Google, Microsoft and Yahoo agree on a standard
Posted on May 19, 2007
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In an unusual mutual effort, arch rivals Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have agreed to support a common protocol to make Web sites more visible to search engines. Although competing directly in internet search and other online services, the three Internet search leaders have partnered to simplify how webmasters and online publishers submit their sites’ content for indexing in the companies’ search engines.
The companies intend to support the open-source Sitemap Protocol, based on XML. They will begin using Google Sitemaps in an attempt to standardize and improve the website indexing process. The protocol to be adopted has been created and used by Google for about a year and a half.
A site map is a file that webmasters and publishers put on their sites to guide the search engines’ automated Web crawlers in properly indexing their Web pages. Based on XML, site maps describe a Web site’s file and directory structure. In addition to identifying fresh content for search engines, sitemaps also help save bandwidth for publishers and search engines as they avoid unnecessary crawls to identify new or changed files.
Put together, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo jointly account for over 85 percent search engine market share as of 2006. Google, Microsoft and Yahoo will encourage other search engine operators, as well as makers of related software, like content management systems vendors to support the protocol.
By working together, the three giants efforts to standardize the protocol will be a welcome step for the internet community addressing the needs of webmasters, as well.
Overture Bid Tool still operating (but not in the USA)
Posted on March 12, 2007
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We’ve all known for some time now that the Overture Bid Tool is gone, however it is available in the UK.
Google AdSense Monitor for your Windows system tray
Posted on October 11, 2006
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If you’re like me, you don’t have time to check how you AdSense account is doing. Did you make any money today.. what about the last hour or two? Wouldn’t it be cool if there was an application that checked this information for you periodically and reported back via your window’s system tray?
Well – there is such a solution!
It’s made by Singer’s Creations and you can find it Singer’s Creations SysSense.
SysSense is your personal desktop Google AdSense monitor. It keeps your current Google AdSense information in the Windows system tray. You can monitor an unlimited number of Google AdSense accounts. A sound and/or system tray icon balloon can be configured to alert you when your statistics have changed.
Highly recommended!
Michael Cheney’s Adsense Videos
Posted on August 31, 2006
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When you are designing web pages for advertisement revenue, you need to give consideration to where you should be placing your advertisement and how they should be designed. Michael Cheney provides an grand set of videos which demonstrate how you should be designing and positioning Adsense advertisements on your site.
Carefully crafted, he walks you step-by-step with regards to design and placement of your ads. Content is not enough, multiple websites is not enough - you have to know what you are doing when you place advertisements on your site. Learn from a pro - Michael Cheney. He’ll show you how.
Learnmore about Michael Cheney’s Adsense Videos.
ArticleUnderground.com Rocks!
Posted on August 31, 2006
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For those of you familar to Mike Liebner’s Article Underground, much of what you’ll find here, you probably already know because I’m a relatively newcomer towards Adsense and Affiliate marketing. However, I have known Mike for a long time and I’ve watched him work wonders with the internet since he left radio many years ago and started his own internet empire.
Ever since I signed up on ArticleUnderground.com, I’ve begun to learn how powerful his articles had become and as a result, I’ve been able to generate revenue within the first few months of my endevour.
Memberships for Article Underground are currently sold out, however, join their free newsletter and get notified when they open a new phase to their program.
Visit Article Underground for details.
Adsense Gold ~ Adsense Tracker
Posted on August 28, 2006
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Google offers a nice analytics tool to measure website activity, but if you really want a very efficent tool that monitors visits and clicks, going into detail regarding where people came from, what keywords were used to find you and where people went, then you owe it to yourself to check out Jonathan Leger’s Adsense Gold’s Adsense Tracker.
Here’s a sampling of what the tool has done for me:
- Identify popular keywords and more importantly key phrases that are getting increased traffic on my website.
Why is this important? Once I have identified keywords and key phrases with increased traffic, I can gentlely increase my keyword and keyphrase density on those specific pages to increase the page relevancy to the term(s) and make the page even more ‘attractive’ to the search engines.
- Identify web pages which are getting increased traffic on my website.
Why is this important? If a page on my website is getting increased traffic, it’s highly likely that it might get increased traffic on an alternate, similar website. Why not take a ‘winner page’ and make a slightly modified copy on an alternate domain and generate twice the benefit!
- Identify key referral sources which are bringing me more traffic.
Why is this important? Through a variety of methods, we struggle to build traffic from various sources. If we have identified a few key resources that our sending traffic our way, it’s critical for us to identify who they are so that we can continue to build on those relationships.
My friend Mike Liebner of Article Underground put it simply…
“Do you want to want to play the lottery or do you want to play the stock market?”
After considering the question, I knew full well what he meant. My colleagues - the program is simple to install and VERY simple to apply. Once installed, you need only and ‘one simple line of script’ into the footer of your web pages for this powerful tracking mechanism to work. It’s brilliantly thought out and designed offering you much flexibility.
If your serious about getting results from your traffic, I urge you visit and read more about Jonathan Leger’s Adsense Gold’s Adsense Tracker.