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Wordpress 2.7 is Ready For Download

So, then it has been released. Google SearchWiki. The new system that allows you to vote on the sites that get listed in the search results. Here are some features:

• You can vote any search result to the top of the search.

• You can delete any search result, and it will disaper from the search result.

• You can write comments in each search result.

• You can add a new site to the search results and it will be added to the top.

One thing though, the changes you make only affect your own searches. So, the search result for other users will stay the same. But, there is one way to see how the other users have used the SearchWiki. On the footer on each page there is a link called “See all notes for this SearchWiki” clicking on this link will bring you to a page, where the sites with the most “ups” will be displaying on the top page. Kinda like a “digg” version of the search result.

Only For Google Account Users

The “SearchWiki” links, and voting system is only available to signed-in Google users. This means, if your site is used by people that most probably don’t got Google accounts, this wont affect your site at all. Since your visitors won’t see the “SearchWiki” links.

Video Explaining The Deal

Below is a video from Google explaining the the SearchWiki system.

Will This Affect The Regular Search Results?

Well, as I wrote some sentences ago, Google says your voting only will affect your own search results. But, I think, if this system gets good, and not that easy cheatable the voting might get included as a part of the algorithm. But until that, your voting can still make more visitors coming to your or somebody else’s site, because Google got a page where you can see all notes about one search term. That means, on that pages, the sites that got most votes, will be displayed on the top.

Ex. All notes for the term “Games” in Google.

As you can see in the screnshot above the top ranking site now is addictinggames.com and miniclip.com on second place. If you do this search without adding the SearchWiki values miniclip.com will rank above addictinggames.com. Most probably this will not mean that big of a different since, both these sites is so big brands, sp they get the traffic they should anyway. But, whats interesting to see is the number 3 result. “Scolex Games“. That sites grabs the 3. place only by having 3 votes. Scolex Games is no where to be found in the origianl search result, but with only 3 votes, it ranks good in the SearchWiki result. That means, if you get 4 votes, you will be ranking in the third spot for this really high volume search term.

The question is, how many people will be scrolling down on the search page, and click the “All Notes” link, when they can get good result on the first page? In the start it will probably be quite a few, but many of them would be webmasters like you and be. Will this be something for the future?

What do you think about this?

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Google Launches SearchWiki - Vote The Search Results Up and Down

Now I only waiting on adsense to be integrated into analytics. Then I don’t need anything for christmas!

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Advanced Segments Added to Google Analytics (New feature)

We are pleased to announce that we have acquired AdToll.com from Purplex Pty Ltd. Dan & Paul have done a great job building and nourishing AdToll and we intend to continue to provide you the same service and responsiveness. We are a US based corporation with many more resources and we plan to grow the product and provide additional services in time. We will tell you a bit more about us in the coming months. In the meantime, please review the revised Terms of Service.

I did use AdToll on some of my sites before, but found out that it diden’t pay of. However I have found a couple good deals on there as an advertiser. Do you use AdToll?

Btw; Anyone know how much they sold for?

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AdToll.com Acquired by a US Company

The last couple of years there have been growing up a couple good in-game advertising companies such as “Mochiads” and “GameJacket”. These companies are only focusing on in-game ads, and have been a hit in the industry.

Say hello to Google In-Game Advertising

So, Google wants to be a part of about everything on the Internet, and finally they have started to look at the online game industry. Now they are searching after beta publishers for their new Adsense for Games program. This program makes it easy to display ads in placements you define, such as before a game, after a level, or when the game is over. The Adwords sales persons will sell the in-game ads directly to brand advertisers such as McDonalds and Sony, and there will also be contextually targeted text and image ads based on content and demographic information.

Only for the big guys

As usual only the big boys are eligible to join the beta program. Publishers must have a minimum of 500,000 game plays and have 80% of their traffic from the U.S. or the U.K. Thats a really high percent of US and UK traffic on an arcade site!

A couple of highlighted publishers are Armorgames, ArcadeTown and HeavyGames. All of these sites got an alexa below 5.000 and probably well over 100.000 uniques each day.

Read more about Adsene for Games

Couple videos

Google have made a couple videos to better understand how in-game ads work. Take a look below:

Are you in the online games industry?

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Adsense For Games Are Looking For Beta Publisher

The big comment project

If you are a fan of reading blogs and commenting on them, you have probably noticed a guy called “Danny Cooper”. He is everywhere, and if you have a decent blog in this niche chances are big that hes on your blog as well. Nothing wrong with that though. Thing is, Danny have a project going, called “October Case Study: Blog Commenting“.

