Razvan Antonescu

It looks that Google has updated the backlinks cout for a few of my sites. As usual incoming PR update in ~7-10 days

As reported on Google Blogoscoped, Google Analytics just got (for some users) a facelift. Previous users of  Measuremap will recognize some familiar elements, and that’s so because the new version is a joint effort of teams from Google, Urchin and Measuremap.

More details about this release you’ll find here:

• Official Analytics blog
• Official Google blog

Beside the official announcements, there is also a great post by Avinash Kaushik that guides you through five levels of exploration of the new Google Analaytics:

1. Notice the awesome new data interaction model.
2. Take the enhanced “data discoverability” for a spin.
3. Context is king! Find your context quickly.
4. Ahh…. Segmentation is just a step away.
5. Upgraded goodies: Schedule and email any report or dashboards, Better site overlay, Much nicer page level reporting and more.

After the somehow succesfull integration of the Yahoo! Messenger in the email client, Yahoo! goes a step forward and launches a standalone web based messenger. More details and a demo video can be seen here.

Google has also done similar steps in this direction, and their simple approach is more appealing to the geek crowd, while the Yahoo!’s colorful version seems to be more targeted to younger people

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:

1. Associate your Adsense Publisher ID  with the CSE
2. Login to Adsense and Reports -> Advanced Reports -> Choose product: AdSense for Search -> Top queries data -> Display report
3. Now we are talking real data. And now you can specify any date range you want for your reports

Post inspired by Google Blogoscoped

Incoming search terms:

• google cse stats

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