SEO - Blog Marketing

Ok, so it’s a far fetched idea, however Kuro5hin has a good article about past companies that Google has bought and possible future companies. One choice is Technorati.

If Google is the average person’s homepage, Technorati is the homepage of the underground, tech-savvy web user. Technorati is a blog portal whose average visitor enjoys podcasts, Wikipedia, and the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Providing more cutting edge results than a normal search engine, Technorati would integrate well with Google News and/or Blogger, and could perhaps feature blogs on the Google Personalized Homepage. Technorati is somewhat similar to Bloglines, which was purchased by Ask Jeeves recently.

It’s an interesting idea and I think that Technorati is doing wonders on their own. I’m not convinced that Google could step in and make things better. Unless they just supported Technorati financially.

Blo.gs has been sold to Yahoo! Blo.gs has been looking for a buyer for months and is very happy with their new owner.

yahoo! obviously has the resources to run and improve blo.gs in pace with the incredible growth of blogs (and syndication in general), and in talking with them it was also clear that we had some of the same vision for the future of the service and the ping/notification infrastructure.

It’s great to see a major search engine working with the blog movement and I’m eagerly awaiting any changes that Yahoo! brings. Hopefully they’ll be all good changes but only time will tell.

You can read more about the sale over at TrainedMonkey.

I’ve been using Blogsome for hours now and I though this might be a good time to give my first impressions. All-in-all: It’s great, but will it last?

This is Wordpress blogging at it’s best. You have complete access to the admin functions and nearly every Wordpress features is here. You even have access to the template to customize it for yourself. I’m very impressed at Blogsome as it’s the first free Wordpress full blog and hosting I’ve seen available.

They’ve even added a few features (or plug-ins) that make the experience even better. Things like ‘Instant Preview’ of a post, referrer stats and spam control.

The only real missing feature I’ve seen so far is the ability to upload plug-ins. They don’t allow any type of FTP abilities, however they have allowed the ability to upload files via Wordpress.

Unlike Blogger, I don’t know that there is a huge company behind Blogsome and so I don’t know where the money to keep this running comes from. I do know they add adsense ads to the admin area and on each blog. The ads under the sidebar are theirs, any others are mine.

This is an excellent service and I hope it’s in for the long haul.