Well Google has gone on and done it again... It's purchase of YouTube for 1.2 Billion. Why did it pay so much? Many people think Google has paid too much for the website, while others have said that Google has purchased YouTube for all of their web traffic, but it still might be speculative. I think that they knew exactly what kind of traffic they were purchasing and exactly what that traffic did.

You see, a little over a year ago, Google began offering webmasters a 'free' tool that would give webmasters the ability to track their traffic and visitors. Well the flip side of it is that Google would also have this same information. Google knows where the visitors come from, where they go in the website, and how long they stay on each page, along with a lot of other statistics. I think Google know far more about what it was purchasing that most people gave them credit for. Don't think that any of the tools Google provides for free aren't used in some way to mine information. In today's internet economy, the one with the information wins.

It will be interesting to see what other purchases Google will make in the following months....

Tags: google - youtube - analytics

Psiphon Consulting is pleased to announce it's partnership with the website http://Askanexpertblog.com

This website allows professionals show their expertise to online visitors in their area of specialty. It promotes them as they build up their reputation in the online arena and will allow them to form online relationships with their online following.

The only catch is that there can only be one expert in field, much the way a leads group is run..... So those that are slow to get into the site and post their bios and blog entries, will lose out...

We are very excited about this endeavor and look forward to seeing where this goes.

Keywords: blogging, professional blogs

I have been singing the virtues of writing your own articles for the past year now and I must say that it really is interesting to see how things play out in this arena.

I was looking at my stat logs the other day for a site that I run, and I
just happened to follow some links to determine where the traffic originated from. Lo and behold I found someone had included my article in an ebook they
had created. Not only were they giving away the ebook, but they had given master giveaway rights to all those who would get the book.

In a nutshell, not only were they promoting my website, but they were encouraging, their visitors to promote my website as well.

The power of your own articles, you just have to love it! This is a great illustration of why writing your own articles instead of using re-hashed private label articles is much better. Original content will always stand out. It will make you stand out and your business stand out as well.

Keywords: Article Submission, article promotion

Prepare for an update in our website design. We are changing the look and feel of our site, adding some services, removing others and we are also going to be reviewing products and services that will help you with your internet experience.

Stay tuned for these updates!

With the recent realization that content is the way to go as far as the search engines are concerned, you see many business popping up selling "private label" content in the form of articles, and other types of website content. This will end up catering to those that take little time to truly make it private label. What will end up happening is that most users will end up slapping a new title on the article, if they bother to do that at all, and placing it on their website, or just submitting it in masse to the various article submission directories.

This will work for a short while, untill the search engines change their algorithms and article directories put in better filtering capabilities to weed out very similiar articles, and eventually delete them.

My question is this.... If you are going to go through all the trouble to get your content out, wouldn't it make more sense to provide original content? Wouldn't it be better in the long run? You will probably receive short term gains, but wouldn't you rather have long term success? You are putting the work in anyway, why not give yourself an edge? The benefits will be ten-fold down the road.

Look at it this way; Placing original content begins to give you a personality, and a better image out on the net. People listen to people with a personality moreso than a clone. Your visitors will find value in what you are offering at your site, and will tend to return more often.

Web sites will be more willing to link to you, and lastly, you won't have to worry about getting knocked out of the search engines with their next update.... Personally, I don't subscribe to the theory of doing everything online based upon if the search engines will like it or not.

Worry about if your visitors like your website. It's what matters the most anyway.....

Well, it has been too long to have created this blog. I have done many for other people and have never done one for myself. Well this is the time for me to do that now. Before I figured that I didn't have anything to say, but I guess I do now.

I will be discussing Internet topics that relate to businesses. I will be covering a number of areas from marketing to programming. Feel free to leave comments on anything that may be discussed here. I welcome your feedback, provided that it is feedback and not flaming. I can get enough of that in front of my grill.