<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918293203225452835</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 02:55:42 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>willtobill - articles on search</title><description>SEARCH, WEBSITE DESIGN, SEARCH ENGINE MARKETING, SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION</description><link>http://willtobill.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (willtobill)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>13</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918293203225452835.post-1522945227746515310</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-04T17:59:43.020+00:00</atom:updated><title>Ascii Art is an Innovative way to catch the searchers eye.</title><atom:summary type="text">When planning and implementing a Google AdWords campaign, copywriting is a key factor to establishing a high quality score, relevance and CTR. Not only is persuasive copy a way to stand out among the crowd and include searchers in the buying process while still on the search results page, but sometimes copy can be used to stand out from the crowd.Search engine copywriting is an art. It may not </atom:summary><link>http://willtobill.blogspot.com/2008/12/ascii-art-is-innovative-way-to-catch.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (willtobill)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKrKWfKMpc880Te3ZMhhX92OYfKlCnlpOtWwy0AAK9rfN8SS9aLT00X-H8QEA-qnOc0DdCcgc_k5uHlabMeeSPciDsdXiiTeCKiknMZ_heSvebH2L1bex8__2fvhNCYdxXKHR3adcIIFos/s72-c/Car.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918293203225452835.post-2944515389528068225</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-21T17:59:17.223+00:00</atom:updated><title>Is web 3.0 (the intelligent web) nearly here?</title><atom:summary type="text">Web 3.0 is a way of describing the next step in the internet evolution where websites/applications will be able to link data more intelligently.Nova Spivack defines Web 3.0 as the third decade of the Web (2010–2020) during which he suggests several major complementary technology trends will reach new levels of maturity simultaneously. This stage of the web is shown in the graph (top left) which </atom:summary><link>http://willtobill.blogspot.com/2008/11/is-web-30-intelligent-web-nearly-here.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (willtobill)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBxZbnaDD3q_k8sXiaa6PSjvfXMKRhwFr_pJ5IdJWkz1N5YruMyYjfjy9qjpH3A95k6ZJR5Ilw15dmVpaagETRnqenIO9uG_vHQiTFLLDeYOgcVayp8OTUD75KT3Zi4Q-rEcXWM20Uu-dY/s72-c/Future+of+the+web.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918293203225452835.post-6435256653040408007</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:22:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-11T20:14:54.455+00:00</atom:updated><title>Cooliris on the iPhone</title><atom:summary type="text">Cooliris formerly known as PicLens, is a web browser application made by Cooliris that provides interactive 3D cinematic style views of online images and videos. This online application could be argued as the beginnings of a Web 3.0 search engine for videos and images. Visually it is stunning and is a very intuitive way of sifting through relevant media-rich content.A free app for the iPhone has </atom:summary><link>http://willtobill.blogspot.com/2008/11/cooliris-on-iphone.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (willtobill)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918293203225452835.post-8478644369953815280</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-19T22:12:39.942+01:00</atom:updated><title>Googles Ad Search &quot;more sponsored links&quot;</title><atom:summary type="text">There seems to be a potential issue regarding the &quot;more sponsored links&quot; button on Google; this doesn&#39;t actually lead you to more of the PPC results you would expect to see - it is a different set of results based og Googles &quot;entire ad inventory&quot;.These supposed PPC ads are not activated in the same way as the normal PPC ads. For example I have an ad appearing in the &quot;more sponsored links&#39; even </atom:summary><link>http://willtobill.blogspot.com/2008/06/more-sponsored-links.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (willtobill)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL9J-GOJwe8rC2T_iSIowoPQH-6fznNQdvRyvMI4Lxh8IyTJ38-5PvgTJMj0VfRZUeK4mq_2TT_AlIOrsOWE0vNTWbw_q6Gb5OHb40EGpPW55SG_A6HacsGiwGIAxkecCKvQNCKX4j1rUB/s72-c/more+sponsored+links.