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The question? What’s the deal with this whole Google/AOL deal where Google reportedly paid a Billion dollars for a 5% stake in AOL? And why are they giving up all these free ads to AOL?
Clip ==> “Even after trolling through the massive coverage through memeorandum, something doesn’t feel right. If anyone can identify just what Google’s getting that’s worth risking its reputation (deserved or not) as the best search site, I’m sure readers here would love to hear it….”
Thoughts ==> They know or see something we don’t. That Has to be it - there are details undisclosed to us regular folk, that if brought to light, would lend sense to all this. It can’t just be to pry them loose from Microsoft.
Can it?
Link ==> Why Was Google So Desperate for AOL?: If you have an idea of what the answer might be, like he says, you’re welcome to comment. I almost got sucked in reading some pretty good slants on the issue over in the comments section there, already.
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So soon after I made such a fuss about how kick-@ss Google Web Comments is, I’m shamefully made to eat (some) of my words in public.
rant >
I love you, Google. Honest.
But what is up with this no-count, shifty-eyed, lazy add comments interface? I type my words in the box according to all the rules, I press publish and… voila. Junk in my blog trunk.
And not the good kind, neither.
So one of two things has to happen, Google, my love.
Either the add comment link in Web comments has to be just a teensy bit more like the Blog This! interface?
Or you have to write me some kind of disclaimer saying that it doesn’t work.
Although….
Not to be finicky over a tool that is free and all?
But why add the functionality if it doesn’t, you know, function?
rant >
Tags/Resources
Tags: :: Google Web Comments. :: Google
Resources : I would say Google Web Comments, but I’m still post-ranty. You can read my original post on the subject, though.
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I know. I’m corny.
Whaddya wanna bet you love me anyway? Besides, contrary to what I had planned on being the truth when I told it to my friend Andrew three hours ago. I am. Still. Awake. (28 hours! Woo hoo.)
Back to the Technorati news …. ==>
Yesterday , Technorati, rss and blog resource extraordinaire, made some updates that make it easier to use. Summary of updates:
- Charts (visual tracking of blogosphere convo as tracked by Technorati).
- Extracts that seems to make more sense, contextually (they seem to quote more often on what was being said that is related to that tag.
- What they’re calling “scoped search”, which is basically the ability to focus in on conversation sub-topics.
- My favorite - Better profiles, with tag clouds.
Thoughts ==> That other stuff is great, but that profile tag thing turns me on the most, vain princess that I am when it comes to ego searches. If you wanted to know everything I tagged at Technorati that has to do with Website promotion , they’ve got a tag for that.
Love it.
Get a visual of the top level in my Technorati profile
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In This Free Traffic Minicast:
- Five Tips for Increasing Holiday Sales and Traffic
- My Secret Source of Holiday Traffic
- What Is Traffic Reality?
- Am I Really Shutting Down Free Traffic Tips?
- More About Why My Blog Gets So Much Search Engine Traffic
Tags: free traffic :: website promotion :: podcast :: podcasts :: holiday traffic :: :: web traffic :: :: traffic :: :: increase visitors
My Odeo Channel (odeo/6ae5baec27cc7630)
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Accoording to Lee Odden’s Online Marketing Blog:
Clippy ==> “On Wednesday, December 21 Google is conducting a webinar to present new features with AdSense.
Recently, a better search box has been implemented as well as the option to have AdSense reports emailed to you.”
Thinky ==> “Mo’ money, Mo’ money, Mo’ money”. And if you know what that means, you’re old too. When you’re in the Wayback Machine, say hi to Big Daddy Kane for me.
Linky ==> Google AdSense Webinar
Taggy ==>adsense | Google Adsense
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Then take a look at the picture to your left. (Click for a larger image.)
What is it?
It’s a screenshot of clickable links to the top 100+ of 1400 keyphrases that sent me traffic from Google in late November.
This is from a page with clickable links in it, where I talk about how I could do this for your blog.
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Tags: blog traffic :: website promotion :: SEO :: Google :: blogging :: keywords
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