Bring more traffic to your website/blog by knowing these secrets today.
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SEO Cheat Sheet for Web Developers
How To Write Great Ads
Writing good ad copies is utilizing science + art. This picture from Microsoft Adcenter shows some basic which can help you get started. [Read more…]
Google Can’t Do This But Yahoo Can!
Consider yourself an elite Yahoo! user if you know what these are. I wonder how many people knew about these, including a faster way to send mails in Yahoo!, search and redirect to your favorite sites and searching incoming links for a domain.
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Alexa Updates Rankings System Algorithms
Alexa ranking has long been a yardstick to determine how popular a site is in terms of traffic. How Alexa used to do this was to encourage users to download and install the Alexa toolbar onto your browser and using it to collect user browsing behaviors and data of sites that you visit. This has been going on for too long and there has always been ways to manipulate the rankings by writing scripts to trigger self visits to the websites you own, which in turn causes some webmasters and marketers to believe that Alexa rankings aren’t even accurate. [Read more…]
Are Web, Link and Blog Directories Overrated?
It’s a myth that surrounds webmasters and bloggers whether it’s worth the effort to submit your website/blog into directories. There has always been buzz around saying that you can get tons of traffic, good backlinks, and some PR juice from google if your web address is in one of those so called web directories. But personally, it’s not worth the effort. [Read more…]
What is Google Adwords Quality Score
You can get most of these answers from Google Adwords. Here are just some of the summaries and notes which I’ve found useful and easier for me to know what Google Adwords Quality Score trully means. If you are an advertise/marketer, this quality score is important for you as it can determine the outcome of a positive/negative experience with your marketing campaign.
Quality Score is a dynamic variable assigned to each of your keywords. It’s calculated using a variety of factors and measures how relevant your keyword is to your ad text and to a user’s search query. Quality Score influences your ads’ position on Google and the Google Network. It also partly determines your keywords’ minimum bids. In general, the higher your Quality Score, the better your ad position and the lower your minimum bids. [Read more…]
Google and DoublClick Together At Last
Almost 8 months after the original acquisition plan was announced, online search engine operator Google has finally finished its $3.1 billion acquisition of online ad service DoubleClick Inc. when European antitrust regulators cleared the deal. The approval, which follows U.S. regulators’ clearing of the deal in December, was the final hurdle Google needed to clear to take control of the company. [Read more…]
Google Analytics Updates Data Sharing Settings
This is actualy a good move by google to consolidate all accounts that you may have so that they can identify you easier and provide better service for you. Every virtual asset that you can think of now such as blogger, adsense, adwords and even analytics now requires you to sign in with a Google Account. [Read more…]
Finally Some Love From Compete
I’ve finally received some love from Compete. Watching at the Search Status Firefox Plugin bar, and particularly the Compete tab, the ranking system indicating how many visitors that my blog was getting, had just went from nothing to showing a bit of pink.
Here’s how it looks like as of 7th March 2008.
