LostintheCrowd has come up with a new service that enables you to keep your search clouded on AOL, Google, Ask, MSN Search and Yahoo. For this you have to provide LostintheCrowd, with a copy of cookie the search engine is using to keep track of your searches. Using this cookie Lostinthe Crowd will keep regularly searches the Web, develop random information or "noise" that drowns out your original search.
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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.
A Webmaster World thread talks about an issue that is unique to UK based site, within the Google searh results in UK. It says about the search result of Google when specified as 'pages from UK'. The search provides you with the lists of all pages except the home page. The issue elaborated in the thread is as follows
Matt Cutts talks about Mark Buchanan’s new paper -citation ranking article. The article talks about ranking papers not merely by raw number illustrations but by substituting it with Page Rank-like algorithm. One example tells how one paper by John Slater which had a drastic change in its rank from 1,853 to the 10th place.
Google released Google Base data API, which permits you to write applications on the basis of dynamic interaction with Google Base. It enables you to insert, edit , delete items , enriching the existing information. You can also query the content of other published users. The items of the content can be accessed via the API. This accredits you to create domain -specific search applications or mash-ups, incorporating Google Base content with other services. Visit Google Code blog for detailed information regarding its functionality and use.
Matt Cutt recently wrote about changing the default printer for Firefox on Linux saying that he did this article because he himself was looking for the information on this subject but didn't get enough material. At this point Matts advices about writing for useful information. He says that each keyword should be written carefully. The utility of an article is cardinal. The content need not be very long but it should have all the essential information. Whenever you are looking for an answer or information and you cant find it, take it as an opportunity. Spend time and research to produce a useful content. He says that "I’d recommend thinking more about words and variants (the “long-tail”) and thinking less about keyword density or repeating phrases." Read more.
MSN Search/Live.in from now on will be serving more that 250 search results. Till some time back MSN was producing maximum 250 results of search. But from now on you can actually have more than 1000 results of search displayed. You can go as far as 1031 results with your search. For example if you gave the keyword “net” for search, you were provided with 250 results in response, but now you can have as many as 1031 results. The justification that MSN used to give for displaying only 250 results was that no other search engine goes beyond that. However, no one searches for more than 1031 results too.
ClickTracks web analytics service celebrates its merger with one of the leading e-marketing company J. L. Halsey. The wholly owned subsidiaries of J. L. Halsey are Lyris Technologies, EmailLabs and Hot Banana. Now ClickTracks has been added to this list. J.L. Halsey plans on promoting the ClickTracks product development, marketing, sale and support services.
“ClickTracks is one of the fastest growing web analytics companies serving the SMB market.” said David Burt, CEO of J.L. Halsey. “We look forward to seeing additional innovative ClickTracks products on the market – more quickly and well integrated with other vital online marketing tools.”
ClickTrack will work as an indirect wholly owned subsidiaries of J.L.Halsey.The present CEO of the company John Marshall will continue with his designation and no structural changes are planned for the company. Visit here.
Google Base Blog declared about there new service of tracking clicks and impressions. Everytime a person clicks on an item, an impression is created. For this Google has added three new columns on the items dashboard:impressions, clicks and page views. Impressions and clicks can be updated once a day whereas hosted page views can be updated several times a day.
Google Base offers you with its service to keep a record of total impressions, clicks and page views of posted items. It starts counting as soon as the item is published. You can view statistics as far back as June 7,2006. For any item created before this date, the information will not available. Click and impression statstics are updated daily while page view statistics are updated several times a day. A tip from Goolge say's that if you have more impressions in comparision to number of clicks, then you can enrich its tittle and add detailed attributes, images etc to make it more appealing and increase your click rates.
Levi.com has pulled out Google Inc.'s Checkout online payment service. The decision to drop Google Checkout from the main page of the site questions the working of the service. The service was introduced in late July. Apparently, customers have been facing problems with the service. Credit card processing delays being the most common. On placing the order, the customer does receive confirmation email from Google but it's the credit card verification and approval of the order that takes too much time. The reason for inordinate delays is the Google's overly cautious procedure to prevent fraud.
In an effort to find out which search engine has the least syntax errors, a Google Blogoscoped reader run the major search engines through the W3 HTML Validator.
The result is quite surprising which are posted in the Google Blogoscoped Forums:
1. 1st place – MSN – Passed!
2. 2nd place – Altavista – Failed, 38 errors
3. 3rd place – Yahoo – Failed, 41 errors
4. 4th place – Google – Failed, 61 errors
5. 5th place – Ask.com – Failed, 64 errors
6. Runner-up – Dogpile – Failed, 70 errors
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