I've been quite pleased over the last few weeks at the number of referrals I have been getting from search engines and Technorati tags. But something has happened that is making me feel that I was, perhaps, too reliant on these two sources.My Technorati tag referrals have dried up completely and I miss the contribution that they make to the number of visits this blog receives.
For some reason Technorati now 'say' that my blog doesn't exist! Looks like I must have fallen foul of some rule or regulation. I've sent them an email to find out what the problem is but, with the number of blogs they have listed, I'm not sure how long a reply will take. It's been seven days already.
I've always been a great fan of Technorati and hope that I can rectify things but, more importantly, it struck home to me how reliant we can become on some aspects of our blogs.
I'm sure we've all heard stories, or even experienced, the power that the likes of Google, Commission Junction et al possess. They can deactivate accounts, often without warning, leaving the blogger concerned not knowing what he or she has done wrong.
My point, therefore, is that we should look for several sources for our income and our visitor referrals. It's no good being dependant on just one or two things in each case. We have to spread our wings and have several streams of income and several streams of visitors.
Should one of the streams then hit a drought we'll be able to cope and won't desperately be pulling our hair out in frustration at the 'wrong' that has befallen us.
The Googles and the like have immense, almost supreme, power over us small bloggers. Though I don't like to admit this, as it goes against my natural instincts, I guess we have to accept and adapt to this fact at the present time.
Therefore, my suggestion is that we shouldn't put all your eggs in one basket!
Google News
Eric Schmidt says that 'personal search is the next phenomenon' and that services like iGoogle are 'exploding in use'. He says, "We are trying to close the gap between what you want and what you type in." This is being done by keeping tracks of an individual's search history.
On the Data front Google have agreed, at least in Europe, to delete personal data after 18 months. This was following pressure from the EU. Once we thought that Governments could turn into Big Brother, but it could just as likely be private companies.
Google employ something like 2,500 people within Europe, though most of these are in Ireland for taxation reasons.
Youtube, now within the Google stable, are launching nine local language services from Japan to France. They have, however, a few problems in the USA where Viacom has accused them of 'permitting piracy'. By this they mean Youtube is 'allowing' television clips to be shown which contravenes copyright.
Google shares are doing okay though, and are sixfold the price they floated at in August 2004.
That's all for today.
Good luck,
Mike.
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