The value of RSS and tags got a lot clearer and more exciting with today’s launch of Edgeio.

We all know that link building is an important aspect of SEO. Most of the websites I look at are reasonably well optimized, at least in terms of “on page” factors, but they’re usually in terrible shape when it comes to links – both within the website and within the area of link popularity.

The Long Tail theory believes that the Web marks the end of the blockbuster era and rise of the niche. Perhaps true. But there may be some significant unexpected consequences.

From a search marketing perspective, censorship, or put nicely, “content regulation,” is something that we’ve been living with on Google and the other engines for years.

While it may be a common after-lunch ritual to check your website positioning in Google for your company name, there’s another online traffic source to keep an eye on – Web Browsers.

I also sat in the Contextual Advertising session. While I was too busy getting caught up on things to blog the session, I will say this: It is quite clear that there is a lot of dissatisfaction with contextual tools, especially with AdSense.

Red Herring has details of the $6.5m just raised by TV search engine start-up MeeVee.

From contextual text advertising to image banners to rich media advertising, Google has now extended what it can do with its AdSense network.

Barry Diller is giving the keynote this morning at SES and it will be available live from my favorite internet radio station, WebmasterRadio.FM.

Next up on the agenda: Lunch With The Google Engineers, which isn’t as intimate and cozy as the name sounds (not with hundreds of people in the room).

Can someone please tell the telecom companies to stop moaning that Google is enjoying a “free lunch”.

As a business, non-profit, government agency or association manager, one way or the other (and sooner or later), you’ll be paying for some kind of public relations results.

Breaking news and entertainment alerts from CBS and Entertainment Tonight provide up to five daily alerts that include text as well as matching pictures and video for compatible mobile phones.

ClickZ’s Kevin Newcomb explores latest click fraud survey results from SEMPO.

I’m writing to you from a bus heading toward Manhattan. I love my Verizon card. It’s like having wifi EVERYWHERE!

IAC’s Ask.com has launched the new, clean version of their site sans butler today.

You know the world has gotten a little nutty when a Microsoft guy complains about a patent, but when Matt May last night at the Podcast Hotel told me a company is trying to patent AJAX, among other things, I was amazed when Matt said this patent looks like it tried to patent AJAX.

What if leadership didn’t originate from the top of an organization, society or ecosystem, but from its middle?

The Internet has embraced blogs as both an individual and business revolution. For individuals it is a way to be heard and spread your point of view. For business it is both a way to foster customer loyalty and also …

Blogs are about creating and nurturing conversations, that lead to making connections, that in turn lead to business or personal relationships.

The Internet has embraced blogs as both an individual and business revolution. For individuals it is a way to be heard and spread your point of view. For business it is both a way to foster customer loyalty and also a hip method of creating consumer buzz.

Authors, newspaper and magazine writers, and columnists of all types receive fan mail.

Over at the SEM 2.0 discussion group run by Andrew Goodman, there’s a thread about buying domain names that has been offering some excellent suggestions.

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