Google announces new feat: Indexing of scanned documents
By Elmer Botha on Oct 31, 2008 in Uncategorized | comments(0)
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The Business of Blogging
By Elmer Botha on Oct 9, 2008 in Life Hacks | comments(1)
Jacob Morgan from The Business of Blogging blog wrote an informative post that I would like to share with you. Blogging can be a business, but like any business, it needs work:
A lot of people want to know, “how long?”
How long before I get a lot of traffic to my blog?
How long before I can make money?
How long before I close my blog down if it’s not working?
People need to understand that a blog is just like a business, my blog is just around 8 months old and I am still not 100% satisfied with my traffic levels, design, etc. When you start a blog you are starting from 0, you literally have nothing, just a blank page on which you can start writing. Your traffic levels start from 0 and you have to understand that to make it grow you are going to have to sweat a little.
Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere 2008
By Elmer Botha on Sep 23, 2008 in Default | comments(0)
Mashable has just reported on Tecnhorati’s annual report on the state of the Blogosphere. It’s a very informative report to read and gives insights into some interesting trends.
Technorati’s annual State of the Blogosphere report has come out today, and almost everyone has their take on the data and the introduction to the report that’s slated to be released over five days.
A lot of interesting things are revealed in the report, as per usual. The report is broken down into five sections, plus an introduction, that go information like the demographics of the blogosphere, what people’s motivations for blogging are, how people are making money with it, and how it’s being used for marketing.
Google Audio Indexing - Search within video clips
By Elmer Botha on Sep 19, 2008 in Uncategorized | comments(0)
Google Labs has released what could become a pivotal evolutionary moment in time for the Internet. Google Audio Indexing or GAudi lets you search a given keyword within Youtube videos. This could potentially and probably will change the Internet as we know it.
For Internet Marketers this is just, oh well, absolutely huge. Not to sound over-dramatic, but the impact this could have on your Social Marketing campaigns could be staggering. It could also be al lot of fun as well. You would basically optimise your Youtube videos for specific keywords. Personally, I’m very excited.
At this stage you can only search within political campaigns. I’ve played around with it a bit and it actually works! A nice feature are the bookmarks which will take you directly to all the positions in the video clip where the specific keyword has been used.
Get your favorite music in Yahoo Search Results
By Elmer Botha on Sep 18, 2008 in Uncategorized | comments(0)
Yahoo just released their new Audio search option, where you can search for your favorite artist or songs.
The coolest feature is that you can actually listen to a sample, and in some cases up to four complete songs of the same artist within the search results. Now that is really cool.
PeopleJar better search than Facebook
By Elmer Botha on Sep 17, 2008 in Default | comments(1)
As you might know Social Marketing is all about getting out there and join the conversation. Facebook has many, many Internet Marketers using the platform as a Social Marketing tool. This blog post explores the new Beta-Released PeopleJar. Check it out:
PeopleJar, a startup that hopes to help users with similar interests connect using a highly-customizable search engine, has soft launched to the public.
The site is very well done, sporting a clean and intuitive interface, an exhaustively customizable search engine, and generally high production values. After creating a detailed profile that includes information on their education, country of origin, and interests, users can browse through a number of Networks ranging from Science and Technology to Yoga. Each Network behaves much like a Facebook Group, allowing users to post public messages to a Wall, and connect with other members of the same group.
Google Adwords changes coming soon
By Elmer Botha on Sep 16, 2008 in Default | comments(0)
Google Adwords official blog just announced that they are going to enhance the Google Adwords Quality Score mechanism:
In July 2005, AdWords introduced minimum bids for keywords based on Quality Score. This system allows us to show very high quality ads to Google users, while also giving advertisers control over their keywords. Since 2005, we’ve improved Quality Score in many ways, such as the inclusion of landing page quality and landing page load time as factors. Along the way, we’ve also received much helpful feedback from both users and advertisers.
Today, we’d like to let you know of further improvements we’ll introduce in the coming weeks — based, in part, on this feedback. First we’ll outline the key points, and then dive into the details:
Google Suggest out of Labs
By Elmer Botha on Aug 27, 2008 in Uncategorized | comments(0)
Google Suggest, which have been in testing phase for quite some time now, has finally seen the light of day. Jennifer Liu, Product Manager Google has the following to say:
“We find that by providing suggestions upfront, we
can help people search more efficiently and conveniently. Here are
some great ways Google Suggest can help simplify your searching.
