Archive for December, 2009

Real time search is now available for the a few days, its interesring that in some case the real-time parts appears above the 1st organic listing. For example when you search for “cocosa” you see a PPC listing, the real time result and then the organic listing.

Google Analytics added  a very valuable option: to add Annotations over the time graph. Annotations allows any user with access to a Google Analytics profile to leave shared or private notes right on the over-time graph. This is a simple note that will appear on the time graph on your main dashboard.

You could use this feature:

• In case the servers went down?
• When did the new display ads campaign launch?
• Increase in your PPC budget
• New website launch
• Redesign of certain pages
• New product launch
  

This is a very useful feature especially within organisations with multiple departments. Annotations can become your central logbook, for all online marketing and website design actions within your business.

Tags: Google Analytics

Google have been the last few months and last week launched a new feature called Real time search. Real-time search enables you to discover breaking news the moment it’s happening, even if it’s not the popular news of the day, and even if you didn’t know about it beforehand. Real-time search features are based on the main social netowrks such as Facebook, MySpace, FriendFeed, Jaiku ,Identi.ca and Twitter. You have the option to pause the flow of the news and they usually appear under the new section on the search result pages. For example when you search for “war in iraq” you get the following search results.

Tags: Google, google real time search