TGI/Teleseker published their February data for the Israeli Internet market,

For the first time, The domination of Google within the Israeli net crosses 90 percent of weekly exposure among surfers aged 13+.

Top 10 Table:

SITE [...]]]> TGI/Teleseker published their February data for the Israeli Internet market,

For the first time, The domination of Google within the Israeli net crosses 90 percent of weekly exposure among surfers aged 13+.

Top 10 Table:

SITE                                         07-Dec         08-Jan         08-Feb
Google.co.il                             87.80%         88.40%          90.80%
walla.co.il                                73.00%         72.60%         73.50%
ynet.co.il                                 63.00%         62.60%         57.40%
nana10.co.il                            31.70%         39.50%          37.70%
You Tube                                28.70%         33.00%         33.90%
MSN/Hotmail.com/co.il       32.90%         31.70%          29.80%
nrg.co.il                                   27.10%          28.00%         26.30%
tapuz.co.il                                23.80%         27.20%         23.10%
zap.co.il                                    23.20%         25.40%         22.90%
facebook                                  20.80%         21.00%         21.40%

Other sites in the TOP10 list, following the Big G:

Second – Walla, The veteran Israeli portal who is stable at 72-74 %.
Third- Ynet.co.il, The biggest news site with a ~6% drop from december 2007.
Fourth – nana10.co.il (formerly nana.co.il+10.tv) with 37.7%.
Fifth – YouTube.com with an Impressive leap at 33.9%, making the second google asset in this first 5.
Sixth – msn/hotmail with a moderate drop (29.8%)
Seventh – nrg.co.il (26.3%), The second news focused website in the list.
Eighth – tapuz.co.il (23.1%, Portal).
Ninth – zap (22.9%), Israel’s leading price comparison site.
and Last – FaceBook.com (21.4%).

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Google announced today that they’ve opened a new Webmaster Help Group in Hebrew

I got this email from Google representative:

Hey all,

Today we launched our Webmaster Help Group in Hebrew.

Do you want to know more about Google’s Crawling, [...]]]> Google announced today that they’ve opened a new Webmaster Help Group in Hebrew

I got this email from Google representative:

Hey all,

Today we launched our Webmaster Help Group in Hebrew.

Do you want to know more about Google’s Crawling, Indexing, Ranking, Sitemaps, Webmaster Tools or are you just a curious Webmaster?

Go to our help group so other more experienced users and Google Guide will be more than happy to help around.

http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help-iw?hl=iw

Cheers, and keep in touch!:)

The Israeli/Hebrew webmaster community embraced the idea fast – looks like the group is filling with relevant debates and we can only hope that Google will provide helpful and meaningful data to the community.

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From Orli Yakuel’s Excellent(!) tech blog, two reviews of two Israeli Search companies – SortFix & Omgili :

We may have to wait till 2009 for an Israeli SMX conference but the good news from Danny and the 3rd door media people is the announcement of the new SphinnCon:

“a new networking event [...]]]> We may have to wait till 2009 for an Israeli SMX conference but the good news from Danny and the 3rd door media people is the announcement of the new SphinnCon:

“a new networking event series designed for Sphinners and anyone interested in internet marketing”

The first Sphinncon event will take place in Israel, February 5th, 2008, See Ya there

More about it from Barry’s Seroundtable

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In an Hertzliya convention held by the Anti-Defamation League, Meir Brand, Google Israel CEO says:

“Google cannot decide which sites will be published on the world wide web, We obey to the law and as long as there isn’t [...]]]> In an Hertzliya convention held by the Anti-Defamation League, Meir Brand, Google Israel CEO says:

“Google cannot decide which sites will be published on the world wide web, We obey to the law and as long as there isn’t a specific law regarding specific sites we will keep those sites in Google’s index”

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Barry from SEroundtable postes in his personal blog about a
possible SEO event in Israel, (and maybe I for once will need no hotel nor flights to arrange…)

From Barry’s post:

I can probably get [...]]]> Barry from SEroundtable postes in his personal blog about a
possible SEO event in Israel, (and maybe I for once will need no hotel nor flights to arrange…)

From Barry’s post:

I can probably get a sponsor with the help of Third Door Media coordinating the event under an SMX or Sphinn thing. It is very early on, just a concept right now, so no guarantees on that. I am just fishing the idea around.

