tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21006044Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:39:41 +0000http://thenextbigwebthing.com/index.shtmlDio BachBlogger92125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21006044.post-6821178351035483960Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:34:00 +00002007-09-21T15:33:45.586+01:00I was shocked to see some local news yesterday, regarding the Neath Port Talbot council sacking a member of staff and causing two others to resign. Well, I say shocked, I mean bemused - but shocked gets your attention better. Anyway, why did they lose their jobs and why am I bemused? Well, they lost their jobs because they'd spent too long the internet's car boot sale eBay. As for my bemusement, http://thenextbigwebthing.com/2007/09/cyberslackers-get-sacked.shtmlDio Bachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21006044.post-2185113815485832184Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:13:00 +00002007-07-18T10:57:40.995+01:00<!--#include virtual="/includes/ad-125.ssi" -->Identity thieves will be delighted that they now have access to a whole new echelon of identities to abuse thanks to the increasing growth of Facebook. I'm delighted to hear that MySpace is on the wane, at least here in the UK. Those same identity thieves will be delighted that finally they can move away from impersonating doom laden teens, web http://thenextbigwebthing.com/2007/07/facebook-is-new-myspace-for-grown-ups.shtmlDio Bachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21006044.post-4171620513790807263Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:21:00 +00002007-07-04T09:03:44.369+01:00Now, take several of the high points of the last couple of years in inventive web ventures, throw them in a pot, give a good stir and add a dollop of celebrity interaction and you have The 1 Second Film. Shades of the Swarm Of Angels, The Million Dollar Homepage, MySpace and more - people (and parasitic SEOs) everywhere can get a part in producing a film, from as little as a $1 donation.Basicallyhttp://thenextbigwebthing.com/2007/07/1-second-film.shtmlDio Bachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21006044.post-2945183211105332783Wed, 16 May 2007 09:44:00 +00002007-05-17T18:51:04.984+01:00Web analytics have long been in need of sexing up. If you run sites, you're probably used to looking at things like Awstats or Webalizer. Both are good and very useful, but if you're like me - you're willing to do with them rather than pay for similar things. Well, in the true mash-up tradition of Web 2.0, there's now something out there for us stats junkies - a new service called Clicky (yes http://thenextbigwebthing.com/2007/05/get-clicky-with-it.shtmlDio Bachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21006044.post-2383332774893495107Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:42:00 +00002007-04-11T13:05:44.097+01:00I have to say I love the forum at Digital Point. It has one of the worst signal-to-noise ratios on the web, but over the years I've got some great tips and deals from there. There's been a lot of crap as well, but hey - we's got to learn somehow. I check there often, and I see a lot of stuff that makes me smile every time I visit. Be it 10,000 original articles for five dollars, MySpace account http://thenextbigwebthing.com/2007/04/10-forms-of-web-site-that-lazy.shtmlDio Bachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21006044.post-4994417460784921318Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:28:00 +00002007-03-28T11:24:56.572+01:00We've covered Link Baiting and Digg Baiting around these parts before now, but it looks like their time has come. Forget about them, for a new trend is emerging in the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) field - Video Baiting.<!--#include virtual="/includes/ad-125.ssi" -->With the growth of YouTube and the like, there's a growing embracing of video technology from SEOs, giving them a chance to http://thenextbigwebthing.com/2007/03/video-baiting-seos-on-camera.shtmlDio Bachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21006044.post-116553602937721102Sun, 04 Mar 2007 11:59:00 +00002007-03-05T23:13:46.642ZOk, so MySpace is not a next big web thing I know. It's fast becoming a last big web thing. It's been there, seen it, done it and had its own worms and court cases to prove it.I've wanted to write something about them recently, but haven't found time. I was going to do a whole piece on using fake persona to make targeted pages, or something about the crashes some users profile pages cause. http://thenextbigwebthing.com/2006/12/join-me-in-game-of-myspace-roulette.shtmlDio Bachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21006044.post-6034495017911842148Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:41:00 +00002007-02-02T15:00:39.619Z<!--#include virtual="/includes/ad-125.ssi" -->I'd pretty much ignored the Google Co-op as I was unable to get my head around how to spam use it constructively. Since the end of 2006 it's been popping up here and there in my attention field in the form of the custom search engine service that Google now offers. I'd looked at it quickly, but not really dived in and tried it out.Finally, after http://thenextbigwebthing.com/2007/02/build-your-own-niche-search-portal-in.shtmlDio Bachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21006044.post-695097023019383545Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:10:00 +00002007-01-30T22:27:53.480Z<!