Danny sent me an mail asking for a plug, so here you go. To sum up the plan Danny got he got a list of about 60 blogs which he are following each day. Each time someone makes a post he will leave a comment. He claims that he is not going to spam, but tell his honest opinion on the subject posted. This case study is going to all October. When October is over, he will make a report, where he disclose traffic, referrals, back links etc.

I think it’s a good approach to increase traffic/subscribers, and it will be fun to see the result. Check out Dannys blog here:

http://linkersblog.com

What about VikingBlogger?

Hopefully you have noticed that my posting frequents has increased by a lot lately. And to my joy a lot of you old guys still are hanging around, and are starting to make comments again. There is also a couple new faces. I would love to know more about my readers. So if you want to tell me and rest of the crowd more about yourself and your site(s) your welcome to do so below in a comment.

The top commentators

Once in a while I like to give something back to my commentators. One of the way I do that is by giving them a link. Well, it’s time to give the top 5 some love again. Here is the guys that have made the most comments on VikingBlogger so far in October.

Top Commentators

• Danny Cooper
• Chetan
• Simon from Otooo
• Clog Money
• Eric Tan

Gravatar added

I have added gravatars to the comments. So now you can easly see who have made the comment. This is also a good opportunity to brand yourself. If you haven’t made yourself a gravatar yet, you should do so now. Just go to Gravatar.com and sign up for an free account.

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Monday Mock-up Post

When you comment on a post, your name will link back to your site. This is now a no-follow link, so that only gains you some clicks. (if you are really lucky) and if you link to one of the posts here you will get listed as a trackback. Those links are also no-follow. What I’m thinking of is to make those links do-follow.

So, my question is; Would You Leave a Comment And Link To VikingBlogger If You Got A Do-Follow Link?

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Would You Leave a Comment And Link To VikingBlogger If You Got A Do-Follow Link?

I won a t-shirt over at Shoemoney a couple days ago, and everyone that wins a t-shirt (1 each day) gets an entry into the monthly draw of a grand price. This month Shoemoney are going to give away two MacBooks. One of them being an Air.

So, I have to fight against 28 other people, giving me a almost 3.5% chance to win. Shoemoney didn’t say if one winner takes both laptops, or if there will be two winners, but I guess there will be two, and that gives me a little better percent, but it’s still a long shot. But, I wouldn’t mind a new laptop. Which one would you have picked, the MacBook Air or the White Macbook?

Here is the other contestants that might ruin my chance to get a new (and first apple product) laptop:

Michael Martine - Remarkablogger
ErinK
Amanda (DrifterMama)
Chris
Joe Tech
SEO next
Zak Show
Custom T-Shirts
CoolProducts
Golf Games
Stephanie
Dave
Bryn Youngblut
atlanta wedding photographer
Danilo
HSD
mrkbsm
Dick
Craig L
Bradley
BarryO
SMM Guru
Jay Tillery
cheap used cars
Clog Money
Steve Cospolich
Ganesh
Billy

Foto: Shoemoney.com

Edit 2. October 2008: I think I overlooked a thing. The grand price aren’t each month. It’s each 2 month. So still a month to the drawing. My bad.

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I Have A Chance to Win Myself an MacBook Air

The 48 hours that transpired since listing my site on Sitepoint have been incredible. In fact, no less than 20 people have reached out to me and gave me a phone call. Over the past two days, I’ve talked to business leaders, CEOs, advertising execs, Tony the CEO of BlogCatalog, VCs, biz dev people, a gaming company in Israel, companies in the UK, and more. I’ve been on the phone so long I’m probably developing a tumor.

It looks like the whole sale thing got a little viral. The auction did not get any bids, but Graham received some bids behind the scenes, but I guess no one was high enough to make him sell it off.

It looks like Graham now is determen to make Entrecard work. I think it’s the right move, and hopefully he can take Entrecard back on it’s feet again.

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Entrecard Is Not For Sale Anymore

Dear VikingBlogger,

Congratulations! You are the randomly selected winner for your comments written on a shoemoney blog post on 2008-09-26. You have won a ShoeMoney t-Shirt and a chance at this months grand prize!

Each day Shoemoney draws one comment left on his blog, and sends the commentator a free t-shirt. They ship it for free anywhere in the world, so I guess a sweet shirt is heading my way in Norway. (Hey, that rimes..)

Link In The Header

The other cool thing about winning this draw is that Shoemoney places the last 4 winners in the header of his blog. The name is linking back to the winners blogs. So for 4 more days I got a free link on a premium location on Shoemoney.com. Cool. I wounder if it brings any clicks…

Have you won anything lately?

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Woho, I Won A Shoemoney T-Shirt