The Daily Feed Issue #50: Google's update, affiliate tips, images for engagement and the 30/30 work cycle

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On October 21st at 3pm Pacific time Google rolled out a major update to their search index. The combined effect of Google Instant and this substantial index update is being felt around the web. 

Alexa, the guys who track traffic for the top 100,000 sites on the web, have a blog entry showing a few of the winners and losers in this post-google-instant world we now live in. Oddly enough a few of the biggest winners are file sharing sites. My guess is that they're seeing more traffic because you have to actually go to a file sharing site to see if they have the file you want for download - rather than being able to see if they have what you're after from the snippet (the preview text under the page title in the search results).

ProBlogger has a few thoughts on affiliate marketing today and how to bring together reader intent, a great product and your messaging. 

BlogHerald has a post this week on how to use images to grab a user's attention and increase retention for your blog. They include a few ideas for image types. 

Firefox version 4 is on it's way and the Beta is looking surprisingly similar to Chrome. I'm glad to hear the javascript engine is getting a much needed speed increase. 

And finally: If you enjoy life hacks, check out this blog entry about the 30/30 work cycle. Quote: "I sit at my desk and work for 30 minutes without distraction, completely absorbed in my work. Then, after the 30 minutes are up, I drop whatever I'm doing and go do something fun for 30 minutes. During this relaxation time, I don't think about work at all - I play games, write, whatever, but no work. After 30 minutes, I go back to my desk, rinse and repeat."

Regards,

Mark Maunder

Feedjit Founder & CEO.

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