For this accasion, Bandai and Google has put a special PACMAN playable version doodle!
EXCELLENT!
These are 2 twitter like website of microblogging that allow you to have 1 dofollow link in you profile
Example:
http://identi.ca/peterhoustonlawyer
http://identi.ca/lrothdesigner
Or
http://heello.com/houstonlawyer
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Here is the test
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here is the code suggested by Google
]]><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1"
xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap-video/1.1">
<url>
<loc>http://www.example.com/foo.html</loc>
<image:image>
<image:loc>http://example.com/image.jpg</image:loc>
</image:image>
<video:video>
<video:content_loc>http://www.example.com/videoABC.flv</video:content_loc>
<video:title>Grilling tofu for summer</video:title>
</video:video>
</url>
</urlset>
Attention - part of the presentation is in French but as Matt do not speak french anybody should be able to understand.
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EXCELLENT!
With CSS3 and HTML5, Adobe must be very worried. PostScript, PDF, Photoshop, Flash ... all will disappear.
After Flash which will become useless, it’s Photoshop for Web Design title to be abandoned. Finally a real web! With the text for text! No more .gif buttons! Goodbye .jpg menus! Hasta la vista titles in .png! The image will no longer serve as anything else than i-llus-tra-te.
I have proof: Check the screenshot below
To realize this title, the designer has used “background-clip” property. It is not working with all browsers so go and check the link with Chrome CSS3 title.
This News has been (poorly) translated from French on-air.hiseo.fr
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I was checking my twitter account today – By the way here is the link (FOLLOW ME!!!) – when I saw a tweet from saying: “Great article! Can we stop calling it Linking Building? It leads many to the wrong behavior http://bit.ly/cfBCai” retweet again and again...
I followed the link & went on the George Aspland corporate blog. In a nutshell here is what George says:
“We’ve starting working with yet another client who had prior SEO’s wasting time on link building activities meant solely to influence search engine rankings”
“Link Building often leads to the wrong behavior, wasting time and resources”
“So we are changing the name of our service to Referral Site Development (RSD) & Online Promotion to more accurately reflect the more important purpose of building targeted traffic and awareness.”
George! STOP J%*RKING OFF! Please!
Every single serious and professional SEO in the world came across some unscrupulous consultants who used spammy techniques at one point on a prospects website and got him cold feet. It hurts the profession really and bad link building is just one more thing we have to educate the public and our prospects with.
Link building is a word! And just changing it is not going to help anybody but you… and I am not even sure… George what is going to happen if one day you pitch a client who really knows what link building is … you are going to look like a fool! You are going to go with you pretentious “Referral Site Development (RSD) & Online Promotion” and he is going to answer you... “OK! So you do link building …”. Let's call a cat... a cat and not a "feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar".
George Why don’t you try to help me and educate people… so they know SEO is not some kind of magical thing, so they recognize Spammers when they see one! SO they can make the difference between good practices and bad practices in link building.
I already have put this comment on your Blog George but I really want you to think about it:
“BEST SEO CLIENTS AREN’T THE ONE WHO DON’T KNOW WHAT SEO IS. BEST SEO CLIENTS ARE THE ONE WHO DON’T HAVE THE TIME TO DO IT THEMSELVES!”
You’re not helping right now George, your just confusing people even more with pompous terms and you even open the door a little more to bad practices …
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Asked repeatedly about CPC rates, search volumes and various percentages of queries and revenues Gundotra declined to offer those specifics but did say that mobile search query growth was “dramatically higher” (from a smaller base) than PC search growth. He added that Google’s mobile traffic growth has been 5X over the past two years:
These growth curves make sense given the relative maturity levels of the markets and also the rise of smartphones, which now represent almost 20% of the US handset market and a much larger percentage of new handset sales. Gundotra explained, as he has in the past, that mobile search is largely “additive” to PC search. He pointed out that mobile queries spike when people are away from their desks — during lunch, on the weekends, etc.
An unrelated data slide from Compete illustrates that much of smartphone activity happens during “downtime,” “waiting in lines,” at home or during leisure time.
Gundotra showcased Google’s various advertising programs and options in mobile:
Gundotra also discussed Google’s relatively new Click to Call program and echoed that this delivering “a call for the price of a click.” He offered that there was considerable advertiser interest in the program.
During the Q&A session Gundotra was joined by Android VP Mario Queiroz and Google CFO Patrick Pichette. There were questions about the future apps vs. the mobile browser, Android app store growth, the Nexus One, Google’s recent “blue dot” local inventory program, the Japanese market as a model for the West and AdMob, among other areas. There were few specifics revealed and Google wouldn’t discuss AdMob because of the regulatory review going on now. However, Gundotra pointed out that a “surprising number” of people launch their mobile browser and go to Google.com to search.
What this indicates that Google’s brand equity is very strong in mobile and the company can probably expect continued mobile search leadership notwithstanding competitor “default” search deals that exist or may be brewing. Last month Opera said that Google owned about 68 percent of the search query volume that took place through its mobile browsers (which doesn’t consider the iPhone and most Android devices that see greater percentages of Google search).
One of the soundbites from the webcast that is being widely reported is that mobile ad rates would potentially top PC ad rates at some point in the near-term. While possible and a bit of hopeful thinking, that doesn’t entirely make sense given the current market dynamics.
Google doesn’t have a separate bidding queue for mobile (at least right now) so AdWords on the PC and mobile are the same. In terms of display ads, mobile rates were much higher than on the PC in the past but ad rates have come way down over the past year. This is partly because of ad network competition and the fact that consumers are adopting the mobile web faster than advertisers and there are now many more page views than ad inventory to fill them all. For ad rates to increase there will need to be more advertiser demand and more mobile campaigns, which are coming.
Yet the mobile internet and mobile devices will not simply duplicate the PC experience. There will be overlap and similarity but the mobile internet will evolve and the models will diverge to some degree over time as new advertising, transaction and billing models take hold in mobile.
Source: Greg Sterling - SearchEngineLand
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