Archive for July, 2007
Digg Now Serving up Microsoft Ads
July 27th, 2007 | 
Author: Digg, a popular community-based popularity site, will be serving up Microsoft text and graphic ads on it’s site now. A blow to Google in bragging rights only, it’s not going to hurt Google’s bank account much. It may be a good gain for Microsoft as it’s reported that earlier tests hit the mark better than Google could. Digg users are different than the norm making serving ads a bit more challengine.
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Yahoo! Search Assist – Better Searching Suggestions
You’ve probably seen this feature on Google. You type in a search and it starts to suggest searches for you. Now Yahoo! has improved on their earlier attempt (called Search Suggest) and has released Search Assist. This article has a preview of the feature and how you can use it to improve your search habits. This feature can also be helpful in creating a list of key phrases to target your web site to. Keep in mind that these are only suggestions from Yahoo! and it’s not the perfect tool for creating such a list….it’s just another place to obtain ideas.
Microsoft to Suppor Sitemaps
Is it really true this time? Will Microsoft really support sitemaps this time. It seems they might really mean it this time. Adding a reference to your sitemaps file will allow Miscrosoft to find your sitemaps file and they promise to use it. Currently Google and Yahoo! support sitemaps and even allow you to ping them when it’s updated. Microsoft has no ping support to help push your content out faster (at least that’s the theory), but perhaps one day Microsoft will catch on.
MSN AdCenter Ad Showing on Ask.com
If you use MSN AdCenter, you now have the option to have your ads show on Ask.com. This allows you to push your ad out to almost the same amount of traffic as Yahoo! offers. Amazing what a 5% boost will do.
Microsoft Teams Up With Ask.Com To Bolster Paid Search — Microsoft — InformationWeek
Google Penalty Alerts in Webmaster Console
Google tried to alert people by email when their site was being banned for suspicious activity but those messages were spoofed. To continue this level of communication to web site owners, Google is now providing these messages in their Webmaster Tools Console. Now here’s a perfect reason to sign up for this service.
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Message Center: Let us communicate with you about your site
Google AdWords Accounts Cancelled….Ooops.
Not a good business model to slam the door on a customer….a bug in Google’s AdWords caused some accounts to be canceled. Of course Google is fixing these, but do log in and see if you are affected and complain quickly to get your campaigns back online.
EBay Offers Free Classified In US via Kijiji
A competitor to Craig’s List? EBay launches Kijiji in the US. Kijiji is already a leading classified service in other countries and EBay has quietly unleashed it in the United States. It’s odd considering EBay also owns 25% of Craigslist, but the Internet knows no bounds in oddities.
Use Flickr to Share Images….Gain Traffic
Used properly, Flickr’s photo sharing service can net you a bit more site traffic. Check out this how to in order to learn how to link the picture description text to your site.