Archive for July, 2006

New Yahoo! search crawler, Yahoo! Slurp

Saturday, July 29th, 2006

Yahoo! has announced a new search crawler “Yahoo! Slurp” earlier this week. [link]
Yahoo! claimed that Slurp crawl the internet faster and is more efficient at visiting websites, reducing as much as a 25% consumed by the crawler.

The art of linkbaiting by Performancing

Friday, July 28th, 2006

I found this article by Nick Wilson from performancing.com about linkbaiting [link], on how to get incoming links without really requested for it.
The tips are not just applicable to linkbaiting, it’s traffic puller as well.

Google Adwords client can view invalid clicks

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

Google Adwords has introduced their new feature for Adwords clients to view invalid clicks detected from their advertising campaign [link].
After some chaos and critics of click fraud from the past few months, this feature could be a big leap for Google to build a better understanding and relationship with their Adword clients.

Google Adsense image in ad unit

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

One of the common tips to increase the click-through-rate (CTR) of Google Adsense is to put the ad unit beside images.
I have yet to experiment with the trick but Adsense have been experimenting with the tips itself by putting an image beside the ads in an ad unit.

Dual language ad unit in Google Adsense

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

Darren from problogger.net had made a post about Google Adsense displaying dual language ad units, and wondering if it’s a glitch or common thing.
As an Asian blogger myself, seeing dual language ads is pretty common for me.
The screenshot on the left is a sample of a square ad from one of my blog, showing an […]

Ads optimization tips for blogs by Google Adsense

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006

Google Adsense have updated their ads optimization tips with a bigger and better version [link].
The common Adsense tips are like blending ads with content, using multiple ad units and ads positioning etc. One of the new addition is the page of “Blogtimize - Optimize the ads on your blog” [link].

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) from Wikipedia

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006

I found a few tips on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) white hat techniques from Wikipedia.

Automated link exchange scripts work poorly

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

There are many websites that use automated link exchange scripts for their link exchange campaign.
I’m not talking about link crawler or link farm, but those scripts that help in managing link exchange request by verifying reciprocal links and automatically add links after the reciprocal location is identified and verified.