“I was on the Twitter this weekend, and I saw a tweetening of the most tragic thing I ever had twattered. According to multiple tweets, friend of the show and of dinosaurs actor Jeff Goldblum passed away on Thursday in New Zealand. Now sure, you didn’t hear about itin the mainstream media. But I don’t see how Delicioushair could get this wrong.”
The AdWords API team is pleased to announce the launch of AdWords API v2009 in production! v2009 offers more speed, scale, and flexibility to developers, at a lower cost.
Back in April, we released a sandbox for our newest version of the AdWords API so you could begin experimenting. As mentioned in that blog post, we’re using a new version naming convention to highlight the significant differences between this version, called AdWords API v2009, and v13.
This launch is a production beta, and we’re asking developers to sign up for access here. We’ll add you to our whitelist on a rolling basis,and send each of you a confirmation email once you’ve been added.
A few months ago a guy named Dave Woodward came and asked if he could come and film in Russell Brunson home and office. After a lot of thought Russell Brunson decided to let him come.
He turned it into an amazing 30 minute documentary showing exactly HOW I was able to dig out of over $200k in debt and turn it into millions a year.
When it comes to making money with a website, one of the most popular methods is running text and/or image ads on various pages. It’s referred to as contextual advertising and “inline ads”. Text or image ads are shown which match the content of the pages. Inline ads appear as highlighted words on the page when the visitor hovers over highlighted text on the page. Ads appear in small boxes. Contextual ads are often displayed to the right or left of website copy, or as blocks within sections of the text. The ads shown are related to the content of each individual page. As visitors click on these links, you earn cash.
Hear what the experts in the Search Engine Marketing industry predict to be the most important SEO tactics for 2009. Recorded at SMX Advanced 2009 in Seattle, Washington.
Watch Google’s Matt Cutts and Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan undressing each other in a funny moment during the keynote at SMX Advanced 2009 in Seattle, Washington
We hear lots of questions about site architecture issues and traffic drops, so it was a pleasure to talk about it in greater detail at SMX London and I’d like to highlight some key concepts from my presentation here. First off, let’s gain a better understanding of drops in traffic, and then we’ll take a look at site design and architecture issues.
New Release by vtc.com – “MasterClass! – Adobe LiveCycle Designer” by Geoff Blake. Duration of the course - 3 hours.
PDF-based forms created in Adobe LiveCycle designer provide a robust method for distributing electronic forms while maintaining design integrity. Discover the tools, commands, and palettes that LiveCycle offers that makes form creation easy. Learn how to create common form objects like text fields, check boxes, and drop down menus as well as how to work with pre-created form objects. Then follow along and see how easy LiveCycle makes it to format a form’s overall look and design. Finally, create buttons to control your form and learn how to manage back-end form data. Work Files are included. To begin learning, simply click on one of the video topics.
You’re a good webmaster or web developer, and you’ve done everything you can to keep your site from being hacked and keep your forums and comment sections free of spam. You’re now the proud owner of a buzzing web2.0 social community, filling the web with user-generated content, and probably getting lots of visitors from Google and other search engines.
Many of your site’s visitors will create user profiles, and some will spend hours posting in forums, joining groups, and getting the sparkles exactly right on the rainbow-and-unicorn image for their BFF‘s birthday. This is all great.
Matt Cutts of Google has been producing daily videos answering questions from the SEO community. Many of these videos have useful information for all levels of SEO. I wanted to share Matt’s most recent video and then point you to his other videos.
Richard M. from Australia asks:
“We sell a software product, and there are 100s of software download directories on the web of varying quality. Could submitting our product to all of them hurt our rankings or domain trust/authority?”
Here’s a new one on me. I just got an email telling me that I’ve won nearly $1 million from a “drawing” randomly selected from those searching on Google. Suffice to say, it’s a scam. I can assure you that Google’s done no drawing like this. Add the spam to those about missing fortunes in Nigeria or government grants.
I did some looking around, and the Google scam seems relatively recent. Apparently there was a Google “anniversary” scam in April 2008. For this latest “give-away” one, I spotted talk of it from April of this year. But since this particular spam made it past the filters in Gmail (but not past Outlooks spam filtering), perhaps more people will be exposed to it.
Oops. Bad, Google. Occasionally the service inserts direct answers to searches at the top of its results. It makes guesses at this, and in the case of michael jackson died, it’s making the wrong guess. Henry Elliss tipped us that Google’s showing that Michael Jackson died in 2007, at age 65.
The problem? Google’s drawing on Wikipedia and picking the wrong Michael Jackson, the writer rather than the King Of Pop. That’s wrong in terms of what people currently spiking searches for “michael jackson died” are expecting. Those interested in the writer did spike queries back when the writer died. The more recent spike is due to the pop singer’s dead (you can see both spikes on Google Trends).
Matt Cutts of Google has been producing daily videos answering questions from the SEO community. Many of these videos have useful information for all levels of SEO. I wanted to share Matt’s most recent video and then point you to his other videos.
AndyPTG from Boston asks:
“Will I be penalized for having every file in my XML Sitemap listed with the same priority? Google Webmaster Tools gives me a warning on that. But at the same time the priority field is optional.”
The display URL is the part of your ad copy text that tells consumers where they will go if they click on your ad. Therefore, it is a very important tool for branding yourself, as it is how consumers will recognize you in list of sponsored results.
Each of the major search providers typically enforces the following rules with regard to the format of display URLs:
The top level domain of the display URL must match the top level domain of the ultimate landing page (excluding redirections e.g. for tracking URLs).
The display url can be a sub-domain e.g. ’something.topleveldomain.com’
At Google, we are moved by the life and untimely passing of Michael Jackson. As word spread of his death, millions and millions of people from all over the world began searching for information about the pop icon. The following chart shows the meteoric rise in related searches around 3:00pm PDT:
Search volume began to increase around 2:00pm, skyrocketed by 3:00pm, and stabilized by about 8:00pm. As you can see in Google Hot Trends, many of the fastest rising search queries from yesterday and today have been about Michael Jackson’s passing (others pertained to the death of another cultural icon, Farrah Fawcett). People who weren’t near a computer yesterday turned to their mobile phones to check on breaking news. We saw one of the largest mobile search spikes we’ve ever seen, with 5 of the top 20 searches about the Moonwalker.
With Twitter and Facebook taking on real-time search and rumors that Google will soon do the same, there will be an increasing need for companies to learn how to use search engine optimization (SEO) to attract people looking for up-to-the-minute results.
With this in mind, Mike Dobbs writing at Mashable says there are a number of tips people can use to make sure their Twitter – and potentially other real-time search engines – are working in their favor for search engine optimization (SEO) purposes.
SEO: time-intensive, ever changing, and highly misunderstood. Creating a website design that is appealing, while also search engine friendly, is one of the hardest parts about SEO web design.
If you’re a designer, are your designs really search friendly?
A lot of misconceptions about SEO still exist in the web design community and many designers, who have at least some knowledge, are often acting with outdated information. Once a designer understands the value of SEO, there is still the concern of how to keep a design attractive, while also being search friendly.
