Archive for the ‘Advertising’ Category
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AdWords+Analytics Seminars You Should Attend
Vivian Leung, from the Inside AdWords crew, put out a memo recently about new dates being offered for AdWords and ...
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Stalking People with AdWords
Stalking people is a fact that will never go away. Stalking Amanda Camp, that's something that can come or ...
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Good People Still Exist
Late last week, a question was brought up in the Google AdSense Group. Can I sign up for only PSAs? That seems ...
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Requesting Duplicate AdSense PINs
AdSense requires all new publishers to verify their account by receiving a PIN after reaching $10 of revenue. So ...
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Google to Launch Hosted Ad Manager
A few days ago, Google announced that they will be offering a hosted ad manager. Something to note specifically is this ...
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OpenAds is Now OpenX
OpenAds is a project/product that I've been actively using/involved with for a number of years. It first started out ...
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Google Hosts Online Advertising Meetup
Earlier this week on Monday, I attended an advertising meetup that was being hosted at Google NYC. A lot ...
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Rumors of Google to Buy The New York Times
John Ellis brings up the rumor (or potential rumor) of Google acquiring The New York Times. What's in it for Google? ...
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Float AdSense? No Way! …says Google
Google's AdSensePro, Jordan, has confirmed that Google's official policy is "no, you may not float AdSense units." Check out the full ...
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Google Seeks to Capture Mobile Market
Google released the iPhone interface for Google Apps products. "During Christmas (when nobody was at work!) iPhone browsing numbers ...
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You Blog, Google Listens
"Two fixes just went live, before we sign off for a brief holiday break: Unregistered commenters can once again provide an ...
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Google Supports iPhone Unlocking
I have discussed Google and Apple's mutual love for each other already, but this one comes as, well, only a ...
05
Wonky AdWords Ads in Gmail
I've been getting some wonky ads here and there within Gmail. I know it's a character set issue, but ...
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AdSense on Facebook?
As Eric points out on VentureBeat.com, Google is trying to be sneaky and get a piece of the action here. The ...
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New AdSense Resources
Google AdSense has launched a new tab in their interface. The "Resources" tab which will provide access for publishers ...
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Google Walks the Plank
The following article is an anti-AdSense publication produced by Google Inside. As of November 15th, Google changed their AdSense "Click Area" ...
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Google AdSense Creator Leaves Google
Tamar at SERoundTable rallies up some data about the AdSense creator. Here are some direct links from the article, CNN Gokul Rajaram -- ...
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Google to Push In-Game Advertising by Year’s End
Reported on Thursday, Google will be launching their in-game advertising efforts by the end of the month. Google is ...
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Bring Out Your Dead…Bring Out Your Dead Links
Old school Link spamming building is dead. You can no longer simply put up completely irrelevant links and hope ...
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Google Abuses Nofollow
Back in 2005 when nofollow was introduced and widely adopted, we did not know the future effects it would have ...
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Matt Cutts Doesn’t Respond to E-mail Anymore
So there have still been some things on my mind about paid links and that whole situation. I thought, "what ...
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Google Acquires Mobile Social Network Zingku
Google already has plans to launch their own mobile phone [service] in the near future so this is exactly what ...
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Google AdSense for Mobile
The Google AdSense Team has announced the new AdSense for Mobile market. As part of our ongoing efforts to develop new ...
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SalesForce’s Adam Gross on Google Custom Search
Google's Enterprise edition is not frequented very much in the blogosphere primarily because it's on a much higher level of ...
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Who’s Using My AdSense Publisher ID?
With the recent feature release of "allowed" and "disallowed" sites within an AdSense account, it also came with the feature ...
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AdSense URL Whitelist Now Available!
Since the start of AdSense there has been a huge issue with people "stealing" the ad code and putting it ...
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New AdSense API Guidelines and Limitations
Google has recently released a set of new guidelines for the AdSense API. The new rules will go into ...
03
AdWords Editor 4.0 for Windows Released
The Google AdWords Editor for Windows has been a great tool for AdWords advertisers ever since it was created. ...
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Google Loses Digg.com to Microsoft
Recently reported on Wired Blog, Digg.com has turned over its advertising needs to Microsoft away from Google. The announcement ...
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July Top Paying Keywords
Here is a small list of some top paying keywords for AdSense right now. Structured settlement Mesothelioma Acne Life Insurance Death Insurance Bextra Asbestos Car Insurance Dental Plans Private Jets Debt ...
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Google Announces Q2 2007 Results
Google has released their Q2 results. See below for the full details.
