Omar Kattan - search in a nutshell

Here are a few tip to get your site spidered more quickly by Google and Yahoo!.

Getting your Site Spidered More Quickly with Google

In the past it was said that placing Adsense Ads on your website was a catalyst for a quicker indexation of your site however this is no longet the case.

The way to get your site spidered more quickly by Google is to install the Google custom search engine on your site.  This will get the Google search bot to come and visit in order to index your site for the custom search widget.

Getting your Site Spidered More Quickly with Yahoo!

The case is similar for Yahoo!.  By placing the Yahoo! site search functionality on your site, you will get your site indexed much quicker in Yahoo!  This has actually been confirmed by a Yahoo rep at a search confirence not too long ago.

Ever wanted to see what adwords ads people are seeing in other countries?  Well you can do so by adding the “gl” operator at the end of your url query string along with the country code of the country of interest like so:

http://www.google.com/search?q=compare+laptops&gl=us for the US
http://www.google.com/search?q=compare+laptops&gl=au for Australia
http://www.google.com/search?q=compare+laptops&gl=uk for the UK

This could come in handy if you’re interested in viewing ads you’ve purchased for other countries or even if you’re simply looking for some creative inspiration for your own adwords ads.   If you’re doing it for the latter, make sure you do not outright copy the ad as this will cause your adwords quality score to decrease thereby increasing your bid price.  Worst still, if you’re caught stealing copyrighted material, Google may ban your account. 

Did you know that Google, Yahoo and MSN now all offer a free source of information for your keyword research efforts? 

The new versions of MSN Live and Yahoo! both offer opportunities to supplement your keyword research efforts. 

In Yahoo! for instance, use the drop-down menu bar to display related terms for your search. 

MSN Live, on the other-hand, displays “related searches” on the top, right-hand corner of the search results page.

Finally, Google serves suggested searched when certain searches are conducted.  For instanc, if you search for “cheap laptops”, Google suggests other searches such as:

It is absolutely crucial to get your keyword research right otherwise you will fail in SEO,  therefore, any source of fresh keyword research is always appreciated.

Thank you Yahoo! and MSN for your new keyword research resources!

Google is reportedly building an avatar-based, Google Earth mashup, a virtual reality designed to compete against the likes of secondlife.com.  The rumoured name for this new virtual reality is though to be “MyWorld”.

Similar to Second Life, “My World” would allow users to create an avatar of themselves, as well as build virtual homes, watch concerts, play games and socialise with avatars of their friends.  Most importantly,  My World will allow advertisers to sell lucrative adword ads on this new platform.  But instead of a fictional virtual space.

It makes total sense that Google is taking this very seriously,  since it is better placed than Second Life to create a more realistic virtual reality world.  Google can do this better by basing the virtual world on Google Earth and integrating its other services such as social networking site Orkut, Google Talk, Google Street-View, and Google Sketch-Up. 

Bottom line… A successful virtual reality site will allow Google to sell more ads in a new virtual environment.

Speculation is that Google My World will be released later on this year, so stay tuned…