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This is one odd idea…

Basically the top google keyword news trends have been prints on to cushions …

Why ?

hmmm.. don’t know..

fantastic and alarming at the same time!
The top 10 google searches of 2006
each cushion is signed and numbered from an edition of 250

Wonder who would buy these ??

Buy them here

Each year the traffic drops in many theme’s and this year is no exception..

Summer 2007 in the uk has had massive effects on traffic levels due to the following: (imho)

• The rain
  This is a 50/50 as hot sunny days in the uk seem to send more traffic but with the flooding 1,000’s of people have no access to water let alone the net..
• Harry Potter…
  omg the affect on non kids/book/harry potter sites was pretty big in the last week or two.. Not only the book but the film double trouble..
• Forecast..
  Now I’ve mentioned rain but so many UK’ers that would holiday in the uk have been going aboard… Since the floods many holidays have gone up in price and move Hol’s have been sold compared with last yeh…

Basically the niche’s I work in are not weather,harry potter,forecasting, flooding, kids or holidays… Of course all these theme’s “should” of seen a increase and  not a loss..

The email says it all..

 Here the first bit

New Ranking Model is now live in the UKDear Advertiser,Dear Advertiser,We’re excited to announce that the new ranking model is now live in our UK market. The new ranking model is designed to improve user results through higher quality search ads. When users engage with these higher quality search ads, advertisers will receive more interested, valuable potential customers, helping to drive better results for your business.

Dear Advertiser,We’re excited to announce that the new ranking model is now live in our UK market. The new ranking model is designed to improve user results through higher quality search ads. When users engage with these higher quality search ads, advertisers will receive more interested, valuable potential customers, helping to drive better results for your business.

As we previously announced, both bid amount and ad quality
now determine an ad’s rank in search results.

So at last yahoo look at the quality of the ads : )

uk crafts directory

SEW has updated its 80’s look to a new shinny looking site..

 Its only just happened.. So seeing loads of loading problems but its now live and anything is better than the way its used to look..

Has quite a few missing images.. LOL..

 hmmm… Forums are opening but the homepage.. nothing yet.. 5mins load time lol…

yeh… loaded

Well … Spacing is a bit odd… odd …

Best of luck SEW…  

If you can wait 5mins to load try out http://searchenginewatch.com/

hehehehee

According to yahoo blog the update should of finished..

 I have seen more referrals over the weekend than normal I should go of and check the serps..

 Anyway .. It was nice of yahoo to update us on the blog

Read more http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000470.html

Lots of buzz going around after a massive hit to google stock price.. Over $41 down.. hmmm

7.58% drop.. ouch…

Some thoughts from a few post in forum and articles suggest this is due to bonus payment, an increase in staff and maybe google stopping MFA’s lol.. Interesting..

 Read more about it here: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/014229.html

 And here: 13 billion loss

Ok…
This is a theory but seem to make sense…

Next month I’m going to reverse the logical and see but first let me explain the theory…

I set up a site for my girl friend of which she loves…
The site has been growing which is great…
It’s a bit of a fun site and only has adsense and Amazon as its sources of revenue..
Now the hopefully may take off in the future but its all fun..

So to the point of the theory..
The traffic to the site has been increasing by the day and it’s full of fresh content which is added on an almost daily basis.. To kick start the visitors I added a small budget to PPC’s on yahoo msn and of course google adwords…

Now if you don’t know over in the uk its tax time for many of us which means by the 31st July you need to pay 1/3 of a years worth of tax so me trying to save a little cut my girlfriends adwords budget by 1/3….

So I’m getting 1/3 of the adwords referrals compared with last month thus a little less traffic.. The funny thing is that the adsense CTR and impression are pretty similar BUT the cost per click has increased 3 times.. Yep 3 times..

So would this be a defensive technique to stop Arbitrage?
Smart pricing if PPC referral?
This would make a lot of sense..

Anyway next month as I said I’ll reverse the logic and I am getting those warning from my adwords account TELLING to increase the budget to get and extra traffic per month…

Today I went to update my froogle / base whatever you want to call it.. and guess what yep its down for maintenance..

 I only go in once a month or so..

SYSTEM ALERT: 6:00 PM: Our bulk upload processing system will be undergoing a scheduled maintenance for the next two days (7/16 to 7/18). During this time, bulk uploads submitted through the Google Base web interface or via FTP will not be processing. …

 

Its down for 2 days as well bugger..

Looking at some stats today I was so happy to see single keywords like “health” or “art” wow…

So I go into the logfile with good old notepad to a have look .. Now some of these single keywords are rule but are from .in google and indian ip’s and you may of guess it …. Yep something like &start=800  in other words 800+ in the serps.. great..

After a bit more searching the log I find a load of aol refferals that include the white space how bad is that..

For example “health in the world of a seo man” if it has 2 spaces after “health” AOL isn’t removing them like google etc…

Ah well.. Come aol fix it please …

This morning on the bbc was a feature regarding privacy with google being the first company to be picked on…

 The bbc then took and comment (direct or indirect to the bbc) from Eric Schmidt saying how google only cookies for 18months…

The most interesting thing for me in this feature was the fact Eric Schmidt said that we don’t want people to have issues with google as other services are just one click away… Now for a seo we know all this but for the public…. telling the public that if people may have issues with google these people may leave … its odd way to tell the public… hmmmm