Digital Downloadable Goods in Classified Ads Format Only
The official announcement from ebay regards to sell the digital downloadable products has drop a big boom for lots of marketers that sell information products.
Digital goods are often reproduced at little to no cost to the seller. On eBay, this creates the potential for Feedback Manipulation (both real and perceived). To preserve the integrity of the Feedback system, effective March 31 all goods that can be digitally downloaded or transferred electronically must be listed using the Classified Ads format.
Using the Classified Ads format, sellers receive a 30-day ad at a fixed price. This solution enables sellers to continue to market their digital goods on eBay; however, because Classified Ad listings are a lead generation tool and do not result in transactions that go through eBay, Feedback cannot be exchanged between buyer and seller.
Here is ebay’s official announcement Read more
Google Encouraging People To Contribute Knowledge
Google has planned on launching project called “Knol,” which looks very similar to the infamous Wikipedia.
According to Google,
“Knol” as the name of the project and as an instance of an article interchangeably. It is well-organized, nicely presented, and has a distinct look and feel, but it is still just a web page. Google will provide easy-to-use tools for writing, editing, and so on, and it will provide free hosting of the content. Writers only need to write.
The goal is for knols to cover all topics, from scientific concepts, to medical information, from geographical and historical, to entertainment, from product information, to how-to-fix-it instructions …
Google’s key idea behind this project is to highlight authors. Such as have authors’ names right on the cover if they wrote any books, news articles have bylines and so forth. As google said, it is unlike other user-generated content websites, which don’t necessarily give much thought into the sites’ biggest contributors…
You can read more detail information at Google Blog
Since it is a quite challenge project, so it is unavoidable to see there are many discussion going on around the Net, I find many interesting opinions from the Search Engine Watch.
Social Bookmarking Sites Which Don’t Use NoFollow
In his Social Bookmarks Article, Loren Baker wrote:
Social bookmarking allows web users to search, share, organize, and store the bookmarks of different web pages. Most of the services that provide social bookmarking encourage you to organize bookmarks with informal tags …
The tagging and descriptions used in bookmarking is referred to as external meta data and can have huge benefits in SEO, because the information used in the tagging is not controlled by the site owners, but by the public. In essence, the information in external meta tags should be much more valuable than external inbound link anchor text or directory co citation.
NoFollow is a non-standard HTML attribute value which is used to police the outbound link value of user generated content, especially blog commenting. NoFollow is used to communicate with search engines to tell them that a link should not be used to pass on link juice, or “Page Rank”.
To help you developing better SEO strategies, he listed down those social bookmarking sites that do not use nofollow in their HTML tags, which is important for you to understand.
So go here and find out which social bookmarking sites in his list.
Ready For The Next 5 Google Slaps?
July 26, 2007 by annliu · Leave a Comment
Future Google slaps are going to make life harder and harder for a lot of affiliates, quality score updates make it harder for affiliates that want it quick and easy
Super Affiliate Mindset has a great discussion about Are You Ready For The Next 5 Google Slaps. Amit, a well known affiliates discuss what will take to pass upcoming quality score hurtles and how to succeed in your PPC campaign when the game gets tougher.
… more and more advertisers (read – flood of affiliates with ugly one page landing pages they throw together with front page) flood every possible niche and market out there, as a result the bid prices will go higher, and higher, and HIGHER.
Eventually, the bid prices will get so high that most advertiser will be squeaking by with a tiny ROI, or breaking even just acquiring a customer (NOT good for affiliates doing CPA) …
If you take advantage of his insights advice, you will on the game and end up on the winning end. He made some really good point and also raise some good issues.
So prepare yourself and be ready for next big Google slaps.
Sanook! To Take Over eBay’s Site
June 1, 2007 by annliu · 2 Comments
The US-based worldwide e-marketing group eBay is to close its www.ebay.co.th website and hand over its Thailand businesses to Sanook.com. Thailand will be the 38th market where eBay has a local presence.
eBay Inc announced an agreement with Sanook! the leading online portal in Thailand, to launch an e-commerce site that will enable individuals and businesses in Thailand to participate in local trade as well as cross border trade through eBay’s global Web sites.
According to research firm IDC, Thailand currently has more than 16 million Internet users – a figure expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 25 percent through 2009.
“The e-commerce community in Thailand is among the most active we’ve seen anywhere,” said Lorrie Norrington, president, eBay international marketplaces. “Through this agreement, we are combining our core competency in cross border trade with Sanook’s local market expertise to deliver the best e-commerce experience for Thai users, enabling them to not only engage in domestic trade but also to buy from and sell to the world.”
“We are pleased to partner with eBay in creating this new e-commerce site which we believe will provide new economic opportunities for the growing online community in Thailand,” said Torboon Puangmaha, chief executive officer, Sanook Online Limited. “As Thai Internet users become more comfortable doing transactions online, there is a tremendous opportunity to leverage the eBay global online marketplace via the local co-branded site created especially for Thai users. We expect that the Sanook! eBay Web site will quickly become a popular place for people to buy and sell a wide variety of items both within Thailand as well as internationally.”
Bangkok Independent Newspaper Nation has the full news, you can read it Here
