Ever since Google’s official acquisition of DoubleClick Perfomics, lots of people in the search community protested about conflicts of interest on Google’s part. They also are worried about their competition, DoubleClick Performics’ Search Marketing, not playing fair. It seems like Google decided to do the right thing. They’re keeping the affiliate marketing [...]
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Google Sells Double Click’s Search Marketing Unit
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Google Pulls Search Within SERP, Sort Of
Last week I posted about Google embedding search boxes within search results pages and the issues it could cause by being poorly targeted ads not to mention the ability to bid on competitors SERPs.
Well the NYTimes story today quotes a good spokeswoman as saying that the company has removed the site search box from the [...] -
Google Testing Search Within SERPs
We’ve all seen the rumors that Google has been testing various new search engine results pages (SERPs) but here is one that I haven’t seen before, a search box embedded within the SERPs. My buddy, Scott, pointed out to me that pulling up the query “Nasa” resulted in an embed search box *see image*.
This actually [...]
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Off Topic: Is GMAIL Letting Through Tons of Spam For You too?
I have no idea what is going on lately, and I have confirmed that my friends are experiencing the same problems, but Gmail is letting through tons of spam. Its not like its sneaky spam, its the obvious stuff that any spam filter should catch (Viagra, Cialis, Penis Enlargment, discount software). Most of [...]
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Google Wants You to Fail Your Adwords Exam
I just finished taking my Adwords Professional exam in order to re-up my “Adwords Professional Certification” and I have determined that Google wants you to fail! I have some beef with this thing and here is why.
First off, I had to pay $50 AGAIN to re-certify myself. I’ve already had to do this [...]
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Google Doesn't like adCenter
found via SharpLogic
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Google Increasing Adwords Reporting, Getting More Transparent?
Barry of SERoundtable is reporting that Google is going to increase the data advertisers are able to see in relation to their ad performance on the content network.
An Adwords Rep posted this on the SEW forums:
Since our network is comprised of hundreds of thousands of sites and millions of pages, information reported [...] -
Google Reads PPClab, and You Should Too.
Maybe they should put me in charge of Google, well at least their Content Network department. Last year I went on a little rant regarding the poor quality of Google’s Content network and the fact that Google loves splogs and a year later Google announces plans to clean up their Content Network by starting [...]
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Hacked Through Google Adwords and IE7
Exploit Prevention Labs has uncovered a nasty nasty little scheme to steal your bank information via Google Adwords and IE7.
Essentially what is happening is the hacker (proper term in this case is phisher) is bidding on terms such as “BetterBusinessBureau” or “Modern cars airbags required” and presenting what appears to be the BBB.or or Cars.com. [...] -
How To Export Your Google Adwords Account
I received an email from a friend asking me how to export her Google Adwords account so she could begin importing it into Yahoo and MSN adCenter. I thought it may make a good topic because if one person had the question a lot of people probably have the same.
Since Google removed the simplest [...]
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