September 29th, 2007 at 02:40am Under Uncategorized
Another Yahoo service is about to be killed off, according to the headline at the top of the Yahoo Podcast site. It states:
Yahoo! apologizes deeply, but we will be closing down the Podcasts site on Oct. 31, 2007
The service had been available for about two years.
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September 29th, 2007 at 02:40am Under Uncategorized
Making sure you stay on topic with your own blog can be quite easy, but when you are looking to get paid for blogging, sometimes you think “any job will do”, but Lorelle goes over her own experiences blogging outside her comfort zone at The Blog Herald.I took a fresh look at it and cringed. […]
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September 29th, 2007 at 02:40am Under Uncategorized
Want a snapshot of the day’s search marketing news? Here we’ve collected today’s top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web:
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September 29th, 2007 at 02:40am Under Uncategorized
Seems Google is testing using time elements in their search results, according to results found by Cheezhead, though the first comment was from Danny Sullivan who thinks the results may be related to advanced search.
Time elements could be an interesting filter when dealing with news or blog sites, but beyond that it promotes constantly changing your content. I would like to hear from anyone else that has seen this or people with comments on its use.
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[Source: Search Engine Watch Blog]
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September 29th, 2007 at 02:40am Under Uncategorized
One of the intriguing things about the Microsoft Searchification event that took place on Wednesday of this week was the new shopping search offering they demonstrated. It truly does offer some unique and interesting stuff. In this post, I will show you a couple of sample screen shots, and talk about some of the more interesting aspects of this new offering from Microsoft.
Let’s start with a screen shot for the search “ipod”:
There are two things to observe here:
1. The 4 thumbnails of the most popular related products, which includes pricing and rating information.
2. The Related Searches information on the right rail, above the sponsored ads.
So far this is interesting, but not exceptional. Where it gets more interesting is if you click on one of the thumbnails. When you do that it brings you to a detailed product overview page such as the one in this screen shot:
On this page you get user reviews aggregated from many sources. On the left rail, you can get user ratings across more than 30 categories. The cool thing about this is that it is dynamically extracted by Microsoft from the user ratings themselves. This includes extracting the categories of things commented on by users, as well as whether or not the user rating was positive of negative.
Instead of the single rating per product that is typical of most sites, you get a quick visual blow by blow review of many important product factors. Even if the product has a 4+ star rating, if you look at the details and see that it has a Customer Service rating of 0, you might choose to not buy it.
It all depends on what is important to you, and this quick snapshot allows you to find that level of detail quickly without having to pore through dozens of reviews. The aggregation is important too, because even if you find a review that comments on the attribute you care about, it’s only one opinion. The aggregation is what gives you a balanced view of the product.
Unfortunately, the detailed product pages are currently only available for consumer electronics, but, overall, I found the change innovative and interesting. I know that when I next buy some electronic gadget that I will check it out here.
It’s a critical step for Microsoft to take - that of differentiating their search offering. This was just one component of their strategy for doing that. It still remains to be determined how the market itself will respond, but it all starts with putting something interesting on the table, and that they have done.
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[Source: Search Engine Watch Blog]
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September 29th, 2007 at 02:40am Under Uncategorized
Seems Google is testing time elements as a filter of the SERPs. I blogged about a couple of articles out there, including a comment by Danny. If you
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September 29th, 2007 at 02:40am Under Uncategorized
Found in the search marketing forums: Google Conversion Optimizer; Have SEOs Lost the Plot?; All the Good Domains Are Gone and Half Are Not Even Used; and more.
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September 29th, 2007 at 02:40am Under Uncategorized
A previously $19.95 SEO product has gone fully freeware: (url)http://www.keywordranker.com(/url) It’s a nifty little Excel spreadsheet that lets
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September 29th, 2007 at 02:40am Under Uncategorized
Unfortunately, a number of pages on my site were copied and renamed for the purpose of organization in the CMS. Knowing the original files were alread
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September 29th, 2007 at 02:40am Under Uncategorized
is there any indicated site have the highest alexa ranking? what is the maximum rank in alexa?
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