Are you ready to make changes to your corporate web-pages? It may be a smart thing to do, but as with anything in SEO – all factors as a total matters. If you have poor user experience, or low traffic, you might start with that instead.

Here are some resources to help you:

http://www.webpagetest.org/

http://code.google.com/speed/

http://code.google.com/speed/articles/

Google just released a free service called Google Moderator. This is a port to Google App Engine of an existing tool, internally it was called Dory (after the fish who asked questions all the time in Finding Nemo).

What does Google Moderator do? When you have company-wide meetings, it lets anyone ask a question and then people can vote up the questions that they’d like answered.

The interface looks like this:

It’s good for prioritizing which questions are most important.

There are many tools to use, and Yahoo for example has their excellent Yahoo User Interface Library, Yahoo Pipes, or YSlow. Its just nice when companies release code or tools that benefit lots of people on the web.

Google Moderator is a free service, so give it a try sometime.

Industry watchers are speculating on the reason behind Google’s decision to buy Valve (if indeed, the well placed sources leaked info is correct) Some are even thinking that Google maybe entering the video market, but no words have came out yet from the Google camp. (more…)

Now, it may be easy to just forget those publishers who responded to say no, and concentrate on obtaining the links on the sites which responded with a yes, but each of these email responses is not just a no, in fact, its just the beginning. These emails are warm and trusted connections with these publishers because even though they may have said no, we cannot include the link or sorry, we cannot link to you because we’re linking to your competitor, there are still ways to bring value from these connections which will help with your website marketing. (more…)

Thanks Twitter!

Specifically, the new homepage:

will help you get more out of the Internet, make more of your precious time, and make sense of all the things going on in your world. After lots of ongoing research (i.e., focus groups, usability experiments, etc.), today we’ve begun testing an all-new, more streamlined Yahoo.com that will bring the things that matter most to you –- no matter where they “live” on the Web

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1. Flagfox – displays the country flag (based on an IP address) in the status bar for you to see the domain server location. Additional information (IP address and country) is displayed when you hover over the flag. The extension menu also provides quick access to more detailed Whois data.

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Both Ask Network and AOL got a slight increase with .3% (4.5%-4.8%) and .1% (4.2%-4.3%)  respectively . (more…)