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Google announced that the page load time metric is now a live factor that will influence your quality score and your minimum bids for your AdWords ads. Read more about it in their official blog…

I’m a Google Adwords Professional, and I often get emails from google requesting qualified professionals like me to take part in some kind of google adwords related surveys. I got a similar mail from Lewis Lin of Google, who by mistake copied the email address of 312 adwords professionals in the “To” column and sent it across It is indeed a privacy policy breach on part of Google…

Later on he mailed once again;

Dear Google Advertising Professionals,

I apologize for sending out the below survey with everyone’s e-mail address in the To: line.  It was a complete oversight on my part.  Given this, I do ask that everyone be respectful of one another’s privacy and do not use each other’s e-mails for unintended purposes.

My mistake aside, Google wants to make the Google Advertising Professionals program better for you, and we’d like to hear your feedback.  If you can take a moment to fill out the survey, we’d really appreciate it.

Sincerely,

Lewis

But, some of the folks who got those email id’s started sending emails to everyone, and there were a few interesting emails, which I would like to share with you…

Email1: $100 Commission for Your Referrals

t appears as if we were all part of an e-mail for a Google AdWords Professional survey but were not blind carbon-copied.

Nonetheless, please forgive me for sending you this one-time e-mail.  We may never have this type of transparency to each other again in the future.

My name is Dave Nathan, and I’m the owner of a Chicago-based search marketing agency called SearchGain.

I imagine that many of you get inquiries from prospective clients who simply aren’t suitable for your firm.

* Some of you may charge a percentage of monthly ad spend but require clients to have a certain minimum monthly spend.
* Some of you may be over-burdened and unable to handle additional clients.
* And, finally, some of you may not take on clients from certain verticals.

If any of these apply to you, I may have an opportunity for you to generate some additional revenue for yourselves (or your firms) once you determine that a prospect is no longer a good fit for your agency.

SearchGain’s “Expert on Demand” package is priced at $999 and includes 5 hours of one-on-one consulting.  As my services are completely “on demand,” I consider this offering to be affordable for any advertiser who is serious about AdWords but can’t afford to pay a firm a monthly management fee.

So, please allow me to extend this business development opportunity to you.  For any client that you send to me who enrolls in the Expert on Demand package, I will provide you with a $100 commission for your referral.  If you think you might be interested in sending some referrals to SearchGain, please contact me if you have any questions about how this would work.

Here are two links about the Expert on Demand package.

For New PPC Advertisers: http://www.searchgain.com/expert-on-demand-promo.html

For Existing PPC Advertisers: http://www.searchgain.com/expert-on-demand-promo2.html

Email2: SEO & PPC Partnerships

Dear All,

Let me introduce myself and take advantage of the great contact mailing list that we were provided with. Please excuse the form of this e-mail, but wasn’t it the purpose of the survey to help us get new Clients?

My name is Wojciech Jakoniuk and I represent Performance Media - Search Engine Marketing Company located in Warsaw, Poland. Our Company is currently the biggest SEM agency in the Central European Region.

::: SEO :::
We are currently looking for more projects in the US & Western European Markets and are seeking new partnerships especially in the SEO area. On request we can provide you with more information on who we are and examples of how we work and what we achieved. Our ideal model of cooperation is to become an outsourcing company for Agencies having the sales force in the foreign market. We can offer competitive rates thanks to cheaper labor force keeping high quality of work at the same time. Currently we have 45 people working for us.

Our preferred partner is on of the below:
An Agency / Media house which does not have an in house team of people doing SEO
An Agency which does only big projects (we do projects from
400$-10000$+ a month) Company which hasn’t achieved expected results and wants to try a new partner Agency that wants to outsource SEO work and white label it as it’s own service

We are working on monthly fee but also on a Performance basis. We can be paid once we achieve agreed results (We are prepared to work for up to 12 months without payment, taking the risks as we believe in the quality of our work).

::: Pay Per Click :::
Our Company has signed partnerships with European & US agencies offering their Clients all kind of PPC services (setting up, running, optimising, daily management for CPC / CPA campaigns) in all Europan languages & in Russian. We are a professional company managing
campaigns (from 100$ to 100000$+) for you or your Clients and are looking for more opportunities as above.

If you find our offer interesting & you feel there is a chance to start a new partnership we could provide you with more information that you may need.

Please do not hesitate to contact me - phone contact available on request.

Regards,

Wojciech Jakoniuk
CEO - Performance Media

Email3: Fellow Adworders

Good Afternoon.

How are you doing? Like Dave Nathan said, we are unlikely to have this happen again so I wanted to introduce you guys to TRON Media. We are a fast growing PPC management company working with clients spending between £50.00-£40,000.00 a month on Google, Yahoo and MSN. We have been going for 7 months.

The first thing I wanted to put out there is that I am looking for a SEO company to be able to send some leads to, and work on a white label basis or not, depending on what you want. If you don’t do SEO at all, but know a company that has a proven track record, again, I would really appreciate a name, number, website, to help my clients out. I have seen so many companies offering a service with Black Hat Optimisation, and am looking for a good company, with good morals, who can really provide a sound service.

Secondly, and lastly, I am aware that there are various reasons why certain companies can’t take on clients. We work on rolling 30 day contracts, work with clients that spend as much or as little on the search engines as possible but have a minimum fee of £75.00 per month.

