NEW YORK, NY - December 7, 2005 -- JupiterImages, a division of Jupitermedia Corporation (Nasdaq: JUPM), and a leading global provider of rights-managed, royalty-free and subscription photography, announced it has launched a new image collection entitled (re)view. (re)view is an archive of select retro, rights-managed images and is available at http://www.reviewimages.com.
Each (re)view image tells a unique story by capturing moments from the past. From humorous, kitschy images to heartwarming, emotional portraits, the collection contains timeless subject matter such as childhood innocence, friends and family and industry and work. It is comprised of images from a number of sources including Bannister Babies, Henry Wolf, Echos, Vintage Images and Sickles Photo-Reporting Service.
Measuring and tracking RSS while a fairly simple concept, is really anything but. Unlike websites, RSS have the added caveat of potential syndication, making accurate tracking a challenge to anyone but the extremely tech savvy.
It is not unrealistic for marketers to want to know how many subscribers they have, which items in their feeds attract the most interest, or how many click-throughs are generated as a result of an RSS feed.
There are a number of 3rd party providers who focus on tracking the consumption of RSS feeds. Some solutions are rudimentary but likely sufficient for a small business testing the waters with RSS. Other RSS tracking solutions are more complex and while they can come close to being accurate, with syndication there is no solution that tracks with 100% accuracy.
Unlike that magical, mythical baseball field in Iowa - if you build your website - there is no assurance that 'they' will come. Even if you know who 'they' are and you have designed your website to meet their wants and needs - your website can go undiscovered on the internet.
Being found on the internet today almost always involves Search Engine Marketing of some description. Whether it is for Organic ('natural' Search Engine results) and/or Sponsored (paid Search Engines ads), most websites today need to make substantial efforts to be noticed by the major Search Engines.
Search engines seem to be all the rage these days. Internet users want easy accessibility to various sites for shopping, entertainment, business, etc. And the best way to do this is with the help of search engines like Google, Yahoo, or Overture.
So, how do advertisers get their listings on these ever-popular sites? Google and Overture, the two major players in search engine marketing, offer two ways--organic (natural) or paid listings. We're going to explore the latter and how you can make it work for you, particularly with respect to keyword match types.
Search engine optimization (SEO) is important to the success of a website. However, successful search engine optimization takes time. Many webmasters don't want to invest the time and work that's necessary to optimize a site.
For that reason, some webmasters use cloaking to get their websites listed on search engines.
My suspicion is that Matt Cutts leads a pretty normal existence most times. Matt can probably walk through most rooms without attracting too much attention. But twice a year, when Matt's in a room, Paris Hilton could walk through in a thong and not get a second glance. Every spring and fall, Matt holds court with his people. They are the webmasters of the world, and to them, Matt's a rock star.
Up to this past week, I had never met Matt. I'd heard about him, of course. One of the early hires at Google. The man who fights the never ending battle of the Spammer. The man who reached out to the webmaster community to try to shed some light into the dark corners of Google's ranking algorithm. When I did meet him at Webmaster World, I was surprised. For a man who literally holds the power of online life and death for many webmasters, Matt's just a really nice guy. He's affable, approachable, self effacing and pretty darn funny. This is not the dark Sith overlord of the Googleplex. This is the kind of guy you'd like to grab a beer with.
The other day I was checking search engine rankings for a few of my clients. I was noticing some trends with their results in Google. It seems as if their rankings had gone up for a few months during their peak seasons. Then when their "busy season" tailed off, rankings fell a bit. While this may not seem extraordinary, it got me thinking? Are the search engines smart enough to index and rank websites based on seasonality? What about sites where seasonality is not a factor? Are search engine results seasonal?
So I checked a few more of my clients and sure enough the same trend seemed to appear. It is common sense to think that if your business is seasonal you are going to have a "peak" season and "off" season. Is this the same for search engines? Is there seasonality online? Do the search engines have "peak" seasons and "off" seasons? Well, possibly if you consider that they perform major updates a couple of times throughout the year. This could be considered their "peak" season(s)
Sitemaps are great things. Not only do they provide searchers with a way to easily navigate your site, but they also let search engine crawlers find all your content.
As such, sitemaps have become a regular tool in the SEO arsenal. Today, however, I came across a forum discussing sitemaps. There were many questions on the proper way to use sitemaps such as 'should I limit my sitemap to 100 links as Google suggests? And if so, what do I do for sites with more than 100 pages?' and 'why use a sitemap? Why not just use Google's XML Sitemap submission service?' to name just a few.
So I thought for this article I'd address a couple of these issues and show you what I've found.
The internet has been an interesting place over the last month for people dealing in search engine optimization. Let's discuss Google. When Google makes sufficient changes to be considered an update, just like a huge brewing storm, it gets named. Jagger was Google's latest update. Updates are basically changes to the ways search engines rank web sites. Most usually website owners see drastic changes in rankings whether for good or bad. Jagger was the biggest update ever to take place on a major search engine.