Archive for January, 2007
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
From Techcrunch:
Yahoo’s brand-centric sites, announced in November 2006 and dubbed “Brand Universe”, have started to go live. These sites each revolve around a single popular brand - like this one on the Nintendo Wii - and have almost no original content. Instead, Yahoo is taking content from Flickr, Del.icio.us, Yahoo Answers and other Yahoo properties, along with some slick graphics, and hoping for page views.
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Yahoo doesn’t seem too concerned with monetization of these pages yet, and they aren’t working directly with the brands themselves.
Ok, someone please explain me what’s the freakin difference between what Yahoo does and search engine spamming. Those are black hat websites by the book with a Yahoo logo on them:
- no original content
- aggregated content based on RSS feeds around a central keyword
- subdomain hosted on a core authority domain
- lots of ads (soon)
When Wordpress did that a few years ago they were called spammers and blacklisted for a while from Search Engines. When regular black haters do it are called splogs and flushed from SERPs. When Yahoo does it is brilliant.
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Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
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This tutorial will cover how to use a single text ad in phpAdsNew and have it look different on different pages using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets).
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you will learn more about the features of the “Publishers” and “Advertisers” module, as well as a convenient way to integrate phpAdsNew with multiple websites, and more.
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One easy way to manage the display ads on your website is by using phpAdsNew. This first article shows you how to quickly set up phpAdsNew to suit your needs. Read on to find out how this simple tool can help you keep track of those revenue-producing ads
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Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
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DéjàClick is a web recorder and Super Bookmark utility designed exclusively for Firefox. You can record and bookmark your browser activities, then with a single click, replay the entire sequence all over again.
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Banner script in PHP. Based on the original phpAds. Extended with some nice new functions like Flash-Banner.
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phpAdsNew has a new name: Openads! Openads is an open-source ad server, with an integrated banner management interface and tracking system for gathering statistics. With Openads you can easily rotate paid banners and your own in-house advertisements.
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Saturday, January 27th, 2007
As of today, it seems that ALL the old blogger accounts have been moved to the new version and you cannot access them anymore unless you have a google account. Crossing fingers right now as I am moving a lot of my blogs 
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Saturday, January 27th, 2007
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KlipFolio is a small, smart, and configurable personal dashboard. It can be used to monitor anything online—weather, stocks, Hotmail, news, RSS feeds and even auctions—right on the desktop.
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WinSnap is a small enhancement utility for taking and editing screenshots. It can easily capture windows of non-rectangular form with the background of your choice, automatically perform simple canvas transformations and coloring effects, add professional
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Thursday, January 25th, 2007
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
They finally added them but in a crippled way. As I was saying before I was expecting detailed data not overall stats and only queries with a certain number of hits. Perhaps all the small sites will see something like:
No queries were sufficiently popular to be listed.
and the reason for that is:
The most likely explanation is that no query occurred sufficiently often to make it “popular”. Our definition of popular tries to balance your curiosity about your Custom Search Engine traffic, and our requirement that we take reasonable steps to protect your users’ privacy.
Why is this happening? Because of the AOL data scandal, where idiots were searching for their own credit card numbers. The probability for this is very small to occur in Google’s CSE but they wash their hands and protect the morons innocents. Why this is pointless? Just because Google said that CSE is a better alternative to an inhouse search engine. Well dear Google CSE team, an inhouse search engine will provide those queries and no one can protect the users from themselves.
What I wanted?
- Number of users
- Queries
- Labels Usage
- Results for the queries
- Queries with no results
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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
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Monday, January 22nd, 2007
Search Engine Journal confirms something I saw accidentally this weekend. All the external links from Wikipedia have now the nofollow attribute.
Well the ideea is that this is a pointless action in the fight against spam and it will only hurt the legit websites. Why is that so:
- After the nofollow agreement between Google/Yahoo/MSN, all the blogging platforms implemented it for the comments section. Result? Total failure. Blog spamming is a bigger issue than before
- On blogs, only legit websites were hurt because most of the spam comments are either caught in spam filters or manually removed
- Wikipedia, like DMOZ, is scraped by many other sites (some legit like Answers.com and some splogs). Don’t know if the nofollow atribute will be also included in those
Posted in General, Search Engine Optimization | 3 Comments »
