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Archive page for Friday, 06 October 2006

 Fr, Oct 6, 2006
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I'm totally rushed today.

 

Freshly baked bloggings
Freshly baked bloggings

Being Friday, I pick up my kids for a weekend of fun on a Friday. Before I've to run around gathering stuff and making the house ship shape. It's tough being a pizza eating geek bachelor during the week.

So I'll have to catch up with the blogging of the blog later. We're off the to see the Queen, or rather where she lives tomorrow, as well as the whale and T-rex in the Natural History Museum, so there'll be no time tomorrow. Maybe I'll get five minutes on Sunday. But I doubt it—we've horse riding lessons then.

So, in the meantime, if you could just help yourself to the blue beauties to my left...

# Posted by Steve Hooker at 6/10/06; 2:37:12 PM to the dept.
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Bostin Bodnant
Bostin, is a Brummie world for brill. And Bodnat is certainly brill. Four updates from the Head today:

First up: a visit by the children's author Juliet Jarman. Who was very complementary about the children.

A thanks to the coffee morning parents. I wonder why the school needs these to help it move forward?

A mention about the Parents in Touch website.

Jolly Phonics and book fair. (What's Jolly Phonics? I came across this in my KUWC lessons up my kid's school.)


# Posted by Steve Hooker at 6/10/06; 2:10:41 PM to the Community dept.
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BannerAds plugin version 0.1.1
There's a lot more to do.

 

bannerads plugin V. 0.1.1
bannerads plugin V. 0.1.1

As with all projects once you skim the surface, you can see the depths :-)

But, I'll soon have this working in a good enough fashion for Craig y Don, who's to be our beta tester, and the first who'll make money off their website.

The click through rates will be important for the advertiser as well as the demo graphics, which I've still to work on. Of course they won't want to pay for hits by Google, or other spammers (which I've cut down to a bare minimum of late). They'll also want to know which and how many members have clicked through (which we obviously know more about).

Industry rates average 0.3% CTR for banners, up to 3-5% for highly targeted or stunningly designed or great offers. That's 3 in a 1,000 or 30-50 in a 1,000. But with such local advertising, it's profile that's also important. And the fact that the advertiser can proudly put up a poster/postcard in their shop saying, "We advertise on Ysgol Craig y Don's website." Heh! Makes them look like the great local benefactors that they are.

# Posted by Steve Hooker at 6/10/06; 12:28:15 PM to the dept.
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Pretend ads
This gives a better idea of the ads, the look and feel, the type of advertiser.
pretend ads on Craig y Don
pretend ads on Craig y Don

The ads will be created by the kids, shown to the advertisers for approval. Scanned in and uploaded.

These are not real ads! IKEA has been mentioned by one school, and I'm sure Tescos will stump up some dosh. It is after all a good business deal for them. The rest are local small business shops.

I particularly like the idea of clicking through to something more than directions, or other company blurb. Sure, we can click through to Tesco's own mega site, or a page within the school's site, where something: tokens, vouchers, can be printed off and presented at the store. We'll see about that when negotiating with the advertiser.
# Posted by Steve Hooker at 6/10/06; 12:11:00 PM to the Ads for schoools dept.
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Google Blog Search
"The Google Blog Search Pinging Service API allows users who frequently update their blog to programattically inform Google Blog Search about changes to their blogs. Blogging provider admins can also use this API to notify Google of changes to blogs on their platform(s)."

So, that's added to the services we already ping.

At last, 6 years late, Google joins the blog ping services. Now, we should be pretty much instantaneously in Google's index. Certainly, into their blog search.
google blog search:

# Posted by Steve Hooker at 6/10/06; 1:39:08 AM to the Blogging news dept.
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