my traffic has stayed the same so far, but it doesnt make it easier to build links to your site when your PR is -3 and it is a fairly new site.

The biggest thing that I like about Yahoo! is address management and endless storage. They make organizing your addresses so simple that even I can do it!

but we did go ahead and use our own domain per that feedburner feature (they offer that free now). so our feed is no longer at a feedburner.com domain, but rather:
http://feeds.askdanandjennifer.com/askdanandjennifer
- that’s actually a CNAME/alias for the feedburner server, set up in our DNS – their instructions are simple.

And here’s why this matters – it means that we can always move away from feedburner if we so choose to in the future. We’re very happy with them now, but it’s nice to have options.

Have an awesome day!
Dan & Jennifer

For email, we highly recommend webmail.us. We’re not big for free email services, and this one does what we need. for $11/mo you can have 5 x 5GB mailboxes with IMAP access, so you can use your choice of desktop client – or iPhone if you have one. :-)

Been using them for almost 2 years now, and they’re great. It’s email that just works.

On a related note, SO many people host their email with their web hosting provider, not realising that email hosting is the lowest priority for a web host, it’s just not reliable . Of course this is because web hosting providers offer this as a free add-on, so people don’t realize how bad it is.

Ponder this… unless your site is just a fun hobby, then if your website goes down for whatever reason, it’s kind of silly to have your email down too, don’t you think? Rant over. :-)

Best,
D&J

A friend at work did ask me why do people use Feedburner and I have to admit I struggled to find an answer. I do like their email subscription option, but you can get that elsewhere. I said that they can get interesting when you have over 500 subs as their site ads have high CPMs ($6-12), although the fill rates are pretty poor though. I don’t use their RSS ads though as I think the payoff is too low, particularly when RSS readers don’t want ads!

No, I really mean it. Its nothing related to this Pagerank Mayhen. Yahoo Search Assist can be very very useful. I have written a similar post on Yahoo Assist as well.

I can`t agree with you more. The difference between Google and Yahoo is not about relevancy, its about being more famous. I tried Yahoo couple of days ago, on suggestion from few of my friends. And I was really thrilled with Yahoo’s new features like Yahoo! Search Assist.

Just try some of new Yahoo! for few minutes and I am sure many more will be converted.

*80% of the web (actually about 70% in UK, 50% in US) use Google because in 2001/02 the webmasters and techies of this world started telling the mass market that Google was the best, whcih was true, and everybody started using Google. Before that there used to be regular ‘battle of the search engines’ tests to find the best one – I haven’t seen one of those for years.

If those same groups start testing other engines and recommending others people will switch. We’ve seen it happen with Firefox – not quite mass market yet, but when you think of the progress is has made in an even tougher market with less competition it has done amazingly. there’s no reason that same community of trusted individuals can’t take down what they built.