The Israeli SEO/SEM industry grows up massive, it was just a matter of time…

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LinkBait goes to 2nd grade – Israeli web2sport community purchased a soccer team and [...]]]> LinkBait goes to 2nd grade – Israeli web2sport community purchased a soccer team and from now on all professional decisions aren’t made by a coach, the fans will decide.

From Reuters:

Most of our surfers like the idea that they can decide what the team will do: who will be in the first 11, what formation they will play and who will be the substitutes
The Internet fans can drag players they think should play into their preferred positions on a pitch diagram by a deadline. The information is then collated and the players who get the most votes will line up for the next match. We thank our sponsors – Play65 Backgammon site.

A group photo of the team – getting instructions directly from the Mac…

All the games are transmitted live and the fans decide on positions changes, substitutes (and replacing timing) etc. This makes Hapoel Play65 Kiryat Shalom the first Interactive team that is managed as a social media democracy.

sources:

Reuters – Israeli soccer club puts online fans in charge
Yahoo News – The First Web 2.0 Football Club in the World

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Last week, Israeli Google CEO, Mr. Meir Brand, announced that the AdSense features are finally supported for Hebrew advertisers and publishers.
The back office translated interface is a bit clumsy, but still better then nothing.
Till this statement, many [...]]]> Last week, Israeli Google CEO, Mr. Meir Brand, announced that the AdSense features are finally supported for Hebrew advertisers and publishers.
The back office translated interface is a bit clumsy, but still better then nothing.
Till this statement, many Hebrew site owners integrated the non supported version to their sites having a handful of encoding issues and dir=rtl/ltr difficulties.

The updated page from Google AdSense that states the supported languages.

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Walla.co.il, Israel’s biggest Internet Portal and search engine till 2005 sent a notice to all its advertisers, announcing a shift from PPI (pay per Inclusion at a fixed price) to Pay Per Click. The change will be implemented starting [...]]]> Walla.co.il, Israel’s biggest Internet Portal and search engine till 2005 sent a notice to all its advertisers, announcing a shift from PPI (pay per Inclusion at a fixed price) to Pay Per Click. The change will be implemented starting January 1st, 2007.
Walla, a public company, was the biggest Internet Media in Israel since 1998, A year ago was the first time for walla to get in second place, when Google.co.il, the Hebrew version of the G monster passed them.

Current weekly exposure for the two (July 2006 data) are:

Google.co.il – 79.1% weekly exposure amongst Israeli web Users (3.9 Million)
Walla.co.il – 67.6% weekly exposure amongst Israeli web Users (3.9 Million)

The new bidding system that Walla will be providing to its advertisers is very similar to Google’s adwords and the offered bidding gaps will be at Intervals of 0.25 NIS (~0.06 $).
An interesting and refreshing change that the new method is supposed to bring is that Interactive and SEM agencies will get a revenue share from the PPC deals at a percentage that wasn’t published yet.

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Israel court of law, in a new verdict allows an Israeli clothes company to use its competitor name for AdWords searches conducted via google.co.il.
This is the first Israeli case in which the judge rules in favour of the sued [...]]]> Israel court of law, in a new verdict allows an Israeli clothes company to use its competitor name for AdWords searches conducted via google.co.il.
This is the first Israeli case in which the judge rules in favour of the sued company.
In it’s verdict, Judge Magen Altubia states that a search engine is an ad based media, and the fact that competitors use each other names is just natural. Furthermore to the loss the prosecutor (Matim-Li) will have to pay court expenses at an amount equal to 20,000$.

Via Haaretz (Hebrew)

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