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Online Businesses That Don’t Fail Many people who are trying to dream up a domain name for their business discover just how common a unique idea might be. Welcome to the web! Trying to find a domain name that has not been taken is classic needle in a haystack. You can short-cut the process by doing your keyword research first. If you know what search terms people are using to find your products and services you can back your way into a domain name that gets more merit in those searches. And that’s just the beginning of understanding how to take an idea online. What I have also come...

The Rise of the Retweet with Pros and Cons Retweeting is a phenomenon that has taken the Twitter world by storm. The concept began when somebody added the letters RT to somebody else’s tweet and posted it as their own. The idea caught on on a massive scale, and now there are services that utilize retweeting as the backdrop of their entire purposes. Some of Twitter’s best features are emergentpeople inventing simple but creative ways to share, discover, and communicate. One such convention is retweeting, says Twitter Co-founder Biz Stone. Disclaimer: If you are not a Twitterer, you ...

Google is getting into the SEO consulting business. Well, not quite. But, Google is now formally offering an SEO Starter Guide with practical advice for webmasters about improving search engine visibility and increasing traffic to a web site. It comes in the form of a 22-page PDF announced today on the Webmaster Central blog and at the PubCon show in Las Vegas. According to the Google reps at PubCon, this is the same guide Google uses internally for its own sites (YouTube, etc.). The guide is well written and geared toward webmasters and business owners who need a basic training in SEO....