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Yahoo already had a deal locking them into Nokia phones. Now the Yahoo mobile service, Yahoo Go, will be the default service available on Motorola phones too, starting in 2007. Here’s a quote from the I Need Hits Blog:

Yahoo! and Motorola have just announced a new deal that will see Yahoo! Go pre-installed on millions of Motorola handsets from early 2007. The new deal means that Yahoo! has now secured what could be market dominating deals with the world’s top two mobile phone manufacturers.

My Own Wild Theories, Rants, and Speculations

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Continuing from the last post about the Accessible search article on IT Director – since it double posted, I might as well continue with a few more of my rambly thoughts…

For one thing, it seems that the results are further sorted by the simplicity of the site’s layouts, and their ability to still be understood without images. So I’m finding it a fun exercise to look at the results of mine and my client’s pages in regular Google versus the ones in the accessible version.

Neat.

It also got me to thinking things like, how much does the ease of spidering your information have an effect on where it stands in the search engines? Obviously if your site’s html or php code can’t be read/rendered properly, you don’t end up properly indexed, that’s just a matter of logic. But that’s not the most important factor either, or there wouldn’t be a need for the accessible search page at all.

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Interesting article over at IT-Director.com. The bulk of the first part of the article is quoted directly from the FAQ on Google’s new Accesible Search, which they announced on the 20th in their blog.

A quote:

At present most of the testing is based on the target page, which may not be a good indication of the accessibility of the rest of the site. Some indication of the quality of the rest of the site should be included.

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You can see your first traffic from blogging literally overnight, mostly from your initial pinging, Will it be a lot of traffic? Not necessarily. If you post at the right time of day for your site, you may see as many as 100 visitors come to your blog in its first day, due to a new blog post, just from pinging. You can see more than that if you let your existing traffic know about your blog.

After a certain number of posts, to lay the foundation of an active feed, you will also start to see a trickle of traffic from promoting your RSS feed or blog in directories and feed-specfic search engines. That can happen as soon as three days in, and sometimes after 7 to 10 days. The timing you can expect will depend on your blog.

You can see your first search engine results from blogging in as little as a week. With the combination of methods I teach, it really does take just a week to start seeing your initial first page rankings. Will this mean that suddenly thousands of people come to your site as a result of that ranking?

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A lot of people wonder what makes a successful blog. Most of the time it becomes apparent to me that if someone is asking me that question, they don’t know why they’re blogging to begin with.

Success with blogging, and whether or not you have achieved it, will depend entirely on whether or not you have reached the goals you set with blogging to begin with.

What’s that?

You never set a goal with blogging? You started a blog because it was the thing to do?

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We’re all friends here, right? And I’m not afraid to talk about things that concern my friends but aren’t considered polite conversation.

So I’d like to talk abut the sorted topic of coin.

As you all know, I’m on the verge of releasing either a collection of products or one mega-product that breaks the steps of getting free traffic down into manageable steps.

What’s coming up a lot in that topic is that $97 is a high price for some people.

Now I know I could charge $97 for this product, and find people who would pay that with absolutely no problem. It’s definitely worth that price, and it would sure get you a lot more than $97 worth of traffic if you followed the directions.

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I did it. I finally did it.

Drum roll please……

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