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.

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

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

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?

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/

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

http://www.turn.com/

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/

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

• http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/006607.html
• http://www.webmasterworld.com/google_adwords/3142090.htm
• http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=14779

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/

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%.