I am not sure if this is 100% new in the UK or not. But it appears that from a Search Engine Watch Forums thread that moderator EvilGreenMonkey started, Google has now implemented Click-To-Call features in the UK. A search…
Google released this thing known as Google Image Labeler, it basically pins user vs. user to label images from Google images. The way you score points is if you both label the image with the same label. Here is my…
It appears that Matt Cutts of Google has added a tidbit to his already mind-swimming post named Scoble visiting the Plex, Matt added; By the way, it looks like the primary issue with the Windows Live Writer blog was the…
We thought in the past that the keyword limit at adCenter was about 40-50 thousand keywords per account. We now know that the limit is 100,000 keywords and 20 ads per order. Of course, like last time, you are allowed…
Reports via WebmasterWorld are that Google’s ad diagnostic tool will indeed not work properly in all cases at this moment. The reported case is; Searching for our ads via a few specific kw’s, I notice they aren’t showing. Diagnostic tool…
A very small but yet somewhat interesting observation has been made at Search Engine Watch Forums. You know how when you click on the “cache” link in the Google.com search results and Google will highlight the keywords you searched on,…
What steps should one take to cultivate a popular blog? For some, simply being who you are is enough (although he does a great job and would get traffic even if he wasn’t working for Big G), and others have…
Brett Tabke of WebmasterWorld has started an interesting thread at the WMW Forums discussing a recent policy shift at PBS regarding the manner in which visitors can access pages linked-to from within Google contextual ads hosted on the domain. He…
Google AdSense is the Internet marketing platform that allows people to place ads on topically-related websites. Using the operating system within AdWords, Google’s paid search engine service that places the sponsored listings above and to the right of popular search…
There is a WebmasterWorld thread with almost 100 messages already named Reporting violations, the Ethical Dilemma. It has a discussion of which types, the characteristics, of sites that run AdSense should be reported and which ones should not be reported…
A thread at DigitalPoint Forums points out that Google has changed how they handle navigational like queries, such as typing into Google, www.seroundtable.com. I am sure other threads have it since that Google update, but I have never seen it….
We initially thought the fees for using the Google AdWords API would begin July 1st but that didn’t happen. New reports via WebmasterWorld say Google has sent out emails to AdWords API users that the fees are to begin this…
As we state time and time again, vertical creep into the search results are becoming ever more so important each and every day. This time, we see a Threadwatch thread with a picture of Yahoo! Answers being added to the…
We have confirmation over the long debated topic on if the keywords in the URL or file names help with rankings. Some SEOs say it does not help, some SEOs say it may hurt (still true - be smart), some…
Finally, Finally, since wanting to do this since April of 2005, we will be launching our PodCast! In conjunction with WebmasterRadio.FM, we will be starting our show this Tuesday, on September 5th at 5PM (EST). The name of the show,…
Someone posted at Cre8asiteforums about a new Firefox Extension called “Stumble Upon” and already it’s a hit with forum members. Since the guys were all ga ga over it, I decided to give it a shot, using my female abilities…
Danny digs deep into the censorship taking place at Google Answers. Basically, as I wrote yesterday at SEW, Google Pulls Question About Google From Google Answers. The question was, “What percentage of Google searches are contextual?” Google pulled it, the…
Some people don’t like to read, so what we have are streaming audio and streaming video. The Inside AdSense Blog is one of the first official search blogs to use video to answer questions at the blog. They announced they…
A couple weeks ago, I reported at SEW blog on a Garett Rogers discovery, where he found that Google added a line to the robots.txt file for “/call”. So we made some speculation on that. He then updated us on…
WebmasterWorld moderator eWhisper posted a thread at WebmasterWorld documenting some of the smaller changes made to Google AdWords recently. He discusses how recently Ad Scheduling, AdWords Editor and Local AdWords got all the attention. He lists several other features and…
Danny reports that Google and Adobe formed a deal that will “Adobe will distribute the Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer as part of Adobe Macromedia Shockwave Player downloads.” Danny also notes that Yahoo! partnered with Adobe to provide a special…
The Inside Google Sitemaps blog announced new features for Google’s Sitemaps free service. The additions include; Full list of crawl errors (not just 10 anymore) Now, you can view data for individual properties and countries as well. For instance, you…
I can’t believe I didn’t spot this until Philipp Lenssen blogged it, Google is testing CPA (cost per action) AdSense ads. What that means is that instead of getting paid for clicks or impressions, you can get paid a…
I have been watching a WebmasterWorld thread named Loads of Supplemental and the titles are all corrupt. It is true, there are many examples of pages in Google’s supplemental index that have inaccurate titles. It appears that Google is listing…
A WebmasterWorld thread asks are the good advertisers jumping ship? Are Google AdWords advertisers either turning off the content network option and only advertising on the search network, slowed their advertising down due to the content network performance and/or completely…