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Date Archive: May 2006

If You’re Not Yet a CSS Believer…

The CSS train is here. Get on board.

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If Gold Rusts, What Will Iron Do?

It looks like the AdSense API will indeed be public.

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Restrict Access To Adsense API

I fear the upcoming AdSense API will allow adwords spammers to do more mischief more quickly, decreasing the quality of content traffic even more so, and even more quickly.

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Clear writing is clear thinking

All writing is “selling” copy — whether you’re pitching an actual product or arguing for your ideas.

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On Trilobites And Search Platforms

Over time, biological and technological evolution reduced the diversity of these early days, settling into modest changes on the most effective patterns. When will a major engine next take the risk to bring diversity and experimentation back to search?

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The New Distinction: “Housefile vs. Aquisition” Meets “Brand vs. Non-Brand”

Even from a previous buyer, an order following a non-brand search is likely incremental.

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MSN AdCenter Launch: Between A Rock And An API Hard Place

We heartily welcome AdCenter to the mix, and hope launch API issues get resolved quickly.

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Letter to the Editor: Why Search Rules DO Work

Holding every PPC ad in a portfolio to the same metric isn’t wise marketing

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  • Catch Him and Keep Him: Larry, you are so right-on-the-money on this topic. My dating advice site leads to the very opt-in gateway page you...
  • Mike Moran: I will check out both of these, Alan. I never thought of using e-mail this way before I started using gootodo as my to-do list. I can...
  • Sue: Open source can definitely be a cheaper way of deploying software but smaller businesses need to make sure they either have in-house skills to...
  • Adam: Great article, good advice. Here are a few other questions, in no particular order, that you should ask if you are looking for first-class...
  • Tracy Glomski: "...we are taking business away from traditional data brokers, because when you click on data brokers and others and you take...
  • George Michie: Hi Jon, thanks for your comments and excellent question. I agree that affiliate orders driven by non-brand PPC are incremental and...
  • Jon: George - I really enjoyed your post and agree with the majority of your statements. Can you provide your point of view on affiliates that make...
  • Mike: It's about time for a service like this. I was surprised to learn jsut a few years back (when Choicepoint lost all their data)that there are...
  • Ryan Douglas: George, Thank you for the reply. Great minds do think alike, and I appreciate the citation in your recent post.
  • Alan Rimm-Kaufman: To Harry's credit, it was vanished at that particular moment in time due to a WP bug. As Geld points out, the trackback link has...
  • Geld Lenen: Harry -> Here. BetterRetail, I still buy stuff through search, even though I try to get a commission from it. My parents, friends...
  • George Michie: Hi Ryan, I don't blame you for asking, but in fact I hadn't read your post until just now. Chalk it up to great minds thinking...
  • Barry Wheeler: Sure this may be important to the "paid dating services", but how does this relate to the massive movement that is taking place with...
  • Ryan Douglas: George, I find some striking similarities to my recent blog post from the 9th... http://www.plumbersurplus.c...
  • Alan Rimm-Kaufman: "He who converts best wins" -- Amen, Chris, we're reading from the same book on that one.

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