Google Search is trying to cover more local news from a local perspective. They think that local writers from blogs and news media in the local area report better then for example AP or Reuters.
On the Google Blog Sharad Jain said the following
“We are constantly improving our algorithms to bring you a better organized, more relevant selection of the day’s news. This is an ongoing process, but in the past few months we have been working on a number of improvements that we hope bring us closer to this goal. While many of these aren’t new features that you might notice right away, we hope they’ll provide a better experience.
So instead of just seeing the most recent publishing activity for a breaking story, we highlight the sources which brought you the information in the first place. Once there’s new information from another source, we update our results so you get any new developments to the story.
We have started actively promoting high quality local reporting in addition to coverage from foreign sources. This means we try to find sources at the scene of a story who are doing original reporting
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I think this is good news for example one of our sister blogs that writes about Travel warnings in Thailand and that should get a bigger attention since many people travel to Thailand every day.
YouTube will finally share all the money they are making on people uploading videos. But hold your horses.
It has to be your VERY own videos; you created them and have copyrights to them and all that.
You are a regular contributor to YouTube that a lot of people look at your videos.
You must life in USA or Canada off course we know that one was coming.
If you want to get some money from YouTube you need to tell them why you want it and why they should approve you for revenue sharing.
They will not tell you how much and when you going to get it, just trust them ok.
If you can not get into the sharing program with YouTube you can always get money sharing your pictures clicking the banner below.
Gave up Adword for 2 month for Yahoo Directory
I have been trying Adword now for 2 years with this Thai Florist site. I can tell you right away it has not been converting at all as I wanted it to.
I wasted some money on content network and now the last month the only site I got is Albanian and Arab site. I ask for only English sites but that’s what I got, off course I been requesting refund but it takes time.
Yahoo Directory have been on my mind now for some times and I will reach a totally different group of people then usual once from Adword. Since my market is pretty small (Western men ordering flowers to girls in Thailand) I think I got most of them already in my email list.
I spent $6 a day on Adword that’s 50 days to $ 299 that the Yahoo Directory charges me.
Let’s see in 2 month if I got any customer from Yahoo since Google Adword has not given me squat for that long as well.
Bookmark this page, subscribe to my RSS or just comment and I will let you know how it went in 60 days.