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918293203225452835.post-1239863615293111089</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-28T03:12:23.909+01:00</atom:updated><title>Bravo to George Sampson, the winner of Britain’s Got Talent 2008. Google didn’t predict his win.</title><atom:summary type="text">Searches for Britains Got Talent stars in  May 2008George Sampson the schoolboy from Warrington won the hearts of the nation with his fantastic, modern take on the Gene Kelly classic Singing In The Rain.After an extraordinary final that was watched by over 13 million people on Saturday night, George Sampson was voted by the UK public the most talented after a closely fought battle with fellow </atom:summary><link>http://willtobill.blogspot.com/2008/06/bravo-to-george-sampson-winner-of.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (willtobill)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9DVa5qwfozIrR-cUpEgxrsOqY9agA7O5GUjBBGQk2QvB5kUq3EnP07786Yltgsy9lkwfYh-3ljGw0qTzW11PZacz7zK98fD4SyOIWlD-ZHIiLzmBw2bsNHTDtX035PlN3YwK_h4gM5lpE/s72-c/graphBGT.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918293203225452835.post-749708739242716501</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 12:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-28T02:41:34.802+01:00</atom:updated><title>Landing Page Load Time: Google Quality Score:</title><atom:summary type="text">As you might already know Google has recently included the landing page load time into its Quality Score algorithm. Therefore you need to aim for a load time below 8 seconds.Page load time is the time it takes a web page to load in seconds. If the load time is slow, Google says this will impact your quality score. Why? Slow loading landing pages are bad for your user.Here&#39;s some info on how it </atom:summary><link>http://willtobill.blogspot.com/2008/05/landing-page-load-time-google-quality.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (willtobill)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyWMmiS0o4yJuSkbUEHh8Xh-05L8r8cu2wrzbJe_raC6bvPxmh2KtP7oSdqnfVPPuQp0hl89EfwelzOkBFGL7athTPV4qAFSVjA1XC-3xbc1Nvipd0LeJqu1zH7qsxlRBpns9K-EjfoI1r/s72-c/landing+page+load+time.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918293203225452835.post-4878454972039626416</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 12:36:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-05-29T13:54:12.552+01:00</atom:updated><title>Advertising on the Moon</title><atom:summary type="text">How about buying advertising space on the Moon?The beer company Rolling Rock was supposedly going to beam on to the moon on 21st March (they were lying): www.moonvertising.com ....However the concept is feasible.You would be able to get a massive audience, nearly all countries at night time. All you need is a big powerful laser, which shouldn&#39;t cost too much (few million). You can&#39;t put the logo </atom:summary><link>http://willtobill.blogspot.com/2008/05/advertising-on-moon.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (willtobill)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZSxJYXq8mksXHR52SuaZs8G2HuQwa7PIGlsZr3N6ywFLf5aAmA0HVmKxxxvmfuhbf3CIf8WgiiAHsMslCN5g1_wOzdEyqs822s9Rv8wHIVRSmwXoiGopaYp4wBUj7iJrT3yKcI9Arg2En/s72-c/rolling+rock+moon.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918293203225452835.post-4815791154849789786</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 21:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-05-28T22:41:34.419+01:00</atom:updated><title>1&amp;1 Webhosting</title><atom:summary type="text">1and1 Internet is probably the largest shared Web Hosting provider world-wide and one of the best from my experience. We found hosting packages and web tools that are simply hard to beat.                         &lt;!--tease--&gt;                         First, 1and1 Internet offers plenty of &quot;product&quot; for its monthly price. 1and1 also throws in free domain registrations (and annual renewal) at no </atom:summary><link>http://willtobill.blogspot.com/2008/05/1-webhosting.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (willtobill)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918293203225452835.post-4723469006294116259</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-28T02:40:26.898+01:00</atom:updated><title>Just Six Numbers; Numbers that govern the Universe and Search Engine Marketing</title><atom:summary type="text">Astronomer Royal Martin Rees shows us that the universe can be characterised by a mere six numbers, in his excellent, intriguing and not over complex book; Just six Numbers: These six numbers constitute a &#39;recipe&#39; for a universe:&lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o /&gt;Δ (delta), is the number of spacial dimensions we live in (3D). N (nu), the ratio of the strength of gravity to that of electromagnetism (</atom:summary><link>http://willtobill.blogspot.com/2008/04/just-six-numbers-numbers-that-govern.