Seems to be a major problem. I wonder what it is?
It says:
This service is currently unavailable
Our team is working to restore service as quickly as possible.
Please try your request again later.
I’m sure every minute their search engine is down is a major revenue loss for them…
]]>You have to apply for the MSN AdCenter Beta Program.
I actually tooks a shot and signed on a couple weeks ago and today received an MSN AdCenter Invitation.
None of my ads are approved yet and I’ll have to edit this post later with a more thorough review.
At first glance I prefer the Adwords aministration setup but then again that’s the one I’m used to. Adwords has a nicer set of keyword suggestion tools. MSN AdCenter is not setup yet to be administered through the Firefox browser. You have to use I.E. There is also a non-refundable $5 charge if you are accepted and sign-up.
If you get in early, it ?might? be possible to find some high traffic keywords that have not been bid up yet. I’ll be looking for some of those. 
Have you received an invitation into the MSN Adcenter Beta Program? I’d like to here your thoughts.
The start date for this contest was Monday April 3rd and the end date is Friday September 1st.
This contest has a great group of sponsors with prizes totaling almost $5000.
The first place prizes include:
* $325 Paypal cash from Tim Schroeder (that’s me!)
* $50 Paypal cash from Praveen of Webmasters-Cavern.com
* 1 copy of SendStudio and 1 copy of TrackPoint from Interspire.com $478 value.
* 1 copy of evoArticles by evo-Dev.com $247 value.
* 25,000 free email credits (each credit is worth one email to be sent) through Vertical Response. $300 value.
* 1 copy of Spy Sweeper and one copy Window Washer by Webroot.com (with 1yr updates) $59.90 cash value. And if you join them as an affiliate you will get one full year at 60% commissions regardless of volume.
* 6000 series Speakers from Dustin07 of TechnicalCableApplications $92.99 value.
* Free Logo Design by Logo-Mojo.com. The Bronze Package valued at $249.
* 1 copy of Jim Daniel’s ezWebBusinessBuilder $99 value.
* an iPod from Dan F of Dan’s Blog. $300 value.
* Free web template of your choice from TemplateMonster.com. $50+ value.
* 6 month premium listing on AffiliateGuide.com $74 value.
* 4.5 gigs of public domain content from Nintendo. $49.95 value.
There are also great prizes for 2nd through 5th place.
retsambew dash klat for Charity Contest terms and conditions:
The SEO Contest Conditions:
* You must use a brand new domain name. The registration date of the domain used must be on or after the announcement date of the contest 4/3/2006
* No remotely hosted blog domains allowed (i.e. keyword.blogspot.com)
* No Subdomains Allowed
* The contest keywords can not be used in the domain (with dashes or without any dashes) (subpages with the keyword is fine).
* The winning page must link to a Charity of your choice from this page on Give.org. (you must use a text link that has at minimum the charity name).
Additional Terms for selecting the winners:
- Indented listings will not be counted as additional positions.
- If the Google Datacenters show different results on the contest ending date and time, the winner(s) will be decided by Webmaster-Talk.com Admin. Any disputes as to the winner(s) will be soley arbitrated by the Webmaster-Talk.com Admins.
- If a non-qualifying website ends up in the top 5 at the end of the contest, the next qualifying website will be awarded the prize.
- Please list an email address on your contest site. It will be used to contact you at contest end if you are in the top 5 (free email account ok). We don’t want someone claiming to be someone they are not.
The retsambew dash klat for Charity SEO Contest theme is to Entertain, Educate and to Give
I hope you participate!
]]>
I put together a list of some of the highest paying Google Adsense Keywords. Can you say Ka-Ching!
These are the average costs PER CLICK for the top position in the Google adwords advertising system. If you are using Adsense on your website, these would be some of the keywords that would pay you the most (note that the CPC listed below is what advertisers are paying Google Adwords and not the amount they will pay you for Adsense clicks. Nevertheless I’m sure it’s a HUGE CPC you get paid through Adsense.
|
|
Did you find more? Post them below!
]]>Do you need some clever ideas or did you want to read other mischievous April Fools Jokes?
Philipp Lenssen of blog.outer-court.com has setup a parody search engine at GoogleAprilFools.com just for that (it is unrelated to the real Google )!
Google April Fools - Search everything related to April Fool’s Day!
And check out this MSN Search Spoof April Fools page It parody tool by MSN that uses fake (but hilariously accurate) search results to gently mock friends, bosses, or people who just need to be teased.
MSN is far to easy to easy to game and if they want to work on increasing their search engine user base they better step up work on their SEO spam filters. You won’t find the same type of extreme SEO spam for a single keyword on Google.
Would you keep using a search engine that has results as horrible as this, this and this!?
This guy not only dominates for the “spyware” keyword using a mixture of subdomains on MSN but many other variations of the spyware keyword as well.
Look at the results for the single keyword “loans.” in MSN search. Four of the top ten results are remotely hosted blogs on blogspot.com They are likely the same person. I can’t imagine the kind of money he is making from those positions. Granted MSN does not get near the kind of use as Google does, if you have a number 1 position for a keyword such as “loans” you are making a killing wether it’s Google, Yahoo, or on MSN!
Have your own examples of shocking search engine results on MSN?
