Archive for February, 2007
MSN to Refund Overcharges
February 26th, 2007 | 
Author: If you are advertising with Microsoft Live, they have announced refunds for those accidentally overcharged. I guess they are trying to copy their competitors too closely by making the same mistakes.
adCenter Blog: Advertisers may see high CPC and spend amounts
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Google Adwords Error in CPC Average
If your average cost per click numbers went through the roof recently, it’s a confirmed bug. Don’t panic. Click here instead.
Yahoo! Pipes How To
Yahoo! Pipes is a new RSS mixing service that let’s you blend or mash up different RSS feeds. It can take a bit getting use to. Here’s a great article to get you on your way to using this new and sometimes useful tool.
Be Picturesque with Google
Submit your photos to Google AdWords and be on their wall of fame. If you are an advertiser with AdWords, send along your photos and you could be rewarded!
Social Shopping
Create your wish list online or just put together your favorite places to shop. If you sell online, check out this site!
Wists, top web picks from for all. Wists, social shopping scrapbook, wishlist
Walk Like a Man, Talk Like a Man, Think Like an Engineer
Here’s a good review article about thinking like a search engineer. Constantly being in the search arena, you do have to step back and think like the engineers that put it all together. All too often people do have one focus and it’s good to step back on put on just one person’s hat. Although it raises a few good points, my biggest issue is still getting people who create the site content to think like their site visitors. Quality content is still king.
How to Set Up A Blog
Want a great article on setting up a blog? Why not one where a number of people have chimed in. There is a converstation at Cre8asite with a lot of good information in it.
The most important things to remember about blogs is plan ahead and host on your own domain. In planning, create about 10-15 articles in advance before you decide how it will look. As for your own domain, you want control over it.
What to use for blog software? Well WordPress is currently the most popular for serious blogging.
Firefox vs Microsoft Site Compatibility
Not really a suprise, but I’ve just noticed that you cannot use many of the links on the MSN home page if you are using Firefox. I have the latest of both Firefox and IE running on XP Pro. This should bother a number of people. What’s next? Will content in their search engine be blocked because of a person’s choice of browser. Microsoft…get a clue…this is a great way to lose the search engine war. One would hope they fix it. If it’s just a Windows bug, then it still has the same effect.
Backlinks Extended
Google has expanded the information in their link: operator to be a lot more accurate. You can apply filters and even classify information. Behold I give you better information which shall be to all Googlers…oh yea….Christmas may be over, but Google keeps on giving.
Google Analytics Down…Along With Finance
Google Analytics and Finance pages were down. A number of Google services have blacked out over the past few weeks. Perhaps there are a number of changes going on and these are glitches that we see, but it can be irritating when you are trying to accomplish something.