Here is a Gmail bug I have just found.
If you open 2 Gmail chat windows, one of them is in SMS mode and the other is in regular chat mode, The SMS quote is ticking even if you send messages through the regular chat window and not the SMS
See how it looks on my Chrome:
Gmail has done it again. And again and again and again.
And they are now doing it again…
Did you know you can send SMS messages for free from your Gmail Chat window?
In order to do that, click on Settings -> Labs, and enable the SMS features.
How can it be for free?
The answer is very simple. Google gives each gmail user a qoute of 50 outgoing SMS messages.
Now, for every incoming SMS you recieve, you will get 5 credits for outgoing SMS. And this is where they make their money. Google has signed revenue sharing agreements with the cellular companies on the incoming SMS. For every SMS message you GET, they make some money.
I still don’t get it why the ratio is 1:5 but I’m sure they have their reasons.
There are plenty of other Gmail Labs feature that make Gmail the BEST email option out there, I promise I will write about it some time soon.
Well, you can’t specifically track the exact position of the keyword that was clicked like you can do with AdWords. But it is possible to determine the page he was on. A ranking tool can tell you over and over again that a certain keyword is around position 15 in Google while Google Analytics claims he is on page 1 (position 1 to 10). This effect can come from ‘personalized search’ or ‘local results’ that can influence the Google rankings dramatically. People see other results than you see with your ranking tools. And therefore you need Google Analytics to do the real ranking.
To get the rankings in your Google Analytics reports you have to create a new filter:
The title of the filter contains a 3, that’s because filter 1 and 2 take care of filtering out everything else than Google Organic traffic. So yes: you also have to create a new profile to apply these filters on to be sure you don’t screw up your main profile.
This filter only works for Google. if you want it to work for Yahoo and Live Search also, make sure you change the filters 1 and 2 so they accept Organic from all three of them. Then setup the filter like this:
After a while the “User Defined” report will look like this (ignore the language):
What you see are not the actual rankings, but the number of the first result of the page the keyword was on. So when you see 20, it means the keyword was on the third page, and a 50 means the sixth page. (Yahoo and Live Search will report 21 and 51 in stead of 20 and 50).
When you don’t see a number but only “(page: ): it means the keyword was on the first page. So perhaps it is better to change “page:” to “minimal position;”, I leave that up to you.
If you want to filter the list of keywords on keywords with at least a page 2 position you can use “\(page: \d{2,3}\)” in the filter field below the list. The \d stands for digits, and the 2,3 for the amount of digits you’re looking for.
Enjoy.
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This excellent post was written by André Scholten and was originally published in yoast.com
This is just brilliant. A simple feature that will make my life so much easier.
TED has an amazing video about the SixthSense. If you haven’t seen it yet, you should.
I have just got an email from Barry Schwartz announcing SphinnCon is back to Israel!
It is going to take place in Jerusalem on March 7th, 2010.
Unfortunately I will not be able to attend, since at the exact same time I will be snowboarding in Val Thorens, France.
(OOOHHHHH YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!)
I warmly recommend anyone that wants to know more about Internet Marketing to attend.
The first SphinConn took place in Jerusalem last year, I have attended that event and it was great.
This one is also not too expensive ($50) so hurry up, there are only 200 seats. Singup here
Yesterday I called Google Adwords Phone support. (In case you need the numbers: UK: +44-845-3580038 USA: 1-866-2-466453 )
When their (new) IVR asked me you my client ID, I gave them my customer’s client ID. It took them 5 seconds to let me know that I can not get phone support and they recommend the Google Adwords online help center.
That was surprising. I called Google Adwords many times, both to the US and UK office and they always answered the phone. What happened?
I tried to call again and it didn’t help, tried the US office and got the same result.
Few hours later I called again, this time they answered the phone. After they solved my problem I noticed that I gave them a different Client ID than the one I gave on the first call. I tried again the first ID, and it didn’t work. I tried the second one and it worked! I tried my MCC account and it worked. I tried another MCC account that I don’t use any more, and it didn’t work.
After checking a few IDs I can safely say that it is all about the money. Google likes advertisers that spend a lot of money and will also prioritize them when they call Tech Support. The poor advertisers will have to solve their problems online.
So if you need tech support and can’t solve your problems online, spend more money until they pink up the phone!
Google Adwords MCC account is a very useful tool that allows you to manage all your Adwords accounts from a single Google Account.
In order to open your account just go to the My Client Center homepage and sign up.When I tried to do it, I had a problem. I wanted to use my current Google Adwords account for MCC and for some reason this is impossible.
I read in some forum that I can open MCC account only with a Google account that has no Adwords account and that made it even more interesting.
So if you have the same problem this is what you should do:
1. Open a new gmail account.
2. Login to your current Adwords account and invite the new gmail user to be an administrator in your Adwords account (My account -> Account Access ) . Once all confirmation links that were sent to all parties are clicked, the new gmail user is an administrator in your Adwords account.
3. Login to adwords with the new Google account.
4. Go to My account -> Account Access and remove your original adwords login email from this adwords account.After these steps you are ready.
Go to the the MCC signup page and create an MCC account on with your favorite Google account.Isn’t that simple!
Windows 7 is out there, and I find it amazing that people are standing in line to upgrade. Take a look at this hilarious Japanese video, I loved it! How cool is the toutchi panelu monito!
Many of you heard me talking a lot about Google Apps and Cloud Computing. I’m a Google Apps freak and use Cloud Computing on several projects and I really think it is the most amazing thing that happened to the Internet since the Internet was born.
SalesForce had produced a beautiful video clip about it, that will help you understand what this is all about.
You should all see this video clip. Twice.
