Google has filed an application dated July 28, 2005 , with the US Patent and Trade Office (USPTO) for embedding advertisements into syndicated RSS and Atom feeds.
According to the abstract, the patent deals with a method for “incorporating targeted ads into information in a syndicated presentation format in an automated manner.” Beyond just RSS and Atom feeds, the method described also pertains to syndicated formats that are XML compliant.
Google will likely face prior art challenges on any patent award. The company rolled out the beta version of its AdSense for RSS offering to all publishers in May, but the firm was not the first to introduce RSS ad insertion to Web sites and advertisers. Pheedo and Kanoodle are among the networks with longer-standing offerings.
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Just in case you were wondering which search engines had users with money in the bank (and I know you were), comScore Networks, Inc. reports that in the month of June, MSN searchers were 48% more likely to buy online than the average Internet user. Googlites were 42% more likely.
The increased likelihood of AOL users to make an online purchase was nearly nonexistent, reporting a 3 percent better chance than the average user. Yahoo users were 31% more likely and AskJeeves users were 17% more likely.
“That’s important to the value of the consumer and the fact they have money in their pockets, which is noteworthy,” says James Lamberti, vice president of search solutions, at comScore Networks Inc.
Another area interest is how those buyers are spread out demographically. According comScore, men were most likely to search using Google. Google’s audience in June was found to be 51.5% male. Yahoo! was 49.7% male, MSN 49%, AOL 48.1%, and AskJeeves was only 46.3% male.
“The percentage differences aren’t that great, but when you talk about 48.5% of Google users being female vs. 52% at AOL, that’s a pretty big difference when you are talking about the entire Internet population,” says Lamberti.
Googlites seemed to launch more sophisticated searches as well, more often typing in complex search queries. The simpler, more broad search terms occurred more often with AOL, MSN, and Yahoo!.
Lamberti adds that search term specificity is a key indicator of the likelihood of making an online purchase.
However, likelihood to buy doesn’t mean that customers buy right away. A separate study showed that in the consumer electronics category (cameras, TVs, etc.), 85% of purchases were made off line an average of 5 to 12 weeks after the initial search. Only 15% made a purchase during the first search session.
Overall, in the same category, 25% of searches converted to a purchase, but 92% of these purchases occurred off line.
“These findings reinforce the importance of considering the latent impact of search engine usage when evaluating search engine marketing investments,” said Lamberti.
“Search cannot be thought of as solely a direct response marketing tool, especially in highly considered product categories where search activity can precede a purchase by as much as 60 to 90 days.”
As for search terms, 70% of all searches began with generic search terms (camera, mobile phone), while branded search terms (Sony, Lexmark) accounted for only 20%. The remaining 10% of search terms were product specific (HP notebook nx9010). Sixty-one percent of purchase conversions were begun with generic search terms.
“It’s critical that retailers consider generic search terms as an important part of their keyword strategy,” said Lamberti.
“Marketers focused solely on specific product terms known to convert directly will fail to address the vast majority of consumers in the buy cycle.”
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With the Yahoo updation of its index on 20th July 2005and also changing their indexing algo, there are some rumors that now Yahoo also has a sandbox. (Previously, Only google was supposed to have sandbox).
I tested it for one week with one new site of mine, but I did not find it. So I cannot confirm it.
For those of you who don’t know what the sandbox effect is, sandbox effect is the name given to the algorithm which gives low priority (hence low ranking in SERPS) to new sites coming on internet. This waiting period may be from one month to 6 months.
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Following are considered bad SEO methods and search engines may panalize you for this:
- Hidden text or links
- Misleading or repeated words
- Page does not match the Google description
- Page cloaking
- Redirects
- Doorway Pages
- Duplicate pages and/or Content
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http://www.quality-site-finder.co.uk/
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http://www.zeal.com
http://www.zenome.com
http://www.zonebot.com
http://www.zerovis.com/dir/
http://www.zeezo.com
Other resources to check out: http://dmoz.org/Reference/Directories/
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Here is a list of top most free spiderable directories:
general/all-purpose directories:
http://www.dmoz.org/ (base page PR9)
http://dir.yahoo.com/ (base page PR9)
http://www.earthstation9.com (base page PR6, it uses frames, but it is SE friendly)
http://www.geniusfind.com/ (base page PR6)
http://www.re-quest.net/ (base PR6)
http://www.qango.com/ (base page PR6)
http://www.wowdirectory.com/ (base page PR6)
http://www.directoryarchives.com/ (base page PR6)
http://www.gimpsy.com/ (base page PR6)
http://www.smartlinks.org (base PR5)
http://www.josh.nu/ (base PR5)
http://www.blakkat.com/ (base PR5)
http://www.webworldindex.com/ (base page PR5)
http://www.yeandi.com/ (base page PR5)
http://www.turnpike.net/directory.phtml (base page PR5)
http://www.websavvy.cc/ (base page PR5)
http://www.webworldindex.com/ (base page PR5)
http://www.worldwidewub.org/ (base page PR4)
http://www.sezza.com (base PR4)
http://www.thedirectorysite.com/ (base page PR4)
http://www.seekon.com/ (base page PR3)
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If you have read Googles’ Hilltop patent the IP ranges of links is one of the most important factors when deciding to rank pages. What it means is that Google discourages links not only from same IP addresses but also those addresses have to come from same Class C IP blocks from different providers.
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I did some experimentations to check how does the ip address and back links are co-related.
Site A and Site B was created with veryy-similar (but not same) content.
Site A was given 20 back links from site C & D (which also has related content) which was hosted on the same IP adderss as site A.
Site B was given 20 backlinks from site E & F (which also has related content) which was hosted on some different IP (and different IP range).
Page ranks of C, D, E and F are same.
Here are my findings:
1. Google passed more PR to site B.
2. Google ranked site B better in search results. (Infact site B is on the first page and site A is nowhere on first 10 pages)
So if you are planning to start a network of sites hosted on the same dedicated server, think again.
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There has been a lot of talk about what preferences MSN and Yahoo are giving to backlinks. I did some research on that with around 7 of my sites (on the same topic) with different type of content and back-links. My results shows that google give preferences to sites with more back-links (though less content) while MSN and Yahoo are giving perferences to more content (though less content).
Its really nice to see that Yahoo and MSN are kicking backlinks for content.
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