--#include virtual="/includes/ad-125.ssi" -->I've spent the last few months changing my focus as a webmaster. I had thought my future earnings as a self-employed web content producer lay with AdSense. Sensing it was not going to happen, I now consider my self more into, and enjoying getting to grips with affiliate and search marketing. As a result I've had to invest a lot of time with pay per http://thenextbigwebthing.com/2007/01/using-youtube-to-illustrate-and.shtmlDio Bachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21006044.post-2580917423313692693Mon, 08 Jan 2007 23:01:00 +00002007-01-09T00:25:02.236Z<!--#include virtual="/includes/ad-125.ssi" -->Ah, the joys of playing with third party things on your blog. I've just removed the Performancing advert from the side bar. It was getting depressing seeing that big green 'Advertise Here' badge every time I visited. It's been there a few months - chance enough to do something and it didn't.Something I've done on my last few blog redesigns is kill http://thenextbigwebthing.com/2007/01/replacing-one-loading-slow-down-with.shtmlDio Bachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21006044.post-1026987549091262922Thu, 28 Dec 2006 09:29:00 +00002006-12-28T22:47:04.177ZOk, I enjoy the raft of end of year light-hearted lists that the time of year brings, and would like to add one of my own for your entertainment. Today, let's take a look at what I believe your average webmaster will need to do to see their content ranked highly in Google over the coming year. These are based on things I've seen on my sites and things I've seen happening in the search world http://thenextbigwebthing.com/2006/12/10-tips-to-get-your-content-ranked-in.shtmlDio Bachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21006044.post-4068342058834225425Thu, 21 Dec 2006 20:20:00 +00002006-12-22T00:17:38.832Z<!--#include virtual="/includes/ad-125.ssi" -->If you're an average web surfer, you'll have little idea about the battle that's been waging over the years between Google and web spammers. The spammers want their sites to rank highest so that they get both the traffic and financial gains that come with it. Big search engines want to keep them out as they want to offer the best results and spam http://thenextbigwebthing.com/2006/12/problem-with-authority-google-and.shtmlDio Bachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21006044.post-116558666220224873Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:32:00 +00002007-01-15T20:26:37.898Z<!--#include virtual="/includes/ad-125.ssi" -->The BBC's websites often divide opinion and stir emotions, be it angered commercial enterprises or appreciative users, there's little on the planet to match the breadth and depth of the BBC's online offering. As time goes on, they'll continue to expand their focus on the user generated content and increased web friendliness - partially because that'shttp://thenextbigwebthing.com/2006/12/bbc-online-needs-to-improve-its-search.shtmlDio Bachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21006044.post-116553568378870529Thu, 07 Dec 2006 23:27:00 +00002006-12-07T23:54:43.833Z<!--#include virtual="/includes/ad-125.ssi" -->Ho ho ho and a bottle of Web 2.0 rum. Tis the season to be jolly, for December's here and it's time to celebrate. Forget the fact that you're average marketing driven webmaster is already setting up a raft of sites for next year's barbecue season and Halloween, us normal folk can bask in the joy of the time of year.I say enjoy, what I actually mean http://thenextbigwebthing.com/2006/12/lets-hear-it-for-christmas-web-clichs.shtmlDio Bachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21006044.post-116345464260981266Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:01:00 +00002006-12-01T03:18:14.160Z<!--#include virtual="/includes/ad-125.ssi" -->Now, I can't say I've ever seen this before, maybe my years with Mozilla/Firefox have protected me from this in the past. I followed a link in a promotional email to this place called Etribes. So far so good, it took me to a generic landing page that essentially was a 'sign-up' for an account page.Intrigued, I decided I wanted to find out more. So, http://thenextbigwebthing.com/2006/11/you-will-fill-in-form.shtmlDio Bachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21006044.post-116341170165558207Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:08:00 +00002006-11-13T10:00:25.340ZHaving worked in the BBC's mammoth New Media department, at times I was involved in ensuring the correct programme website URLs made it to TV trails and programme credits. Often TV people would never see the benefit of doing such a no-brainer as publicising the related website off the back of the programme.Other times they would add URLs without actually checking those URLs existed. And then http://thenextbigwebthing.com/2006/11/bbcs-urls-go-into-west.shtmlDio Bachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21006044.post-116311457993352588Thu, 09 Nov 2006 22:57:00 +00002006-11-10T00:42:22.473Z<!