Google Video Units

Google just announced the availability of Google Video Units. Video Units are the videos from YouTube partners having adds within them. The ads within the video unit are targeted based on a combination of the video content and the publisher’s site content or you can chose the categories. Video units may display two types of ads:

• Text overlay ads, which are displayed in the bottom 20% of the video as it plays
• Companion ads, which appear above the video content within the player

The ads displayed can be either contextually targeted or site-targeted, and may be paid on either a cost-per-click or cost-per-thousand impressions basis. The new video units are customizable and look better than the standard YouTube player.

Google has previously begun placing video ads on sites that are part of the AdSense network and YouTube too has been experimented recently to test ads that played during the video, its first time that Google offering to blend ads with YouTube content.

Here is the official press release by Google. LINK
And On Adsense Blog. LINK

Links Vault - Getting Links That Helps Your Site

These Queries are originally given by Rand Fishkin at seomoz blog entitled as LONG LIST OF LINK SEARCHES.

I am posting its most important queries again cause of its extreme importance and value in link building campaign. Some tools are also include, which helps to automate these queries.

Taking keyword example of "website design"

Directory Search Terms

* website design directory
* intitle:directory "website design "
* inurl:directory "website design "
* website design directory
* website design * directory
* directory * website design
* website design catalog (this term ranges in value and may not have much here)
* website design catalog
* "list of website designing sites"
* "list * website design"
* "list * website design * sites"
* website design websites
* website design sites
* "website design sites"
* "website design websites"
* "recommended links" website design
* "recommended sites" website design
* "favorite links" website design
* "favorite sites" website design

When submitting to directories rememer these key points.

Directory Submission Guideline

Blog & Forum Searches

* website design forum
* website designing forum
* "website designing forum"
* intitle:forum website designing
* inurl:forum website designing
* website designing blog
* intitle:blog website designing
* inurl:blog website designing
* "add comment" website designing
* "post comment" website designing
* website designing members
* website designing join
* website designing tag
* intitle:tag website designing
* intitle:post website designing
* website designing group
* intitle:group website designing

Submit-Type Searches

* website design "add url"
* website design "add site"
* website design "add website"
* website design "add your site"
* website design "add a url"
* website design "add * url"
* website design "add * site"
* website design "add * website"
* website design "submit url"
* website design "submit site"
* website design "submit website"
* website design "submit your site"
* website design "submit a url"
* website design "submit * url"
* website design "submit * site"
* website design "submit * website"
* website design "suggest url"
* website design "suggest site"
* website design "suggest website"
* website design "suggest your site"
* website design "suggest a url"
* website design "suggest * url"
* website design "suggest * site"
* website design "suggest * website"

Advance Operators
intitle:"website design" inanchor:"website design"
intitle:add+url "website design"
intitle:submit+your+site "website design"
intitle:add+your+site "website design"

For Link Exchange
Use these queries to get Link Exchange Partners for your website

LINK EXCHANGE QUERIES

TOOLS

Yahoo Site Explorer - Take top five results from Google and explore those urls
Back Link Watch Tool
Search Social Book Mark Sites Tool
Link Search Tool - Automated Tool For Above Queries

The original post can be found here: LINK

MSN Live Webmaster Portal

So after Google Webmaster Central and Yahoo Site Explorer, SEO'z and webmasters are waiting for something similar from Microsoft and here it is at-last...Live Search Webmaster Portal. It is definitely a good effort from MSN to take SEO seriously. As reporting in their Official Blog, MSN Webmaster Portal initially offers

• Troubleshooting tools to ensure MSN Bot is effectively crawling and indexing your site
• Sitemap creation, submission and ping tools
• Statistics about your website
• Consolidation of content submission resources
• New content and community resources

Since its Beta version also not available publicly instead Microsoft invite people to send emails to participate and enjoy that beta version of their webmaster portal. The email is : lswmp@microsoft.com

Here is the original post on Microsoft official blog. LINK