I don’t know if you already know this or not but you can set up your own social bookmarking website for free by using Pligg CMS Solutions!
About a year ago, I started a Turkish website called Linkopedi where I was intending to give links for social bookmarking websites and easing link building process for my visitors. After some time, I saw my users were eager to send their website data and asking me to publish them on this website. As a very curious person, I really love experimenting new things so I said why not and added a directory folder under my website and started building links for my visitors; it was very risky I accept but at the end of the day my visitors were happy and it was increasing my traffic as well.
Since Matt Cutts from Google throw a bombshell in SMX advanced meeting in 3th of June about Page Rank Sculpting, every search marketing blog is discussing the same issue. Is it really like “nofollow” attribute no longer passes more juice to followed links or not and what changes shall SEO’s do in that case? First of all lets have a look at what page rank sculpting is all about.
We’ve been waiting for Wordpress 2.8 since yesterday and finally, the latest and fastest version of WordPress, version 2.8 “Baker” has been released today with a one day delay.
New version has been named in honor of noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker. Baker version gives better user experience with many new features and has fixes over 790 bugs.
According to Wordpress Codex, WordPress is going to release Wordpress Version 2.8 next week, on June 10 2009. 2.8 will bring many enhancements and new features and hopefuly less bugs than version 2.7.
Check out Codex if you want to see how new version will improve user’s experience and what new features it will bring.
Google unveiled Google Wave, a communication and collaboration tool in Google I/O conference last week. Since I was not there 
I searched on the internet and found out what Google Wave is all about. First of all, it is something we all need to wait and experience to understand how much difference it can make in our business and daily communication needs. It seems to be a combination of email, instant messaging and micro-blogging all under the same interface. There are some terminologies which we all will become familiar with as we use Google Wave. Ok, lets have a look at it.
This week, Yahoo has announced a very helpful image search filter called Creative Commons license filter.
Users are able to filter their image search results from Flickr according to availability for reuse commercially or that can be modified (remixed, tweaked, or built upon) with restrictions set by the image’s creator.
Yahoo is the first image search engine to offer this capability. Let’s wait and see what Google will do about it
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If you use Twitter as a tool in catching up with what’s going on in the world, probably you all experienced “have no clue” moments and it becomes a pain if you are planning to create content related with trending topics to drive high traffic to your website, you need to spend some time on finding out what they are all about.
Anyone who has a website or a blog can make money from these assets by letting ad spaces to advertisers online or joining to affiliate partner networks. But owning a website is not enough by it’s own, there should be a good traffic coming to your website and you should prove your statistics to your advertisers in order to request an advertising fee unless you own a very well-known website with a high page rank etc. If you join to an affiliated network then you should have a good traffic to see leads and convertions.
Search Engine Optimization is a very cost-effective method to drive targetted traffic to websites but if you want to appear in first page of Search Result Pages in seconds then the best alternative is a paid advertisement that is called Pay Per Click.
Google launched new search options at it’s Searchology event held at its Mountain View headquarters to improve search experience of users.
New Google Search Options are giving an advanced search experience with easy to use of navigation. From now on, users will be able to refine their search results deeper according to time, relevance, reviews, timeline and many more.
