Webmaster Journey

Darren wrote a good article about “10 Ways to Hurt Your Blog’s Brand by Commenting on Other Blogs.” Here are his points (visit his site for details)…

1. Excessive use of Signatures
2. Excessive Self Linking
3. One or Two word Comments
4. Not Reading Posts Before Commenting
5. Flaming and Personal Attack
6. ‘Anonymous’ Flaming
7. Always Being First To Comment
8. Dominating Comment Threads
9. Keyword Stuffed Names
10. Not adding value to the Comments

I always have questions about DMOZ editors’ preferences; I have a feeling that some of the editors of a specific niche are running some websites and thus doing their best to reject or eliminate its competitors to be listed by DMOZ.

I didn’t expect their editor would resort to distortion for some quick bucks though… read the full story from Shoemoney.

Google is looking to acquire “one or two Chinese internet companies” and will invest in five in the next 12 months as part of a continued push to increase market share in the worlds fastest growing internet market. [Techcrunch]

Seems like a few Chinese will be getting really rich in coming months.

Famous blogger John Chow offers reviews on his blog for $400. Set aside the issue of whether it’s worth to spend $400 for a review… the more important things is to make sure that your website (or product) is at least with decent quality if you decided to go for it…

You don’t want to get smacked like this after paying $400.

Doshdosh wrote a good article about “8 Types of Paid Advertising Models for Your Website” and share reviews on the pros and cons. Good read.

A coalition of Japanese television, music and film companies slammed YouTube Thursday, saying the online video sharing service was not doing enough to rid the site of cartoons and other clips that infringe on copyrights.

The group also expressed skepticism over an automatic video recognition and purging system being developed by YouTube parent Google Inc., questioning the reliability of the technology and saying it was taking too long.

More details on Washington Post

Shoemoney has confirmed Techcrunch’s report that AuctionAds is sold to MediaWhiz.

AuctionAds was launched as a partnership between Shoemoney Media and MediaWhiz in March 2007 and experienced amazing growth… and now it’s fully acquired by MediaWhiz.

Both parties didn’t enclose the price.

Business Week has an interesting article about How Top Bloggers Earn Money… featuring the people behind popular blogs like Techcrunch, Mashable, Perezhilton, Boingboing, Problogger etc.

Worth a read.

[via Hongkiat]