OzWebMasters

Fair enough, it is Linux-based, but for surfing the web that’s about all you need - given the rise of the web-apps.
There’s no longer any excuse - get your wife/children/staff/parents online. I guarantee that when more of your crew are web-savvy, you will reap benefits and get to spend lots of time helping them learn how to use the thing!

This is kinda daft, but that’s ok once in a while:

1. “Who Represents” is where you can find the name of the agent that represents any celebrity. Their Web site is http://www.whorepresents.com/

2 . Experts Exchange is a knowledge base where programmers can exchange advice and views at http://www.expertsexchange.com/

3. Looking for a pen? Look no further than Pen Island at http://www.penisland.net/

4. Need a therapist? Try Therapist Finder at http://www.therapistfinder.com/

5. There’s the Italian Power Generator company, http://www.powergenitalia.com/

6. And don’t forget the Mole Station Native Nursery in New South Wales http://www.molestationnursery.com/

7. If you’re looking for IP computer software, there’s always http://www.ipanywhere.com/

8. The First Cumming Methodist Church Web site is http://www.cummingfirst.com/

9. And the designers at Speed of Art await you at their wacky Web site, http://www.speedofart.com/

That’s revenue, not profit, because they are a not-for-profit entity. Their financial statement shows what a sensible, conservative operation they are, and I look forward to seeing what they will do with the tens of millions of dollars and convertible assets they now have.
This is a great example of how to create a successful business via giving away a product - FireFox. The revenue is mostly from Google, who pay them search royalties from when users search using the default search function. So to help FireFox stay popular, and force IE to keep improving, use that search box! Or buy a t-shirt.
Just because your business is non-profit, doesn’t mean you can’t pay yourself a good salary - although Mozilla don’t seem to be paying a fortune to any of their 90 programmers - they average $200K each, which is probably about right.

And remember, if you are non-profit, and do good not evil, many people will choose to use you over Microsoft et al

Place a text link between those two tags and you get a transparent link - it won’t appear on the page (unless the visitor has javascript turned off - rare), but some search engines might read it as a legit link. Loren Baker, in a case highlighting a site that is #1 for a very good phrase in Google, explains the hows & whys of it all:http://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-loves-transparent-links-hit-counter-spam/5615/

Basically, they offer a “free” hit counter as a means of placing these types of links on your site. Currently, at least in this instance, Google are allowing/ignoring/not knowing about this practice.

A bunch of psuedo-directories (ie the only qualifying factor is that you pay to be listed) have been dumped by Google: a search for their brand name no longer finds them. They have seemingly been penalized manually, either in reponse to one or many complaints, or just via Google’s own analysis of the situation. Google stated a few months ago that they won’t be tolerating paid links

Good call Google!

I say “scam” because it is like a cross between a pyramid scheme & a massive reciprocal linking enterprise. A bunch of psuedo-directories began to link to each other, collectively inflating their PageRank. Then, with a higher PageRank, they found they could charge as much as $50+ for a listing in their directories. Which then encouraged copycats, and before you know it there is a section of the web that purely consists of directories linking to each other, and containing sites seeking to boost their own PageRank by paying to be listed.

A nice little cottage industry, but of zero use to people who search using Google, and of zero use to people browsing these directories. Almost as bad as Made-For-Adsense sites.

See the preview here. It is now filled instead of an outline, and is two-tones of blue instead of one. My 2yo could have achieved that!

I’m always a fan of differentiating two words when they are used to form one word, ie OzWebmasters - either using color, font, style or capitalization. They should have done this from the start, emphasising the two important words PAY and PAL.

Michael Organ has written this book and posted it online for all to read, very generous, and befitting the intended audience: Cause Marketers

But just because it is aimed at charities and the like, does not mean it has general usefulness. Indeed I recommend it as an online marketing primer - not the best, but one of the best you’ll find for free.

I just found this on a forum:

The reseller, uk-cheapest does not respond to any support tickets or emails and I have contacted directly the registrar resellone.net to see if they can do somethin, but am getting no response from them either.

Its like these 2 companies have just stopped operating and the sites are still up ad they are still accepting payments, as I tried to transfer the domains elsewhere and their site took the money to do it, but again, nohing happened.

I contacted ICANN who told me to contact Verisign, who told me to contact the registrar and so on I am being sent in circles.

When it comes to technology, it pays to choose the most popular & reputable brands. Go with GoDaddy, or even Network Solutions if price is not important

Yep, there is now a Google Australia Blog. Looks to me that it’s a combo of:

1) Re-worded (to mention Australia) promotions of Google products actually available worldwide

2) Australian news stories not really related to Google, but slipping the word Google in there…

Obviously stories like the ACCC’s action against Google will be blogged about, but that’s more your “once-a-year” type of story.

I can’t see the point of it, but hey, I’ve gone and linked to it!

There are a lot of Kiwis in Australia. Although there are news bullletins on Sky each day, the only option I am aware of for getting a weekly summary (ie all the important stories) is a small newspaper that is quite expensive.

It would be reasonably easy to create a newsletter featuring the top stories of the last week - just a paragraph & a link for each - and promote it to NZers living abroad. For example, Google shows no ads when you search for “nz news”.

Someone with average journalistic skills could put it together in a couple of hours each week. Ten thousand subscribers should be achievable, and then you could easily make $100-$500 a week from placing an ad in the newsletter.