Quoted from google :

Looking to increase the number of conversions you’re getting on your site? If so, you’ll likely be interested to hear what Ann-Lee, from the Website Optimizer team, has to say about a new tool:

So google allowing us to play with our page content but just with them

Website Optimizer to experiment with your landing page does not have any impact on your Quality Score

 Pretty cool.. I assume google going to take this info and work out web page formations and “maybe” include them in rankings ?

http://adwords.blogspot.com/2006/10/beta-testers-needed-for-new-website.html#links

Now I’m not to sure about this site.. But that just my opinion..

I just tried to find a page with the “Large Rectangles directly before and after their content” as quote by google and with a screen shot..

Having a quick look at the site first page I came accross that shows this “large rectangle” was http://nexus.webelements.info/book which has 0 content.. hmm..

Tis a bit over the top imho.. http://nexus.webelements.info/node/999

Please note all opinion 

Read more here: http://adsense.blogspot.com/2006/10/all-elements-for-successful_17.html

Now I had to look up what a NAE award is as i’m from this side of the pond!

Its not the National Association of Evangelicals but United States National Academy of Engineering more from wiki here

Info about the awards: http://www.nae.edu/nae/awardscom.nsf?OpenDatabase

Eric Schmidt was formally inducted as a member of the National Academy of Engineering this past Sunday at the National Academies building in Washington, D.C. Upon receipt of this well-deserved honor, Eric was warmly greeted and high-fived. Congratulations, Eric — your Googlers are proud of you! 

More from google blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/eric-and-nae.html

“linkfromdomain:”

Wit today points out a topic from threadwatch here http://www.seorefugee.com/forums/showthread.php?p=38464#post38464

Tw: http://www.threadwatch.org/node/9360

A New Operator

We have one new, very exciting operator: LinkFromDomain. Using LinkFromDomain in your search includes all sites that are linked from a given domain. This complements LinkDomain (which includes all sites that link to a given domain) that was introduced back in June, 05.

The visual below depicts “YourSite.com” and a set of related sites. The Blue nodes represent sites with reciprocal links, while the yellow nodes are sites you link to, and the green nodes sites that link to you. Here’s how you would capture these domains with advanced syntax:

Full information on live.com blog..

http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2006/10/16/search-macros-linkfromdomain.aspx

Anyway here seo home’s  

http://search.live.com/results.aspx?FORM=QBRE3&q=LinkFromDomain%3Aseohome.co.uk

Off to play with the new comand!!

Well if you don’t know archive.org you will now!

 (Archive.org is and archive of the web and much more)

So I’ve gone a taken a screen shot of yahoo msn ask and of course google..

Here are the results:

Yahoo.com Oct 17, 1996 See for yourself: http://web.archive.org/web/19961017235908/http://www2.yahoo.com/

Msn.com Oct 22, 1996  see for yourself : http://web.archive.org/web/19961022175327/http://msn.com/

Live.com Feb 11, 1998 (bit of a joke as this wasn’t msn.. I wonder how much msn payed)
See for yourself : http://web.archive.org/web/19980211191652/http://www.live.com/

Ask.com (the images don’t seem to work ) see for yourself: http://web.archive.org/web/19981212022913/http://www.ask.com/

Last but not least google.com Dec 02, 1998 see for yourself: ttp://web.archive.org/web/19981202230410/http://www.google.com/

Google have update the “Custom Channels” ad set up to allow greater flexability!…

Haven’t yet tried it but will very soon.. My personal use would be for to test colours over multi sites and the ad position..

Google would seem to do the same!

What’s the benefit of tracking with more than one custom channel? Well, multiple channels can be very useful when you want to track one ad unit across several different metrics simultaneously. For example, let’s say you run a sports website and you’ve placed a leaderboard at the top and bottom of every page. To track the performance of the ad placement, you’ve created two custom channels — ‘TopLeaderboard’ and ‘BottomLeaderboard’ — and regenerated your ad code appropriately.

http://adsense.blogspot.com/2006/10/introducing-multiple-custom-channels.html

Maps in the Palm in your hand..

Quote from the google blog..

Since we first launched Google Maps for mobile devices, we’ve adapted it to more phones and languages and added features like traffic info. And as of today, the new Palm Treo version answers our top request from users. It’s been months in the making, but I think you’ll find it worth the wait. We think this is the fastest, slickest version yet, with draggable maps and translucent pop-up balloons that don’t hide the map.

People still have been wondering about when ads well go live on mobile devices

Read more http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/maps-in-palm-in-your-hand.html

I’m so glad no one ever read my code..

 My var in JS,php and asp are called thing that come into my head at the time…

I’m not one of those people whom code “INV_VARI_SKU_PROJ_INT” nop.. I’m a “gettingbored=” etc..

Anyway i’m not alone as the register has point out ..  

Read more : http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/13/code_outrage/

Just got email this from a friend…

 Its a bit of fun and not really seo/google related but hey well worth a go..

Tested in FF and ie on a PC should work on a MAC let me know if not

Visit http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=green%20trees

Then…

Then in the url bar, delete the address and paste in the following, then hit enter. Very cool (PS hit refresh to make it stop)  

(tried to paste directly into this post but its not working)

View the following text file and paste the content into the address bar and a site with images.. www.seohome.co.uk/fun.txt

 

note: Make sure its in one line! you might need to paste into notepad or alike and remove any line breaks..ENJOY!!

ADDED: If you play with the number you get some interesting results.. Take me back to uni all the maths.. ahhh :D 

digg it

So from now on aol customers will have broadband supplied by carphone warehouse / talktalk and look like becoming the largest boardband supplier in the uk..

I was hoping that maybe, just maybe it would set up some new advertising system and a new engine/engine suppilers for us folks in the uk but at present nothing is going to change or is it ? ??

It will be keeping the AOL name and the US firm’s policy of charging customers.

 

Quote taken from the bbc http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6039740.stm

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