Besting Adwords

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:47:40 GMT

Affichez La valeur de votre blog sur votre blog

Another blog worth value tool. This one valued all my blogs at $0. Unsure if I'm a horrible blogger (likely) or the tool is broken.

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Permanent Redirect Flip-Flop

Wed, 30 May 2007 15:44:39 GMT

This month, I tried moving a blog that had a lot of traffic. As suggested, I used a 301 permanent redirect in order to preserve my Google juice. The second week of the experiment saw a big drop off in Google referrers, but this recovered a week later. Now 2 more weeks later and there's yet another complete drop off in Google referrers. I'm considering a move for other blogs, but I think I'm going to wait a month or two first. This is getting really frustrating. My advice, 301 permanent redirects are extremely risky.

Update: Two days later, my Google juice returned again. This is getting scary.

Friday, May 25, 2007

Sat, 26 May 2007 04:58:27 GMT

Don't Email Google When you Click on your AdSense Ads by Accident

Google says relax, accidents happen, we're buried in the flood of email.

Tags: accident ads adsense email google money

Getting links from A-listers « Scobleizer

Tags: a-listers aggregator blogs money web20

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Thursday, May 24, 2007

Fri, 25 May 2007 03:55:20 GMT

Pocket Change - Google Acquires Feedburner | [Geeks Are Sexy] Technology News

Tags: adsense feedburner google money myspace web20 youtube

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Thu, 24 May 2007 00:21:20 GMT

Google, Please leave BlogAds, Adify and TribalFusion Alone at Digital Inspiration

Tags: adify blogads feedburner google money tribalfusion web20

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Talk-Sports.net Worth

Wed, 23 May 2007 05:51:34 GMT

DNScoop currently values my talk-sports.net at $11,309, up from $1,854 just last month. I've noticed that DNScoop is getting slow and buggier. Likely the result of some success.

My Site is worth
$11,309

How much is
your site worth?

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Wed, 23 May 2007 04:39:03 GMT

Make Money by Using Blogger - $100 per hour at Digital Inspiration

Tags: blogger google money web20

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Sunday, May 20, 2007

Mon, 21 May 2007 03:03:13 GMT

Boing Boing: Banner ads work subliminally

Tags: advertising dev money news online

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Friday, May 18, 2007

Sat, 19 May 2007 02:14:59 GMT

Microsoft Wins aQuantive with $6 Billion Cash Bid · MarketingVOX

Tags: aquantive microsoft money

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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Wed, 16 May 2007 08:05:53 GMT

Google Launches Audio Ads to the Masses: Step by Step Screen Captures

Tags: adwords audio google money

Matt Cutts Tells Us Which Web Directories Can Impact Your Search Rankings

Tags: directories google money seo

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Monday, May 14, 2007

Tue, 15 May 2007 04:51:21 GMT

Shhhh! A Secret Google Search URL That Removes Adsense Ads

google.com/search?output=googleabout I think he meant AdWords

Tags: adwords google money web20

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AdBrite Hasn't Changed

Mon, 14 May 2007 19:38:38 GMT

Back in 2006, I tried AdBrite for awhile and I made a bit of money. So why did I stop using it? Very simple. I feel like a crook taking money from the advertisers. This ad-platform doesn't work at all and the advertisers are paying that bill. Not to mention they were running sex ads on my site even though my setting specified otherwise.

I started using AdBrite again this last week to see if anything had improved. It's actually worse than ever. I got 3 clicks on 375 impressions in my first week. I checked the clicked URLs. They all go to an error page on some poor AdBrite advertiser's website. AdBrite is just as broken as ever. Wow!

Friday, May 11, 2007

Sat, 12 May 2007 02:29:04 GMT

SEO Tools » Domain Popularity Check

Tags: backlinks google marketing money optimization pagerank seo tool tools web webdesign

» Google Testing AdSense In Email, Again » InsideGoogle » part of the Blog News Channel

Tags: adsense email google money

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Permanent Redirection Failure

Fri, 11 May 2007 14:36:29 GMT

As reported earlier this week, I moved The RSS Blog from here to here. A few weeks later, there was a total drop off in Google referrers to that blog. It seemed like the 301 redirect caused me to lose my pagerank on my old blog homepage without equivalent increase in rank for my new blog homepage. This persisted for 6 days and yesterday my Google referrers returned to normal. Big relief. It seems HTTP 301 permanent redirects actually work, with a gap of a few days in the middle.

Pay Per Title Mod?

Thu, 10 May 2007 20:01:32 GMT

As previously reported, I've been engaged by one of the business I have a sucky review to (Dixie Ford). When they first started calling me, I assumed it was for additional service on my vehicle. I was ignoring the calls, but eventually we came in direct contact and I realized they wanted me to delete my review. I wouldn't have anything of it. They even offered $130 (the price of the service) if I removed the review blog entry. In fact, I didn't even pay for the service, it was a recall paid by the vehicle manufacturer (Ford). I refused on the grounds that I'm not into extortion, nor pulling post for money. They persisted. You see, my blog entry was one of the top results in a search for their business on Google. I asked why they didn't just do their own SEO and bump me from the SERPs. Of course, they didn't know how. So, I agreed to engage with them and help them remove my own blog entry from the search results for their own business.

