There is a good news for all free classified advertisers. They will now have more access to paid display ads. As announced by Microsoft for its classified service provider Winodws Live Expo users. Microsoft has seeked the help of AdMission, which is a classified ad technology firm, for the purpose.
Google+ Gets a New Look with Bigger & Better Images!
Google will soon be rolling out big changes for the Google+ platform. The first to make their debut are; the bigger size of cover photo and photo features like "auto awesome" & "auto enhance". Google ...
More than Half of the Mobile Phone Searches Turn to Conversions in 1 Hour!
The Mobile Search Moments report by Google and Nielsen reveals that when consumers search for the things on their mobile phones, half of them usually intend to buy it. The report looks at: When and why people ...
Interflora ban lifted: What exactly happened?
The over-publicized Google ban on the site Interflora was removed on 3rd March. It is very strange that Google has not yet commented on this particular ban. Usually, they have been outspoken and upfront about ...
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How To Do Persuasive Writing The AIDA Way?
The crux of online marketing is content. The words you use to lure the customers in.
Yahoo! Publisher Network has recently announced about their plans for reducing complexities in the advertisements. Yahoo! has taken this decision after getting feedbacks from thier customers. According to Yahoo! the simplyfying of the ads will in turn help improve the performance of your account. Yahoo! plans to simplify ads by removing some titles descriptions. In addition, number of link displays will also undergo changes.
Google has shockingly excluded Canadians from qualifying for the Google Advertising Professionals program. The fact has been reported in a Search Engine Watch forums thread. A Canadian is particularly upset about this and has written "Why are non-US and non-EMEA countries excluded from becoming a Qualfied Company? I have no idea, but for whatever reason, it wasn't simply an oversight. I wouldn't have thought that Canadian advertisers would have been considered small enough fish that they'd chose to ignore all of them!"
Confused by "blocked by robots.txt" errors? Read this post at Official Google Webmaster Central Blog for debugging robots.txt problems. The post has a handy checklist for debugging a blocked URL.
Like if you are looking at crawl errors for your website and notice a URL restricted by robots.txt that you did not intend to block then:
Microsoft will soon be serving a Chinese version of Live Search to China Telecom's 25 million broadband customers. The People's Daily Online reported :
"Microsoft has been looking for an opportunity to get into the search market since Baidu.com, Yahoo! and Google joined. The launch of Live Search is undoubtedly strategic.
China Telecom is China’s largest immobile network operator and internet provider, providng 210 million customers with voice service and 25 million customers with broadband service. It has more than 80 million internet users and over 400 city portal webs. "
Google Base Blog has announced the Redesigning of the Google Base homepage. Google has removed the search box from the Google Base home page. You can continue search from the Active Items dashboard, but for that you need to be within the Google Base home page. With this Google becomes the first search product not to feature a search box. Instead of the search box, it has added more examples of "popular and interesting item types- like car parts and filmography". Google has laid emphasis on maximizing usability by introducing the changes.
An Inside AdSense tip tells people to try rotating in and out the AdSense blocks with non-ads. Google recommends Related Links. On being launched, the related links were confused as other AdSense product. So, rotating the ads out with real free content could be a better idea.
After the tool allowing users to preview AdWords ads by geo specific criteria, Google now has a tool oy-oy.eu. The tool allows you to see Google results as if you are in another country. With the tool located at http://oy-oy.eu/google/world/ you can select the locations you want to compare side by side. The available locations are Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Greece, India, Iran, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Poland, Russian Federation, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, and Uruguay.
Aaron Wall wrote a blog post titled Why Do Keyword Tool Search Estimates Vary So much?. In his post, he suggests that the tools should serve as a way of identifying trends in various keywords, rather than being relied upon for hard numbers. According to him, the keyword suggestion tool should be used for more qualitative purposes.
Google, as usual always looking for something new, has come up with a brilliant way of advertising on sites. The magic words this time is Google Related Links.
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