Adsense Accelerator Discount for GoodKarma Listeners

March 31, 2006

The good people at Cash Keywords have launched a new tool called Adsense Accelerator.  It runs on your desktop and helps you find the best keywords based on bid prices, bid quality and traffic levels.  It has a prepopulated list of keywords organized by different industries and also lets you do search for any keyword you like.  [...]

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WOW! Traditional Company Does Good Marketing

March 30, 2006

I just saw a great ad during a morning tv show.  The ad was for Xtra-Pine cleaner.  It is a teaser to visit their site www.cleaninghunk.com.  For all the ladies & my gay friends go enjoy some nice eyecandy.  For all the men reading this you should also visit it and see a good viral site.

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MSN Adcenter – Invite Your Friends

March 29, 2006

Now that just about everybody has gained access to MSN Adcenter, MSN is offering “invites” to make sure you tell your friends how great it is.  Here is a quick snip from the email they sent:  “In addition to an invitation into the pilot, your nominees will receive a special offer to join our complimentary campaign set-up service called QuickLaunch” [...]

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SEO Tip #439 – How to handle linking to questionable sites

March 29, 2006

If you are concerned about linking to a possibly “bad neighborhood” that has relevant and helpful content for your site users, there are solutions.  You can of course use the nofollow tag (which Captain Sprite is a big fan of).  However there is some evidence that the engines are still following these links.  What is a [...]

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March 30 – Talking SEO with Daniel Boberg

March 27, 2006

We’ll be chatting with the industry veteran Daniel Boberg, Senior Director of Strategic Alliances for Yahoo! Search Marketing about search engine optimization.  I’m sure you’re curious so tune in and listen at 4pm (Eastern Time).

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Personalized Search is Coming, Too Late It’s Here

March 27, 2006

Personalized search is here and you shouldn’t be worried.  The search engines have been experimenting with personalizing the search results for each individual users for several years.  Google has been making the most public progress.  If you sign in for GMail or some of there other offerings, they will keep you logged in until you [...]

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Real or Fake eBay Ads?

March 23, 2006

After reading SugarRae’s Polling via MSN IM: Real or Fake I decided to have some fun. Here are some eBay ads that were on Google.  Can you find the fake ones? Lies Whatever you’re looking for you can get it on eBay. www.eBay.com Hurt Me Whatever you’re looking for you can get it on eBay. www.eBay.com

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SEO Tip #983 – Don’t link to pages just because they link to you

March 23, 2006

Several years ago people would find a search that they ranked #1 in Google and then link to that Google serp.  The logic being that the googlebot would follow the link and then realize that a mighty and powerful site like Google is linking to your site and thus pass huge link popularity to you.  [...]

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March 23 – Researching Keywords with Christine Churchill of KeyRelevance

March 22, 2006

Christine was a member of the founding Board of Directors of SEMPO.  She serves as the Associate Editor for e-marketing-news and is the Chairman of the Dallas-Fort Worth Search Engine Marketing Association.  She is also a regular speaker at Search Engine Strategies, WebmasterWorld Conferences, High Rankings Seminars, (to name a few).   This lady knows her [...]

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Beta Test – Google Base added to serps

March 21, 2006

It appears that Google is testing the concept of adding a Google Base search box in their serps.  Below is a screen capture of what Google is showing for the keyword “homes for sale”.  Since they are already showing three paid listings on top of the organic search results it is interesting they would take [...]

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