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Feedburner is now GoogleBurner…what?

Aftering reading about the Toads on roads that Google has added to there Google Earth, I headed over to Feedburner to check out my stats. Low as they are I like to look at them anyhow.

Turns out that if I want to continue to use “Burned Feeds” I am required to move my feeds over to an exisiting Google account or no longer have them hosted/burned. Well, that made the choice more clear. Do it or Lose it. SO even more of the online world is being overtaken by the big G. I love all their services, but it starting to get a little scary out there on the planes of Cyberspace, or should we start calling it Google’s Space? They have their fingeres and toes in so many projects that many interenet users, markerters, affiliates, and domainers use on a daily bases.

Welcome to Googlespace, isn’t just part of Google Earth anymore!
Below is what they gave me once the transfer was complete.

We have successfully moved your feeds from FeedBurner account xxxx into your Google Account xxxxxxxx@gmail.com.
You will no longer be able to sign in to feedburner.com. From now on, you may now view and manage your feeds by visiting:
http://feedburner.google.com
Your old FeedBurner feeds (at feeds.feedburner.com) will automatically redirect traffic to their new addresses on the feeds2.feedburner.com domain. All of your feeds have been moved into your Google Account, along with your traffic stats. If you see “0” for the most recent day, don’t panic! It may take up to a week for a feed’s full dose of stats to appear in your Google Account.

Page Rank, SEO, Domains

As many of you who pay attention to the web and the PR that Google updates when it feels it is time to do so it, that time has come again. Some people are happy about the update and got a boost and some people are upset at the way the big G has changed (read made smarter) the alogo. I have to say that some of my sites that were PR 3 were all swatted down to PR 0. But the sites that I have been paying attention to and give a bit of linking action and content building have either gotten a boost from 0 to 3 or a body check and bumped down 1.

SEO is alive and well. Some people will tell you that doing SEO is not rocket science, but I and (others in this industry) would harshly disagree. To those who build out mini-sites on a regular basis or who work as a seo webmaster no, it is not rocket science, but what about the guy who doesn’t know what a HEADER 1 tag is? How about filling in a title so it doesn’t just say “New Document” –we have all see that one– Or how about Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI)? Or Good keywords from Bad keywords, check out the free trial at Wordtracker for that one. Key an eye out for anchor text a and using Alt tags in Images. Getting your hands wet using Adwords; writing a good ad verses writing a bad ad.And let us all remember to use a very basic robot.txt file to let in the happy spiders, crawlers and bots that come looking and to keep out the bad ones (well, when they listen) So if you get it great if you don’t then SEO is still alive and a profitable biz to be in. There is so much more to list but you get the point. SEO can be a full time job r at the bare minimum it should be used on page.

Domain Names are going up for sale!!! Take a look over at the CAC2007 auction. Moniker has a 2 week silent auction running therefrom May 2nd until the 16th I believe. And they all the domains they are willing to look over for the NYC 2007 TRAFFIC auction i their hands right now as I type. Well, to be fair they had those all in bundle last week, because April 26th was the last day to submit names for that monster of a domain name auction. Domainers Galore are all very excited about this event that will be held on June 19th-22 and the LIVE Domain name auction hosted by Moniker will run on June 21. Come watch the bigtime NY spenders come and get their rich hands on some of the coolest, er hottest names in the biz. Then again if you know that domains are only going to get more and more valuable (at least iof you know what to look for) then you will be holding on to your names for a wee bit longer. Best of luck to those that have names moving into the live auction and for the rest who will be in the silent auction may your reserve be high so you don;t get screwed out of your domain name(s)

Have a great day and see ya soon. Oh yeah, if you don’t have a Second Life yet be sure to sign up using the link on the right side of this page. It’s free with the option to upgrade and there is a TON of business going on in this social networking 3D environment.

Google is gaming with the Advertisers

Google, as most know, has been in the advertising game for a few years now. If you have been keeping up with google’s biz you know they do adsense and adwords and have been interested in getting into televesion marketing & advertising, youtube would make a nice soft lead into that when more people get with the program at start using their desktops and PCs as televisions (check out torrent for some of that fun!). They are not only after TV and video markets, but have bought an in-game advertising company based out of San Fran in California. See below

adverts
Q. What is Adscape Media?
A. Adscape Media is a small in-game advertising company based in San Francisco California. Adscape Media offers dynamic delivery of advertising with plot and storyline integration…..Read the rest of the info here

And google keeps on growing…be sure to look for an office suite soon from the Big G too!