How to use the South East Shipping News family of web sites:
Searchable and readable in six languages
SEShippingnews.com and Southeastshippingnews.com offers all the news on SEshippingnews@typepad but the news articles can be searched in six different languages: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Haitian and Arabic. And the articles are delivered in the selected language.
SEshippingnews@typepad offers all the news on Southeastshippingnews.com and is searchable in English but in more detail because the search engine for key words is driven by Google technology to find every instance within the 1500 (and growing) data base of expert news articles.
SEshippingnews@typepad also offers a free RSS feed which delivers the 10 most recent articles to your e-mail box or to a web site or company blog where they can be shared with employees or associates.
In the tradition of Florida Shipper
SEshippingnews@typepad was begun in February 2009 a few days after the Journal of Commerce assimilated the Florida Shipper Magazine. Almost immediately the Florida Shipper readers and advertisers complained about the loss of intense localized coverage.
Because my routine involved searching hundreds of on-line sources and news publications for tips on news and opportunities important to the maritime region, I simply continued and post the aggregation on the blog.
It took over a year, with no marketing for the Southeast Shipping News Blog to gain its current broad base of support, more than 120 visits each day and more than 4,500 visits every 30 days. I watched it grow in hopes that one day the blog could be spread to a web site and both could be monetized through reasonable advertising and the placement of schedules. That can be done by contacting David Cantwell at dmcantwell@gmail.com.
As the blog grew the World Wide Web also matured in several directions that now benefit those who have learned to use South East Shipping News as a resource to background staff and learn the dimensions and the consequences of major news events impacting the maritime industry.
Google has become the dominant search engine in the world. Google prefers to correspond with blogs and offers a power range of services to blogs. Thus the blog site, Southeastshippingnews@typepad has become the top site in its category when news searchers go to Google. Google now lists several of the special benefits of the blog site including its coverage of cyber threats, navigation risks and southeast ports.
Recently Google has provided a site search option that is employed at the blog site. In addition to searching the 1500 articles posted in the site by date, users can place a key word in the search block and Google will search only the Southeast shipping news data base. This pre-selection brings a robust focus on the issues of importance to maritime interests in the Caribbean Basin and Southeastern United States.
The Southeastshippingnews.com is the second component of the system. It offers the ability to search the South East Shipping News archives, stored on the cloud by Google, for articles in six different languages: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Haitian and Arabic.
International interests can search in their native language then read the articles in their native language. No other maritime news aggregation site offers this service.
As our advertisers request them, we will also post the most recent sailing schedules and rate statements.
http://seshippingnews.typepad.com/south_east_shipping_news/2012/05/index.html
