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Google Toolbar PageRank Updating for New Years 2010
For those who value Google’s often delayed toolbar pagerank, Google is giving you all a nice New Year’s Eve present – the annual page rank update. It seems Google is now making this an annual gig as it also made a toolbar pagerank update the same time last year. Let’s see now, the last time Google had a Toolbar PageRank update was last October . So it looks like a New Years 2010 pagerank update is just about the right time since many site owners are probably expecting it to kick off their New Year 2010. So, with that I’m officially greeting you all – Happy New Year. May all our sites’ PageRank reach new heights next year! But for SEO workers, we all know that Toolbar PageRank is not really that relevant anymore because this page rank is oftentimes delayed and does not really give site’s real-time page rank. But if you still value the Toolbar PageRank, check out your site’s page rank now and see if it got bumped up. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Google Toolbar PageRank Updating for New Years
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Watch the Ball Drop Online: New Years 2010
It’s that time of the year again folks, time to not only ring in the New Year with a PageRank update, but also watch the ball drop tonight in New York. Times Square will once again be hosting the traditional midnight ball drop. Are you braving the cold weather and the madding crowd just to be where the action is? Or are you going to just watch it at home either on live TV telecast? For those who are staying at home and prefer to watch the ball drop online or are currently in a location where you cannot watch the ball drop on television, here are some sites where you can watch the ball drop online for New Year’s Eve. 1. Earthcam’s News Year’s 2010 The site is currently counting down the remaining hours before the annual midnight ball drop. Check it out for streaming audio and video as captured by various webcams. 2. Times Square Official New Year’s Eve Worldwide Webcast Where could you possibly best watch the ball drop online but on the official Times Square site for the event. The webcast will start as early as 5:50 PM on the 31st. Aside from watching the event on the site , you can also watch it on your iPhone , on Facebook or even embed a webcast widget on your blogs/sites. 3. Brent’s Live New Year Show Aside from the midnight ball drop, this site also has provides some other “shows” to usher in the new year. You can watch the show live here or at their YouTube channel . 4. Watch the Ball Drop on YouTube Although the official YouTube netcast of the New Year’s Eve countdown is not yet announced, I’m pretty sure YouTube will come up with special channel for the midnight ball drop.to Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Watch the Ball Drop Online: New Years
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Google Advertising Professionals Profile
What happens to a Google Advertising Professionals Pro Center profile when an account becomes inactive or disabled by the Adwords Professional? Previously, the Pro Center link would return a Google 404 error. Google has fixed these dead links by providing the following Google Profile Unavailable page. Google Profile Unavailable
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Facebook Beats Google as the Most Visited Site on Christmas Day
In what could be a preview of an impending battle between Facebook and Google in the coming days, Facebook has beaten Google as the most visited website on both Christmas Even and Christmas Day, says a tweet from Hitwise’s Twitter account. It was the first time that Facebook become the number one site during Christmas Day. Last year it was Google as the most visited site with Facebook closely following behind. But come to think of it, it is not surprising for Facebook to be visited more both during Christmas Eve and Christmas Day since majority of people are spending their online time during those days probably greeting their Facebook contacts, sending Christmas wishes and greetings to their loved ones, friends and family who are not with them on those days. Facebook after all is more of a communication tool than Google. What made the event surprising was due to the fact that Facebook has been lagging behind both Google and Yahoo! Mail all through out the year in terms of site visits. It only goes to show that email is a thing of the past during these days, as Facebook and perhaps other social sites like Twitter are the more preferred ways of communicating online especially during special occasions. Most importantly it is also quite surprising that online users still visited Facebook despite the slew of privacy issues that came out during the year. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Facebook Beats Google as the Most Visited Site on Christmas
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30+ Self-Serve Ad Networks & AdSense Alternatives for 2010
Entrepreneur or SMB marketer drawing up an advertising budget for 2010? Try this massive list of over 30 ad networks I’ve compiled while browsing around the web. I’ve tried to focus on those that are SMB friendly with self-serve platforms. I’ve ignored CPA networks and tried to eliminate advertising aggregators, and the search engines. Particular demographics / audiences 1. FARK.com – 18-28 year old men – Flat rate text links sold on a weekly basis (through a redirect; they’re not for SEO points) 2. Facebook – The biggest social network has hyper precise targeting. Don’t overdo it though, or you’ll end up like I did once, targeting merely 20 people. 3. PlentyOfFish – The web’s second largest free dating site has an self-service ad platform 4. MyAds on MySpace.com – Self serve banners like Facebook, with similar demographic targeting 5. AdEngage – A variety of formats focused on humor and games 6. Canoe Klix – French Canadian contextual CPC on premium French Canadian sites 7. Adknowledge.com – Social network ads published on social games 8. Click-Share – A variety of demographic targeting options are available, including some not seen elsewhere such as household income, children in household etc. 9. Chitika.com – A focus on monetizing SEO traffic has made them attractive to retail advertisers. General – Most of these are available on a CPC basis, even if the ad format is banners 10. AdRoll.com – Offers help creating display ads, retargeting and other capabilities 11. BuySellAds.com – Blog banners, mostly 125
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Is Google Extending YouTube into a Gaming Site?
Here’s an interesting repor t speculating that Google might actually be planning to make YouTube as a hosted gaming site. Sometime in February 19, 2009 Google applied for a patent which carries the title – “Web-Based System for Generation of Interactive Games Based on Digital Videos.” The patent application which was published earlier this month states that: “the collaborative generation of interactive features for digital videos, and in particular to interactive video annotations enabling control of video playback locations and creations of interactive games.” This seems like somehow games would be built atop videos that are being submitted to hosting sites such as YouTube. So its either games will be created that hop in and out of popular videos or a place where people could upload source videos will be created. This will allow users to play out multiple video scenes and combine them to create a YouTube hosted online game. If this is where this patent application is going through, then it will open up the possibility for anyone to create games using their video camera and a good video editing software. So, what do you think, does this makes sense at all? Here’s the part of the patent application explaining all these points: A video may have associated with it one or more annotations, which modify the appearance and/or behavior of a video as it was originally submitted to an online video hosting site. Some examples of annotations are graphical text box annotations, which display text at certain locations and certain times of the video, and pause annotations, which halt playback of the video at a specified time within the video. Some annotations, e.g. a graphical annotation (such as a text box annotation) comprising a link to a particular portion of a target video, are associated with a time of the target video, which can be either the video with which the annotation is associated, or a separate video. Selecting such annotations causes playback of the target video to begin at the associated time. Such annotations can be used to construct interactive games using videos, such as a game in which clicking on different portions of a video leads to different outcomes. Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Is Google Extending YouTube into a Gaming
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