Inktomi Paid Inclusion

Jan 14th
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Some top SEO experts are recommending people "get out their wallets" and use index connect for Inktomi.

I do not recommend Inktomi paid inclusion unless you have
1.) rapidly changing content OR
2.) technical issues with your site OR
3.) are using it to learn SEO

I feel my blogs work just fine for my paid inclusion.

A Couple New News Ideas

Jan 13th
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Local pay per click idea? "Topix.net launched into beta today, and was done by the same team that built dmoz.org/newhoo. One of our goals is to aggregate local traffic at the zip code level and be able to drive local web hits to ads." - Rich Skrenta

Topix has over 150,000 news channels which are constantly updated. I think a big flaw with their idea is that currently you have to go to their site to find all the information...or at least they did not make it easy for me to find a data feed. Thus they can not compete with sources like Google News (ad free and not biased by human editors), and they will likely strugle to pull visitors from local news papers due to customer loyalty. Time shall tell...

An Awesome new news aggregator (which is ad free and amazing if you figure out how to use it) is del.icio.us

★ ► Arrows and Stars on the SERP

Jan 13th

While it may not improve your search engine rankings any there are ways to have fun with the search engine results page. If you place escape character codes in your title you can make it show up with arrows or stars on the search engine results page.

for a star use & # 9 7 3 3 with no spaces between the characters.
for an arrow use & # 9 6 5 8 with no spaces between the characters.

I actually learned this a few weeks back while reading Search Engine Yearbook 2004. You can actually use this trick with many other symbols too. Here is a post from Webmaster World about it.

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Just a reminder that the strongest competitors may not initially seem like direct competitors. IBM Webfountain article.

Google Ads New Codes

Jan 13th

Internetnews announced some of the additional features Google has added, including USPS codes, UPC codes, Flight codes, and zip codes. Thats a whole lot of codes!

In addition the article briefly talks about how Google can make additional revenue off of the Flight numbers and UPC codes.

"When you type in the UPC code, it comes out with a link to Upcdatabase.com but some other information as well," Li said. "It's mining the information that Google has in its example but also information about the product as well. If I'm either the product manufacturer or a competitor, I could go to Google and buy my UPC number."

ChriSEO's 'Glass Ceiling'

In any medium there will be free rides as new adopters take advantage of knowledge not share by their competitors. While there is always a new technology which creates new markets, this quick read does a good job of explaining why off the page optimization is more effective than on the page optimization. Chris Ridings explains "The Glass Ceiling."

Update: above link to chriseo.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=62&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 delinked, as the site is owned by a domainer and is a page full of ppc ads

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Google AdWords Dynamic Keyword Insertion

Just another tip on improving conversion rates with Google AdWords. When search words appear in a Google ad they are bolded. A good way to improve click through rate (and thus lower price per click) is to place keywords in the ad.

Sometimes it may not be practical to create 100 different ads and 100 different groupings. If you have similar terms which can use the same creative description, but you would like to have the title dynamically match searched keywords you can.

The syntaxt for Google AdWords Dynamic Keyword Insertion is {keyword: }

When you create the AdWords creative place {keyword: } in the first line and then fill out the rest of the creative like normal. Automatically your title will match the search terms which will improve click through rates. Please note that Google does not want this feature used on search terms which are mis spelled or otherwise break their ad policies.

When you use {keyword: } make sure you place a keyword after it so that search terms which may be too long or are not processed correctly still have an ad to show. I know this because I had one of my Google AdWords ads disapproved for not doing this. For me I would probably use something like {keyword:SEO Book}.

Some people will want to try this with a huge catalog of products and will lose money in the process. When products are widely varying you want to send the person to the specific page for that product so you must specify that as well.

This technique is likely to be most profitable to those who use it on smaller niche specific areas...the whole thing that makes Google so appealing is that you can customize every aspect of your ad and track every cent spent from begining to end.

Dynamic keyword insertion capitalization:
{keyword:} will make the title small
{KeyWord:} will capitalize all the words in the Google AdWords ad title.

Google AdWords Reports

Jan 11th

AdWords is one of the most complex ad networks ever created. While using it may seem simple, many small details can make or break the bank.

Google has recently created its very own 41 page PDF AdWords report "Making the most out of your Google AdWords account." I have another thing to read this weekend!

In addition Andrew Goodman just updated "21 Secrets Your Competition Doesn't Know About Google AdWords" for 2004. His new report is a page PDF which sells for $69. I have yet to read the updated report, but last years report blew me away.

In addition Perry Marshall has wrote an eBook which I have not had time to review yet. For a limited time, the Perry Marshall report is thrown in as a free bonus when you buy Google Cash. Google Cash only costs half the price of the Perry Marshall report and comes with a 90 day money back guarantee.

Read my review of Google Cash.

Google WhoIs Feature

Jan 10th

Try the new Google WhoIs feature

Google now allows you to search for the owner of a domain. If you think you have a network of evil competitors which are just cross linked you can search it via Google (even via the Google Toolbar) using whois seobook.com.

Most registrars require you enter a password to find the WhoIs information. This new Google feature may raise some privacy issues.

thanks to wmw

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