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| WEBMASTER CENTRAL |
| ...delivers up-to-date information on all aspects of Web Design, SEO & Internet Marketing, specializing in finding and providing the best Webmaster Tools & Resources... |
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| D5: All Things Digital conference |
| 2007-05-30 06:50:00 |
Microsoft & Apple founders Bill Gates & Steve Jobs took centre stage at tonight's Wall Street Journal's D5: All Things Digital conference. Amongst much friendly banter, Gates & Jobs discussed the relationship between the two companies since the mid-80's. "We've kept our marriage a secret for over a decade now," Steve Jobs joked. "It's been fun to work together," Gates added. The conversation covered developments in computing, the Internet, mobile devices, etc. plus a few predictions for the future...Bill Gates & Steve Jobs videos at AllThingsD.com...
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| Zimbio Announces "Wikizines" |
| 2007-04-19 22:28:00 |
Zimbio is an excellent way to get your blog content to a wider audience. The Zimbo Team have taken elements from social bookmarking & wikis, mixing them up to produce a feature-rich site that feels almost instantly familiar. For bloggers, Zimbio is extremely easy to use: you simply add your blog & create a profile (example profile: Webmaster Central). Your blog is then automatically broken down into individual posts ("articles") which can be republished on Zimbio (example article: Really Simple Syndication) & categorized with other articles on the same subject in "Wikizines". You can also create new articles directly at the site...
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| Google AdSense & AdWords |
| 2007-04-04 19:44:00 |
The appearance of thousands of websites will change slightly over the next few days, as the design of Google AdSense units is updated. Not only do the new units look smarter, they have also been optimized to "perform even better for publishers and advertisers"...One of the most popular ways of monetizing a website, Google AdSense is an easy to set-up income-stream: automatically delivering text, image & video ads that are relevant to your webpage's theme, sharing revenue from each click-thro' to advertisers' sites with you. The "other end" of Google AdSense is AdWords, which enables highly-targeted advertising on the network of sites displayi...
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| Internet Audience Growth Continues |
| 2007-03-06 08:47:00 |
Worldwide, during the last year, the total number of Internet users has risen 10% to reach 747 million, according to comScore. China, Russia & India have had the biggest increase in Internet users - India rose 33% to 21.1 million, Russia is up 21% to 12.7 million & China has had a 20% increase to 86.8 million users. China now has the 2nd largest online population in the world after the United States. The number of Internet users in the U.S. was up 2% to 153.4 million users. The United Kingdom saw only a 1% increase, but currently has the 5th largest online population, with over 30 million Internet users...(comScore's figures excludes Internet users under 15 years old, traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes, and access from mobile phones...
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| Google Webmaster Central out of BETA |
| 2007-02-14 02:37:00 |
Google's Webmaster Central is out of BETA today, so we thought now would be a good time to offer a quick guide to making the most of their Webmaster Tools: 1) Firstly, check out Google's Webmaster Help, featuring tonnes of invaluable information about how Google crawls & ranks your site - pay special attention to the Webmaster Guidelines & PageRank Explained. 2) Google Webmaster Tools provides basic information about your site: details of the last time Googlebot successfully accessed your home page, which pages from your site are included in Google's Index & information on sites linking to your site. You can also submit details of your site's XML sitemap - see How do I subm...
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| Microsoft Office 2007 |
| 2007-01-30 21:09:00 |
Known as "Office 12" in the initial stages of development & testing, Microsoft Office 2007 was released to business customers on November 30th 2006. Today, Office 2007 is available on general release worldwide..See our Office 2007 feature for full details of the new User Interface, new applications & online collaboration tools; plus screenshots, videos, links to official Microsoft sites, and a guide to the various editions...
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| Microsoft Windows Vista |
| 2007-01-30 09:53:00 |
Announced on 22nd of July 2005, Microsoft Windows Vista operating system was originally codenamed: "Longhorn". On November 8th 2006, Vista development was completed & some editions were released to volume license customers, plus MSDN & TechNet subscribers. Today, more than five years since the release of Windows XP (the longest time span between major releases of Windows) Windows Vista is now available on general release worldwide...See our Windows Vista feature for full details of the new User Interface & applications, screenshots, videos, a Behind the Scenes look at the launch, links to official sites, and a guide to the various editions...