Today, I met with them and showed them how they could populate the Google SERPs with their own favorable webpages. Of course, after about an hour of this discussion, we landed immediately back on the one blog entry review. Basically, if I didn't remove it, then they were gonna take legal action. What a pathetic attitude. Here I show them how to control their own SERPs and they still don't get it. After more arguing, I realized that they simply wanted me to remove the word Sucks from the title of the blog entry. I offered to remove the word (and have), if they sent me a PDF with an apology, for public consumption. They agreed. I also invoiced them for the hour of SEO consulting.

AdBrite Referrals Working

Mon, 07 May 2007 19:22:21 GMT

I was putting together a new riskier blog and thought that maybe I'd try AdBrite ads on it. I gave up on AdBrite because they kept putting sex ads on my blogs, even though I specifically didn't want them. Then my Ad Zones disappeared and I could even manage my ad units anymore. That said, AdBrite did pay way and always on time.

Logging onto my account today, I found that I've been making more and more money on their referral program. Wow! That was a surprise. Anywho, I'm back on board to check them out again. Join me!

http://www.adbrite.com/mb/?spid=4216

Permanent Redirection Failure

Mon, 07 May 2007 18:09:53 GMT

This last month, I moved The RSS Blog from here to here. As per the conventional wisdom, I used a 301 permanent redirect to avoid loss of Google juice. I only moved the homepage and left the individual blog entries in place. That didn't work at all. I've noticed a big drop in Google referrals in the last week. The old RSS Blog homepage had a PR (page rank) of 6. The new one still doesn't have a PR. I thought the PRs were real time. I suspect that eventually the new sites PR will increase and the referrers will return. In the meanwhile, let this be a lesson.

Update: Success!
http://www.webvertization.com/?guid=20070511073629

Pay Per Pulled Post

Mon, 07 May 2007 16:17:16 GMT

I've been getting calls from Dixie Ford. One of the calls was about follow up service. I was ignoring these voice mails, as I'd previously received really bad service from them and didn't want to deal with them anymore. Today, Ted Hogan of Dixie Ford called me and informed me that he was displeased that my Dixie Ford Sucks blog entry was one of the top results for a search for his business. After a heated discussion, we finally agreed to meet and discuss how Dixie Ford can change this. They offered $120 (the cost of the service) if I pulled the entry. I'm wondering about the ethics of that and what it says about me. This is similar to pay per post, but worse. It's pay per pulled post.

As the Internet becomes more mainstream, I suspect that more companies are going to worry about their Google SERPs. This is a business opportunity.

Sunday, May 06, 2007

Mon, 07 May 2007 09:57:31 GMT

Alexa Traffic Charts Now Include Advertising at Digital Inspiration

Tags: alexa money webvertising

Technorati Removes Alexa Rankings, Explains Blog Authority at Digital Inspiration

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Friday, May 04, 2007

Sat, 05 May 2007 06:34:14 GMT

alexh’s weblog » Amazon lowers S3 pricing!

Tags: amazon money s3 web20

» YouTube To Finally Pay Top Users » InsideGoogle » part of the Blog News Channel

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Four New Domains

Fri, 04 May 2007 21:35:01 GMT

I setup four new websites today. They are empty, but I'll eventually do something with them.

http://www.ibt4im.com/
http://www.friendblab.com/
http://www.myspacelayoutstore.com/
http://www.bestdamnhot.com/

Amazon's $15 cell-phone plan Referrals

Fri, 04 May 2007 13:17:15 GMT

Amazon now offers a $15 referral bonus for each cell-phone plan that you forward to them. This isn't something I'm going to pursue, but maybe somebody has an idea here. Personally, I don't think people buy cell-phone plans from Amazon, so the conversion rate might be too small to make this worth the effort.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/amazonassociates/~3/114048667/earn_a_15_bonus.html

AdSense Referrals Beta

Tue, 01 May 2007 15:09:27 GMT

Scott Kingery forwards this link, which he found when logged into AdSense. Basically, it's the beta announcement of Google's new PPA (pay per action) AdSense program. PPA moves the onus of fraud from the publisher to the advertiser. Instead of click-fraud, I suspect that advertisers will fail to report conversions. This is good for advertisers, because they don't have to worry about click-fraud, but bad for publishers, who will undoubtedly begin complaining about low conversions rates and fraudulent advertisers. I also suspect that PPA ads will pay less to publishers than PPC ads, except in the case where the ads are well targeted.

http://www.google.com/ads/adsense/referrals/index.html