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (willtobill)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz7UeeDWIzQSak9Nr8B-vl1UathsSXF-5AJa6mC4AS2VO-1L2Zfvh_G_Jlq55MbXzLEysOZcXm4qPXB9sKbTtp5QuZxqeKApzV0MFaon0Eb_S_EvW0UHreuDg677PEnT2NtlfMcPk1YcpQ/s72-c/Just6Nos.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918293203225452835.post-1570745522973577467</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-28T01:55:42.316+01:00</atom:updated><title>Google Holiday Logo Changes</title><atom:summary type="text">It’s very refreshing to see a huge brand experimenting/playing with its logo. Google have adopted different logos for different celebrations, holidays and seasons.      50th anniversary of the LEGO brick - January 28, 2008           Recently they have donned some clovers in a green Google logo to celebrate St Patrick ’s Day. Other logo changes were brought on by Valentines Day, Easter, spring’s </atom:summary><link>http://willtobill.blogspot.com/2008/04/google-holiday-logo-changes.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (willtobill)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk100S8Ift-qPQIz9fczosybOHeeDI63dOKZVYffjnUyxu8Gk6adMhT_1lOgIhptTOPXb5ibBLoNMmqcjHyOVyegP-gyyh9NC_4nm33hrMkNiFZgTMH7ATejzwuzKp2Y1S5QyCmATBM2N3/s72-c/Google+Lego.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918293203225452835.post-6911514761920328612</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-04-09T11:40:15.103+01:00</atom:updated><title>Googles Australia &amp; UK April Fools</title><atom:summary type="text">With the arrival of April Fools Days it is difficult to accept Google would have anything serious at all to say on April 1st.This year Google Australia has developed a Search Engine to see into the future: http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/gday/index.htmlFurthermore in the UK, Google has been hard at work in collaboration with Virgin to send &#39;Virgle Pioneers&#39; to Mars to colonizes the 4th rock from</atom:summary><link>http://willtobill.blogspot.com/2008/04/googles-april-fools.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (willtobill)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbTnw1w5ZEXMcPxUUReAdb1JH-8G-zUvzBBvXSre57F0JcrnQsPzaW9anFF96yosVBwADEIVztyEzZh3IJDaqApFMTPZXglnML53dU8Z8syR4SxPxZ5P99FObC0Tkcjxa88xeBBO1pKObV/s72-c/gday.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918293203225452835.post-3010048997340136991</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-04-09T11:47:05.041+01:00</atom:updated><title>Firefox Search tools &amp; add ons</title><atom:summary type="text">First of all Firefox is a great web browser and its free: www.mozilla.com. Secondly there are plenty of add ons for Firefox. These are easily added here: addons.mozilla.orgSome of the add-ons I have found that have been particularly helpful for search engine marketing include:- Rank Checker is a Firefox add on that indicates your websites position in the search engines for specific keywords: http</atom:summary><link>http://willtobill.blogspot.com/2008/01/firefox-search-tools-add-ons.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (willtobill)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918293203225452835.post-3538861930745783722</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-28T17:02:02.352+00:00</atom:updated><title>Wikia Search</title><atom:summary type="text">So Wikia Search is finally here:      alpha.search.wikia.comWikia have been working to develop and popularize a freely licensed (open source) search engine. They have released the alpha version. However to their own admittance the relevance and quality of searches are poor (for now apparently).&quot;We are aware that the quality of the search results is low..Wikia&#39;s search engine concept is that of </atom:summary><link>http://willtobill.blogspot.com/2008/01/wikia-search.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (willtobill)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuZSGGFc660shopbhIhdGGeOpXvJcOAymEVxQ3ssKH2_IrEJt2_GjH8IDbwn4P7z3mEahZvKvwaNqL318fr9Rz4yfnodD032wD4oXyF1BgVV4_01APexWEN5FF1SgLWlpB9kLsbthH1Xwn/s72-c/wikia.GIF" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>