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YahooCash4Idiots

We’ve complimented Google here before on their efforts to improve their content network. It it nice these changes are beginning to be noticed by the get-rich-quicksters too.

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Tip: Recovering Files After Windows “Blue Screen Of Death” Boot Failure

The Linux Recovery disk method worked great when a home computer bluescreened.

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DMA Search Engine Marketing Certification Program: Audit Your Paid Search Campaigns

If you’re interested in auditing your paid search campaigns but haven’t the time to do it yourself, give my colleague Ryan Gibson a call at (434) 970-1010.

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Merry Christmas, Mike Ullman

We’d welcome JCP customer relations to our blog to describe how to reach JCP customer service.

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Google Analytics Blinders?

“An entire generation of web analytics experts are being trained by Google to analyze business exactly the way Google wants your business to be analyzed.”

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Shop.org: 51% retailers surveyed report higher sales in November 2008 vs. November 2007

Some retailers are having a very very tough time. Other retailers are seeing growth. The situation is quite mixed.

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Reader’s Choice: Favorite Interviews

The fourth and final installment in our Most Read posts series.

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Wordle

Wordle scans your site and creates a tag cloud.

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Online Retail Stats: CyberMonday 2008 vs. 2007

One day isn’t an entire retail season, but I thought it interesting to compare CyberMonday 2008 to 2007.

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Reader’s Choice: Popular Online Marketing Posts

Some of our most popular non-PPC posts, about online marketing topics more generally.

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SearchWiki For Adwords

Yesterday Google announced SearchWiki, allowing Google users to customize their search results.

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But Wait — There’s Still More

Final batch of most popular RKG paid search links, based on Feedburner readership stats.

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Reader’s Choice: Best Articles About Paid Search

As we approach our 800th post, we decided to highlight some of our most popular posts.

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Negative News Flow Is A Lagging Indicator

Wise words from Paul Kedrosky.

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Political Paid Search: 2008 Election PPC Dataset Available

If anyone would benefit from a data set tracking the use of political paid search advertising in the 2008 US Presidential cycle, we have one to share.

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Target Gift Cards Also Cameras, Night Lights, Thumb Drives, etc.

A new twist on gift cards this season from Target.

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The Promotional Dilemma

Shop.org recommends discounting and free shipping for Thanksgiving. But when all retailers adopt this strategy, nobody gains share and everybody loses margin.

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Block Russian Comment Spam In Wordpress

Configure Akismet to vanish Russian spam comments.

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Is Your Online Store Vulnerable To CSRF and XSS Attacks?

An excellent powerpoint giving technical background on some newer approaches for websites attacks..

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Patent Trolls Lose Round In Court

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit narrowed what can be patented as an abstract business method.

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Monitor Your Brand With HowSociable.com

Monitor your brand across 22 social media sites.

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Online Retail Sales Stats: Consumers Buying But Spending Less

As November begins, the situation has become bleaker.

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Google Provides More Details On Quality Score. Nope.

“We’ll allow an ad that meets the quality threshold to appear above the search results even if it has to jump over other ads to do so. “

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Fast-Response Paid Search: J. Crew and Michelle Obama

J. Crew responds to the Tonight Show.

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Sequoia’s “RIP” Powerpoint

Sequoia Capital’s powerpoint on the economic crisis, allegedly leaked.

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