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Google Advertising Invite for $1,000
Google is starting to make the long-awaited push for newspaper advertising now. The last time we saw activity of their newspaper ...
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AdSense Referrals 2.0
Browsing around DigitalPoint again, I noticed someone pointed out an AdSense Referral 2.0 feature. After browsing around the AdSense interface a ...
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Credit Card Aliases for Google Checkout … to come?
I have been using Google Checkout more and more recently -- with good reason -- as it's made my life ...
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New AdSense Spider Authentication
The AdSense team has done it again and now lets publishers have the ability to let the AdSense spiders into ...
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Google Officially Acquires FeedBurner
As previously rumored around the mill, Google has officially announced that they are acquiring FeedBurner. Google has even posted ...
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Microsoft Attempts the Market with aQuantive
Microsoft recently announced that they are moving forward with the acquisition of aQuantive for USD$6.0 billion. Microsoft is feeling ...
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AdSense Redesigns the Login Page
As I was visiting the AdSense page today to go check my stats, I noticed they improved the page design ...
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What Grinds My Gears? Poor AdSense Tracking for Publishers
Something that's really bothered me over the past year or so is that there isn't sufficient support for AdSense tracking. ...
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Google Announces Partnertship with Clear Channel
As part of Google’s effort to better market their recently acquired dMarc advertising and put it to good use, Google ...
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AdSense Officially Changes ‘Ads by Google’
Google has officially changed their Ads by Google logo for the text ads of AdSense. The Google AdSense team has been ...
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AdSense Optimization Reports
Not too long ago I noticed that I had an AdSense Optimization report in my account. So I clicked ...
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Google looks at Buying DoubleClick Inc.
Internet advertising, a world that is becoming old but still relevant just became a little more relevant for everyone. ...
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Google to take on Monster.com in the Job Search Industry
Google is slowly but surely taking the steps to integrate Google Base into Google Search as a means to filter ...
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Google AdWords Launches Pay-Per-Action (Beta)
Google AdWords up until now has been purely Pay-Per-Click (PPC) and Pay-Per-Thousand (CPM). The Google AdWords team has broke ...
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Radio Advertising Moves Forward
The Google AdWords team has been moving forward with their beta testing of Audio Ads inside Google AdWords. They ...
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Communication. Collaboration. No hassles.
I just received an e-mail about seminars for Google Apps to learn more about the product. I think it's ...
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Google Signs Deal with Friendster
Hoping to finally become profitable, online social-networking pioneer Friendster Inc. is joining the crowd of Web sites that rely on ...
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Google Maps Feature Request Roundup - March 11th, 2007
Here is a quick roundup for feature requests that people have come up with. Google Maps Access to traffic data Optional font sizes ...
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AuctionAds.com Launches
AuctionAds.com is a new advertising system which shows advertisements related to eBay auctions. It advertises specific to the keywords ...
05
Valve with In-Game Advertising
Today there was an update for Counter-Strike. (yeah I know, "dang jonathan, you STILL play that game?") Yes, I ...
01
AdSense Banners Encourage Clicking
The AdWords team just released some news about click-fraud protection utilities that will be in place, but at the same ...
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Google to Offer Click-fraud Protection
Beginning next month, Google plans to give advertisers the ability to prevent their pay-per-click ads from being shown to competitors ...
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Google in Hot Water with Korea for Fair Trade Pact
Google has been hit with an alleged violation of the Korea Fair Trade Pact ("KFTC"). The unnamed web company ...
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NBA Partners with Google
Under the partnership, the NBA is also working with YouTube parent Google to test the distribution of syndicated NBA video ...
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Search Engines Rights to the First Ammendment
Search engine decisions to reject ads is protected by 47 USC 230(c)(2) as a legitimate decision to filter "otherwise objectionable" ...
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Google Investing in National TV Sales
In this role, you will be building a world-class national TV advertising sales team and lead the effort to both ...
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Google and Yahoo! Face a Little Competition
Google and Yahoo! are the two premiere companies right now that are duking it out over who's in charge of ...
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Privately Labeled AdWords
A privately labeled AdWords platform to run as your own. An interesting thought that Philip brought up in his ...
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AdSense API
I was snooping around Google a few minutes ago and noticed something huge in the search results: An AdSense API. ...
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My 2007 Google Wishlist
There are a lot of enhancements and feature-requests that I want from Google still, so here's my list. Google Maps (I ...
