Google Launches Social Search Experiment.
The Social Search Experiment feature that Marissa Mayer announced last week is becoming available today for everyone to try. Google Social Search promises to help users “find more relevant public content from your broader social circle.”
The premise is simple: people value their acquaintances’ content more than that of random strangers. So Google Social Search brings content from your social circle to the forefront, perhaps showing a friend’s or coworker’s take on a restaurant rather than (or in addition to) whatever the local newspaper reviewer had to say.
On the Official Google Blog, Maureen Heymans and Murali Viswanathan explained, “The way we do it is by building a social circle of your friends and contacts using the connections linked from your public Google profile, such as the people you’re following on Twitter or FriendFeed. . . . If you use Gmail, we’ll also include your chat buddies and contacts in your friends, family, and coworkers groups. And if you use Google Reader, we’ll include some websites from your subscriptions as part of your social search results.
Appearing in social search results means:
1. Make sure you have all of your important links on your Google Profile.
2. Make as many connections as possible.
3. Encourage customers to follow you via social networks.
4. Participate in social media so people will engage with you.
5. Encourage sharing of content (there are plenty available social media buttons)
6. Include social network info on business cards/signage, etc.
7. Include social network info in your online advertising
8. There are probably many more worthwhile tips (if you have any, share them in the comments).
Recently, Google announced the launch of font size controls over your Google Adsense code, small, medium and large size.
What is the advantage here? Is it will inscrease your earning or CTR? Peter A. Prestipino from websitemagazine.com said “I personally don’t have any doubts that it increases CTR (click-through rate) and ultimately earnings,…” but i myself realized big difference in CRT and earning during recent week. The ads look better impressive and it’s attractive the readers, surely, at least on my blogs.
Google Adsense is the third program that pay me for 3 years already and till paying me well.
Will you get the change and see more dollars rush onto your pocket?
Tell me the truth after a week, ok?
Does the size in kb of a page give any benefit to search engine ranking? The reason I ask is that I am in the process of re-designing my site using CSS and this has much smaller page sizes than I had before, obviously I am keeping my content but whereas a page in my site would have been perhaps 100k before – it is now 30k with the same content – I was worried that google would see this as a dramatic change but having poped up this week on page 2 of google for a term that I only built the page for two weeks ago I am quite pleased with the initial results…
The term in question was “acard duplicators”
If any of you guys on here can give me any more tips on CSS or analyse that page to see if I have made any obvious mistakes then I would be very greatful..
I recently took over a Private Investigator website. The owner has several identical websites, same template, same text, same keyword stuffing, same white text on white background. The previous webmaster even went to a government page about Private Investigators, cut and pasted the entire page links and all, to the bottom of the home page in white. Private investigator – retired NYPD detectives New York NY NJ CT
I’ve completely rewritten the website, started a link exchange, submitted to directories and engines. It has only been one month but I haven’t cracked into Google’s top 60 for my keywords and I’m starting to get ranked in Yahoo. Still a little more tweeking going on
Beside the AdSense Help Forum now Google Adsense publishers can press their opinion on Google adsense blogs. They “hope that this feature will offer you engaging conversations and exchanges on a variety of topics”.
link: http://adsense.blogspot.com/2008/05/now-open-for-comments.html
