The goverment in the uk want to start a socail network:

Calling all social media experts - UKGov your ideas for new data mashups, and there’s GBP20,000 to support the best ideas:

Some of the things it will include

Mapping information from the Ordnance Survey

Medical information from NHS Choices

Neighbourhood statistics from the ONS

Pretty much all Offical Notices (bankruptcy, official appointments, etc) from the London Gazette

A carbon calculator from Defra

£20k prize for the best idea..

Find out more here: http://www.showusabetterway.com/

I did ok with them but hey good things can come to a end..

Thank you for participating in the AdSense Referrals program. We’re writing to let you know that we will be retiring the AdSense Referrals program during the last week of August

Google are now launching

www.google.com/ads/affiliatenetwork.

FOR the USA only

adsense Refferals did have uk affiliates but according to the email its only for the usa

Ah well..

http://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/topic.py?topic=14882

Anyway.. The point is that the query return zero results but below showed the results without the quotes..

Brand new for me ..

Here is the screen shots:

Close up:

Here is the query:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22The+inspection+of+searches+will+turn+as+a+helping+hand+for+you+to+find+the+appropriate+

I know loads of people who use it to try selling on the web as it cheap and a pretty good cms for newbies.

Over the weekend and notice went out as follows:

Due to continual problems with Trojan Viruses on the Mr Site servers we would recommend you do not update or republish your site until Mr Site has emailed all users to confirm that this has been rectified.

Mr site has removed its support forum a while back but a unoffical site was setup here: http://www.mrsitemembers.proboards79.com/ 

I hope this guys get it sorted as I know of many unhappy customers who can’t change/update their sites.

This may have a major effect on the UK serps if google block/warn searchers about this…

Mr site, site is down too.. http://www.mrsite.com/   some crazy s**t going on here..

I’m getting 1.4 million indexed pages on google see this link: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22created+at+www.mrsite.com 

I guessing maybe 100,000’s of sites are effect as many of these sites are tiny e.g. 3 pages etc..

We’ve recently enabled the Google content network to accept display ads served from qualified third-party vendors. At this time, only ads in English are eligible.

If you’re currently opted in to image ads, you’re already able to receive third-party ads. If you’ve disabled image ads, no third-party ads will be served on your site. (Learn how to enable or disable image ads at

 

https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=9741.)

I run picture/txt ads on to of a forum I run with 10k+ page views a day which has oftern had high end adverts e.g. DHL targeting the site. I’ve assumed this targeting was NOT directly applied but via some agreement / 3rd party..

I hope my $ are going to go up

I look forward to the results.

Today in 2008 google.co.uk give respest to her on the google.co.uk homepage with a new google logo link to http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=florence+nightingale%27s+birthday&hl=en

With the query “florence nightingale’s birthday”

This isn’t showing on the google.com homepage for me “yet” .. UK thing

Here is the logo:

Here is a bit of info about who she was and what she did.. taken from : http://www.netwrx1.com/CherryAmes/nightingale.html

• Florence Nightingale studied nursing in Alexandria, Egypt, and at the Institute for Protestant Deaconesses in Kaiserswerth, Germany.
• She became superintendent of London’s Hospital for Invalid Gentlewomen in 1850.
• She went to Scutari with thirty-eight nurses early in the Crimean War to direct nursing operations; her efforts resulted in greatly reducing mortality rates among the sick and wounded.
• She founded the Nightingale School and Home for Nurses at St. Thomas Hospital in London in 1860, marking the beginning of professional nursing education.
• In 1907, she received the British Order of Merit; she was the first woman to be so honored.

I’m not a mad fan of it but at least it not any worse than before..

I thought i’d check how much the affilates changes have cost me..

WELL i’m not happy lol.. I’m really blogging this so I get off my arse and do some coding for the new xml feed vs the old ones I still use…

One thing of interest is amazon still counts the clicks BUT doesn’t give you any cash for them..

Here is one channel this month:

Clicks

1064

Your Conversion

0.19%

 

 Total Clicks 750
TOTAL CONVERSION 3.20%

Who is jeff Koons?

American artist Jeff Koons burst onto the international art scene in the 1980s. He creates iconic work such as Michael Jackson and Bubbles, Rabbit, and Puppy. He is exhibited throughout the world.

 

here the logo:

Find out more here: http://www.google.co.uk/help/ig/art/

In the first 3 months of this year google has made$803 million( about £407m)a massive 40% up on a year ago.

Hitwise reports some 78% of searches are made on google by UK internet users in 2007 but i’m pretty sure its far higher..

Marc Mendoza - whose media buying agency is putting a lot of its clients’ budgets online - tells me that Google now has about 80% of the UK online advertising market.

Read more from the bbc:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/04/google_how_big_is_too_big.html

My GF did the ibiza thing and love to dance…

So.. Went  to look a club I went to a few time and really enjoyed called “The Cross” just outside Kings cross in central london..

After search for “the cross” and “the cross nightclub” the offical site wasn’t showing …

Finally I thought i’d add london.. “the cross nightclub london” which returned google local at the top with the address of the club “BUT” the url was a club the other side of town!

I then looked up the news on “the cross nightclub” to find that its been sold off for flats

So along came another super club pacha and took the local results for themselves along with some SEO target the natural results too.. 

Wonder how long it will last ?

So if you know a competitor is closing down and you want the traffic then why not blag top spot via local search..

Here is a screen shot: