Archive for March, 2007
Thursday, March 29th, 2007
If you are using the Google CSE, by now you already know that they are providing statistics about the usage. And also by now you must be a litlle confused about the reports.
Well, if you need more accurate data about the searches here is how to do it:
- Associate your Adsense Publisher ID with the CSE
- Login to Adsense and Reports -> Advanced Reports -> Choose product: AdSense for Search -> Top queries data -> Display report
- Now we are talking real data. And now you can specify any date range you want for your reports
Post inspired by Google Blogoscoped
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Thursday, March 29th, 2007
…and looks better and more powerful than ever.
See here the announcement and here a comparison with the competition.
Good job guys
Update:
Bad, BAD move guys. It seems that this is not a performancing service, but rather a tricky affiliate program for Clicky
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Sunday, March 25th, 2007
Yesterday, when I logged into my Feedburner account I saw a new Item on the menu, “My Networks”. Well it seems that Feedburner is making a new move to gain more market share in the RSS feeds space.
They describe it in the service FAQ as:
FeedBurner Networks is a service (currently in beta), that encourages discoverability and self-promotion of your feed content.
What this mean:
- Networks are basically a group of feeds on a similar topic.
- Everybody who is invited can join and create a new network.
- Each network gets a distinct page on the feedburner server that aggregates the content from all the feeds (sample here)
- From the network page you can subscribe to the aggregated feed, or you can download it as an OPML to read it in your own reader
- The network page provides a search engine inside a network that is based on Lijit (this name is very new to me, is worth checking it) and Google Custom Search Engine. Due to the fact that Google CSE doesn’t offer a public API this could be a sign of an internal deal between the 2 companies.
Other interesting stuff:
- This is not a very young service (in terms of days). Just look at how many pages Google knows already
- People that have this service are most likely only FAN members
- All the persons invited can automatically and without limitations can invite others
- All the new members seem to automatically have access to FAN
- For networks members, and FAN publishers, the cost for CPM starts from 3 USD
Why this is BIG and why publishers will be interested to join:
- They automatically have access to FAN, and by this have the possibility to gain additional income
- By being associated with other popular feeds, your popularity will rise
- Gain more visibility, traffic and subscribers to your feed
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Friday, March 23rd, 2007
New Mozilla Addons redesign is going to affect new extension developers.
read more | digg story
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
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Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
It seems like Google considers the refferals a relative success and they plan to go beyond their products and add new advertisers:
Many of you already use referrals to direct users to your favorite Google products. Now, with our new referrals beta, you can select products and services from our base of AdWords advertisers. This is good news for those of you who have wanted to use referrals in the past, but couldn’t find a product to match your site’s content. With the referrals beta, you can search for products that match up directly with your site’s content. And you can customize your referral units to match the look and feel of your site, making it easier than ever to find a referral ad that fits in seamlessly with your site’s design and content. (source)
If you are interested you can apply to be a beta tester for this program
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Saturday, March 10th, 2007
Untill the current version of blogger, the URL* matched the title of the post. That meant, that each time you modified the the title, the URL changed. Perhaps this caused a series of 404 errors for spiders and RSS readers and they decide to fix it by giving a unique URL* for each post that maches the first written title.
What means that for the ones that want a litlle SEO spice in their blogger blog:
Now you can create a post with your target keywords in title, publish it and then return and change the title to a more human friendly format. Before doing that play around to detect what are the maximum characters allowed in the URL.
*When I say custom URL I am reffering to the part that comes after blogspot.com/
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Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
A new option for sellers to expose their products for free: Live Product Upload from Microsoft; From product description:
What it is
The Live Product Upload, a free service for merchants interested in making their product catalog available in Live Product Search. This easy-to-use gateway is designed to enable online retailers to:
• Showcase products on Live Product Search
• Upload accurate and up-to-date product data directly into the Live Search index
What it does for you
Here is a quick glance of functionality accessible through this service
Catalog Management
Upload you product catalog in any of the formats support, i.e. text or XML through either HTTP upload or FTP. Products can include images, description, price, and links to web addresses on your site. You can upload any number of catalogs with no specific limits. Once your catalog is successfully published and has passed the validation steps it will be searchable through Live Product Search.
Easy Signup
You will need a Live ID (formerly Passport) to login and signup. Fill out a simple application that describes your business and optionally fill out more business details.
Reporting
Keep up to date on the status of your catalogs and keep track of your products on Live Product Search.
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Monday, March 5th, 2007
After Blogger (forced) transition to the new system on all existing blogs a very ugly bug appeared. The previous posts component, instead of showing 10 previous posts relative to the current in view, showed only the 10 newest posts relative to the last one.
As of tonight it seems that this is fixed and everything works as before.
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