Any referral sent through to TRON Media that signs up will get you the first month’s fee (worked out at 10-15% of expenditure) or minimum fee of £75. This will be paid by cheque or BACS at the end of the clients’ first month with TRON Media.

I hope this makes sense and sorry if this cause’s offence in any way. It is not meant to.

Good luck over this last year with the BPF!

Kind regards,
Simon Kelly

It is quiet interesting to read these offers, and I’m sure, I can expect a lot more… BTW, I’m also thinking about a way to monetize with these email id’s… May be, I should auction it in ebay… “Email id’s of 312 Adwords Professionals” It should be quiet interesting to see how much money I could make with that

Google announced the international availability of its Custom Search platform allowing companies to add Google’s search technology to their websites. It primarily aims at small businesses and takes only a few minutes or just three steps to sign up and deploy this service.

The platform allows users to integrate search into personal and community sites and blogs, and developers can use the Google Custom Search APIs to allow searching from within their applications.The Google Custom Search platform is now available in 40 languages in close to 80 countries worldwide.

The last Toolbar PageRank Export happened on Apr 30 2006, and the link buying/selling world has been waiting too long for the next update, and it seems that there is no full PageRank update for at least a few more weeks, and possibly longer.

Rumor has it that Google may be getting rid of the elusive, but very important PageRank — that friendly green status bar on the Google Toolbar that website owners try to build up. PageRank is what made Google’s search results as good as they are and it is one of the many factors that help the search engine determine how to rank results.

I’d been quiet busy, and didn’t realize that today’s Google’s Birthday until I came across it in Kishor’s blog. A nice looking special logo on Google’s home looks awesome.

Interestingly, Danny claims that it is the 10th B’day of Google in Search Engine Land. Anyways, OrganicSEO wishes Google many many happy returns of the day…

My client got this mail while we’ve been struggling to optimize our clients Google Base feeds for top 3 positions in Google Product search results. Its really good to see Google coming out to help a few of its valued content partners

Below is the actual mail from product-search-direct at google.com

Hello,

Thank you for listing your items for XXXXXXX.com on Google Product Search. As a valued content partner, we would like to help you take full advantage of Google Product Search this holiday season by possibly offering you custom optimization suggestions on your existing data feeds to maximize your exposure and sales. We are currently offering this opportunity to a select number of merchants for a limited time only, so we ask that you let us know by September 7th if you are interested by replying to this email.

Benefits of implementing our free custom optimization suggestions MAY include*:

- Increased traffic to your website
- More qualified leads through increased relevance
- Improvement in your rankings

If you are interested in having a specialist review your feed, please reply by September 7th to this email. We will then review your feed and send you any recommendations we may have.

Sincerely,
The Google Team

Lets wait and watch to see how google can help us in this.

When I search ’search engine’ in google, I would be happy to see results in the following order…

#1 Google.com
#2 Yahoo.com
#3 Live.com
#4 Ask.com
and so on…. because I’m very sure that these are the top search engines as on date..

But interestingly, google ranks searchenginewatch.com as its #1 result instead of ranking itself as #1. Though searchenginewatch.com offers a great deal of information about search engines, it is not the result that a normal user expect while searching for a ’search engine’.

Google also seems to be stupid enough to rank its own competitor search.live.com within Top10 rankings, without even ranking itself in the first page. If this is the case, then it clearly means that Google needs SEO for itself and also indicates that Google’s ranking algorithm might probably be inaccurate.

The Google Webmaster Central team has come up with a great way to communicate with webmasters, which will put an end to all those confusions over spoof emails that were pretended to be sent from Google to Site owners and Web Masters.

Google’s Webmaster console will now have a Message Center, which is a better way for Google to communicate with webmasters in 10+ languages.

This is what Google has to say about it

Initially the messages will refer to search quality issues, but over time we’ll use the Message Center as a communication channel for more types of information. Here’s an example: informing the site owner about hidden text, a violation in our webmaster guidelines.

To start-with, the number of sites Google will be contacting will be small, but should expand over time. The most important factor is that this ‘Message Center’ will allow Google to communicate with webmasters in an authenticated way, and as time goes on, Google should be looking for even more ways to improve communication with site owners.

In the latest report from comScore, Google has maintained its lead on other powerful search engines. According to the report, Google captured just over 50% of U.S. searches in May.

comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, recently released its monthly qSearch analysis of activity across competitive search engines.  It reports that, in May 2007, Google Sites captured 50.7 percent of the U.S. search market, gaining one full share point from the previous month.  Yahoo! Sites maintained its second place ranking with 26.4 percent of U.S. searches, followed by Microsoft Sites (10.3 percent), Ask Network (5.0 percent) and Time Warner Network (4.6 percent).

Though many users have begun inputting their information directly into address bars, it is clear that most prefer to use their favorite search engines to find needed information. It is clear from these results that paid search is still a good option for online marketers. Paying for higher placement, utilizing search engine optimization to get organic search placements is a good way to increase traffic to websites.

Google Analytics leaves beta and has now got Better and Better
The new features/bug fixes come from numerous requests from Google Analytics users:

* Clickable URLs
* Hourly Reporting
* AdWords Integration
* Search Engine Detection
* Report Linking Issue Fixed
* Added Support
* Smoother Registration
* Translation Errors Fixed
* Bounce Rate Issues Fixed
* Cross Segmenting by Network Location
* More data viewable at once

Comon; if you dont have it for your site, it is now time to get one; itz free indeed