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Date Archive: June 2006

MSN AdLab Site Demographics Suspect

Initial tests of MSN AdLab demographics seem suspect.

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Pay-Per-Action Adsense

The search blogosphere is buzzing about Google’s pay-per-action AdSense test.

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Search Engines Killing The Clever Headline, Journalist Laments

Steve Lohr laments the loss of clever newspaper headlines due to the growing importance of scoring high on the search engines.

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CPAN: Praising Yahoo, Praising Open Markets

I’m pleased to see Yahoo taking a more open approach to their paid search relaunch.

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Paid Search Dayparting and Time-Based Bidding

When using a time-of-day paid search bidding approach, you need to compare the cost of the advertising bought in that block with the resulting sales from that advertising, regardless of the hour in which those sales occurred.

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132 Kids In The Back Room Typing 150 WPM

When the blogosphere errs, it self-corrects amazingly fast. “With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow” applies to open-source news, too.

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Proud Sponsors Of YAPC::NA

We’re proud to support YAPC::NA.

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The technology matters alot. The people matter alot too.

We’re proud of our technology. We’re just as proud as the great folks here who run it.

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AdWords vs. AdSense Click Fraud — Why Do So Few Get It?

Few people are putting enough emphasis on the distinction between search click fraud and content click fraud. That’s the key issue, and it doesn’t get the attention it deserves.

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Googleheads

For a smile, check out the cheesy Googlehead video on youtube.

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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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