So what might Google be up to with Google Base - this article might help to explain things a bit.

http://www.intuitive.com/blog/next_up_google_shopping.html

A nice post about holiday sales -

Click Here

A nice article on linking / link networks and the changes from Jagger -

http://www.webguerrilla.com/linking/the-truth-about-reciprocal-link-networks/

Hopefully everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

I had a lot of fun with my daughter - we goofed off on World of Warcraft quite a bit. Lisa and I also watched a bunch of sappy holiday movies (think Hallmark). It was a very enjoyable time away from the computer... and if you haven't taken a list a few days away, remember the old saying all work and no play.

If you've heard about Sony's "rootkit" and the hub bub surrounding it then this is interesting.

Click Here.

Some nice articles to feast on before turkey day -

Are you really targetting your customers ?

http://www.enquiro.com/marketing-monitor/know-your-target-audience.asp

People are still searching for stuff on the web - you can find numbers below.

http://www.dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot.cgi?article_id=34827

Some Thanksgiving recipe ideas
http://www.recipelink.com/thanksgiving.html

A nice article on Email open and click rates -

http://www.demc.com/artman/publish/article_66.shtml

Google analytics has halted new accounts for now - apparently they grew too fast....

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/wp-trackback.php?p=36

We hope you enjoyed your weekend - we'll be posting things till Thursday this week - then we'll probably snarf down some Turkey - enough to make us hibernate till Monday.

A nice thread on someone that is trying to start things off with zero cash - more info here -
http://www.smallbusinessbrief.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3177

Some comments from the Google pub relations guy at a recent conference.

http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=56221

Google has a new tool that helps detect timeouts, errors, unreachable urls etc., when they crawl your site. Want to make sure that Google finds all the good stuff on your site then check it out.

https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login

Have a great weekend.

If appears that Google Base is now up - you can check it out here -

http://base.google.com

Want to know some search stats for your industry - click here.

What exactly is web spam - learn more here.

Pretty cool - Google is now offering free stats for your site -

A nice article on this can be found here -
Click Here

Or you can check it out from Google here -
http://www.google.com/analytics/index.html

I kind of feel sorry for those programs that cost hundreds of bucks a month.

An excellent paper concerning page rank -
Click Here

Hope you enjoyed your long weekend - can you believe that next week is ThanksGiving... I can't either.

Is the Jagger dust settling???
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Ebay is now offering some pretty awesome marketing research stats - more details can be found here.

A nice article on links - more info

A nice interview the Brett Tabke founder of Web Master World.

Click here

We'll be taking a break tomorrow since it's Veterans day - and hey I'm a vet... good excuse anyway for a day off :o).

I served in the 3 ID - in Schweinfurt Germany when there was still an East and West Germany.

Wal-mart scared of Google ... hmmm maybe. Check out the following story from NY Times (might have to register to view the page)

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/06/technology/06google.html?pagewanted=1

Enjoy your day.

A nice article by someone that makes a lot of money with Ebay -

http://www.demc.com/artman/publish/article_58.shtml

Lots of tidbits over the weekend.

Google has filed another patent - apparently soon they will be individual results for each searcher....

http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?threadid=8547

The "official" patent can be seen here -

Click here for the patent link -

Is Yahoo in the process of a big update?

http://webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=55461

Enjoy your Monday!

I don't know about you but I'm glad it's Friday.

Some good info about Jagger Changes -

http://webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=55306

How Jagger may affect your holiday season this year.

http://webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=55284

And Jagger part three isn't up just yet -

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/

Our newest newsletter is out -

http://www.blitzpromotions.com/blitz255-05nov.htm

An excellent article on creating passwords -

http://www.antionline.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=271347
(scroll down to post three)

Firefox has an excellent program that lets you check useful SEO stats as you surf.
http://www.pandia.com/sew/105-check-seo-stats-while-you-surf.html