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Why Readers Are More Important Than Google

Small Business Mavericks

Everyone wants to impress Google. But will Google pay your bills? Unless you have a Made For AdSense website, and even then it’s a crapshoot, Google is not going to send you a check at the end of the month to say “thank you” for posting your content. ” True.

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Is Feedburner about to be closed by Google?

The Way of the Web

It’s particularly worrying in some areas, where companies of the size and scale of Google have effectively closed out the market, particularly in terms of RSS syndication with Feedburner and RSS reading with Google Reader. But today two things have happened.

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AOL Newsroom: A Model for the Future or Shades of 2001?

Adam Sherk

by Adam Sherk on February 23, 2010 There is an interesting article in BusinessWeek on how AOL is utilizing software and analytics data in an effort to match content with user interests and monetize it more successfully. too bad google doesn’t allow the sale of text link ads or aol could really clean up in a few years.

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Is Google becoming evil?

The Way of the Web

After all, no-one can optimise for searches they don’t know are happening – although I’m not sure if the privacy still applies when I click-through on Google Adsense or Adwords advertising next to the search results, regardless of my connection. WTF Google? That’s entirely lost now.

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7 Deadly Blog Writing Sins

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Maybe you’ve set up a blog to run AdSense and earn money from the search engines. Whatever your motivation, your blog needs traffic to achieve those goals, and to do that, you need great content. Although there are other types of content out there that you could post on your blog, that usually means you need to write great blog posts.

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2897 Words on How to Create Viral Content (The Key Element Behind.

Viper Chill

I’ve already shared how I personally became a much better writer (though I don’t rate myself that highly) and now I want to get into the specifics of how to create compelling content. Similarly, if I see content posted on Facebook or retweeted on Twitter, that same headline will determine whether I click through to your website.

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Why as a Developer, I Switched to Blogger.com and Why I'm Staying With It

Stay N' Alive

It works really well integrating with Google Adsense , Feedburner for RSS tracking, and a few other Google features (including any Google Gadget, as I mentioned above), but some obvious Google products have not been integrated. Google already has a cache of every website known to man. I'm very aware of this.