News & Notes for the New Year
Various items of interest to the publishing community
The YPN blog staff has been away awhile, celebrating all of the recent holidays (especially Festivus, although I must admit I had a harder time than usual getting the aluminum pole back into the attic). Once we returned to HQ, we came across a few tidbits that we wanted to share with readers. Consider it our belated Festivus gift to you…
Three SEM Tips for Big Media Sites
Erik Dafforn’s article from ClickZ offers three excellent suggestions to help larger content publishers continue their traffic growth, including what they can do to increase visibility and properly utilize the assets they’ve spent years developing. Daffron is the EVP of the Cleveland-based SEO firm Intrapromote, so when he says “Get your content indexed rapidly,” publishers should ask, “How fast?”.
Post-PubCon Report
The Yahoo! Store Blog published a post last week from frequent contributor Rob Snell, the author of Starting a Yahoo! Business for Dummies. Snell provides a recap of the November PubCon show in Vegas, as well as his entire 77-slide deck on how to make more money from your online store. Whether you’re using a Yahoo! Store or flying solo, his tips are nails and can be applied to any online retail site.
Use Caution When Growing Your Site
From Search Engine Watch, Eric Enge checks in with an article that warns of the perils of rapidly expanding the size of your site to gain search volume from the long tail of search. The pitfalls if you ignore this advice? Poor user experience, lack of incoming links and low rankings from search engines.
Internet Overtakes Newspapers as News Outlet
There’s no question we all saw this coming, but now it’s a reality: The Internet has surpassed all other media—except television—as an outlet for national and international news. According to a study conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, 40% of respondents say they get most of their news about national and international issues from the Internet, up from 24% in September 2007. And for the first time, more people say they rely mostly on the Internet for news than on those black-and-white dinosaurs that I used to toss into my customers’ hedges circa 1981.
What Font are You?
Finally, a fun little quiz to close out our round-up. In conjunction with the PBS film “Helvetica,” a program that takes a unique view of post-World War II graphic design, you can take a short personality quiz that purports to find your inner typeface. My font is supposedly “Contrary.” I beg to differ!
Got any grievances you’d like to air as we begin ’09? Feel free to share them in the Comments section below.
— Jeff Hecox
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January 19th, 2009 at 12:17 am
three excellent suggestions to help larger content publishers continue their traffic growth, including what they can do to increase visibility and properly utilize the assets they’ve spent years developing.
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August 21st, 2009 at 10:36 pm
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The natural properties of sheepskin results in thermostatic benefits. Thick fleecy fibres on the inner part of the boots allows air to circulate and keep the feet at body temperature. Synthetic and faux fur boots do not have these properties and sheepskin boots are highly prized for their effectiveness. Ugg boots are designed to be worn without socks in order to maximize the benefits of sheepskin.
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