tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-296538632026-03-02T08:11:50.180+00:00SEO, Google, Adsense and Blogging.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger122125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29653863.post-28635138893646344982008-02-25T14:40:00.004+00:002008-02-25T14:52:07.389+00:00

The popular video site stage6.com is planning to shut down in 3 days (28 Feb) forever which has caused outrage amongst it's members.On visiting the website you are greeted with a message from Tom (aka Spinner) explaining that the reason for the closure is basically that stage6 was too successful and outgrew it's self and has become a very expensive and time consuming operation. Forgive me if i'm

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After months and month of asking the digg community have finally got what they wanted. A pic section for them to put their funny little lolcats.When one goes to submit a story now they are offered a selection of either "news story", "video" or "image".When the image is submitted the image is then displayed on the digg page.But is it legal?While this may seem like a good idea i wonder if digg have

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Yahoo has reached a deal to start running advertisements in Adobe's popular PDF document-reading format.The service will allow publishers to make money by including adverts linked to the content of a PDF document in a panel at the side of the page.It is Yahoo's latest way of expanding the places it can advertise online following deals with the auction site Ebay and the cable TV group Comcast.The

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If you spend any time around digg it soon becomes apparent that the community stance is "M$ sux0rz, Apple is teh l33t".So after another one of my blogs got to the front page of digg i thought i would have a look at my visitor stats to see what operating systems are used by diggers, Surely it should be majority macs, Second Linux and only a few people using windows, Right? Well it should be if you

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When GMail began rolling out a new Gmail code architecture a few weeks ago, They also launched some new features to help improve the speed and convenience of managing email.5. "Archive and next" shortcutGmail added a bunch of new shortcuts, but one that I've found to be a true time-saver is what I call the "archive and next" shortcut. When I have a lot of mail, it can be really annoying to have

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Google is gearing up to make a serious bid for the wireless spectrum, a chunk of the airwaves that can be used to provide mobile phone and Internet services, in an FCC auction in January. Google is prepared to bid on its own without any partners. It is working out a plan to finance it's bid, which could run $4.6 billion or higher, that would rely on its own cash and possibly some borrowed

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Google AdSense has made a change to the way content text ads are displayed in an attempt to decrease accidental clicks and therefor improving advertiser campaign value and keeping people on publishers sites until the users wants to click an advert.The change is a small one and would probably go unnoticed by most people.Where a visitor could previously click on any element of the AdSense ad to be

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Quite controversially Google have never seen fit to honor veterans day, Until now. it took 10 years and a lot of criticism from veteran groups but there is finally a Google logo with army helmets commemorating veterans day.Those logging on to the Google.com homepage today will be greeted with the abovr altered logo remembering the lives lost.

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When Yahoo! serve the ads that are displayed on the search results they use something called the "quality index" to determine what adverts will be shown. The lower your quality index score the less chance there is of your advert being displayed.An ad’s quality index is a relative measure of how relevant it is to users. In determining your quality index, The system takes into account your ad’s

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If there is one thing digg doesn't do to often is bring in new features, And on the rare occasions they do bring in new features they are greeted with jeers of "this is shit, STOP IT!" by the digg faithful.Having used digg for a while now i have seen a few areas where it could be improved and noticed a few features it could do with. So i thought i would compile a list.Remove shouts - Digg may as

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According to Matt Cutts the above image is a screenshot of a "tool used by members of our AdWords sales team to help prioritize new customer acquisition."It's hard to know what the abbreviations are or exactly what the tool is specifically used for, I would guess "PV" is page views, though i don't know if this is the traffic google sends or stats gathered in other ways.

