Changes are happening faster and faster at Google and the needle has moved a notch closer towards the commercial end of the philanthropic/commercial gauge today with Google announcing that their search is now even more location sensitive. Over the next couple of weeks you will you will have appear in the left column your auto-detected location along with a dropdown to select other locations if desired. Of course this is couched as simply being more transparent but the result is that you’ll
Later this year Google will launch their own social media network “Google Me”. They’re building and buying themselves a social network to compete with fb and (as of any minute now) the considerably more usable Twitter. Whats most interesting though is the name: Google Me. Surely it should be Google Me2? I’m sure there will be lots more to follow….
Twitter is rolling out lots of new features and a new interface – here’s a video that explains everything, in pictures.
The like button has transformed the process of sharing pages with your friends but it was lacking the features of the share button. That’s been fixed now with new features that broaden the potential for the button. The new “like” button features are: The ability to like content within an application on facebook Like buttons linking to facebook pages New “box count” layout e.g: Of course you may have to go back and tweak the button code but that will
Launched today is Google Realtime which lets you search for the most up to date news blogs and articles at any given time. I just tried it for some blog posts done a few hours ago and.. yup they’re there. A useful tool for monitoring current activity on your brand, or yourself ?
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Affiliate brand bidding and DTM in Social media A fairly recent phenomena and one tied up with the subject of “affiliate marketing without a website” is affiliate posting on social media sites using brand names. Merchants usually strictly control and define the use of their brand terms with affiliates in relation to PPC and within that, DTM (direct to merchant) traffic, but now DTM rules will have to be expanded to define what is permitted elsewhere, such as Twitter, Facebook,
Well it would like to be, and it does have some high profile advocates and lots of support. Thesis is becoming a little nebula of its own. Thesis is a fully editable theme for any type of website, it appears to have clean html and css and claims super fast loading. It is VSEF – (I just made this up) “Very Search Engine Friendly”, and gives you the ability, for $87 to make yourself a unique site pretty damn fast.
Lovely as the idea is, and I’m sure it will be along soon, there is currently no dislike button on facebook – so avoid any links or forms offering you one, it’s a scam and could be harmful. I’m pleased I heard about this as I would probably have been an early victim. What about other buttons that aren’t available – how about a “dumped” button? An “object” button? Ideas on a postcard please
