Digital Marketer - Harini OSC

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

New Features - Google Adwords

Here are the new features of Google Adwords!! - Google Update

Google Maps

We need to put a business listing on Google Maps with a specific business location! Then, creating a free listing with Local Business Center to help forecast in your area find you! Finally, setting up a Local Business Ad for creating awareness of your business and to drive sales!

Offering coupons for free as it acts as an incentive for existing customers and it may attract the new visitors.

Advantage: We can create & display a free business listing! Period!

Scheduling of Ads

Credit Card - Backup - More information on Credit Card Backup

Video Ads - Google exciting new feature is Video Ads!!

Google Update - Sitemap for Google News

After the announcement of Sitemaps.org, a new sitemap protocol was launched by Google!

Google provides sitemap for Google News. This is only available to Google News publishers and it does not affect any efforts around the new sitemaps.org protocol.

Monday, November 20, 2006

Google Checkout! - Google Update

Google Checkout - With this we can easily do shopping from stores across the web!

Shopping Cart New Option from Google - Instead of coding wizard

We need to send the shopping cart through an HTML form with name=value pairs and manage the orders using the merchant center interface, in which we can perform activities such as Charge credit cards, Specifying shipping carriers and tracking numbers , Cancel orders , Refund orders, Review our payout summary information , Track our free transaction processing , Update our Google Checkout settings. We can specify shipping and sales tax options in the shopping cart itself.

Google Code Search - More Languages

Google code search now available in more languages!!

Google also added support for languages of another type. Google code search now finds code in more programming languages such as AppleScript, COBOL, ColdFusion, Haskell, Modula-2, Modula-3, OCaml, R, Rebol, SML, and VHDL. We can find this in google's advanced code search.

Thursday, November 16, 2006

Sitemap Protocols - Update

Major SE’s Google, Yahoo and MSN unite to maintain a common Mechanism for Website Submission!!!

Yes, it is true :)

To improve the indexing process, these Major SE’s today announced support for Sitemaps 0.90 www.sitemaps.org (which gives the current release of sitemap protocols and will include future updates as these SE’s continue to work together on this common protocol) an easy way for webmasters to notify the SE’s about their websites!

View more about this Google update !!!

Monday, November 13, 2006

Google Apps For Your Domain - Additional Feature - Google Update

One more additional feature on Google Apps for Your Domain

It expands to include the Start Page for Organizations available from today!! This start page is hosted by Google with two main functionalities!

Google Apps for Your Domain - Your users' access point for communication & collaboration services

Start Page - Your own branding page to present relevant content and useful information to your users with your own content, Google Gadgets and RSS feeds!! It's free, hosted by Google, available starting today in US English.

View more information on this Google update

Google Update on Google Videos

Google Videos - New features are added to Google videos such as we can sort our results by "top ratings", "searching inside the labels" etc.

Friday, November 10, 2006

Google Audio Ads - Google Update

Google will begin a beta test on Audio Ads by the end of this year!

Google blog spreads Kama Sutra Worm!!

Google has sent Kama Sutra virus through postings in the Google video blog. It reached more than 50,000 users. The virus name is W32/Kapser.A@mm -- a mass mailing worm. If you have updated anti virus program then this virus won’t harm you!