Major enterprise systems are starting to look at - and move - critical information systems to non-Microsoft platforms like Google. Gmail’s growth as a consumer email system has been impressive, but now it takes another step by servicing a major municipality. Are large enterprise customers next? Of course they are. This is a major threat to Microsoft’s core business and one of the first shots of enterprise level cloud computing. InformationWeek has a great article on reasons why LA selected Google over Microsoft here

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As any good SEO’er knows, linking is incredibly important component of SEO. A great example is Real.com - a page rank 10 site - that used to not be crawled or cached because they used javascript to sniff and segment the inbound traffic - including search engine bots. Since search engine bots don’t follow javascript links, the content of the site off of the homepage was not getting crawled and cached. However, since SOOOOO many people were linking to www.Real.com to get the RealPlayer, the page rank was extremely high.

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I just spent some time playing around with VeryRelated.com. They use the Yahoo BOSS tools to draw some relationships between keywords and subjects. They look at both size relationship (home many of the two keywords are in the same phrases) as well as size of opportunities (the number of keyword searchs for the combination). It’s a nice way to present the data in an easy to digest manner while giving you a new way to consider additional keyword categories around your core terms.

I’m sitting in a presentation by Matt Cutts - mostly Q&A - but he showed Searchmash.com which I hadn’t see before. It is owned by Google, but totally separate and is a sandbox. Some of the interesting items are wiki results on the right instead of in the results. Same thing with images, blogs and videos. There is also a flash version.

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Apologies for not posting in a while. We have been working with a new major client - www.DomainStrategies.com - to develop and launch their website as well as help develop their business. The company is founded and funded by Rob Monster (www.monsterventure.com) and is focused on partnering with owners of premium domains - such as patents.com, healthcare.com and wifi.com - and building significant businesses on the property.

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After I posted the blog about “Web site best practices,” I felt I should also focus on another aspect of Web site layout that is very important. The color selection!

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Go to http://www.thesuperheroquiz.com/
OK, while not technically a business based blog post, couldn’t resist this one. Someone has built a quiz that will spit out which super hero you are most like as well as other related super heros. This site does pretty good business, is wrapped with google adsense ads and probably generates $20k per year while the author sleeps. This is one of the many reasons I love the internet.
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