Top Earning Websites 2012

Larry Page & Sergey Brin (google tycons), art by Graziano Origa, pen&ink + ecoline, 20x15, 2008, printed on canvas 60x50, 2008 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

12 Websites That Make Lots of Money Online. The Latest list:

                                                                                    Annual                 Per

Rank                          Website                         Founders              Revenue            Second

1        Google            Larry Page and Sergey Brin                       $21,800,000,000 $691.27

2        Amazon          Jeff Bezos                                                        $19,166,000,000 $607.75

4        eBay                Pierre Omidyar                                              $6,290,000,000    $199.45

5        Facebook       Mark Zuckerberg                                          $5960304000        $189.51

6        YouTube        Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, J Karim         $4351968000        $138.51

3        Yahoo              Jerry Yang and David Filo                           $3,847,392,000    $122.31

7        MSN/Live      Nathan Myhrvold.                                       $2,995,920,000    $95.92

8        PayPal             M Levchin, P Thiel, L Nosek                      $2,250,000,000    $71.35

9        iTunes             Jeff Robbin                                                     $1,900,000,000    $60.25

10     Reuters          Marshal Vace                                                 $1,892,000,000    $59.99

11     Priceline         Jesse Fink                                                        $1,884,000,000    $59.74

12     Expedia          Added Mark Schroeder                             $1,447,000,000    $45.88

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Getting More Views and Traffic To Your Blog Using Technorati

Technorati Swag (Photo credit: Nikita Kashner)

Technorati is a search engine for searching blogs. Adding your blog through Technorati allows you to use Technorati services to increase your blog’s visibility means more traffic to your blog.

First you need to go to Technorati.com and sign up for an account.

After activating and confirming your account, go to the My Profile page on Technorati scroll down to the My claimed blogs section.

Then type in the URL of your blog and click the Claim button.

What are Meta Tags And How Are They Best Used?

a chart to describe the search engine market (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 The META tag was created as a sort of "catch-all." These tags allow Webmasters to issue an unlimited variety of commands, or to provide information to a browser, search engine, or automated program (i.e., robot).

Search Engines and Meta elements

Search Engines help people find web sites

Usually they catalog sites by following links from page to page and saving identification and classification information for each page.

Included Where?

Meta tags are contained in the HEAD section near the top of the page.

They are not visible to the user