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| Official Windows Vista Magazine |
| 2007-01-30 07:10:00 |
Want to learn more about Microsoft Windows Vista before you buy? Or have you just purchased & installed Windows Vista & now want to get the most from your PC's new operating system? Check out Windows Vista: The Official Magazine. Order now from Magazine Group (offers Worldwide delivery) & get 3 issues for just £1 each (RRP £3.99)...
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| "Link Building Strategies For Google" |
| 2006-10-26 21:28:00 |
It's the last day of eComXpo No.4. Thousands of people have attended - establishing new business relationships & watching hours of educational presentations covering cutting-edge Internet marketing strategies... . The rules that determine a web page's ranking in Google's results have changed a lot over the last couple of years. Below is a Sample Presentation from the current eComXpo by Moshe Morris, President of SEM Basics. With "Link Building Strategies For Google", Moshe explains the reasons for change at "The New Google" & shows you how to get high-quality, relevant links to your site that will boost your Google rankings. Click the link below for free access ......
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| Add WEBMASTER CENTRAL to Your Site |
| 2006-09-12 11:41:00 |
Enhance your site with a dynamic display of the WEBMASTER CENTRAL blog's content... Click Here for a PreviewThe Grazr Widget is a powerful & slick feed browser which allows you to add WEBMASTER CENTRAL's news, reviews & resources to your site. If you want to, you can resize & customize the Grazr to suit your own siteClick Here for WEBMASTER CENTRAL Grazr codeCopy the code, then Paste it into your site's HTML where you want the WEBMASTER CENTRAL Grazr to appear - it's that easy!...
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| Grazr - Feed Browser Widget |
| 2006-09-12 11:04:00 |
Grazr Corp. only started-up as a company back in June, and are already nearing the end of the BETA development stage of their online feed browser creator. The Grazr Widget allows you to add customized feeds to startpage services, blogs & web pages. It's also a great way to distribute your own feed/s by promoting them presented inside a Grazr feed browser...Learn More About Grazr . Grazr Features . Create a Grazr Widget...
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| 1&1 Traffic Booster |
| 2006-09-06 02:35:00 |
1&1 Hosting have today launched a couple of new services, including up to £400 worth of FREE advertising. 1&1 Search Marketing (powered by Yahoo Search Marketing) provides an integrated solution for pay-per-click advertising, with placement in sponsored listings on many major Search Engines. 1&1 Banner Advertising offers targeted marketing campaigns & a design tool to create animated banners. Hosting customers now also receive free Google Sitemaps management & Search Engine Submission. eShop customers also benefit from having their products automatically submitted to Froogle & Pangora......
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| Google launches Webmaster Central |
| 2006-08-04 20:39:00 |
Google are reorganizing & renaming their tools & resources for webmasters. Today's final post by Vanessa Fox on the Google Sitemaps blog explains: "To better reflect our goal to provide tools and information to keep you, the webmasters, informed and help you increase your crawl coverage and visibility on Google, we're renaming Google Sitemaps to Google webmaster tools... You can find handy links to all the tools... from our newly launched Google webmaster central." (Webmaster tools & information, collected in one place called Webmaster Central? Genius! Why didn't we think of that?!)Google's Webmaster Central is a "one-stop shop for comprehensive info about how Google crawls and ind...
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| Xara's 25th Anniversary |
| 2006-08-01 03:31:00 |
Amazing as it may seem, Xara is 25 years old today...One of the longest established independent software houses, Xara started back in 1981, writing software for the Acorn Atom & BBC Micro... Today they create some of the most cutting-edge web graphic design applications for Windows, Mac & Linux platformsThey are not the biggest, or the most well-known software developer, but compare their graphic design applications to the best of the rest & you'll find Xara's software is easier to use & produces better results quicker than the big brand applications, & at a much lower price!You can try the FREE Xara 3D Heading Maker at our main site...
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| FREE Access to October's eComXpo |
| 2006-08-01 03:02:00 |
In an attendee survey carried out after April's eComXpo, 99% replied they plan on attending the next event on October 24th, 25th & 26th. Last year, there was a fee structure for levels of access... This year, you can have full access to the entire virtual tradeshow, including all the live educational sessions & panel discussions, completely FREE of charge!...