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MySpace will announce on Monday plans to introduce a new advertising platform, “SelfServe by MySpace” to people who want to advertise across the MySpace network to MySpace users.SelfServe by MySpace will allow users to directly create and analyze the performance of adverts purchased throughout the MySpace network, in a similar way to Google Adwords. MySpace will be the first of the big social

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It seems over the last couple of days WidgetBucks has been having some problems with the way it collects data about clicks, Impressions and earnings. When i say "problem" i mean it hasn't been doing it at all.Since yesterday i have been greeted with a completely blank stats page which usually shows 10,000+ impressions and 10's of clicks.WidgetBucks are new so it's understandable that they are

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Google have acquired the G.cn domain name to use for their operations in China for an undisclosed fee. The domain redirects to Google.cnBranding is important for Google so in a country where English is not the national language and the native language doesn't use English characters the short (one of the shortest domain names ever) will make it a lot easier for new users and mobile users to type

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AdSense have launched a handy new feature in your AdSense account control panel, The AdSense Resource Tab.The AdSense Resource tab is a page containing useful links, tools, guides and tutorials all in one place. including the Help Center, Program Policies, and Help Forum. If you're looking to improve the performance of your ads, you can now easily navigate to the AdSense Optimization Tips page or

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Big noise was being made this week over the release of Google's OpenSocial, A set of API's that allow developers to create applications that once written will work on any social site which allows OpenSocial API's.A lot of social sites wanted to be earlier adopters of OpenSocial through fear of being left behind, Though a fear of using something flawed should have been more of a concern.Within 45

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If you are a user of digg you will no doubt be aware of the changes that happened recently. most importantly the introduction of "shouts".Shouts are a way for you to talk to friends and to share stories. Good idea, Right? well it would be except for one simple flaw. The Internet and social media sites are infested with that lowly animal we call "the spammer". So as soon as the spammer finds out

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Though i haven't seen this myself, I have seen a number of people reporting to have seen an italic font being used sometimes on the title in AdSense adverts.There has been no official word from AdSense at present, so i would guess this feature is currently in testing and they are going to be monitoring what effect this has on CTR and what publishers/advertisers think about it.initial responses

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It's official, You can ask your visitors to click your AdSense ads, But only the referral products.Unlike with regular CPC AdSense, where you get paid per click, You can encourage users to click your referral links - Firefox with Google toolbar, Google pack and AdSense referrals - By telling them how good that product is, Drawing attention to the link, Changing the style, size, colour and font of

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The link: operator sucks, Right? Well luckily we don't have to worry about this inaccurate crapshoot "advanced operator" anymore.Google webmaster tools has launched a tool that will report all of your backlinks on Google, Not just the small selection the link: operator decides to tell you about.How to use it:1 - Log in to your webmaster tools account and click the site you want to check backlinks

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I have noticed a lot of confusion regarding backlinks in Google when people use the link: operator lately. A lot of people get worried if their backlinks have dropped in Google.Google say "The query [link:] will list webpages that have links to the specified webpage. For instance, [link:www.google.com] will list webpages that have links pointing to the Google homepage. Note there can be no space

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The search engine strategies conference is coming to London on the 13th, 14th and 15th of February.I should be able to make it there for at least one of the days, Hopefully the day Matt Cutts is speaking.I know I'm going to be away around the second week of feb, But hopefully ill be back in time to head on down to the ExCel conference center and catch at least one of the days, It will be my first

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This week i was fortunate enough to be offered a position as moderator at my favorite forum, Webmaster-Talk.com, Which i of course accepted straight away.Over the past few years i have posted on a lot of webmaster forums and i have to say, In complete honesty, that webmaster-talk is the friendliest and most professional webmaster forum i have been on. There are a lot of talented people there who

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15 hours ago (at the time of posting) a "story" was submitted to digg.com. But unlike most stories this one didn't intend on providing useful information, Breaking news or a funny video. the intention of this story was to initiate a DDoS attack against the site godhatesfags.com by using the digg comminuty as a botnet.The user egingras posted this story entitled "Make GodHatesFags pay for their

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After switching to the new version of blogger a couple of days a go i decided i would have a look around and see what is different, And i have to say i am very disappointed. It seems blogger have replaced "ease" with "confusion" and features that are not needed. So i decided i had to send blogger an email and tell them what i think.After switching to the new version of blogger i have to say I'm

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