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Just got a email from the nice guys at yahoo letting know about todays launch of yahoo suggest…

Quote from the email:

Search Suggest is not a new feature for the industry, but it’s new for Yahoo! UK, rolling out in Europe in the coming days

Due to the fact its already in the US the you can already read a load about it below:

The US version was blogged about here: http://searchengineland.com/070712-084921.php 12th of July..

More info here: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/014286.html

Google blogged yesterday about problems with the referral 2.0 ads..

The topic was labelled “refferals reluctant to appear” and not we have some probs lol..

Anyway here the blog post and 5 reason why the ads might not show..  

http://adsense.blogspot.com/2007/08/referrals-reluctant-to-appear.html

1. The particular referral ad you’ve chosen is not available in your country. When generating your code, you can view the ads available for specific countries by clicking the ‘change’ link above the referrals wizard.
2. You’ve unselected the ‘Pick best performing ads’ checkbox for a referral where the advertiser has run out of budget or ended the campaign. To take advantage of the available inventory of related products, we recommend leaving this box checked.
3. You’ve added more than three referral units to your page. Our current policy allows a maximum of three referral ad units on any policy-compliant page.
4. Our system has determined that your pages contain potentially mature or sensitive content. However, as your content changes, you may begin to see referral ads appearing.
5. The referral ad code may have been modified. Be sure to copy the code exactly as it appears in your account and paste it directly onto your pages.

The blog post also offers and contact form of which I’m about to contact due to the problems i’ve had with odd ads showing for my choosen keywords…

I don’t know…

I run a uk niche directory in which I have loads of US and indian submissions..

Most are easy to spot e.g. “phoenix web design” .. No phoenix in the uk so I hit the delete button… However… Many UK sites are .com’s some every day I have to check all the submission that arn’t blatant SPAM…

The last site I looked at was portnov.com… I was about to hit the back button but noticed the length on the page…

Yep 47 hidded links.. At the bottom lol..

My first blog from my pda. I’m one of those sad gits on the trian going to london.

So get to the point !

Well now with a pda i’m able to see sites mad for phones. Just yesterday    I was reading about a new book on websites design for mobile which is on my reading list, its not yet out but a blog/site by “Cameron” has much of the content of the book already… http://mobilewebbook.com/

The book focuses will be on design but design imho works hand in hand with seo..

More to come soon on mob’s and pda seo marketing

Just on the bbc news this morning is the launch of google sky..

Part of google earth application you can look to the heavans around millions of stars, planets and more…

Google is unveiling within Google Earth today a new service called Sky that will allow users to view the skies as seen from Earth. Like Google Earth, Sky will let users fly around and zoom in, exposing increasingly detailed imagery of some 100 million stars and 200 million galaxies.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/technology/22sky.html

I blog before about google getting fast here: http://www.seohome.co.uk/2007/08/01/google-getting-fast-real-fast/ when it was showing the same date but now is minutes / hrs

Site search for the bbc returns : http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&rls=GGLG%2CGGLG%3A2005-32%2CGGLG%3Aen&q=site%3Abbc.co.uk&meta=

Here is a screen shot:

 Seen before at SERT http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/014350.html

But its back now : )

The ip I’m hitting btw is : 66.102.9.147

Enjoy…

I’ve been meaning to blog this for 2 weeks but kept letting it slip but hey here we are…

So why could facebook be a racist…

At the start of August 2007 a load of massive advertisers in the UK pulled out of using facebook to promote their products..

2 of the big players in the uk that end advertising are Vodafone and Virgin…

So why? Whats this all about ?

Well over in the UK we have a “group” / “party” called the BNP (Britsh national party) 

The BPN is a very “Right-wing group”

Here is a quote from vodafone

“Our public policy principles state that we do not make political donations or support particular party political interests and therefore to avoid misunderstandings we immediately withdrew our advertising as soon as this was brought to our attention.”

You can read more here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/03/nface103.xml

Ok…

I’m not to mad so far on playing with the google referrals 2.0 ”as yet”..

Two things really bugs me!

One odd theme of ads coming up for my “keyword” like domain names ?
RANT HERE: http://forums.seroundtable.com/showthread.php?t=2142

Two is the ORDER … Why oh why is it in imho a “bad order” …

The screen shot below show I have 1 click on a product referral but on the summary page its not showing the “clicked” product..   

I have NO idea what order google is using .. Its not using clicks, impressions or even alphabetical so whats its doing ??

Screen shot :

I just got this IM from my GF…

baby how is it possible
8 clicks
and just
US$0.04

Now I have “sort of” explained PR to her too but thank god haven’t show her DP and all the PR/Adsense talk…

2pm GMT Youtube will be launching a channel offering video’s with music of missing children..

The bbc says its going to be heavily moderated..

I’ll update this post once the bbc put some info on the news site..

ADDED:

Its now live..

http://uk.youtube.com/user/DontYouForgetAboutMe