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| Did You Miss April's eComXpo? |
| 2006-07-03 03:24:00 |
eComXpo University gives you full access to over 100 online presentations from top Internet Marketing experts (Seth Godin, Rosalind Gardner, Declan Dunn, John Battelle, Brad Fallon, Melissa Salas, etc...) Presentations cover all the key areas of Affiliate, Search & Interactive Marketing... You can find links to free sample presentations in past posts on this blog:"The New Affiliate World" & "Blogs and WEB 2.0"...
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| BT Total Broadband |
| 2006-06-21 05:12:00 |
BT has ranked as the world's top telecommunications company in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for the fifth year in a row... Recently voted Best Broadband ISP by readers of Personal Computer World magazine... The new BT Total Broadband offers up to 8Mb connection, freedom to roam with wireless, FREE Evening and Weekend calls, FREE Wi-Fi minutes, FREE connection & built-in security features......
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| Prince's Trust Business Start-Up |
| 2006-05-21 01:24:00 |
The Prince's Trust celebrates it's 30th Anniversary today with the Prince of Wales and Princes William & Harry attending a fundraising concert at the Tower of London, featuring a diverse line-up including: Pink, Bee Gees, Annie Lennox, Lionel Richie & Ozzy Ozbourne...If you live in the UK, are aged 18-30, unemployed or working part-time, and are unable to gain funding from other sources, you may be eligible to gain financial help & business start-up support from The Prince's Trust. Business funding includes grants up to £1,500 & low interest loans.The support services offer free legal advice & one-on-one business mentoring...The Prince's Trust Business Start-Up Support...
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| Income from Price Comparison |
| 2006-05-09 22:09:00 |
Online Media Group have just launched a new revenue-share opportunity in partnership with Kelkoo, the UK's leading shopping comparison site. Now you can gain additional income from your website by offering your visitors the best prices online for thousands of products. It's easy to integrate the full product and price comparison functionality into your website: simply copy & paste a few lines of code. You then earn from every valid click your visitors make through to Kelkoo advertisers. Online Media Group also offer affiliates many income opportunities via partnerships with online retailers, financial services & other major advertisers (including Yahoo! Search Marketing). FREE to join for website owners targeting count...
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| The Apprentice |
| 2006-05-08 04:42:00 |
It may not be quite as glamorous as NBC's The Apprentice with Donald Trump (now down to the last 5 in season 5), but BBC 2's UK version of The Apprentice is delivering just as much compelling drama. The candidates are equally as determined (& sometimes deranged) as their overseas counterparts, yet there's an added edge to the UK version, provided by Sir Alan Sugar's no-nonsense approach & the show's enhanced production styleBoth the US & UK shows are currently taking applications for the next seasonNBC's The ApprenticeApply for NBC's The ApprenticeDownload .pdf Application FormBBC 2's The Apprentice UKApply for BBC 2's The Apprentice UKThe Apprentice UK Application Form...
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| "The New Affiliate World" |
| 2006-04-06 10:46:00 |
eComXpo No.3 is drawing to a close... Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to track us down at the show & say Hello. If you missed out on the last few days of online networking & education, click the link below for free access to "The New Affiliate World", a presentation sesson featuring Declan Dunn, Linda Woods, James Martell & Ola Edvardsson......
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| Yahoo! Search Marketing |
| 2006-03-31 18:35:00 |
Yahoo! Search Marketing gets your website listed above the top ranking search results on Yahoo! and other leading web portals & search engines (including: MSN, AltaVista, Lycos, etc.) Get the best possible position for your website's listing & ensure you are on the pages where potential customers are already actively seeking the products / services you are selling......
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| PageFlakes |
| 2006-02-08 01:34:00 |
PageFlakes has just launched it's public BETA... A free personalized startpage service, the Pageflakes AJAX-coded "drag-and-drop desktop" screams WEB 2.0! - allowing users to read blogs & news feeds, check e-mail accounts, search the web (using Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc.), make notes, manage your Address Book, keep a To-Do-List, access content from numerous other sites (Flickr, Alexa, del.icio.us, etc.) & get the latest stock quotes / movie reviews / weather reports... With the individual applications, feeds & website content (each in it's own module, called a "Flake") all presented on a single web page......
