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Sphere’s
New Search Impresses
Tony Conrad, Sphere's CEO, gave me a tour of Sphere.com
today, a new blog search engine. He started out by saying
that Mary Hodder is on their advisory board.
What
Can A Weblog Lead To?
Okay, so the weblog has yet to reach its full potential,
as the majority of folks outside this microcosm we've
created called cyberspace have a vague, if any, recognition
of the medium.
Taobao
Seeks Pricing Battle With eBay
The next battle in China for the eyes and wallets of Internet
users there will be over online auctions.
Google
Makes An Example of Weblogs, Inc.
E-business professionals everywhere stood up and took
notice when Jason Calacanis' Weblogs, Inc., bringing in
$3000 a day with Google AdSense, was swallowed up by America
Online for a reported $25 million.
Google
Helps Snare Suspected Murderer
A realtor in Ohio used Google to search for information
on a prospective tenant, and found the applicant's boyfriend
was a wanted man.
Serving
Up Ads To The Javascript Disabled
Because some web surfers like to disable javascript, websites
utilizing Google AdSense are unable to deliver the offering
plate to those visitors.
Blogger
Updates Captchas
The word verification system used by Blogger to help thwart
spammers has been revised to address some problems encountered
by users.
Google
Stock Gets A Big Bounce
The earnings announcement from the search engine company
brought a warm feeling to investors as the stock soared
in after-hours trading to $335.75.
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***For this to work, you need some kind of tracking for your website/web pages that tells you which search engines send people to you for what keyword searches. Now truly, for a website owner there is nothing more fascinating than their own stats, so if you don't have good tracking software yet, do go out and get some.
Editor's Note: Tracking your web site stats
is one of the more important aspects of Internet-related marketing.
The data found in these statistics is quite valuable to a site's
success. Discuss this and other topics at WebProWorld
There are many versions about, still many free ones available,
and please, DO get started with tracking your pages and their
performance.***
Now, let's get started.
The Google feedback loop works very simply and like this: Let's
say you have a website and you find out that a particular phrase
turns up in those search engine referrals which sends you some
people reliably, week in, week out.
It doesn't matter if it's only a few, what DOES matter is that
this is ALREADY HAPPENING. Therein lies the key!
As an example, I noted that just because there was a phrase that related to this by accident in one of my essays, I got some 14 people sent to me because they were searching for "symbols of eternal love". Down the list a bit further, there were another 9 who wanted "eternal love symbols", and then the many more single queries with random variations on that phrase.
A total of fifty visitors who would otherwise have gone elsewhere,
every month, on that one key phrase. That's nice and as it doesn't
cost us anything beyond a little time and ingenuity, and ...
... and this is IMPORTANT! ... and as I can PROVIDE MORE INFORMATION
on this key phrase because that is completely within the brief
of my site and what I do ...
I can now begin to enter into the "Google feedback loop". So
now, I shall expand on this idea of "symbols of eternal love".
I'll keep the original article and reference just the way it is, but I'm going to HYPERLINK the phrase where it appears in the text, and make another page with USEFUL AND MORE IN DEPTH information on "eternal symbols of love", including images, references and natural language copy.
When I do this, the following happens:
Firstly, we don't lose what traffic we are already getting by
NOT CHANGING THE ORIGINAL REFERRING PAGE. That's important!
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the Full Article
About
the Author:
Silvia Hartmann is the author of "MindMillion" and the CEO of The
StarFields Network. Find a great networking group, free ebook library
and a brand new, completely FREE wealth creation course plus superb
bonuses at http://MindMillion.com |
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Google
Helps Snare Suspected Murderer
By David Utter
A realtor in Ohio used Google to search for information on
a prospective tenant, and found the applicant's boyfriend was a wanted
man.
NBC4i.com in Columbus reported the capture of one of America's Most
Wanted in a case where a 51-year old man was killed by a suspected
drunken driver in May 2004. Doug Holler and his girlfriend, Marcia
Franz, had been on the run for a year and a half until Franz applied to
rent an apartment.
The realtor searched for the girlfriend's name on Google. One search result was from the web site for America's Most Wanted,
where she was listed as an associate of Holler's. Police from Marion,
Ohio were contacted, and they tracked down and arrested Holler.
A report on the web site described how Holler slipped away from a hospital and police after the accident:
Cops
say Holler checked into a hospital following the crash. Police say they
didn't file charges immediately because they were waiting for results
from a blood alcohol test -- they suspected Holler had been drinking.
Not only that, they say he had a previous drunk driving conviction.
But Holler didn't wait around for the test results. He took off and was never seen again.
He may have evaded the law, but he couldn't evade Google.
About
the Author:
David is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology
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Did Google Lower MSN.com's PR Score?
There is a discussion brewing in our WPW spotlight section concerning
an apparent PageRank score of 2 being "awarded" to MSN.com,
a known rival of Google. Within the discussion, a poster quotes
Google's Matt Cutts, who says MSN's low PR score is coming from
the URL without the www.
According to Matt, the full MSN.com URL (http://www.msn.com)
has a PR score of 8. Although the cause of the low PR score
may be known, some of the responses made for a good read. I've
highlighted some below. Enjoy.
|| Chris||
MSN.com
PR 2 Discussion
- Google has always claimed that it has no way of altering serps and page ranks to favor or disfavor any particular sites. Did MSN.com's new PR just disprove that...
- With 5.5 Million IBLs (according to AltaVista), MSN's PR2 does seem a little low ...
- What was MSN before GOOGLE hung the percieved "PR2 Tombstone"?
- If you notice all MSN's subdomains have higher PR, it just appears that their main index got hosed.
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I want to write an Excel or Access file to automatically populate the fields into
a writable PDF file. Is there a way to do this?
- tfinch
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