Besting Adwords

Google For Sale On eBay

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:20:18 GMT

Google For Sale On eBay
Originally uploaded by dannysullivan.

Danny Sullivan discovered that Google is for sale on eBay, or at least that's what the AdWords ad says.

Google Display Advertising Network

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:17:39 GMT

John Chow: The Google Display Advertising Network was created so Google can go after Fortune 1000 companies, which buy advertising to build a brand more than to sell a product. [cut] The only way to get into the display network is if Google invites you, which is how I found out about it.

http://www.johnchow.com/google%e2%80%99s-top-secret-advertising-network/

Google Introduces Ad Placement For AdSense

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:50:30 GMT

Google has introduced a new AdSense feature call Ad Placement which allows advertisers to target a specific ad spot on a site. This is a big improvement over the current setup where a campaign can show up on any ad units.

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ClickZ says AdBrite is the Best?

Sun, 19 Nov 2006 17:24:37 GMT

ClickZ marketing excellence awards has recognized AdBrite as the Best Advertising Network. Based on my own horrifying experience with AdBrite, this only proves that ClickZ is a joke. Well, unless by Best Advertising Network, they meant Best Advertising Network for a porn site. I wonder if anybody at ClickZ has even tried AdBrite? Or for that matter, how much did AdBrite pay for the award?

http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3623677

FeedBurner FAN Continues to Rock!

Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:36:15 GMT

My FeedBurner FAN earnings tripled last month and are on their way to doubling this month. I still make several times more money with AdSense and direct links, but FeedBurner is now my third highest source of income, ahead of Amazon affiliates. But best, FeedBurner ads only appears on 3 of my 100+ blogs. The biggest three, but still.

AdWords is just Weird

Wed, 15 Nov 2006 06:22:41 GMT

Every once in awhile I come across a happening that convinces me that adwords is just too weird to comprehend. For example, I recently created a new campaign to run along side a long running successful campaign. The number of impressions on the old campaign suddenly 99% the day after the new campaign was created. The new campaign had 8 impressions yesterday and zero today. WTF?

More AdBrite Unrocks!

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:52:01 GMT

I checked my AdBrite account today and found I made 9 cents from a network ad click earlier this month. Which is strange because AdBrite also says I'm not running any ad strips. I'm still earnings 0.54 cents per day from recurring ads, even though I have no recurring ads. I was thinking that a great get-rich-quick scheme would be to create 1,000,000 AdBrite publisher accounts. Since they are incorrectly crediting me $15 per month, I could be making $15,000,000 per month just from their incompetence.

ReviewMe Rocks!

Sun, 12 Nov 2006 04:26:47 GMT

Peter Caputa says that ReviewMe Rocks! ReviewMe is a service where bloggers are requested and paid to write reviews. I have mixed feelings about these services. On one hand, I like to see bloggers make money. On the other, getting paid to blog about a product seems a bit deceptive. But, I guess, as long as your readers know that you are being paid, there's no problem. Fark has long admitted they take money. I think I might sign up to try it out.

https://www.reviewme.com/

Turn.com to Launch

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 00:38:35 GMT

AdMoolah is reporting that turn.com, an AdSense competitor is launching tomorrow at the Web 2.0 conference.

http://www.turn.com/

AdBrite 2.0 and still Sucks!

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 17:05:14 GMT

AdBrite is announcing a whole new website. Well, I've only got one thing to say "Fool me once, sham on you." If you remember, my experiments with AdBrite 1.0 came to a disastrous crash with sex ads running all over my sites without my permission and no ability to remove them. I decided to log back in and check if they've fixed the bugs that I submitted. They didn't fix anything. I checked the email archive and spam filter and neither did they answer any of my support emails. I guess a new UI will bring me back? I don't think so. BTW, I'm still making $0.54 per day from advertisers with recurring ads, even though I don't have any AdBrite zones or recurring ads that I can cancel. I wonder who it is? What a joke! Don't be fooled by a new UI, AdBrite is still completely broken.

http://testdrive.adbrite.com/

Firefox Blocking AdWords Clicks?

Sun, 05 Nov 2006 21:34:53 GMT

SERountable, WebmasterWorld and Search Engine Watch are reporting that Firefox 2.0 is blocking some Google AdWords clicks.

Thanks to Scott Kingery for the play tag with me link.

JotSpot Affiliate Closed

Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:51:54 GMT

The JotSpot affiliate program is now closed. I made $10 and heard others made as much as $60. You have till the end of the month to request payment for the money owing.

http://affiliates.jot.com/

Google downplays extent of click fraud problem

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:23:27 GMT

Gordan Smith: Previously, in the absence of hard and fast data some advertisers used third-party companies to provide estimates of click fraud. Figures varied between 14pc and 20pc of clicks as being fraudulent but Ghosemajumder said these estimates were “exaggerated”. “The total number of invalid clicks on average is in the single digits, quarter over quarter,” he said.

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single7284

Randy: It's also important to note, that the nay-sayers use to claim that click-fraud was 40%.