Google Biz Dev Beats the Google Engineers Again
Last Updated on Monday, 12 December 2011 01:12 Written by a2e Monday, 12 December 2011 01:12
Since Panda has happened I (and others) have highlighted how brands have ranked doorway pages, ranked scraped 3rd party content, padded out crap “content farm” content to suck in search traffic, took their market leading position & used it to deliver inferior experiences, bought out bankrupt competitors & redirected the PageRank, engaged in off-topic affiliate extension (Barnes & Noble, Overstock, Overstock AND Barnes & Noble), etc etc etc
At the same time, independent webmasters face greater uncertainty than ever (legal, personal property rights, and from alleged “quality” algorithms like Panda & editorial crackdowns from Google engineers).
If you are not operating at scale, you are an inefficiency which must be expunged from the marketplace.
I have maintained that Panda was a joke & a diversion to re-frame the quality debate as Google dialed up on inserting their own vertical results in the search results, allowing them to monetize the “organic” search results.
Such a view may have been seen as cynical, but it is something that more people are realizing as true. Read this great article from Tom Foremski on ZDNet.
Google’s percent of downstream traffic to YouTube has more than doubled since Panda.
You know how John Stewart or George Carlin have to present reality as a joke to express it? Well watch the above video & then read this article:
“Every single leading company is waiting for user-generated content or is licensing content” in order to reach advertisers, Rosenblatt said. “YouTube was tired of waiting. They told us that they needed a home and garden channel, a pets channel and a health/Livestrong channel. They are paying us up front, plus a rev share. This is the beginning of them funding professional content creators.”
I have mentioned Demand Media’s video “efforts” before.
But my opinion doesn’t matter.
As a monopoly, only Google’s does.
And they decided to subsidize Demand Media while torching your site.
eCrater Store Sellers Can Now Earn Adsense Revenue
Last Updated on Friday, 28 October 2011 03:21 Written by a2e Friday, 28 October 2011 03:21
eCrater, the free online store and sales marketplace for sellers, has announced that active sellers now have the opportunity to monetize the traffic visiting their stores by displaying ads on their store product pages. eCrater sellers get paid when a visitor clicks on any of the contextual ads displayed and payment is made directly from Google. [...]
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Artisan Marketplace Announces New Customer Help Center
Last Updated on Friday, 28 October 2011 03:21 Written by a2e Friday, 28 October 2011 03:21
The artisan marketplace ArtFire.com has announced the launch of an interactive help center to organize their library of help materials. The Help Center includes a variety of resources and information for both buyers and sellers. [...]
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Ventriloquist Marketplace, Buying and Selling
Last Updated on Monday, 22 November 2010 03:59 Written by a2e Monday, 22 November 2010 03:59
The Ventriloquist Marketplace has been going clever and is a place if you’re shopping or offered any ventriloquial items.
Some good deals have been listed, some cost reductions and a good collection of items.
Be certain to check it out, a Ventriloquist Marketplace.
Danwww.ventriloquistcentral.com
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Dan Willinger is a ventriloquism fan and ventriloquist figure collector. He has been collecting for [...]
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Google Apps Marketplace sales commissions on the horizon
Last Updated on Saturday, 18 September 2010 04:01 Written by External Post Saturday, 18 September 2010 04:01
Google in the coming months will begin taking a cut from sales on its Apps Marketplace, where external developers currently pocket all revenue from sales of their applications. Google, which launched the Apps Marketplace about six months ago, has said
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Facebook App Marketplace AppBistro Raises $550k
Last Updated on Saturday, 14 August 2010 09:20 Written by External Post Saturday, 14 August 2010 09:20
AppBistro, a marketplace for Facebook tab applications that lets businesses, brands, and artists add flare to their Facebook fan pages, announced today that it has raised a $550,000 angel round. AppBistro provides a marketplace for developers to showcase
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Amazon punts Kindleware for Androids
Last Updated on Wednesday, 30 June 2010 12:00 Written by External Post Wednesday, 30 June 2010 12:00
Amazon has released Kindleware for Android handhelds. The company’s free Kindle application is now available — worldwide — from the Android Marketplace, but if you’re outside the US, you may not have access to the Amazon’s entire ebook catalog.
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Google sniffs along app store shelves
Last Updated on Thursday, 3 June 2010 03:20 Written by External Post Thursday, 3 June 2010 03:20
Google has expanded its mobile search to encompass online application stores including iTunes and the Android Marketplace, slipping itself between iTunes and the customer. Right now it’s only those two app stores, and only if Google.com is accessed using
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Hands-on Twitter’s official Android app
Last Updated on Tuesday, 4 May 2010 06:00 Written by External Post Tuesday, 4 May 2010 06:00
It’s been about a month since Twitter has begun contributing its official apps to the BlackBerry marketplace, rather than sitting back and letting third-party developers take the reins. We checked out over the weekend and for the most part, we’ve been
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MasterCard is set to launch an online shopping mall
Last Updated on Monday, 12 April 2010 01:40 Written by a2e Monday, 12 April 2010 01:40
MasterCard Worldwide plans to launch Monday the MasterCard MarketPlace, an online mall with more than 28,000 merchants. The payment card network is collaborating on the project with Next Jump, an Internet company that specializes in personalized shopping.
The MasterCard MarketPlace, marketplace.mastercard.com, features promotions, such as 15% off at Kodak.com. If a shopper is interested in a promotion, she can sign in to the MarketPlace and receive the promotional code. Or, the shopper can elect to receive a notification when a merchant has similar offers in the future or if the merchant has an in-store shopping event.
The site also asks a shopper to note a handful of merchants she would be interested in buying from. Next Jump then monitors how she shops on the site and alters promotional offers to her accordingly.
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