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Date Archive: September 2008

Why Position Bidding Wastes Money

Happy with your position crawling bid system? Find out why it is undoubtedly leaving money on the table.

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Will Local PPC ads Destroy the National ads?

Could wide-spread adoption geo-targeted advertising spell doom for online marketers? If brick and mortar stores start channeling resources towards local search, might “national” advertisers be outbid to the point of extinction?

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Are Branding and Direct Marketing that different?

Branding and Direct Marketing are different beasts, for sure. But aren’t they both geared towards generating ROI in the long run?

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Stats: Online Shopping More-Or-Less Steady During Current US Financial Crisis

We do not observe broad weakness in online sales.

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Early Read on Google’s Quality Score Changes

Google released their Quality Score Changes early last week. Based on early results, we’re seeing minimal effects.

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You Read It Here First: Google Partners With GE

Last week came the real GE/Google energy announcement.

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Learn Practical Dayparting Tips at SMX East

If you’ll be at SMX East October 6-8, we’d love to meet up at the show.

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Akismet Fights Blog Comment Spam

Our blog just crossed the 100,000 mark on spam blog comments.

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How To Export Starred Items From Google Reader Into HTML

Posting my solution on how to export starred posts from Google Reader.

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Security Tip: Never Display Fatal Stack Traces To Users

Never send fatal errors to outside world.

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Avast Ye Scurvy Dogs

Online retailers seeking the elusive Pirate demographic can use a free English-to-Pirate site translation service.

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NYT article: “Ambient Awareness”

“Each little update — each individual bit of social information — is insignificant on its own, even supremely mundane. But taken together, over time, the little snippets coalesce into a surprisingly sophisticated portrait of your friends’ and family members’ lives, like thousands of dots making a pointillist painting.”

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How Aggressively Should You Bid In Paid Search? (3 min video)

Here’s a three minute video with some advice on how aggressively to bid in paid search.

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Yes, I’m Human. No, I Can’t Decode YouTube Captchas.

Today’s pet peeve: illegible captchas.

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PPC Musings Via NPR: Chrome, UAL Bankruptcy, and the Freddie/Fannie Bailout

Driving in this morning, three stories on NPR caught my ear as having a paid search angle.

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PPC Bidding: Requirement #4: Ad level bidding

This is part 4 in a series on the required attributes/capabilities of a PPC bidding platform.

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Join the Rimm-Kaufman Group at the Shop.org Annual Summit

Are you headed to the Shop.org Annual Summit next week? We’re participating and would be happy to meet up at the show.

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Chrome: Strong Out Of The Gate

I’ve been using Google’s new browser for a day and a half now. I like it.

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9 Keys to Successful Day-Parting

In case you missed it, this was posted yesterday on the Search Marketing Blog Searchengineland.

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What Google Chrome Means To Retailers: Early Thoughts From Reading The Comic

In the next few days, Google will release an open source browser named Chrome.

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