Thanks to my friends at OpenSRS (the reseller service group of Tucows), I managed to get a copy of the results of one of their reseller surveys. What was interesting was the vast majority of resellers use social networking, but believe that social networks (or those who host social networks) are not a serious threat [...]

Like many buzzwords in the marketing arena, social marketing has been both over and under estimated. It has been hyped up beyond all belief as well as being sidelined as not a worth while investment of time and money.
I could spend this article praising social marketing or I could spent it demonizing social marketing. However, [...]

Day two picked up where day 1 left off. The topics of the day were SaaS (Software as a Service), Green Hosting, Web Hosting consolidation, Web Host automation, and more. And a more personal note, my shower head was fixed

The major themes of the Parallels summit is virtualize, partner up, automate, and standardize. These four concepts are the basis of the Parallels ethos.

Yesterday we talked about niches and brands. Both of these two concepts are the lifeblood of a successful company. There is one other area that will strengthen your position in your niche market as well as strengthen your brand. The one area I a referring to is positioning oneself as an expert in their target [...]

If you are a Web Host you have a lot of competition, more so if you are a new Host. The sheer amount of Hosts and resellers are, as yet, incalculable. Their audience is the billions of people across the globe who want to run a Web site, whether for personal or business reasons. You [...]

At the recent Ad-Tech Conference in San Francisco, panelists discussed the impact of social media in aiding companies and their market brand. It has been three years since a poll found that 55% of all companies polled had setup blogging initiatives. Since that time one thing has been proven correct, social media has redefined the [...]

According to a Forrester Research analyst, the sheer number of ?white label? social networking platforms flooding the market has created a bubble which is due to explode.
The influx of white label social networking platforms is in part due to the social networking marketing hype that exists on the Internet and the ease of deploying these [...]

Three search engines, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft account for more than 85% of all searches (based on the Nielson/NetRatings surveys in April and September of 2007). That translates roughly to 6.3 billion searches… a month.
Using search engines is the 2nd highest activity on the Internet, which is why search engine optimization is so essential.

When building a site from the ground up, you are presented with a variety of things to do and technologies to use. But some of these technologies, though great for your audience are disastrous to SEO spiders.