There have been rumors that Yahoo! Publisher Network group's two top executives are leaving Yahoo!. The rumors have now been confirmed by PaidContent.org.
Every year Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) conducts surveys where people have chance to get their voices heard by the search engines. SEMPO 2006 is now open and you have the opportunity to share your opinions and expertise.
Yes, you read it right! Owing to a flaw in MSN's new anti-spam algorithm, you can remove your competitors site out of their index. Well, at least till MSN fixes the flaw.
BoogyBonBon.com tells you how to do this. The article provides a lengthy description on how to go about it. The summary of the method is that most sites return a 200 status if you add something to the URL and this is when Microsoft can be convinced that the site has duplicate pages. Microsoft will eventually penalize the site and de-list the site.
The much awaited WebmasterWorld PubCon 2006 started on 14th November in Las Vegas with many famous personalties of the Web world enlightening everyone with their lectures in their respective sessions. The conference was inaugurated by Brett Tabke with a short introduction followed by opening keynote by Guy Kawasaki from Garage Technology Ventures.
Microsoft adCenter has been converting & to & (the HTML entity) frequently lately. This has created difficult in tracking ads over the network. Your analytics package fails to tracck the URLs and the data is never reported.
Microsoft has sent no early information to the users and this has resulted in inconvinience for the latter. You can find discussions over the topic at DigitalPoint Forums.
After the recent launch of New AdWords algorithm, reports are pouring in about unhappy advertisers who think the latest update is a new height of price gouging by Google. A good representative of such sentiments is the blogpost by graywolf on Threadwatch. like other updates in the past, this update has resulted in many advertisers having to pay more for their keywords. The timing of the killer update is not exactly the reason to cheer about either. Steve Bryant summarizes the thoughts of advertisers here.
A post at Official Google Webmaster Central Blog informs that Google has updated their third party program and websites information.
The tools has various options that help to generate a Sitemap easily. These include Programs/Code Snippets, Content Management Systems and Other Plugins, Downloadable Tools, Online Generators.
Google is inviting advertisers to place ads on Orkut. The AdWords account shows the message:
"New! orkut.com is now part of the Google advertising network. With site targeting you can select specific communities on which to advertise. Run text, image, and Flash ads on orkut to start gaining new customers."
In October Google had posted Googlebot activity reports displaying number of pages on the sites crawled in last three months by Googlebot. Some people then questioned Google about how crawled pages are higher than actual number of pages on sites. The official Google Webmaster Central blog clarifies the question. According to it there are many factors involved in determining crawling of pages by Googlebot . The main factors are
Google AdWords API Developer's Guide has announced the launch of a new AdWords API Version 7 called V7. With V7, prominent changes have been done to AdWords API. Some of the important points of V7 are :
- Cross-Ad Group Criteria Updates : Update keywords in multiple ad groups with a single API call
- Ad Scheduling : Enable the ad scheduling advanced bidding feature
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