The Many Perks of Blogger.com

Google is the owner of a really great website called Blogger.com which is an excellent source for anyone who wishes to keep a blog. Not only is the website an excellent place for writing blog, one of the best features is that it is totally free.

Blogger has created several different template styles that you can choose from when you are creating your blog account. These templates are also free. In addition to the use of the template, you will also be provided with a domain name for you blog.

Adding to the benefits of getting a free template and domain name, there are several other reasons why you should use blogger.

Firstly, you are going to find that blogger makes it very easy to manage your blog. Even if you have no experience blogging, you will quickly learn how to navigate your way around the site. Just minutes after you have set up your account, you will be ready to start writing and publishing your blog. You can update your blog as frequently as you like. The more frequently you update your blog, the better your search engine ranking will be.

Since most of us are keeping a blog as a means to advertise either ourselves, or to promote a product which we want to sell, it is important that we are able to attract the attention of all search engines. You want to provide the search engines with a reason to send their spiders to your blog and to index it. The great thing about Blogger.com is that it frequently gets updates, and this is important when it comes to SEO.

If you are someone who writes freelance articles, then you know that it is important to encourage people to read your articles. One way to introduce people to the content you have written is to publish them on your blog. This is another key feature that Blogger allows you to do; when you do submit your writing, you will also have the option to reprint your content for free. Overall, publishing your articles on your blog will dramatically increase your search engine ranking.

If you are the owner of a successful blog that gets a high amount of traffic, you have the chance to earn some extra money by selling advertisement space. Advertisements that are posted on a blog are referred to as Blogads, and most of them are advertising for large companies. You can also use AdSense as a means for earning an income form your blog

Once you have created a successful blog, it is highly likely that you will want to stay in touch with your readers. An excellent way to make sure that your loyal readers are informed about your blog updates is by getting yourself syndicated. All they have to do is add your blog to their My Yahoo and My MSN.

Not only are blogs a great way to market yourself, they are also a lot of fun. Who knows, maybe keeping a blog will awaken a love of writing that you never even knew you had.

Chrome Wins Browser Speed Test

Two years ago, Google’s Chrome browser didn’t exist.  Now, it might be the best browser available.  New test results claim that it beats all competitors by a significant amount, at least in terms of speed.

Lifehacker’s Kevin Purdy recently put Firefox 3.5.4, Firefox 3.6, Google Chrome 4.0.249.78 (which is considered stable), Google Chrome 4.0.302.3 (which is a developer version), Opera 10.01, Opera 10.5 (which is a pre-alpha version), and Safari 4.0.4 through their paces.  Experiments related to load times, JavaScript, DOM/CSS, and memory use were performed.

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NY AG Investigating Online Discount Clubs

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said today his office is investigating 22 online businesses that deceptively link consumers to fee-based membership programs that charge unauthorized fees for discount offers.

The investigation found online shoppers are unknowingly directed to a membership program seller’s website that is separate from the online retailers site. Information about joining the membership program and its consequences, including the fact that the consumer is agreeing to transfer their credit or debit card information, is buried in the fine print and cluttered text.

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A Markup That Could Have Big Implications for SEO

RDFa, which stands for Resource Description Framework in attributes, is a W3C recommendation, which adds a set of attribute level extensions to XHTML for embedding rich metadata within web documents. While not everyone believes that W3C standards are incredibly necessary to operate a successful site, some see a great deal of potential for search engine optimization in RDFa.

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Twitter Excited About Ducking Censors

Twitter claims not to be taking an active role in the dispute, but it’s definitely applauding developers who try to make Twitter.com available in China and Iran.  Ev Williams endorsed workarounds and rejected compromises while speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

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Ford Shows You Can Have Your Office in Your Truck

As we discussed before, Internet-ready vehicles were one of the more interesting themes throughout the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. One vehicle in particular that WebProNews got an up-close look at was the 2011 Ford Super Duty, which the company refers to as a “contractor’s dream.”

Checking out the truck, it’s not hard to see why they would call it that. It has a computer in it running Windows-embedded software, built specifically for Ford by Microsoft.

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Google Gives Mobile Users a Link to Popular Images

Google has introduced a new feature for its mobile Image Search offering. The feature is “Popular Images,” and lets Android and iPhone users browse popular images (go figure).

The Popular Images feature comes in the form of a link just under the search box on the Google Image Search page. When clicked, it brings up a categorized list of image searches and corresponding images.

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Online Video Viewing Soared In 2009

The media sector performed well in 2009, recovering $200 billion of value, or 63 percent of what it lost in 2008, online content providers and distributors made up more than half of these gains, according to a new report by consulting firm Oliver Wyman.

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Google Introduces Click-To-Call Numbers In Ads

The best ad – from the perspective of both users and advertisers – is often something that will immediately let the two sides connect.  Google’s taken an intelligent step forward, then, by allowing businesses to include clickable phone numbers in their mobile ads.

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Intel Shows Off Interesting Way to Access Content

At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas earlier this month, Intel had a lot of things going on. For one, they introduced a whole new family of Intel Core Processors. They also had a cool proof-of-concept device on display. This was something they call the Intel Infoscape.

Infoscape is a giant display featuring cubes of information, and users can walk up to it and access all kinds of different content – Google News, Tweets, blogs, Flickr images, etc. While on display at CES, the content dealt with CES-related info.

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