American Button Machines, a Dallas-based wholesale button machine and supplies seller, offers an innovative feature on its website that allows people to learn about button making.  Button University offers lesson, tutorials, and educational videos that offer anyone who is interested in button making the chance to learn a variety of helpful methods, tips, and tricks.  Button University also includes a “final exam” in which people can gauge how much they learned from the course.

In the past, elementary schools have utilized the button machines sold by American Button Machines, as well as Button University, to educate children about small business and button making.

We launched ThePremiumPages.Com today as a limited membership article directory dedicated to insurance information targeting both businesses and consumers.  Though there are a number of article banks on the Internet in use by writers which include those specializing in various types of insurance, The Premium Pages seeks to provide an infrastructure for insurance experts to publish articles under a branded site that carries a strict editorial guidelines goaled at maintaining high quality content.

Article directories are a great way to publish content on the Internet.  The major drawback to the majority of eZines and article directories on the Internet is they use advertising to suppliment their revenue.  This lends to sites that look busy and lack the general brand characteristics that higher end publishers and clients require.  Thus, private content directories are becoming more popular.

We recently launched a private article directory for Plano cosmetic dentist Dr. Jodi Danna.  This article directory is a great place for her customer base to read about cosmetic dentistry.  It is personalized toward Dr. Danna’s brand and highly compatible with natural search engines.

Google Blogsearch allows for effective blog searching on the web. Google supports the self-publication movement that has shaped the blogging community, allowing for self expression, general commentary and information sharing. Google Blogsearch does not solely support blogs published via Blogger, but supports all blogs on the web. The ultimate goal of Google Blogsearch is to index all blogs on the web that has a site feed, (Atom or RSS). In addition, Google Blogsearch incorporates blogs written in foreign languages, not just English.  Google Blogsearch’s pinging service allows blogs to alert Google of a post and make indexing happen very quickly.

Check out Google Blogsearch at http://blogsearch.google.com