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AdSense crawling further

AdSense is testing selected group of password protected websites in a program called "Site Authentication" where they allow publishers to run Google AdWords at the sites where user authentication is required. Below is part of the email explaining the new AdSense program. ”You are one of a select group of publishers that has been chosen to try out our new Site Authentication feature.
Site Authentication allows publishers to give our crawler access to login-protected content so that users can receive targeted ads. While there is no obligation for you to try out this new feature, you may find it helpful if you have pages of your site protected behind a login screen."

Picasa and Google Pack

AdSense Blog has announced that you can now refer your users to Google Pack and Picasa. You will earn up to $2 for each time a user installs Pack and up to $1 for each Picasa install. Although Picasa referrals will be available for several AdSense languages, Pack referrals are currently only offered in US English.
To display Pack and Picasa referral buttons on your site, all you have to do is select Referrals from the AdSense Setup page of your account, and then select the product of your choice. And remember, now US English publishers can use text links for your referrals.

Discover Mars with Google

Google Inc. is expanding its reach into the Solar System and is providing now Mars Maps. It is new web browser based mapping tool that gives interactive view of the Red Planet.

AnswerFinder

AnswerFinder is a new search engine project being developed by the Centre for Language Technology at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. It is a question-answering system based on computational linguistics and intelligent text processing. To find out more visit: http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~diego/answerfinder

Keyword Research

Find out about top keywords and you will get idea what people are looking for on the Internet.
You can also analyze any keywords you choose with this great tool.

Yooter InterActive

With Yooter Search you can use multiple search engines to look for the specified keywords. For some of you who like to experiment it is a great tool. Recently I have noticed that more information is available on
http://www.yooter.com/blog.

Google Ads Revenue Potential

How much can you expect to earn by running Google Ads on your site?

The pay-off per click varies widely depending on what each advertiser decides to offer, based on the profitability of their products and their expected conversion rate. Google is not saying what the average pay-off is nor how does it share the revenue per click with their AdSense partners, but how much you will earn per click will really depends on the topic and the product being advertised. Products with profit margins of $3.00 for the advertiser will probably give you a smaller pay-off per click than a product with a $300 profit margin. Similarly, ads with high conversion rates will normally give you higher payouts than less effective ads, since they can afford to pay more dollars per click. As an example, lets say that your site receives 1,000 page views per day. At a 2.0% click-through rate and $0.50 pay-off per click to you, in a 30-day month you can expect to make: 1,000 x 30 x 2.0% x $0.50 = $300
The more traffic your site has, the more clicks you will get.

Prepaid Mobile 4 less

Revolution Telecom, powered by the Vodafone Mobile Network, is possibly Australia's cheapest prepaid mobile SIM. With a standard call rate of 9.9c per 30 seconds, call credits that never expire and a once in a lifetime FREE $30 credit offer, there has never been a better time to Join the Revolution.

Google Referral Program

Google just launched a new affiliate program. Earn $20 for each advertiser or publisher you refer for Google AdWords, or Google AdSense programs.

Search with Blingo for a Prize

Each search you do on www.blingo.com gives you a chance to win a prize. Users don't have to pay anything, register or provide personal information, and they will be immediately told if and what they won.
You can win movie tickets, Amazon.com certificates, Netflix subscriptions, digital cameras or iPods.

Google Suggest

When you start entering characters in the search box in Google Suggest, it will guess what you are typing and offer suggestions. It is another innovation from Google and it looks like the tool might be useful for finding related keywords and for expanding search capabilities.

Scholar.google.com

Google has released a new search engine with those in academia specifically in mind www.scholar.google.com. Dubbed Google Scholar, this latest development from Google allows to search through only the portion of Google’s catalog that contains published materials from scientific journals, books, theses and technical reports.

Examine Pfizer and Corrupt in Google

It may be rather cheap shot, but try it for fun. Type in the words "Pfizer" and "Corrupt" into Google (about 2050 hits), or do a Google search for Pfizer and overcharging (about 527 hits) or Pfizer and Fraud (about 19,900 hits). I need to add that those numbers are changing every hour. Talking about overload of information, but we got something to think over.

Australian SEO companies

Below we list companies in Australia which specialize in
Search Engine Optimization:

www.adrenalyn.com.au
Estimated 27,000 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

www.alphawebsmarts.com
Estimated 17,600 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

www.bmcoptimise.com.au
Estimated 31,700 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

www.cityofcairns.com
Estimated 26,900 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

www.cogentis.com.au
Estimated 15,500 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

www.decideinteractive.com.au
Estimated 22,200 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

www.ewebmarketing.com.au
Less than 5,000 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

www.surfpacific.com.au
Estimated 9,100 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

www.viz.co.nz
Estimated 36,400 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

www.websight.net.au
Estimated 52,000 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

www.webfirm.com.au
Estimated 40,900 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

www.timbarnettinteractive.com.au
Less than 5,000 visitor sessions in the last 30 days
Rank as: 3,983,060 on the Global Internet Index.

Above statistics provided by Advanet Pty Ltd.
Our web analytics tools can review the traffic to your website.

Best of the Blogs Award

Deutsche Welle, is looking for the best digital logbooks. With "The BOBs - Best of the Blogs" awards, we plan to honor the best Weblogs in 11 different categories, including Best Weblog, Best Topic, Best Design, Best Weblog Innovation and Best Journalistic Weblog. A total of seven of the Best Journalism prizes will be awarded -- one in each of our competition languages. Weblogs from all over the world can be nominated for the awards, provided they have been written in English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese or Arabic.

Get Listed in Google

Consider these design guidelines:

Make a site with a clear hierarchy and text links. Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link.
Offer a site map to your users with links that point to the important parts of your site. If the site map is larger than 100 or so links, you may want to break the site map into separate pages.
Create a useful, information-rich site and write pages that clearly and accurately describe your content.
Think about the words users would type to find your pages, and make sure that your site actually includes those words within it.
Try to use text instead of images to display important names, content, or links. The Google crawler doesn't recognize text contained in images.
Make sure that your TITLE and ALT tags are descriptive and accurate.
Check for broken links and correct HTML.
If you decide to use dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a '?' character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters short and the number of them small.
Keep the links on a given page to a reasonable number (fewer than 100).

BRW 100 Fast list

Web traffic to few of the companies on the BRW 100 Fast list.

EmailCash is Australia's leading provider of online direct marketing, incentive and loyalty programs and services.
EmailCash was founded in June 1999 and is based in Sydney, Australia. The company attempts to match the requirements of marketers to the profiles of Internet users, through the technology of the Internet. EmailCash brings to marketers newer, richer interaction with consumers, and brings to consumers a way to get rewarded for taking various actions.
www.emailcash.com.au
Estimated 836,300 visitor sessions in the last 30 days

SitePoint's expertise in Web Development has spawned several side-businesses including Editize (editize.com) - a software product designed to enhance the editing capabilities of Content Management Systems; and SitePoint Design, a Web Design and Consulting Division based in Melbourne Australia - sitepoint.com.au.
www.sitepoint.com
Estimated 2,827,800 visitor sessions in the last 30 days