Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt is quickly establishing itself as one of the most press-friendly attendees at Sun Valley’s annual gathering of high-powered media and technology types.
Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt is quickly establishing itself as one of the most press-friendly attendees at Sun Valley’s annual gathering of high-powered media and technology types. Last year, he spent a solid hour answering reporters’ questions in a late-night rap session.
On Thursday, Mr. Schmidt, along with Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, again fielded questions from the media, commenting on, among other things, Microsoft’s attempt to buy Yahoo as well as Google’s deal to buy YouTube.
On the Yahoo front, Mr. Schmidt was emphatic that he thought Yahoo did the right thing in rejecting Microsoft’s bid.
“There is no question in our view that an independent Yahoo is better,” he said. A stand-alone Yahoo “will provide more competition in search and other advertising markets, in particular in display advertising.”
Yahoo Rejects Microsoft, Icahn Bid to Split Company (Update1)
July 13 (Bloomberg) — Yahoo! Inc. rejected a proposal from Microsoft Corp. and billionaire investor Carl Icahn that would have broken up the Internet company, saying they were trying to “coerce” officials into selling assets.
Under the plan, Yahoo’s current board and top management would be replaced. Microsoft would buy Yahoo’s search business and leave Icahn with the rest of the Sunnyvale, California-based company, an “odd and opportunistic alliance” that doesn’t have the best interests of shareholders in mind, Yahoo said.
“Carl Icahn and Microsoft presented us with a `take it or leave it’ proposal,” Chairman Roy Bostock said in a statement. “It is ludicrous to think that our board could accept such a proposal. We will not be bludgeoned into a transaction that is not in the best interests of our stockholders.”
The decision steps up pressure on Yahoo Chief Executive Officer Jerry Yang to prove his alternative deal, a partnership with Google Inc., can deliver better returns. Icahn has proposed a set of directors and is challenging Yang for control of the board at an Aug. 1 meeting.
Yahoo, owner of the No. 2 Web search engine after Google, said it was given 24 hours to weigh the latest proposal, made Friday evening. Some of the ideas, including spinning off the Asian investment assets and returning cash to shareholders, are items the board is already considering.
If your daily Google Adsense earning is less than 5 dollars, your strategy is wrong.
If you have been an adsense publisher for mor than a year, and still earn 5 dollars a day, probably you made something wrong.
1-) Probably your pages did not indexed to google with high rankings. You couldn’t attract enough reactions to your site in this period
2-) Your ad placement is horrible. You really need to make a big change in your ad placement and ad colors.
3-) You do’not work enough or effective. Working on a site for ten hours is not effective. You need to have daily to do lists and you need to finish this lists as soon as possible. You need to be effective, Google doesn’t pay you for your efforts per/hour. You should ask yourself;
- Do i work enough?
- Do i have a strategy or do i just add stories?
- Do i know the importance of branding
4-) Your content is not that attractive. Good content attracts people. When you check the referrals from your sitemeter, you see too many different sites linked to you if you have a good content, if you don’t, you’ll be invisible. You need to find new strategies to change to soul of your new posts.
5-) You fail at social bookmarking if you have a fun content. Could you hit the front page of reddit or digg in this period at least one time? We can’t take this general, if you have a planting site, you don’t need to hit to frontpage of these bookmarking sites.
6-) Your design fail. Think about thousands of web sites you see everyday and you never click on their ads. Your site might be one of these for them.
7-) Your blog has no concept. Do you post amazing ,funny pictures collected from the web? Think about icanhascheezburger.com, failblog.org . These bloga are also funny pictures sites but their concept separates them from ten thousands of funny-amazing content blogs. You need to find yourself a concept, for example lolhorses like lolcats. You’ll just post funny horse pictures around the web. This can make a difference, but building another general funny pictures site is one of the worst web development ideas of 2008.
Why concept is important? Because you need direct visitors to make more money. If you don’t have a concept, people will not want to know your other posts. There has to be a concept connection with all of your posts.
%83 of icanhascheezburger.com’s visitors are direct. It’s alexa ranking is currently 1086, This means that this web site make a lot of money and it has a famous brand. This can be a good indicator to see if your strategy is good or not?
Traffic İnformation for Icanhascheezburger.com;
Percentage of your direct visitors and your alexa rankings. Alexa ranking is useless without your direct visitors.
9-) Your site isn’t english and your site visitors aren’t mostly from U.S. As you know, advertisers pay the highest amount for a keyword just for U.S visitors. At least half of your traffic sources should be from U.S. Otherwise, you would count 3, 2 ,1 cents per click.
How to index your pages to Google Quicker?
To index your web pages to Google Quicker Than Ever;
1-) Create a sitemap from here, and add upload it to your site. http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.xml
2-) Go to Google Webmasters Tools, follow the guidelines and verify your domain ownership by uploading a file to your directory. Then verify your sitemap.xml file.
Probably your pages will be indexed in 2-3 days to Google.
Is it Easy to Learn PHP in 2 months?
It’s easy.
What do you need at first to Learn PHP?
1-) To learn html from W3schools. It’s easier than you think.
2-) 2 hours a day for 2 months
3-) Julie C. Meloni’s PHP, Mysql and Apache book.
4-) A small web site idea. If you don’t have a web site idea, probably you won’t able to learn php easily. The easiest way is to focuse on a web project.
5-) Patience.
Why You Should Learn PHP?
1-) It’s valuable, it’s powerful and it’s easy.