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| eComXpo April 2006 |
| 2006-01-07 19:37:00 |
eComXpo is a Virtual Tradeshow for the online search & affiliate industries, visited by thousands of eCommerce marketers...Previous shows have had various attendee passes, with different prices & levels of access. For the first time, access to the entire show is free!...
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| 1&1 voted "Best Web Host" again! |
| 2005-12-05 14:20:00 |
1&1 have been voted "Best Web Host" in Computer Act!ve's Readers Choice Awards for the 2nd year... & "Best Business Host" in Future Publishing's .NET Awards for the 5th year running... Both the above awards are based entirely on votes from their magazines readers...
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| Microsoft's XBOX 360 |
| 2005-12-03 07:40:00 |
Launched many months in advance of Sony's PlayStation 3 & Nintendo's Revolution game consoles, Microsoft's next-generation home console hits the shops today - but you'd better be quick if you want to own one before Xmas, as the XBOX 360 has already sold out via pre-orders at most online retailers. And it's easy to see why: XBOX 360's state-of-the-art hardware offers impressively detailed high-definition game experiences, online communication & download services, plus access to a wide range of digital media devices (including PCs with Windows XP, digital cameras, MP3 players & even Sony's PSP!)...
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| FREE Revenue Magazine Subscription |
| 2005-11-04 19:36:00 |
Grab your free subscription to Revenue Magazine! Get the latest industry news, product reviews and case studies. Read about real-life affiliate success stories. Learn how to attract new merchants and potential affiliates...All TrafficSwarm members are eligible to receive a one-year subscription to Revenue magazine. There's no credit card required and no obligation of any kind. It's just another benefit of being a TrafficSwarm member!To get your subscription, look for the Revenue Magazine Subscription link in the Bonus section of your TrafficSwarm Member Page, or join now......
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| OpenOffice Version 2.0 |
| 2005-10-21 08:15:00 |
OpenOffice 2.0 is now out of BETA & has been officially released today. Compatible with every other major office application, OpenOffice.org software is completely FREE, runs on multiple platforms (including: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, etc.) and is available in over 60 languagesAn open source project, OpenOffice.org software is developed by a large international community of volunteers & sponsors, lead by Sun Microsystems, including other well-known contributors (Novell, Red Hat, Intel, Compaq, etc.) as well as hundreds of independent programmers, translators and writersOpenOffice offers a comprehensive office application suite, with a word processor / desktop publisher: WRITER, spreadsheet application: CALC, graphic design software: DRAW, and multimedia presentation software that ...
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| "Blogs and WEB 2.0" |
| 2005-10-09 03:20:00 |
The second eComXpo ends today, & it's been an outstanding event again. Over 5,000 people attended, and this time there were two tradeshow floors (Search and Affiliate) with exhibitor booths showcasing 150+ online companies. If you were unable to attend, click the link below for free access to Seth Godin's Keynote Presentation, entitled "How Blogs and Web 2.0 Can Change Your Business Forever"......
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| Google's RSS Reader |
| 2005-10-08 04:52:00 |
The latest project from Google Labs... Google Reader is an excellent online RSS reader & feed search engine, with slick presentation and features that allow you to share & blog about the interesting items you find. (You need a Google Account to save your subscription settings)Explore Google Reader . Google Reader Help . Google Reader BlogSUBSCRIBE to the WEBMASTER CENTRAL blog...
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| ClustrMaps |
| 2005-09-14 06:01:00 |
ClustrMaps (BETA) launches today as a service for webmasters & bloggers, displaying the location of site visitors via a Map of the World. Regularly updated, the ClustrMaps graphic highlights the global position of website visitors, simply by adding a red dot to the Map. The service is free for sites with up to 2,500 visitors a day. We are looking forward to charting the rise of WEBMASTER CENTRAL with our own Map (see the right-hand side of this blog)...
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| Xara Graphic Studio |
| 2005-07-22 05:16:00 |
Xara's Graphic Studio brings together three bestselling designapplications in a great value package - with a wide range oftools to create static & animated 2D & 3D web graphics Click on the logos below for full details of each application& Download Free Trial versions / Demo Movies ...
