Monday afternoon I closed my Microsoft Adcenter account. While many have railed against Microsoft’s attempt to enter the PPC market based upon poor and unconverting traffic, I was happy with the traffic, costs-per-click, and my conversion rates. However, I was fed up with the constant barrage of emails “Your AdCenter ads or keywords require changes.” […]
Alexa Updates Reports
On the heels of Google’s RSS Subscriber reporting, Alexa updated its reporting options and brought their site crawling service to a more prominent location. Now, Alexa data shows traffic and ranking by country, refreshed the Link data, and brought their broken-link reporting service to a more prominent location (previously it was buried within developer tools […]
Google Now Reports RSS Subscriber Numbers
There has been a lot of buzz throughout the net this weekend as most people publishing RSS feeds saw dramatic increases in their subscriber numbers as reported by services such as FeedBurner. The reason? Google finally started reporting subscriber numbers from their services. Yahoo, Bloglines, et. al., have been reporting this information for some time […]
AdSense Changes
Google changed the terms and conditions of the AdSense program this week causing mass panic throughout the web. 1. Google removed the stipulation that other contextual ad programs could not be used on the same page. 2. Google added terms that prohibit other contextual ads not only on a per page basis, but on a […]
A Typical Conversation In Selling Aftermarket Domain Names
I buy and sell domains for fun and profit. I stay away from trademark issues and intentional cybersquatting by focusing on rather generic names that may find a run in popular culture or unique names that could be highly brandable. From a couple of days ago, a typical conversation on potential buyers approaching me with […]
WordPress Blogs and Google’s Supplemental Index
It seems that WordPress-based blogs have a tendency to be dropped into Google’s Supplemental Index pretty quickly. The general consensus is that this is due to the duplication of content present within WordPress. A typical installation will generate a minimum of five instances of a post – more if the post is identified in multiple […]