Archive for September, 2007

Important SEO Information

Friday, September 28th, 2007

I haven't been seeing too many posts lately with much SEO information in them, so I thought I would add my own. Now this is not a ground-breaking post by any stretch of the imagination, but should be helpful to someone who is trying to learn as much about ...

Google Adsense Running Slow

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

Let me rephrase this sentence as accurately as I can: the Google Adsense interface is running slower than molasses in January. And it has been for at least several weeks. In a sense, it's no big deal when you're just checking stats, but when you're actually working on ...

Whining About Google

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

One webmaster past-time that never gets old for most people is the ancient sport of "whining about Google". Some people are so good at this, I'm pretty sure they spend most of their time practicing it. There is one forum I visit ever now and again where the ...

Experience With Google Referrals 2.0

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

So far I am not rich from running Google Referrals 2.0. Of course I didn't devote any top grade real estate to the program, so I can't complain too much. I did finally get one conversion after running the ads for about a week, but it wasn't a ...

Web Content As An Investment

Monday, September 24th, 2007

Well linked to and well written web content can go quite a ways towards making profit. But only a small percentage of content will ever be seen by most web surfers. You have to decide on how much effort and/or money you'll put into creating or procuring the ...

Google Expands Advertising Offerings Relentlessly

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

You can accuse Google of a lot of things, but "slacking" isn't one of them. Their Adsense program has expanded rapidly in the last six months, and it's even grown leaps and bounds in the last few weeks. We're talking more offerings than any of us can even ...

Google Is Now An In-House Lobbyist

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

Not content to just be a search engine, Google is now bringing their influence to Government and has registered their first in-house lobbyist. Google used a number of outside lobby firms until this year, including the Podesta Group to represent the companies interests. "We've expanded our presence because there are an ...

Google Gadget Ads Coming Soon

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

Google is experimenting with even more ad types. The newest announcement involves a whole new type of interactive ads called Google Gadget Ads. Google has already been testing the ads, and the company and observers are quite impressed with the technical capacity of the ads, even going so ...

Google To Be Grilled By Senate Over DoubleClick Deal

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

Google has been interested in taking over DoubleClick since April, but the transaction has not gone smoothly. The main reasons for the delay are concerns about privacy and competition. The combined company would put Google way ahead of other companies in what advertising they offer, and with how ...

Google Adsense For Mobile

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

Google Adsense has been expanding rapidly lately. It appears that every time I log into my Adsense account, there's a new feature waiting for me to try. Yesterday was no exception, as a new Adsense for Mobile section showed up. How obvious is this? Pretty obvious ...