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Announcing seamless Yahoo News integration with a new WordPress plugin

Nov 17th, 2009

Did you know that Yahoo news actually support a news feed, very much similar to the Google News feed that can help your articles pop in Yahoo! News? Well I didn't either until couple of days ago and that why I am soon releasing a WordPress plugin which will allow you to automatically create Yahoo! News compatible feed, and all you will have to do is add the feed to your Yahoo SiteExplorer account.

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Yahoo and Bing Webmaster Tools

Nov 15th, 2009

If you are a webmaster you probably heard of Google Webmaster Tools, a centralized solution for managing your sites in Google's index.Did you know that both Yahoo and Bing have their own versions called Yahoo SiteExplorer and Bing Webmaster Central. With about 30% of search queries going to these two it's a large portion of search market that you should not neglect. Besides you will gain new information about your sites from the perspective of these two giants.

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Traffic is not valuable by itself says World’s most powerful Newsmaker

Nov 9th, 2009

In a recent interview Rupert Murdoch, the owner of most of western-world's influential media, gave some interesting insights in how his media empire considers totally de-indexing their sites from Google in order to make more paid subscribers. What caught my attention was his statement that there is not enough advertisement in the whole world to make all websites profitable, and that a subscription based model is much better source of revenue in the long run.

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Tip for improving bounce rate: Ad-free homepage

Oct 19th, 2009

Here is a tip for improving the bounce rate on all kind of sites, but I think one that online newspapers can use the most. If you would like to improve bounce rate, have higher number of page-views, improved visitor engagement and thus increased advertising revenue the single most effective thing you can do is actually very easy to achieve. Remove advertisements from your home page. Think about it. Does a visitor coming to your home page want to see ads or what your site has to offer?