Here’s an idea sure to start some fires: Is it necessary to consider government regulation of search engines? Please hold your throwing-stones until the end of the presentation.

A technologically advanced century brings with it more (much more) complicated questions that may or may not be properly addressed by old arguments. Worse, the concept is still hazy in the minds of most, making it that much more difficult to address.

Overview

There is a lot of talk these days with regard to proper development practices and accessible web design. If you don’t think any of this applies to you or your website, you probably don’t understand exactly what this is all about. Web Accessibility refers to the practice of creating websites that will be useable for people of any ability or disability. Many things come into play when accounting for a person’s eye sight, mobility, auditory and logic skills.

If you have a loyal customer base, but haven’t used a regularly scheduled newsletter to communicate with then, then its time to develop a monthly newsletter. Electronic newsletters are a great way to share information, promote your products, and solicit feedback from your most important customers. If you want to develop effective newsletters, you’ll need to follow these seven proven tips for creating winning newsletters.

1. Choose a Theme.

There’s a frightening new batch of scams going around now that can damage your reputation as domain “squatters” steal your domain name.
There are a number of ways the “game” is played. The first is entirely legal, if more than a little questionable. In this version, the name of a city or geographic area is grabbed by a domain squatter and pointed to… “sites that you wouldn’t want your children visiting.”

(We chose that term to avoid getting caught in a lot of sp@m filters for the use of the word “p-o-rn.”)

A few days ago we posted an article on this blog about the new SEO competition being run by http://www.v7n.com/, the aim being to be placed first in Google (organic rankings) for the search term on May 15, 2006, noon, Pacific standard time.

Surprisingly, and without really trying, we have found that in posting that entry, this blog has started to feature reasonably well for the phrase in Google.

Currently (24th January 2006), we are featuring in position 57 on http://www.google.com, position 36 on http://www.google.co.uk (the web) and position 5 on http://www.google.co.uk (pages from the UK). I will keep posting updates on our position so long as we don’t completely disappear off the face of Google.

A couple of years ago an SEO competition was started by http://www.darkblue.com/. They are an internet marketing company that provide affiliate marketing solutions to ecommerce companies.

The idea was that the winner of the competition would be the person that had their web page listed a the top of Google’s listings for the phrase ‘Nigritude Ultramarine‘, on 7th June 9am GMT, 2004. 

The words were chosen because up until that point there were no pages indexed by Google for that phrase, most likely because, as a phrase, it has no meaning. This meant that everyone participating was starting on a level playing field. As a result of this competition, 510,000 web pages were created that contained that fictitious phrase.