Archive for September, 2008
Yahoo! Flippin’ Crazy Man
September 29th, 2008 | 
Author: 10x the minimum to get into Yahoo! Product Submit. It used to be $25, but many members are receiving email messages that the minimum is $250. There goes the incentive to take a gamble and try it out. I can understand $50, but this is too high a minimum for the average home seller that wants to test the waters. What’s your opinion? Discussion at Webmaster World….
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Spring Clean Those AdWords
It’s time to spring clean those AdWords. To improve your score, look at your stats and remove those poor performers. Read more here from AdWordsPro.Sarah…
Yahoo! Does Not Equal Redirect
With Google still gaining market share, Yahoo! had better do better than this to stop the profuse bleeding. Here’s a Webmaster forum thread discussing how Yahoo! is ignoring simple www redirects. What else are they ignoring?
Talk Like a Pirate Day
A favorite among geeks….talk like a pirate for a whole day. Check out many of the search engine’s home pages for their celebrations as well as the truly official site below…(not to be confused with the fake official sites).
The Official site for International Talk Like A Pirate Day – September 19
Quality Score is Live
Google AdWords Quality Score is alive today for many. Log into your campaigns to view if it’s active for you. This tool shows you how Google scores your ad components to help you improve your ad performance….and their bottom line.
Inside AdWords: Quality Score improvements to go live in coming days
The Official Future of Search
Peer into my Google crystal ball….tell me the future of search. Marissa Mayer, VP of Google’s Search Products and User Experience posted an article on the official Google blog about the future of search. While there are no big surprises here, it does at least tell us what they think we are going to want. Technology and the quirks of humanity may change these plans. The true future of search will go where there is a buck to be made and don’t ever forget it.
When Geek meets Not Funny
The new Microsoft commercial get’s points for being really annoying. It isn’t funny and hasn’t any point. What are they trying to sell? Shoes? Club memberships? Personally I never found Seinfeld to be very funny. Kind of like this commercial, I thought the sit-com was annoying and pointless.
The point of this is that this commercial is getting a lot of buzz. Why is Microsoft spending $300 million on this series of commercials? Simple. It’s getting a lot of buzz. It seems everyone is writing about it including me. The old saying “there’s no such thing as bad publicity” is certainly true here. So, have you released any videos that promote your business. You can’t do any worse than this and you can certainly do it for less money. I’d love to see some great spoofs on this commercial. Any takers?
Google’s New Browser
Is Google going to release a new browser? Here are images of the new browser. Google is stating that they want the browser to just do it’s job and then get out of the way allowing users to focus on the web content.