Mind mapping software is useful for mapping out complex subject matters in a visual presentation. Free Mind is a free tool to help you create mind maps that can be formatted as HTML, AJAX, or PDF.

I recently created the internet marketing mind map, covering just about everything I know about online marketing.
I would love your feedback on the format, size, and content. Should I make more in depth mind maps for niche topics?
Update: Due to popular feedback I just Creative Commons licensed the internet marketing mind map, so you [...]

Any time a big media company writes about publishing ethics, just remember how much fraud is baked into their business models. Comcast was fined by the FCC for displaying fake news about a sleeping pills. Direct to consumer drug marketing wrapped as fake news. Can a company get any sleezier?

Yahoo search normally moves rather slowly with small changes, but I just saw some pretty big shifts in Yahoo rankings, including

botching part of a sitewide 301 redirect that they had followed for months - now both sites rank, but each ranks well for some portion of the queries
a bit more weight on domain names

What are [...]

Google can’t catch most paid links. They can’t even catch large malware networks that have existed long enough to be reported in the mainstream media. But they can go after business models they do not like.
As Google tries to shift the web to improve user experience AND extract as much profit as possible, certain classes [...]

Many financial and social markets are destroyed by short term opportunism. Because the web is virtually limitless, it is easy to make sales pitches that sound like everyone gains. But that is rarely, if ever, true. Every clean traffic source gets gamed. So do the dirty ones.
A recently launched blog Ponzi Scheme has [...]

With an ever increasing number of ways for people to share content and an ever increasing number of competing channels the easiest way to estimate the value of a blog post is to look at the people citing it. Citations lead to new readers and subscribers…and more citations. If your posts are well cited it [...]

Just quick news from SEO world, it seems like Google is getting some competition and we are getting more SEO tools.
It is MSN Live Search,  they have joined the race with Google to provide webmasters with the tools and features that you would expect with the announcement of Webmaster Portal. According to the announcement, the [...]

Just wanted to give quick news update.
There are two new features added to the protocol and will help webmasters control when an item should stop showing up in Google’s web search, as well as providing some more control over the indexing of other data types.
One of the features, support for the unavailable_after tag, has
been mentioned [...]

Three major events took place on, at, or around Google last week any one of which could radically change the company and its relationships with its users, advertisers, and ad delivery partners. Two of the events will have long lasting effects - the first being Google’s look and operation and the second directly affecting the [...]