Landing Page Quality - Foulplay
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Recently Google Adwords team announced about bringing transparency and quality results in sponsored results, but it seems Google still just care about quantity rather than quality, still MFAs (made-for-adsense) websites are prevailing in sponsored results and thats too in among top results.
Search term - GMAT exam date
The Ad - Sponsored Result -
And the Landing Page of above Ad is Full of Adsense ads, no "Valuable Information" as per this Ad's Description -
If i am not wrong as per my Adwords knowledge is concerned, according to Adwords System an Ad can only be in running stage when its approved by Adwords of its Landing Page Quality.
I am wandering why and what Adwords and its human editors see in this page for its approval thats too when it has concerns of educational information. A lot of students search for these type of educational information and materials online and its frustrating when they are taken to MFA sites and websites which have nothing but Adsense ads, ads of Books from Amazon, paid text links and no valuable information, not even a single word of information of any kind. Does money made out of this be any fruitfull??!!
adwords landing page
posted by Seo Space @ 8:27 PM,
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Adwords Algo Changing and CPC Site Bidding on Beta
Friday, February 16, 2007
Google Came up this week with one more Update/ changes and this time its google's product generates most of the revenue for Google Adwords. These are;
- New Optional Quality Score column that shows the minimum bid for all of the keywords within an ad group, along with quality label - Great, OK, or Poor
- A change to the Quality Score Algorithm.
Secondly earlier this week - Google Inside Adwords released that its testing cost-per-click (CPC) site-targeted campaigns, as till now advertisers bidding on site targeting campaigns on a CPM (cost-per-thousand impressions) basis. Presently google inviting only US advertisers (invitation link) to participate for same (limited number of advertisers from all that apply). Avertisers can switch their existing campaigns between CPC and CPM at any time.Google Adwords is changing way it set minimum bids for keywords - For example, if the system does not have any data on a keyword, a lower initial minimum bid will be assigned until the Adwords system have enough data to make a more accurate assessment of the Quality Score for that keyword in Adwords account.
posted by Seo Space @ 8:58 PM,
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Top 20 Sites - By Compete
Friday, December 8, 2006
Picture chart Credits - Compete Blog
Comepete.com Released a List of Top Sites/ Domains in terms of visitors. It ranked the domains in terms of Unique Visitors (i.e Visitors who visits the site first time) and no wander its the search engines (Yahoo, Google, AOL - being top three) who top the list followed by ebay, live.com (again search engine) and myspace.com.Source Via -Compete Top Ten
I Wander if i could get a list of top domains/ sites without a search engine in it. A list of top sites that are completely portal sites.
Findings -
- Only Three websites gets about more than 100 (100-200) million unique visitors .
- Five gets 40-60 million.
- Two gets 60-80 million unique visitors.
- Ten Websites gets about 20-40 million Unique visitors.
- There is a gap of 33 million unique visitors between AOL (3) and MSN (4).
Labels: Google, SMO, Web Analytics
posted by Seo Space @ 7:11 PM,
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Save Google Answers - A Petition
Friday, December 1, 2006
In Seo Space last post, which said that Google Anwers has been Shut Down, there comes another post that a Petition has Been filed to keep Google Answers alive, filed by David Huxley, on petitiononline.com (Here)
Here are excerpts of same -
Moreover a Blog/ Journal has been created exclusively for same at -http://savega.livejournal.com/, which have a Video appealing viewers to Sign the Petition, also to leave a Donation of any amount and help Goolge Answers Alive. Desperate efforts indeed..!To: Google
The Google Answers service has helped many people during its four and a half years of existence, and it continues to do so. Researchers and unpaid commenters formed a community which should not be discarded lightly. Many repeat users were able to easily find answers to difficult questions thanks to the service. Furthermore, Google Answers proved that a living could be made working on the Internet alone, as many researchers
worked on the site as their sole source of income.We, the undersigned, believe that Google should continue to provide this valuable community service to the Internet.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
Here is the Video -
Labels: Google
posted by Seo Space @ 6:40 PM,
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Google Answers Shut Down
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Google announced that they are shutting down one of their earliest service - Google Answers. Launched in April 2002 with a small 4-person team and went out of Beta in May 2003, Google Answers was one of the very first project Google worked on.Google Answers was just an “great experiment”, as how Google called it. Anyways, Google will stop accepting new question later this week, and will stop accepting new Answers to questions by the end of the year. Questions and Answers will be available to browser online however.
Although Google didn’t say what’s the cause to shutting it down, but here’s probably the answer from Google Answers: What has happened to Answers?(via Google OS) It’s really sad to see Google Answers being shut down. Unlike Google X, Answers has been around for years, even though I don’t use it at all. Bye, Google Answers.
[Via - Googlified]
Google Answers taught us exactly how many tyrannosaurs are in a gallon of gasoline, why flies survive a good microwaving, and why you really shouldn't drink water emitted by your air conditioner. Even closer to home, we learned one afternoon that our building might be on fire.
The people who participated in Google Answers -- more than 800 of them over the years -- are a passionate group committed to helping people find the information they need, and we applaud them for sharing their incredible knowledge with everyone who wrote in.
If you have a chance, we encourage you to browse through the questions posted over the last 4+ years. Although we won't be accepting any new questions, the existing Qs and As are available. We'll stop accepting new Answers to questions by the end of the year.
Google Answers was a great experiment which provided us with a lot of material for developing future products to serve our users. We'll continue to look for new ways to improve the search experience and to connect people to the information they want.
Labels: Google
posted by Seo Space @ 6:11 PM,
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Search Engines Unites for Sitemaps
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Google, Yahoo and MSN as Well unites but only for one common reason i.e - Sitemaps
According to Googleblog , Yahoo ! and Microsoft are joined Goolge for officially supporting the Sitemap Protocol , Which let webmasters/ SEOs to inform search engines about URLs in their websites, so that search engines bots/ crawlers could effectively crawl them. For site owners, Sitemaps will help improve website visibility in search results.
Website - http://www.sitemaps.org
Google released it under the Attribution/Share Alike Creative Commons license. Moreover its second time that search engines majors cooperating for one common reason after no-follow of Blogs comments.
Via - Googleblog
Labels: Feed, Google, Webmaster
posted by Seo Space @ 7:54 PM,
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Gmail For Mobiles
Sunday, November 5, 2006
Gmail for Mobile, a downloadable gmail application for java-enabled phones, launches has launched. Previously, users were only able to access gmail via a mobile browser. But for java-enabled phones, using the Gmail for Mobile application will significantly speed email use.
The application requres a java-enabled phone and a data plan (other mobile devices can still access Gmail
A demo of the application is available here -http://www.google.com/mobile/gmail/
Labels: Google
posted by Seo Space @ 7:22 PM,
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