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Google Sitelinks extended beyond 1st SERP

kjh — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:40:42 +0000

In case you’re not familiar with Google’s Sitelinks, it’s those ‘additional’ links that (up to recently only) show up for the 1st result in Google’s search results if the site in question had distinctive categorized content. Ok, that was a mouthful. Here’s a concrete example. One of the sites that we run, MvixCommunity, which is a forum for discussing Mvix products shows up as the 1st result when you search for ‘mvix forums’, and it has additional sitelinks under the result. Here’s a screenshot:

Google recently decided to share that love a bit, and now sites further down in the listings will also get Sitelinks if they are so deserving. They won’t get the full treatement, but at least they’ll get a line with up to 4 such links.

So far, Google does not describe exactly how those links are auto-generated, but you can block some of those links via Google’s Webmaster Tools.

$35M Injected into Twitter

doug — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:09:32 +0000

An estimated $35M has been injected into Twitter, the fast-growing microblogging service, in Twitter’s latest VC round. The funding comes from Benchmark Capital and Institutional Venture Partners according to Biz Stone on the company’s blog.

According to Stone, Twitter’s active users have increased 900% over the past year. Traffic through the APIs has been amazing and are said to be twice the web traffic to Twitter, Twittering via SMS is becoming more and more popular.

With the VC injection, Twitter’s 29 person staff and infrastructure will grow to support the incredible growth and build revenue-generating products. There has been a lot of speculation about how the service will eventually make money, but so far the company has declined to comment on exactly what it will do.

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Geeks Re-Release Bargains for Geeks

doug — Mon, 05 May 2008 06:00:00 +0000

The Geeks will officially re-release Bargains for Geeks on Cinco de Mayo!

When Bargains for Geeks was first released a couple years ago we counted on outsourced people to cover the deals for us. Quickly people dropped off and quickly this became expensive for us so this time around we’ve automated the process of aggregating bargains, deals and coupons from various sites. We simply over-engineered the first attempt for this site and while it made money, the site really took up our time from working other ventures. In addition to automating the process of gathering data for the site, we’ve also created a documented process to create the site so we can quickly reproduce as needed (and not just for bargain or deal type sites).

ScribeFire for Mozilla – Blogging Tool

doug — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:07:09 +0000

ScribeFire is another tool that power blogger’s need in their arsenal. This Mozilla add-on is a full-featured blog editor that is fully integrated with Firefox easily allowing you to write and submit posts to your blog without having to login to the admin interface. Some great features of ScribeFire are that you can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, and post to your blog.I use ScribeFire as a valuable resource while researching articles.

Without having to leave the page I’m blogging about I can write my post, upload an image and post the image with tags, categories and a post date/time selected.