Archive for September 22nd, 2008

Stephen Colbert Blog Corps?

September 22, 2008

The other day I became acquainted with a new type of “blog compilation” site called Boxxet.com because it kept showing up in my WordPress logs for a post I wrote about Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert and Bob Saget.

From Boxxet’s About Us page:

“Boxxet (pronounced “box set”) brings together the “best of” news, blogs, videos, photos, gear and much more on your favorite subjects. For the things you care about (teams, hobbies, interests, schools, towns, etc), Boxxet’s unique combination of computer automation and community participation produces the most diverse and complete best-of compilations.”

After seeing the referrals from Boxxet, I went to their site where I learned the post I had written about Stephen Colbert had placed this lowly blog 9th on their top Stephen Colbert bloggers list.

Stephen Colbert Bloggers

Stephen Colbert Bloggers

I hadn’t thought about the Stephen Colbert blog corps much since then, but began to notice more Colbert search referrals coming in over the weekend and thought I would see where my blog stood now in the Colbert blogger corps.

Voila! This blog is now the fifth most popular Colbert blog at Boxxet.

Take that Blog Numbers 6, 7 and 8!

Stephen Colbert Bloggers Boxxet

Stephen Colbert Bloggers Boxxet

To keep my newly discovered Stephen Colbert blog corps fires burning. here is the most recently known Colbert Quip from last night’s Emmy Awards found via the WashingtonPost.com and their new “Political Browser” News section:

Political Browser Stephen Colbert Quip

Political Browser Stephen Colbert Quip

Search Network Quality Score 10: Content Network 0

September 22, 2008

Adwords new Quality Scores have been live since September 17 according to Ophir Cohen.

Nuno Macedo of Páginas Amarelas Portugal has provided me with a screen shot of his Adwords Quality Score of 10 in Portuguese no less.

Quality Score 10

Quality Score 10

After digging further into my accounts, it appears Google Adwords will continue assigning Quality Scores to just Search Network only distibuted ads – not Content network ads – per this message:

Quality Score Content Network

Quality Score Content Network

Also appearing in my Adwords account for the first time are “Bid Below First Page” notifications:

Bid Below First Page

Bid Below First Page

Each “Bid Below First Page” notice is accompanied by Google’s recommended bid for achieving first page placement.

Now if only Adwords would provide Quality Score reporting options from their Report Center, large and small advertisers alike could begin to manage their Adwords account’s performance by its most important metric – the Quality Score.