2-) Many times, to hire a programmer is not that enjoyable.
3-) Sometimes you may need secure first.
4-) World is becoming “online” day by day and you can reach too many Business Oppurtunities at Web World.
5-) If you don’t start now, you’ll probably feel regretful.
Are you serious?
Yes. A friend of mine, learnt php and mysql in a month and coded a small web project. Give yourself 2 months or 3 months, but you really need to start somehow and you know that ;). Not to be regretful after 3 months, Decide and Start!
Add Spam Protected Contact Form To Your Wordpress or Web Site in a Minute
Add a simple contact form to your web site includes; name, e-mail, web site and message. When you Google for this, you’ll find too many options, but this one is the quickest one.
Download Link
1. Upload all files to wp-content/plugins/wp-contact-form/
2. Activate the plugin on the plugin screen
3. Go to Options -> Contact Form and update the fields with your information
4. Create a post or a page and press the Contact Form quicktag where you want the form to be. If you don’t see the Contact Form quicktag, you can alternatively copy and paste
where you want it to appear.
The Importance of Alexa: Is it Worth it?
I prefer to use my alexa rankings to motivate myself only. But it doesn’t deserve more indeed. Create a funny images blog and promote it via social media sites, after 2 months you’ll be ranked at least 200.000 at global rankings. Submitting 100 funny pics and having a web blog in 200.000?
Why Alexa is not that imporant;
1-) You can easily get ranked well via sudden social media traffic.
2-) We don’t know how alexa rank our sites. (their new algorithm is confusing)
Why Alexa is imporant;
1-) Many people care about alexa rankings.
2-) It’s fun and motivational.
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Start Your Golden Blog Project with Wordpress
If your golden project is a great blog, you should start with Wordpress. Tech crunch make 200.000$ a month and uses wordpress.
Why to start your golden project with Wordpress?
1-) There are dozens of cool and proffessional themes. Also you can edit them from style.css file easily.
2-) You can create search engine friendly urls. This is very important.
3-) With simple plugins, you can back up your blog easily.
4-) You can add avatars, polls, forums, calendars and thousands of things from wordpress free plugin directory.
5-) Interface of wordpress is easier and user friendly than the others.
6-) Proffessional Web Bloggers use Wordpress.
7-) You can add image thumbnails at the bottom of the posts easily. This is very important for ” images.google.com” traffic and “CTR”.
8-) Adding new features with plugins has never been easy like that.
9-) WP also includes adsense plugins. For example; “adman”. With this plugin, you can add ads into the posts.
Tips: Never Lose Your Google Adsense Account
(This article is a bit old but i wanted to share it with you. )One of your biggest nightmare is losing your adsense account? What a power isn’t it? Google is smiley company but when you become a publisher of adsense, you can easily realise that, seriousness is hired behind the smiley face. You can make a living from google. It’s not a big dream or impossible target. All you need to have is money. If not, time. If you have both, probably you’ll start earning quickly. Google adsense, give oppurtunity to all humanity. ( at once) You can make thosands with this great partnership at home. It is a both sided beneficial relation-ship and google is pleased for being with you. Everything is fine if you obey all terms of service. But if you don’t obey or make a little mistake, this happy dream will end dramatically. And then you will start posting articles like that; “why i hate google?” , “10 things ever never over” etc.
I’m not a high level adsense publisher but i’m a strong reader. According to my experiences on varied adsense articles, i made a list, that will help you to keep publishing adsense ads forever.
1-) Read all adsense terms again, again.
2-) If you have web pages full of ads more than content, don’t remove them, just add some content and balance it.
3-) The first rule of the adsense club is, you do not talk about adsense. This is a very important rule. It is hard to stop your relatives and friends clicking your ads.
4-) Create a new windows account and protect it with password. So, you’ll able to hire your url history, web files, notes, login cookies etc.
5-) Adlogger and other click fraud protection softwares are no longer useful. But if you have detected some “ips” that trying to hurt you, you can block them easily via adding some codes to your .htaccess file. In the link below, there is a great tool; “htaccess blocking generator”. All you need to do is adding the ips and generating the code. Then you can easily copy/paste it to your .htaccess file.
http://www.thinkhost.com/services/generators/htblock.shtml
6-) If you have an adsense web site in a foreign language, you can easily ban your country via “htaccess blocking” below. All you need to have is your country’s ip range. You can download yours from;
http://www.ipdeny.com/ipblocks/
7-) You should be transparent and honest. Because google is a serious company and wouldn’t like to disconnect with its partnets. So, you should always stay in touch with adsense. In every invalid click detection, you should immediately contact with google and “Invalid Clicks Contact Form”
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/request.py?contact=invalid_clicks_contact
Don’t forget that adsense stuffs are human.
You should follow latest discussions.Because something useful and urgently needed, might be hired in other publisher’s sentences. I recommend you to follow; “forums.digitalpoint.com“, “webmasterworld.com” for adsense discussions. Also i recommend you ” problogger.net” and “shoemoney.com” for quick tips. If you have started writing more than you read, there might be a problem.
9-) Don’t gain enemies. Also closer web friends.
10-) You should forget about losing your account. Thoughts and sense are very powerful. We can effect the things by our senses. If we think about losing adsense account all day and all night, we’ll gain nothing. You were alive before adsense and you won’t die without adsense. You should be relax and concentrate on your security first. Then your content and traffic. If you are praying and patiently working, we would see “the kick” ine near future from you!
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