to search for “Sunny holiday destinations that are fun for kids in America”. Most humans would be able to give Florida as a possible answer to this query. However, for a computer to come to the same conclusion it must “understand” information much better than it currently can. A search engine needs to know that Florida is a sunny place, that is it good for kids and that it is in America. Thus, significant amounts of AI technology will also need to be developed.

How will this change SEO?

It is hard to say how The Semantic Web will change SEO, as the technology has not really developed into a useable state yet. However, if webmasters are required to label the meanings of the items on their web pages then their may be large amounts of spam annotations.

No matter how The Semantic Web changes the WWW, it likely that the fundamentals of SEO will still remain relevant for a long time. They may even become more important, because as search engines understand more about your content and the links to your content they will be better equip to judge the quality of those links.

Michael Hawthornthwaite works at Acid Computer Services