AOL Buy Bebo for $850M
Posted by Alex | Filed under General, News
AOL has decided that it needs a social network so it’s gone and thrown a load of cash at Bebo. Sounds like a good move as Bebo is huge in the UK and has a great young demographic.
Companies just need to work out how to best monetize all these networks. Facebook are still chasing the illusive revenue..
Read the full story here..
AOL to Pay $850M for Social Network Bebo
Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Agree On Web Site Mapping Standard
Posted by Alex | Filed under General, News
Microsoft, Yahoo and Microsoft have all agreed on the Sitemaps .90 Protocol that lets web site owners and web publishers easily inform search engines about their pages.
“We just wanted to make it easy for the site owners to have one file they could maintain on the site,” says Vanessa Fox, product manager for Webmaster Central at Google.
A Sitemap is simply an XML file that describes a Web site’s file and directory structure. Beyond identifying fresh content for search engines, Sitemaps help save bandwidth for publishers and search engines alike by avoiding unnecessary crawls to identify new or changed files. In our experience adding an XML Sitemap to your website rapidly increases your chances of being indexed correctly and ranking well on the Search Engines.
