Raven SEO Weekly Digest - Issue 38

Word Visualization on Search Marketing Blogs

On Wednesday we blogged about the Raven word cloud ran through Wordle. If you haven't ran your blog or site through Wordle, I highly recommend it. The Wordle word cloud tool gives you a daily snapshot of your front page and outputs an image with the most prominent words in large text. If you're concerned that you may not be on topic, the Wordle tool will give you an immediate answer.

Yahoo! Exposes Part of Google Search Deal Terms in SEC Document

A report from both Reuters and CNET contains information concerning the details of Yahoo!'s paid search deal with Google. Search Engine Land goes into a great amount of detail about the deal and discusses the impact that the agreement will have on the rest of the search industry. Amongst other issues, the article addresses the possibility that Google ads will have even greater reach and that Yahoo! will have a lot more opportunities to serve ads against queries (because of Google's much larger volume of ads).

Google Flips the Switch On Adsense

After a testing period that ran for more than two months, Google has finally approved of including AdSense in feeds. Formerly FeedBurner ads, the acquired company has moved lock, stock, and barrel of its advertising program over to Google's system. This means that any AdSense advertiser can tap into the Feedburner network.

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Posted By: Lee Smith-Bryan Posted On: Aug 15, 11:54 AM