--#include virtual="/includes/ad-125.ssi" -->The following is a paid review: I mentioned a few posts back a variety of new ways to monetise my blogs, and ReviewMe was one of them. In the spirit of trying these things out for cold hard dosh, this post is a paid review of their system and site.Basically, ReviewMe is a new blog marketing, buzz generating word of mouth service, an offshoot of the http://thenextbigwebthing.com/2006/11/review-of-reviewme.shtmlDio Bachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21006044.post-116298969852843155Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:03:00 +00002006-12-01T05:37:59.716ZFollowing on from the Million Dollar Homepage style of alchemical web marketing, and the millions of MDHP clones - a new paradigm is being set. Not only is it being set, it's already got an army of copycats replicating it's initial success.This new model has taken elements of the MDHP and mixed them with elements of Pyramid scheme economics and auction fever. Proudly announcing itself as http://thenextbigwebthing.com/2006/11/say-hello-to-advertising-20-million.shtmlDio Bachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21006044.post-116272116274342918Tue, 07 Nov 2006 09:58:00 +00002006-11-07T14:29:10.133Z<!--#include virtual="/includes/ad-125.ssi" -->If you're a webmaster looking to promote your site, ask yourself - 'why spend time building a link-bait that only will get you a handful of high profile links?' Savvy web marketers are quickly developing means of baiting a single location and getting an army of excitable nerds doing the linking for them. What am I blathering about? well, it's an http://thenextbigwebthing.com/2006/11/digg-baiting-new-link-baiting.shtmlDio Bachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21006044.post-116185811858494463Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:22:00 +00002006-10-30T11:19:36.800Z<!--#include virtual="/includes/ad-125.ssi" -->Well, I've mentioned link baiting around these parts before - and I mentioned you need to take everything you read on the web with a pinch of salt. It seems that CreamAid.com and their McDonald's campaign may have been a hoax, part of an even more masterful link-baiting campaign to gain the CreamAid site links.According to the expert hosts of http://thenextbigwebthing.com/2006/10/creamaid-con.shtmlDio Bachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21006044.post-116168256747497064Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:39:00 +00002006-10-24T16:18:02.226+01:00<!--#include virtual="/includes/ad-125.ssi" -->We'll, let's take a break from next things and look at a past thing for a change. This was a big thing for a while way back in 2003, at least it was if you were a complete prat. Why it's Flash mobs of course - the real life gathering of webiots to perform mainly successful attempts to disprove Darwin's theory of evolution. Why do I bring this http://thenextbigwebthing.com/2006/10/flashmobs-like-seriously-still.shtmlDio Bachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21006044.post-116100382697771659Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:24:00 +00002006-10-16T14:03:47.130+01:00<!--#include virtual="/includes/ad-125.ssi" --> Following on from the last post about the new wave of money earning opportunities for bloggers, here's another one I've just spotted (Via Mefi). Creamaid is a marketing / blog widget, tool, Web 2.0 thingy. For instance, you can earn $10 by blogging about McDonald's and installing a widget on your blog post.The service looks very new, there's not a http://thenextbigwebthing.com/2006/10/new-ways-of-pimping-out-me-blogs-part.shtmlDio Bachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21006044.post-116082230379255886Sat, 14 Oct 2006 10:03:00 +00002006-10-16T09:43:36.293+01:00We all know you can make money from blogging, whether it be selling advertising, having sponsored links or sending people off to affiliate sales. A whole new wave of selling wares is upon us, and it's all about pimping out your blog posts for cash, and I don't mean splogging.Sponsoring, blog posts has gone on for a while in lesser forms. I've seen people offering to do blog posts for cash / linkshttp://thenextbigwebthing.com/2006/10/new-ways-of-pimping-out-me-blogs.shtmlDio Bachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21006044.post-116006609056295171Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:33:00 +00002006-11-15T14:26:00.506Z<!--#include virtual="/includes/ad-125.ssi" -->Internet marketer Shoemoney recently mentioned a new slant on the PixelAdvertising model called Link Experiment. People bid on 100 link slots, and the highest bids move to the top. It got me thinking about a lot of the ones I'd seen in the past year, and I mentioned there it was high time someone did a list of some of the also rans in http://thenextbigwebthing.com/2006/10/10-million-dollar-homepage-knock-offs.shtmlDio Bachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21006044.post-115879058846526465Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:00:00 +00002006-09-20T23:58:10.343+01:00<!--#include virtual="/includes/ad-125.ssi" -->Ok, so it's not that big a new look workover, but I thought it would be good idea to give the site a bit of makeover for it's new style. So, gone is the old fluid layout, it was so Web 1.0. Now you get a nice simple fixed column in the middle - very Web 2.0.On top of that, there's a brand swanky new quiz that you can take to see if you ever likely tohttp://thenextbigwebthing.com/2006/09/new-look-and-sections.shtmlDio Bach