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Shop.org’s Scott Silverman & NRF’s Elizabeth Oesterle Talk About Pending Online Retail Regulation

I caught up with Scott Silverman and Elizabeth Oesterle to hear about Shop.org and the NRF’s lobbying work on behalf of online retailers.

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Interview: Attorney Marty Eisenstein On Nexus, Gift Cards, The FTC, CAN-SPAM, And Other Legal Best Practices For Online Retailers

Marty I. Eisenstein is a senior partner with Brann Isaacson, a law firm specializing in direct marketing law. Marty shared his thoughts on tax law, gift cards, and general legal best practices for online retailers.

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Google Held To Higher Privacy Standard?

Matt Cutts and Tim O’Reilly note that Google is being held to a higher privacy standard than other firms who have far far more data on us (e.g. ISPs, credit card companies, credit bureaus, etc). They’re right.

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Google Promises To Forget

Google overhaul its privacy policies, will dump user-specific search data more than 18 months stale.

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Mailinator: Disposable Public Email Addresses

Need a temporary email to receive a registration from a website? Try Mailinator.

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11% of Sites Vulnerable To SQL Injection: Is Yours?

Preventing SQL injection isn’t all that hard — yet 11% of sites haven’t got it right yet.

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AOL Search Data Release: Class Action Lawsuit Filed

Search data not be used for commercial purposes? Too much money at stake — never going to happen.

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Fatals To Browser

Never send informative error messages to the browser.

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Staying Private, II

Could an increased interest/awareness of online privacy harm online advertisers by hampering their ability to track? No, I don’t think so.

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Staying Private

The EFF has an interesting post on How To Keep Your Search History Private.

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  • Mark Ballard: Cory, I don’t see this as an SEO v. PPC issue. The core of my argument is that CTRs are lower primarily due to misleading...
  • Cory Grassell: What are your thoughts on stats that suggest consumers are more apt to click on organic search results than PPC results? As a...
  • George Michie: Kevin, Marc, thanks for your comments. Help is coming, but not the solution. There are a number of instances when the CTR on the...
  • Marc Adelman: George, You have been an advocate of “the advanced control option” for years now. Depressing right YEARS! Eh…listen...
  • Kevin Hill: Is what they really need is a fourth match type. Here’s google’s help documentation on broad match: This is the default...
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  • Tomas: indeed, i can’t talk about it either… :)
  • Philip Price: Thank you for the RegHack, it worked for me, tho at first when i made the reg file with the information i copied from above i also...
  • George Michie: Sorry Jim, this post was written in 2007. Apparently some of those products are gone.
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  • George Michie: If they keep hearing the same message, and seeing evidence in the data to back it up, something will have to give. There is hope on...
  • Tomas: I’ve been having the same argument with Google for months now and in the end there does seem to be a feature in the algorithm that...
  • George Michie: Doesn’t have to be, it can be intra-adgroup as well.
  • Josh: George – I take it you’re referencing a scenario where your exact-match keywords are not listed as negative exact match keywords...
  • George Michie: Melissa, you’re right, it’s always happened to varying degrees, particularly since the advent of extended broad match....

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