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Hold up Those Keywords for Everyone to See
From within the Ad Group view, you can pause an individual keyword, ad, or site at any time. These items ...
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AdSense Spam in E-mails
From: Google Maps Date: Feb 15, 2007 2:21 PM Subject: Have you downloaded Google Pack yet? Best Download Out. To: xxxxxx@gmail.com Jon, ...
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AdSense Tips: Size Matters
Does size matter when setting up AdSense units? The size more certainly does matter. Not too long ago I was ...
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Google Accused of Being a Pirate
America's biggest media companies have accused Google of knowingly encouraging copyright theft by suggesting to illegal movie download sites that ...
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CPC Site-Targeting Beta
Well it's about time. The AdWords team has released an update that they are beta testing a new program ...
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AdSense Inquiry: google_ad_region
Question: What does google_ad_region = 'test'; actually do? AdSense Support Response: At this time, we are not able to disclose further ...
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New Referral Bonuses
AdSense Referrals: When a publisher who signed up for Google AdSense through your referral earns their first $5 within 180 days ...
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Yahoo! is Weak
Yahoo! seems to be a little behind on the times for search and advertising, but wait, they're trying to get ...
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Reflecting on the Future of Google
As I touched on in 2006 last July, I mentioned the future of Google and what it looks like. ...
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Google’s Superbowl Ad
Yeah, for a second I would want to know what they did for advertising too. But in all reality, ...
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AdSense Referrals Step it Up
Have you noticed many $5 AdSense or AdWords referral popping up on your AdSense reports yesterday? Don't worry, you aren't ...
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Checkout the Analytics Integration
Merchants are able to track their Checkout orders through Google Analytics now. This was released not too long ago, ...
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Google Music Ads
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc. said on Monday it would expand testing of its much-anticipated video advertising system by ...
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AdSense Channel Ad Placement
This is a follow-up from my earlier article about brand advertising. Google released (not sure when) a new channel ...
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AdSense Brand Advertising
So I received an e-mail from the AdSense team last night. This is part of what I got. After a ...
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Time to Google Friendster
Google is becoming the unchallenged leading providing in content ads on the web. With Google's not too long ago ...
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Sign-up for Your AdWords Seminar Pass Today
As I've mentioned in previous posts, I attended an AdWords Seminar in October 2006. It was a great success ...
09
AdSense is Down
AdSense had been really slow for me this morning and now this appeared when I tried to navigate around: The Google ...
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Checkout for a $10 Bonus
Google is still trying to push Checkout on consumers. Let's do a little recap of how Checkout is actually ...
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Google’s 2006 Wrap Up
Here are a few things from Google that are part of the 2006 wrap up. Top non-Google referrers and most influencial ...
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How to Use the Content Network
AdWords is an amazing platform that lets advertisers have the world's power at their very fingertips. But with that ...
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Why Google is Advertising AdSense so Much
In the past few weeks, I've noticed that AdSense has been advertising itself quite a bit more than it normally ...
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AdWords Website Optimizer
I was recently invited to take part in the AdWords Website Optimizer tool. This tool is still in beta, ...
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AdSense Image Placement Policy Clarification
For the past 6 months or year, there has been a lot of hype to using images next to ads ...
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New AdSense Payment Layout
There is a new layout to the AdSense payment page. Take a look below to see the specifics of ...
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Yahoo! Rolls Out the “Panama Project”
Yahoo is in the process of rolling out several changes, known collectively by the code name "Project Panama," which will ...
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AdSense Team Adds Four New Languages
Yesterday, the AdSense team release four new languages for publishers. Croatian Czech Slovak Traditional Chinese As a friendly note for everyone, "...it can take up ...
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AdWords and Firefox Not Mixing
As I was viewing my AdWords account, I decided to roll my mouse over one of the buttons which was ...
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Google Branded IE7
Google is making an effort to push IE7 out to users. As seen below in the screenshot, they are ...
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Ads by Gooooooogle or just by Google?
I saw some threads around the forums and decided to take another look at it. I looked around at ...
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Blank AdSense?
I just logged into my AdSense account and found that the page was blank....anyone else getting this?
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AdWords Landing Pages Hosted by Google
Yesterday, AdWords released a new feature which will allow local businesses to have a landing page even if they don't ...
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Blogrolling the Blog with the Washington Post
There's a new platform coming out that is being produced by the Washington Post (washingtonpost.com). It's not a revolutionary ...
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No Checkout Fees Through 2007
As you may know, for every $1 you spend on AdWords, you can process $10 of Google Checkout sales for ...
