Posts Tagged With: results
· July 17, 2008 at 5:42 am · Online Tools, Resources
FeedMySearch is offering a new service that is sure to please some of us out there who keep an eye on search results. Using their web site you can turn your Google searches into tiny RSS feeds. This is helpful when it comes to getting instant updates whenever a new result appears on Google. Another perk about this would be that you only get what is new when it comes to your search item.
To use it, all you do is type in your keyword into the search box, then select from these types of searches: web, news, video, blogs, local, books and patent. Hit the “Feed my Search!” button and away you go. Next you are given a preview of the search results and you can subscribe using a variety of different services or just grab the RSS feed itself.
If you spend a lot of time watching Google and how the results come up, FeedMySearch promises to save you time giving you the latest results instantly.
· June 20, 2008 at 5:33 am · Web Development
Looks like my post-Firefox 3 bump in stats is starting to come to an end for Firefox Facts. While the madness was going on (one post got up to 80+ comments!) I came up with a few tactics to try to milk the proverbial press cow as long as I could.
Watch where people are coming in. Via Google Analytics I was able to check out in nearly real time where people were coming in via search, blogs and other places and edit my content to meet the needs of the people.
Keep an eye on search phrases and the results they get. For example, if a lot of people were coming in for the phrase “firefox 3 themes” and the story they were getting was about the themes but didn’t give them much selection, I made sure I added a link to a post like this one that gave some new Firefox 3 ready themes for them to try.
Just some handy advice you might keep in mind for yourself next time you see your own web site going through a popularity surge.
· March 19, 2007 at 6:47 am · Online Tools
I need a better Mitch aggregator. From what I can see, that is what Serph hopes to be.
I have just started playing with the new beta release of Serph. The whole thing is closed off to being a private beta test right now, but I am sure they will be ready to go public sometime in the near future.
Thus far with the beta the first thing they allow you to do is search all the big social Web 2.0 places out there for your company, name, or product.
You can “explore the social media” and find lots of good content covering the subjects that you search for.
I first noticed this Web site when I was coming through my referrals for the Web Hosting Show. Seems I turned up a lot with the search for “hosting” or “web hosting”. One thing I would really like to see them do is give me the ability to customize my results some and let me take myself out of the equation.
Going back to the idea of a Mitch aggregator, I don’t want to see my own results for me - I want to see other’s results for me. Hopefully they will get this ignored feature (ignored with most other searches out there) covered.
Right now it it a little hard to say much more because there is still a lot to be done. I wish the folks at Serph the best of luck though because thus far I like what I see.
