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ChrisR exposes injustice at Google

April 12, 2006

I’m a bit behind my blog reading and I just read Chris’s post about unjust labor practices at Google and other notable notes. I was shocked to learn Google used cookies and porn to get their employees to work for almost no money. Good find Chris

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You think you have alot of family events…

April 12, 2006

In case you have not had the pleasure of spending sometime at the bar during a conference with me (or were too drunk to remember), I have nine siblings. Which means I have a birthday, anniversary, graduation or some other event to attend almost every week. I normally enjoy this but this year is just crazy [...]

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Keyword Research Follow-up with Christine Churchill

April 11, 2006

Q: What tools do you recommend for keyword research? A: Just as you would get a second opinion from a doctor, I like to use multiple sources for keyword information.The tools I’m using most frequently these days are Keyword Discovery and the new enhanced Google Keyword tool with its seasonal information. Other tools I use [...]

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Welcome to the blogosphere YPN

April 10, 2006

Welcome and congratulations to Yahoo! Publisher Network on the launch of the YPN blog. It is always nice to see a big player like YPN take the time to help the Internet community by fostering good communications with this “two-way street”. It was also cool to check out the video they posted on the YPNblog. It [...]

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Webmasters In The Sun 5

April 10, 2006

Just got back from another great Webmasters in the Sun event. For anyone that doesn’t know about WITS, it is a small gathering of Internet people that know each other and like to have fun in beautiful warm places. This year was even better than last year in San Diego thanks to the great work of Keith, [...]

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Doctors Appointment

April 5, 2006

Hey everybody GoodKarma will be back April 13th with Yahoo Search Marketing. In the meantime I have an appointment in San Diego to visit Dr. Evil and will also be enjoying http://www.ecomxpo.com. [tags]dr. evil, ecomxpo, yahoo search marketing[/tags]

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MSN’s auto-generated spam research

April 5, 2006

SEO By The Sea reported on this research paper (pdf) written by 3 of Microsoft’s researchers discussing their recent examination of similar pages. They found that about 22% of the pages were identical. I think this means that 22% of the MSN index and not necessarily Google’s index is identical. They also found that identical pages remain identical [...]

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Upcoming Show – Dan Boberg covering YSM’s new optimization offerings

April 4, 2006

Yahoo Search Marketing (the artist formely known as Overture) has just partnered with not one but two leading vendors in ppc optimization – Offermatica and Optimost. These two companies will offer YSM clients multivariate testing and A/B testing. In plain english they will help you target your customers and split them into different groups then [...]

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What if …? Google Affiliatewords

April 3, 2006

Several places are reporting that Eric Schimdt of Google said: “The quickest way to improve the quality of an ad is to have the ad instantaneously turn into a purchase that is 100 percent perfect,” My speculation otherwise known as my WAG (wild-ass guess) is that Google could start providing a new type of Google [...]

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