Post them here.
Your specific ads ranking in the Adwords PPC system is not based soley on your max bid amount but instead on many different “relevancy factors.”
…Each keyword is assigned a Quality Score, which is determined by the keyword’s clickthrough rate (CTR), relevance of ad text, historical keyword performance, and other relevancy factors.
In this post I am going to talk about using creative Adwords ad titles and descriptions in an effort to increase your CTR on the ad.
Instead of using the same old boring ads like everyone else is using such as (“Keyword” = Product or Service Name):
Keyword Free Download
Read Our Review
Free Trial Downloads
www.MySite.com
I’m trying some outside the box ads such as:
Bad Keyword Really Sucks
Be Careful and Review
keyword service here first
www.MySite.com
If you don’t have the funds to bid into the top 1 to 3 spots and already are getting a high CTR you are going to have to try something a little different otherwise your Google Adwords ads are going to simply blend in with the rest.
How is your ad going to stand-out?!
People act on emotion. Does your ad percieve you as the authority on the subject? Does is cause fear about them making the wrong decision? Does it use humor to draw in their curiousity? There are lots of different ways to make your ads stand-out but it important that they DO.
Here are some more creative ideas that may increase your Google Adwords CTR (keyword = your keyword choice):
Don’t Try Keyword
Don’t signup for keyword without first
comparing. Find out more.
www.Mysite com
Don’t Pay Money For Keyword
Find out what keyword companies
don’t want you to know.
www.Mysite com
Keyword Software Sucks?
Of course not. But that other
company does. Read Why.
www.MySite com
Show Me Your Hits!
some type of humorous
and relevant description here.
www.MySite com
The Truth About Keyword
some type of relevant
description here.
www.MySite com
Official Keyword Site
some type of relevant
description here.
www.MySite com
Keyword - Beat the System
some type of relevant
description here.
www.MySite com
A better keyword?
some type of relevant
description here.
www.MySite com
Try it and let me know how much your click-thru ratio increased (or if they didn’t)!
Have you seen a really creative ad in Google Adwords?
I’d love to here what they are using or of course what you are trying!
To your Adwords Success!
]]>Google Base is a place to submit all types of online and offline content that [google] will host and make searchable online. You can describe any item you post with attributes, which will help people find it when they search Google Base. In fact, based on the relevance of your items, they may also be included in the main Google search index & other Google products like Froogle, Google Base and Google Local.
Google Base is only integrated into the search results for certain keywords at the moment. It shows Google Base integrated when I do a search for “Orlando Homes. It does not show up for just “Homes.” Another example: When I do a search for “cars” on Google, this is what I see (I added the big black arrow):
Clicking “Search Vehicles” will jump you on over to the Google Base results. It also shows up for cars names.
It looks like it might be a good time to start learning about optimizing Google Base listings.
]]>Generally the keyword rankings will appear about the same with some minor fluctuations but during an occasional major Google update (often called a “Google Dance”) the Data Centers may show vastly different results.
During those types of major Google updates it’s nice to be able to check you rankings across the various Google Data Centers. Of course, this means that Google is in the middle of an update so these rankings will often shuffle (don’t panick or get to excited) and it usually takes days for things to settle. Lastly, Google now days uses a continuously updating index time schedule for ranking updates so usually there are more minor shifts that occur more often (less full-blown major shuffles).
Google’s search Data Centers use over 60+ different IP Addresses (here are some of them):
| 64.233.161.14 64.233.171.99 64.233.171.10 64.233.171.147 64.233.179.99 64.233.179.104 64.233.183.99 64.233.183.104 64.233.185.99 64.233.185.104 64.233.187.99 64.233.187.104 |
64.233.189.104 216.239.37.99 216.239.39.99 216.239.53.99 216.239.57.99 216.239.59.99 66.102.11.99 66.102.9.99 66.102.7.99 64.233.167.99 64.233.161.99 64.233.161.104 64.233.167.104 |
216.239.63.104 216.239.39.104 216.239.37.104 216.239.59.104 66.102.11.104 66.102.9.104 66.102.7.104 216.239.57.105 216.239.59.105 216.239.57.147 66.102.7.147 64.233.167.147 |
Below are some Data Center resource and tool websites. Let me know if you know of more.
Search the Google Data Centers all at once.
Google Data Centers Search Tool provided by Mcdar.net (this not the best looking site but it is the most popular Google Dance tool and works well.
Google Data Centers Search Tool provided by voide.be
Google Data Centers Search Tool provided by WebRankInfo.com
Google Data Centers Search Tool provided by PromotionWorld.com
Google Data Centers Search Tool provided by Google-Dance-Tool.com
Google Data Centers Query Site for Keyword and Domain provided by 123seotools.com (searches various Google Data Centers for keyword rankings of a particular domain. It does not use the Google API so I’d be cautious)
Google Data Center List Websites (no search tools):
Google Data Centers list provided by Vaughns-1-Pagers.com
Google Data Centers list provided by SearchEngineGenie.com
Interesting Articles about the Google Data Centers:
Google’s secret of success? Dealing with failure on CNET News
(this CNET article is rather old but still interesting)
Will Google Shed Light on Data Center? on eweek.com