Did you know that you can edit your reviews and your tags and your reactions on Stumbleupon?

Suppose you change your mind about whether you like (thumbs up) or hate (thumbs down)  a site on stumbleupon.com?  Did you know that you can change your reaction, review and tags by editing them?

If you go to the page and click the review bubble, you will see your review, or if you have not reviewed it, you will get the ability to write a review.  Writing a review if you have not already done so will help the item get more exposure and be seen by more stumblers.

When one of your friends has a blog post or article is running wild on Stumbleupon and they ask for stumbles or reviews, there is something you can do even if you have already stumbled that page.

If you have already reviewed the post or blog article there will be a date when you stumbled the item and a link that says  “Edit Tags or Review.”

If you click on that link, you can modify the review, including adding more tags (up to five) modifying tags, etc.  It also gives you the opportunity to modify the date.

By changing the date, you add one more “vote” to those that are making that post popular and getting it listed high in the “currently popular” listings.

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By Bill Austin

Bill Austin presenting Social Media at the third Arizona Real Estate Blogger Network Meetup. This video is approximately 50 minutes long and will give you a general overview of what Social Media is and how to apply it to your Real Estate Business.

Bill Austin on Social Media from phoenixrealestatelive on Vimeo.

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Lee Stacey – @lstacey tagged me with the “Seven Things You Didn’t Know About Me” Meme

Here are seven things you probably didn’t know about me and I am tagging seven other people myself … and the meme goes on …

1. I take thousands of pictures and I almost never do anything with them.

2. I am allergic to a bunch of things that many people have never known anyone to be allergic to including Celery, Citrus, Cilantro, Melon, Sesame Seeds, Strawberries, Mushrooms, etc.

3. I have been writing for much longer that many people I know. In the third grade I wrote a term paper about the League of Nations and by seventh grade I was writing about “The Ecological Importance of Bacteria that are Chemo-Synthetic.”

4. My father died more than 40 years ago from a disease about which the doctor could only say “We have never cured this.” It is now cured about 94% of the time.

5. I played the guitar from a very young age until my second year of college. I stopped paling completely for a couple of years then played six nights a week in “gin joints and speakeasys” around Los Angeles and Orange County California for a few years after college but have only played it a handful of times since then.

6. My brother and I opened for Jim Messina at a benefit concert in the Santa Barbara area many years ago.

7. I got married in a helicopter in the air above Sedona Arizona.

Ok, tag, you’re it:

Roseann Higgins @RoseannHiggins
Tina Su @artsyave
Dennis McDonald @ddmcd
Kathie M Thomas @kathiemt
Jason Alba @jasonalba
Wayne Sutton @waynesutton
Vincent Wright @vincentwright

Thank you,

Bill Austin – @wbaustin

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It appears that Google is concerned with the economic health of their publisher base and is reaching out with improvements, enhancements and experiments.  The letter below came in today.  It also implies that Adwords advertisers will also be seeing improvements and enhancements.

Anything that Google can do to improve ad performance should be of benefit to advertisers, publishers and to Google itself.

Thank you,

Bill Austin – Blog of the Day Awards

Dear Publisher,

We understand that the recent economic turmoil has created a lot of uncertainty in the lives of AdSense publishers. During these difficult times, we’re continuing to invest in innovations that improve publisher monetization and advertiser value in the content network.

We’re focusing on further developing our product offerings and boosting ad performance for publishers. We recently announced advancements in AdSense for search and experiments to make ads more effective. We’re bringing DoubleClick technologies to AdSense publishers, and we’ll continue to launch new products and features. We’re also continuing to improve our offerings for AdWords advertisers, making it easier for them to target the Google content network. Features for advertisers, such as the new display ad builder, are designed to improve ad performance on AdSense publisher sites.

We’ll keep driving technological progress, but our best asset will always be our publisher partners. The strength of AdSense lies in the value of the content you bring to users and the quality of the sites you bring to advertisers. Our success is tied to yours. We look forward to partnering with you for the long term, and remain dedicated to helping you succeed.

Sincerely,

<name removed>
Director AdSense Online Sales & Operations

Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043

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Google Page Rank as shown on the Google Toolbar does not update very frequently.  Lately it has been updating 3 or 4 times per year and that may become less as time goes by.  Google claims that actual PR or PageRank, a trademarked concept of Google Corporation, is updated on a continues basis but that the Google Toolbar numbers are updated infrequently based on taking a snapshot of the data and pushing it out onto the server that tells the toolbar what the value of PR for a particular page is.

Google Toolbar PageRank is shown as a little green bar on the toolbar.  The value shown on that bar is shown as an integer and can range from 0 up to 10.  In reality, the PR scale is based on continuous numbers based on a logarythmic scale.  Actual PageRank values are numbers such as 3.831 which might be shown as PR 4/10 or PR 3/10 on the toolbar scale.

When you look at a Google Toolbar PageRank value, keep in mind that you are looking at archelogical data, similar to an anthorpologist examining the skull of a 100,000 year old ancestor of ours.  Only Google has the current real data and we can only infer what those numbers might be today based on trends and a knowledge of historical changes.

Ths number shown on the Google Toolbar PR scale is minimally useful and has little relationship to today’s reality.

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Link Results and Links – Why doesn’t link: Work on Google?

Search engines provide a variety of operators that can help you gain additional information about web sites and web pages if you know how to use them. The Link: operator or the link: command used to be one of these useful tools. In recent years, this value has been removed in a variety of ways.

For several years, the Google link: command has been showing only a random sample of the actual links that Google knows about. Many people consider that to be broken and simply respond to inquiries with “The Google Link Command is Broken.”

MSN stopped having the link: command available a while back.

Yahoo’s link: command gives a more “REAL” result but Google’s gives you a better idea of how much trust and authority Google believes the linking sites have in relation to the queried site.

More about Trust and Authority

Some of the reasons a site might have wildly different link: results on Google versus Yahoo are easy to explain with a few words but harder to explain in detail.

Suffice it to say that some of those words include:

Subdomain spam

Affiliate spam

“required linkback” spam

JPOR spam [just plain old regular spam]

All of those are reasons that a link might not be considered trustworthy and authoritative enough to show up in the link: directive search results.

Somewhere on every blogspot.com blog there is a link back to blogger.com or blogspot.com

Somewhere on every Wordpress blog there is a link back to wordpress.org and possibly to wordpress.com

Amazon’s associate program encourages lot of links from affiliate sites to various places on the amazon.com site and out of the 47 million+ pages that link to Amazon.com, Google has decide that it will show a few million of them.

Out of 117,898,248 links to Wordpress.org that Yahoo knows about, Google has decided to show only 299,000 of them.

On the other hand, Yahoo shows only 250,000 links to blogspot.com but shows 8 million+ for blogger.com

The above examples are all examples of link spam. Google is guilty, Wordpress is guilty, Amazon is guilty.

Clearly you have to take anything that Google tells you with a grain of salt but in this case, they do appear to be trying to protect their users in their own “Big Brother – ly” way. Us the results on the Google link: operator only as a relative comparison between different sites. Those numbers have no meaning other than that. Consider the Yahoo link: results to possible be filled with links from low value pages and possibly full of spam as well. Take what you get either way as informational only and not authoritative. Check them periodically to see if they change and to track relative changes but don’t count on them to be trustworthy, authoritative or reliable.

For this site, Google says that the site has 301 links back to the site while Yahoo says that it has over 26,000 links back to the site. Google simply does not believe that the other 26,000 links are important.

Bill Austin

http://twitter.com/wbaustin/

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