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Adwords Queries: Using Phone Numbers & Display URL 404s

Monday, August 13th, 2007

In my previous post, I mentioned Google’s Film Listings not working - whilst looking into this, I noticed in the sponsored results there was one advertiser cunningly (or not) using a phone number as part of the display URL:

I was under the impression that having phone numbers within Adwords ads was against Google’s terms, although […]

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Google Film Listings Broken?

Monday, August 13th, 2007

Google’s “onebox” results for films listings appears to be broken at the moment, at least here in the UK.
Search for films and you’ll get the onebox option to enter your town or city to get listings - however, enter a few cities and you’ll notice that no results are returned.
I know that this was working […]

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Google Checkout Now Available In UK

Friday, April 13th, 2007

Google has today released its payment processing system and possible PayPal killer in the U.K..
Having been available to U.S. users for a while now, Google Checkout is now a payment option for U.K, retailers, and it seems that Google will be honouring the current deal it has running in the U.S. to make all transactions […]

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Google Reader Adds Trends

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

Google has recently enabled a new section to its RSS Reader software which allows you to track your reading habits.
From Lifehacker:
The Trends page is useful for a lot of things, especially if you like to keep track of where you do the majority of your reading… Reader’s Trends can help you decide which feeds have […]

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Google PageRank Update?

Friday, September 29th, 2006

Strangely enough, just this morning I was wondering how long it had been since the last Google PageRank update (here is the answer), and it looks as if the update might have started today.
Of course, we’re not supposed to worry about PageRank, are we?

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