ICANN has just delayed the launch of their new Top Level Domain (TLD) extension program, which lets businesses apply for custom extensions such as .shoes, .flowers and .texas. They have cited technical, economic, legal, and policy issues that still need to be resolved. There’s one issue ICANN are unlikely to consider though; how these domains [...]
Entries from November 2009
Google Defines Search Space Not ICANN
November 30th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Domaining · Google · International SEM
French Handball Creates Online Reputation Nightmare
November 20th, 2009 · No Comments
Communication has been drastically changed by the Internet. Now world events are commented on within minutes by thousands of users. So when Henry Thierry used the ‘hand of God’ to push them through to French team through to the 2010 WorldCup – millions of comments appeared on the web.
In terms of client reputation management this [...]
Tags: Reputation Management
Google Speed Ranking Effect On International SEO
November 16th, 2009 · 6 Comments
My first thought when hearing that Google are making site speed a ranking factor, was how this would affect International SEO.
Hosting infrastructure in the US is large-scale, reliable and often cheaper than local providers in developing countries. The Planet states that 42% of their customers are located in international markets. On the other hand [...]
Tags: Google · International SEM
Using Network Features On Sphinn
November 12th, 2009 · 9 Comments
In this post, I wanted to show you one of the useful additions to the new Sphinn platform; networking. This feature lets you filter the articles on the site to submitters you trust and want to follow.
Underneath each submission there is an add button, as you see below. Click this to add this person [...]
Tags: SEM Industry · Social Media
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