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Some Success, Some Failure
Google has a huge list of products on the market right now which are utilized everyday by people. Some ...
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SanFran Opts for WiFi
San Francisco, Google, and Earthlink have all joined forces to create what quite possibly could be the largest wireless network ...
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Google Audio Ads
As I was looking through my account services again, I noticed a new one. Audio Ads. I went ...
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Google Display Advertising Network
John Chow was invited to join the Google Display Advertising Network in September. This is a new -- but ...
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Multiple Channels for AdSense
Something I never noticed before is that you can have multiple channels for a single ad group. I don't know how ...
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Google Hits the Mark: 500
Google stock as seen above has officially hit 500 and actually went over. Yahoo and Microsoft aren't doing nearly ...
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Google to buy Digg Inc.
Mentioned on a DigitalPoint thread, will Google end up buying Digg Inc.? There is no backing of this at ...
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Google API Madness
Google has an amazing network of products. Products including AdWords, AdSense, Analytics, Webmaster Central, Google Maps, Google Images, Google ...
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The Future of Advertising: Chat-enabled Ads
IBM and Intel have been running a new type of marketing campaign in the past few months -- with chat-enabled ...
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Google Domain Trademarking
Cristian wrote a good article about this so I'll dig a bit more into it. Google is a very exclusive domain ...
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Google Experiments with Newspaper Ad Sales
Monday, Google (GOOG) begins testing a new program that lets Google's customers buy ads in more than 50 top newspapers, ...
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AdSense.com Now Owned by Google
AdSense.com has been owned by an advertising consulting agency for quite some time. The company, AdSense, owned the domain ...
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Google Analytics API
Yeah right, I wish it was out. But I was thinking about some SEO software and how it might ...
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Analytics and AdSense Suggestions
As I'm re-reading over the forum discussion so far, there have been some great suggestions. Here's a few to ...
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AdSense + Analytics Feedback
So I attended the eComXpo last week and I talked to a couple Google reps about Analytics and AdSense. ...
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AdWords Seminars Are Back!
AdWords has released a lot of new dates for AdWords seminars. I attended one last month and I thoroughly ...
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Create Your Own Search Engine
Looks like you can create your own search engine now and specify which sites you want to include in the ...
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Google Resource Roundup
Essential Blogs Inside AdSense Inside AdWords Official Google Blog Blogger Buzz Webmaster Central Forums AdSense Forums AdWords Forums Analytics Forums Great Help Pages Webmaster Help Center Analytics Support Center AdSense Topics
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AdSense Reports Confusion
As a lot of publishers have often become confused about how their data is displayed in the account control panel, ...
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Online Advertising Turns to Google
As the buzz goes around, eMarketer has all the latest. Google's US ad revenue growth rate in 2006 will soar almost ...
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AdWords / AdSense Down for Maintenance
The AdWords account interface is temporarily unavailable due to system maintenance. AdWords is expected to be down from approximately 10:00 ...
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The “Completely Free” Ringtones that Aren’t
Ringtone ads often claim to be "free," "totally free," "all free," "100% complimentary," and available with "no credit card" and ...
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Google Bought YouTube.com
It has been confirmed. Google bought YouTube.com is a stock transaction that will close in Q4. It will ...
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Click-to-Call is…Back Up?
From what I've been reading around the blogosphere, it seems that the Official Google Blog had been hacked due to ...
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AdWords Seminar Follow-up
A few weeks ago I attended an AdWords Seminar and it was very informative for me. I'm hoping to ...
06
Two New AdSense Forums
The AdSense team added some new forums for people to use. There was already English, German, and Chinese, but ...
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New Settings in AdSense — Allowed Hosts
Webmasters go crazy over having their publisher ID so public and easily accessable for anyone to use. The AdSense ...
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AdSense Spotlight: TakeABreak.com.au
Since 2003 TakeABreak.com.au has enabled visitors from around the world to find and book accommodation across Australia. The site lists ...
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AdWords Seminars Expand
Vivian posts about how the AdWords Seminars will be expanded to other cities. If you've been reading, you will ...
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Protecting Your AdSense Publisher ID
Jensense talks about it a little bit, but I'm fairly concerned with Google's lack of care about how there is ...
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Google’s Inside Scoop on Clicking
So, here's my question...Has anybody heard of Google artificially inflating hits by having someone in their office click on their ...
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AdSense Opens an Office in Australia
Problogger Darren Rowse writes about his first experience with the new AdSense office in Australia that recently opened up. ...
