Entries from January 2007

Loren Baker, Editor

YouTube Revenue Sharing : How Much? From Which Advertisers?

January 29th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 3 Comments

Over the weekend Chad Hurley announced at the World Economic Forum that YouTube plans to begin sharing revenue with video creators.

My first questions are, which content creators will be part of the revenue sharing model? And will such revenue distribution be on a sliding scale?
Secondly, which form of revenue will be shared with the user?
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Loren Baker, Editor

Google AdSense Taking Live Questions on WebmasterRadio.fm’s Net Income

January 29th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | No Comments

Shoemoney’s radio show, Net Income, will be featuring a respresentative from Google AdSense who will be fielding listener call in questions (Howard Stern style).
Net Income broadcasts on Tuesdays at 6pm EST on WebmasterRadio.fm.
Shoemoney is looking for some questions that readers would like to ask the Google AdSense representative on his blog post: Google Adsense […]

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Carsten Cumbrowski

LinkedIn takes on Xing, or the other way around?!

January 29th, 2007 by CarstenCumbrowski | 5 Comments

I wanted to follow up on my post LinkedIn versus Xing (aka Open BC) from November earlier, but did not get around to it until now. I did not expect such an interest in this topic when I wrote my post on a quite Sunday afternoon when I noticed that my OpenBC homepage was redirected […]

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Gemme

Last week in China - Google Net Negative and again MySpace

January 29th, 2007 by Gemme | 2 Comments

Last week was about the latest China internet Statistics. The China Internet Network Society (CNNIC) published its half yearly report (In Chinese). The number of Chinese Internet users is increasing. There are now 137 million Internet users in China, 23.4 percent more than last year.
The report also shows that the majority, 72.1 percent of […]

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Carsten Cumbrowski

Congratulations Danny

January 28th, 2007 by CarstenCumbrowski | 7 Comments

Matt McGee from SmallBusinessSEM.com noticed at the end of last week that Google had a major update of the PageRank data for the Google browser toolbar.
A reader commented that there were other updates related to the Google toolbar as well such as the key phrase suggestions feature.
Danny Sullivans new site SearchEngineLand.com which officially launched back […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

Yahoo Integrates Flickr Photos Into MyBlogLog

January 27th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 1 Comment

In a move which is the first of what will probably be many Yahoo services integrated into MyBlogLog, the blog analytics and social networking hybrid acquired by Yahoo earlier this month, Flickr photos have been added to MyBlogLog profiles.
The Flickrization of MyBlogLog has begun as Yahoo is adding a Flickr Photostream page to the […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

ShoeMoney Subpoenaed Over Slanderous Blog Comments

January 27th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 10 Comments

Jeremy Schoemaker, an A List blogger who is also known as ShoeMoney, contacted me yesterday and discussed a recent legal document which was served to him by the police.
Jeremy was subpoenaed by the District Court of Saline County, Nebraska in a lawsuit wherein Kristan Yoder of the Quick Connect, Inc. company has accussed […]

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Carsten Cumbrowski

A Link Is Not A Vote, It’s A Pointer

January 26th, 2007 by CarstenCumbrowski | 11 Comments

Loren’s note about the article by Graywolf that talks about Google’s changing and unwritten policy on the usage of the nofollow tag got me thinking and leave a pretty long comment at Michael’s Blog. I thought that the premise is worth writing about in its own article. So here it is.
Everybody talks about that a link is […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

Search Engine Journal Not Indexed in Microsoft’s Live Search

January 25th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 24 Comments

For some odd reason Search Engine Journal is not indexed in Live Search, Microsoft’s new version of MSN Search.
* There are 99,604 occurences of the term “Search Engine Journal” in Live Search results.
* Live Search shows 81,172 sites linking to Search Engine Journal. (Yahoo shows more than double the amount.)
And there is no question as […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

Google AdWords on Mobile Phones

January 25th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | No Comments

Bill Slawski has unearthed a Google patent application on the serving of advertisements on mobile phones which provides a glimpse of what Google Ads may look like on your cell phone.
It looks like Google could be planning on taking the mobile phone advertisement experience away from just the basic targeted landing page and do more […]

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