This from the ClickZ network.
Vonage is forking over 1 million a DAY for online ads. I’d still argue that this number is very, very low compared to what it will be in the near future as advertisers are still misunderstanding how favorably online ROI compares to offline. I’m glad to be an online rather than offline publisher these days.
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No Mom it’s NOT about the glitz, glamour, and free huge nightclub tabs picked up by Microsoft! It’s WORK and SOMEBODY darn well better get down to Las Vegas and do what has to be done!
MIX06 starts tomorrow morning with keynote by Bill Gates and leads into a large number of concurrent sessions which appear to be focused almost exclusively on how MS applications and future developments can be used in online applications. That’s OK because this is put on by MS, but somewhat ironically I think the concept here was to have a very “open” environment that tried to get feedback from the community about what they need, want, and where they are going. I’m anxious to see if MS is sincerely interested in ….. us.
Yahoo and Google certainly are interested as evidenced by the way they interact at other conferences. I think part of their corporate culture is to say “damn the torpedos, full speed ahead!” even when that approach could threaten some aspect of the company’s revenue. I’m not expecting this from MS but I’m hoping for greater responsiveness than they’ve shown the web community in the past.
Using the excellent free online sitemap generator HERE I created and have uploaded and verified a sitemap for the approx 3000 pages at NMOHWY.com. I’ve noticed that using site:nmohwy.com currently yields almost all supplemental pages with VERY old Cache dates – usually Feb 2005.
Now and I’m trying to get Google to revisit the site.
Interestingly about 3 weeks ago when I uploaded pages that had the old names and data in a simpler database format Google pulled in the new pages and indexed them very quickly and did NOT seem to put them in Supplemental Index. Now they are using OLD page with OLD cache dates.
The overall idea is to take the OLD pages from the time Google liked us, strip out links that are no longer relevant and other extraneous stuff, reformat some of the text in the hopes of avoiding duplicate content problems, and see if we can regain traffic for this domain and figure out why Google seems to hate the site after loving it for so many years.
Joe Duck 