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Happy Happy Birthday! ~~ Google Style!
That's right. Google is 8 years old today. Google has, single handedly, changed the way we browse the ...
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The Weekly Report by AdSense
The Google AdSense team has released another frequently requested featured for enhanced automated-reporting. This feature release gives publishers the ...
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Complete List of Google Services
I was just checking my GMail a few minutes ago and thought I would check out all the services for ...
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AdSense Channel Page Gets Revamped
The AdSense channel page was a bit disorganized before and people were complaining. Google took a hint and did ...
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AdSense: New Ad Format
The AdSense team has released a new ad format of 200x200. The format might look something a little bit like this: I ...
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Google Starts The Outsourcing
As some previous reports have shown, Google has launched a Webmaster Contest for copywriting. If you have a clear, concise style ...
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Have You Received Your Lava Lamp Yet?
Looks like there have been quite a few people getting some free lava lamps from Google for being part of ...
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AdWords Seminar - Los Angeles
There are a couple AdWords events coming up, one specifically in Los Angeles near me. I will be attending ...
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Analyzing Your ROI
I love how Google Analytics lets you easily determine your ROI when spending on AdWords. There are many great ...
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Google and Intuit Team Up
This is not the first of all major partnerships which Google has been involved in. This partnership, however, will prove ...
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AdWords API Rolls Out Some New Ts & Cs
The AdWords API team has rolled out some new Terms and Conditions which users must accept before November 27th 2006 ...
01
Time to Take a Break
Looks like I'm not the only one taking a break this weekend. The Google AdSense will also be taking ...
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AdSense and Analytics Just Became Friends
While there's been a hack around that I use for tracking AdSense clicks through Analytics, there was no full-integration which ...
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Google Being Sued … Again
Google, fresh from its $90 million settlement, is being sued for click fraud in another class action lawsuit, this one ...
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Some More Good AdSense Tips
Be well rounded – In high school, being a talented football player or a skilled musician makes you interesting. But ...
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Checkout Upgrades
Google Checkout has become a hot topic of discussion lately because Google entered the competitive field of money processing online. ...
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Google AdSense Adds Self-Search
Google AdSense now allows you to display AdSense ads for search results within your site. While it was against ...
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Google Analytics Open to the Public Now
The Google Analytics blog writes that.... I'm happy to tell you that we've just removed the wait to receive a Google ...
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AdSense Last Login
AdSense recently added in the "Last Login" time to show how long it has been since you last logged in, ...
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Multiple Google Accounts
A few weeks ago I logged into my AdSense account and it asked me to change my login, so I ...
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The AdWords API Sandbox Is Here!
The AdWords platform is happy to announce that they have the API Sandbox ready for developers to test out and ...
08
Did Someone MySpace Google?
Fox News Corp has signed a contract with Google to be the search engine powering this monster social networking site, ...
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Good AdSense Tips
After reading the Official AdSense Blog, here are some good tips... AdSense’s content-matching technology is designed to provide useful links and ...
01
AdSense Branding Without Branding
Jensense reported that Google AdSense is starting to test some sites with unbranded ads being displayed. As of right ...
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AdSense Allows You to View Site-Targeted or Contextual
As I was browing my stats today I noticed this small feature. It could be really old..or it could ...
25
The Unseen Linkage of Google
As I was reading through my daily blogosphere or posts, I came across some interesting links. A nice tour ...
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AdSense.com … Google Should Do *Something* About it
If you think you can get rich quick placing other people's ads on your site or blog, please contact Google ...
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The Future of Google
A topic, not touched on too much, was brought up on DigitalPoint. How do we all see the future of Google? ...
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Google AdSense Site Diagnostics
The AdSense has added a Site Diagnostics tool which will help webmasters determine if pages are being blocked or not ...
19
Google AdWords Users Encouraged to Checkout
Just got this in the mail (well, email, not physical mail...do they even do that anymore?) But anyway, they're now ...
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PayPal Payments for AdSense … or Maybe Checkout Instead?
As of right now, the AdSense program does not allow for PayPal payments for the monthly earnings. In short, ...
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AdSense Earnings Unstable
As I'm viewing my AdSense account, there have been some serious influxes in the earnings. When I had $8 ...
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Made-for-AdSense Sites Get the Slip
Google is in the process of trying to clean-up and make the AdWords and AdSense network a little bit better. ...
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AdSense Referral Tracking Now Active
While everyone using AdSense knows you can channel your earnings -- which really does help in case you aren't using ...
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