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May 19, 2006

Get Our Search News At The Top Of Google & Other New Subscribed Links

I wrote earlier of our new Google subscribed link that allows you to get search headlines from us at the top of your searches at Google. Haven't tried these yet? Check them out! Right now, for example, a search on the term "google" would have given you these headlines (as shown in the blue box):

My previous post, Get Your SEW Subscribed Link For Google & Resources On Making Them, explains more about the terms that trigger our news headlines on Google. Want to sign-up? It's easy, fast and free. Just click here to subscribe. Don't panic -- if you don't like the headlines, you can unsubscribe easily any time.

Google has just also updated its directory to list even more of these types of subscribed links since my last post, so check that out to see if there are some new resources you might want to try. We've also had some new additions in our unofficial directory that you might want to review. Remember, that's also the place that anyone can post to get the word out about their own subscribed links.

Posted by Danny Sullivan at 4:17 PM | Permalink

May 17, 2006

Get Your SEW Subscribed Link For Google & Resources On Making Them

Doing some searching over at Google and want to keep up on the latest search news? Now you can, direct from us. After struggling with the instructions, I've finally got a subscribed link working for Search Engine Watch. You'll find it here. Just add that link to your own profile, and you're good to go.

Currently, the subscribed link brings back custom news headlines about search for the following queries:

Hopefully later, I'll find time to post some instructions explaining what I did, which may help others get going who aren't programmers (I'm certainly not). But if you use a Movable Type blog, here's our source XML content that we give to Google. Many people who play with Movable Type tags should be able to understand from the code how I'm generating a top three list for various categories on our blog without using any programming. There's definitely better ways to do this and trigger more automated creation, but this is working for me now.

I hope to expand the list soon, especially to broad match so that if you did a search for something like "google information," our headlines would still kick in. Unfortunately, all the regular expression attempts I've tried based on Google's instructions have failed, such as:

[RE://yahoo//] [RE:(?i)google] [RE:\a9\] [RE:(aol)]

I'm sending them a note to see if I can get that part cleared up more.

Meanwhile, congrats to Barry for being among the first new additions to the Google Subscribed Links Directory. I'm also going to return with some more information on how you might get in, from talking with Google during my visit there yesterday.

Here's the short answer. Get a subscribed link up NOW! Make it something dynamic -- not just a "Hello World" implementation but something useful. Submit it to Google and promote it to everyone you know. Fingers crossed, if it's something that helps spotlight how subscribed links work and you're showing good sign-ups, that will increase the odds of getting in.

Need more help? Google's got a new list of resources just posted. It's sparse at the moment but will grow.

Want to spread the word about your new subscribed link? We have an unofficial guide to subscribed links going here on our Search Engine Watch Forums: Unofficial Google Subscribed Links List.

That guide is listed off the Google resource list above, so people will be checking it out. Get yourself added to the list or post subscribed links you've found!

Posted by Danny Sullivan at 10:38 AM | Permalink

May 16, 2006

Submit Your Google Subscribed Links!

Google's new subscribed links are pretty cool. The only problem is that people are creating them but the official Google Subscribed Links Directory doesn't yet list them. So let's give them a helping hand. Got your own subscribed link you want to tell the world about? Post them in our Search Engine Watch Forums thread, Unofficial Google Subscribed Links List. Looking for a subscribed link to try? Check out that thread, as well. Need to know more about subscribed links? Try reading:

Posted by Danny Sullivan at 9:24 PM | Permalink

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