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| LookSmart relaunches Furl |
| 2005-05-17 08:55:00 |
Started early 2003 & acquired by LookSmart last September, Furl is a free online service that allows users to save their favourite web pages. More than just a bookmarking site, Furl will store a full-text copy of any page on the web, providing 5GB of storage for each user's archive. So, even if a web page changes or is deleted, you still have a saved copy of the original page to refer to. Furl also provides options for blog integration, to search your stored web pages, share & discover new information via email subscriptions, RSS feeds & personalized recommendations...BOOKMARK / SAVE the WEBMASTER CENTRAL blog...
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| NewsGator buys FeedDemon |
| 2005-05-17 07:20:00 |
NewsGator was launched in February 2003, as a news feed aggregator for Microsoft's Outlook: retrieving updates from multiple sources - blogs & news sites offering RSS - then organizing the news items within Outlook. NewsGator's Online Services were released January last year, offering further capabilities such as subscription synchronization, a web-based reader, and access to RSS content via any POP3 email client or HTML-capable mobile device. NewsGator's FREE Online Edition, launched October 2004, added even more features & functionality to the web-based aggregator with an enhanced user interfaceNewsGator announced today that it has acquired Bradbury Software, including the services of developer Nick Bradbury, whose primary products are the popular Windows desktop news aggregator: Fee...
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| The End of Overture |
| 2005-04-29 19:57:00 |
Started as GoTo in 1997, Overture pioneered Pay-Per-Click search advertising. In 2001, Yahoo! chose Overture to provide results for it's new "Sponsored Matches", displayed above organic search results. In 2003, Overture purchased another pioneer of search: AltaVista, and then was famously acquired by Yahoo! Inc. for $1.7 billion. This month, rebranding has taken place and Overture's PPC advertising service has become Yahoo! Search Marketing...
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| Domain & Web Hosting |
| 2005-03-26 12:25:00 |
We have received many e-mails recently asking us torecommend a reliable & affordable hosting companyThat's easy...There is one hosting company that offers outstandinghosting & e-commerce solutions at amazingly competitiveprices. They also provide some of the best site creation,promotion & Search Engine Optimization software available, at an unbeatable price: FREE!...
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| FREE Flash Site Creator |
| 2005-03-26 10:02:00 |
The World's No.1 Web Host now offers even more Web Design & Site Management Tools... Earlier this month, 1&1 launched several new applications in their collection of online webmaster tools, provided FREE with all hosting packages. Exclusive to 1&1, the Dynamic Site Creator allows you to build professional Flash websites within minutes, with high-quality animated graphics & interactive menus, without any programming skills required......
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| eComXpo: Day 3 |
| 2005-02-20 03:43:00 |
Wow... eComXpo - the first Virtual Trade Show for eCommerce Marketers is an almost overwhelming event. Not quite the interactive 3D Virtual Reality experience I first imagined, but a well-presented & structured web site, with a "tradeshow floor" page giving access to the "booths" that have been hired by some of the most familiar names in Internet Marketing. Three days isn't long enough to make the most of everything on offer - apart from the 90+ booths containing more information about their exhibitors & the business partnerships they're promoting, there's also hundreds of other people in attendance, all of them ready to "chat" via eComXpo's integrated, text Instant Messaging system.Oh, and there's the MacroMedia Breeze presentations... Over a hundred of them! Top industry names discussing...
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| How Can We Help You? |
| 2005-02-13 08:27:00 |
What resource, tool or knowledge do you need that would make a major difference to YOUR Internet enterprises?Leave a comment or e-mail:blog@webmastercentral.co.uk ...
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| Ask Jeeves buys Bloglines |
| 2005-02-08 10:04:00 |
Ask Jeeves just announced they have bought Trustic Inc, the owner & operater of Bloglines. Launched July 2003, Bloglines was the first (free) web-based service for bookmarking blogs & reading news feeds. Today, they are the world's most popular website for searching, subscribing, publishing and sharing blogs & RSS feeds. Bloglines will continue to operate as an independent brand... "Financial terms were not disclosed."Press Release: Ask Jeeves Acquires BloglinesSUBSCRIBE to the WEBMASTER CENTRAL blog...
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