Feb 11, 2010
Don’t Buy Affiliate Espionage
Affiliate Espionage was a phenomenal tool a few months back, which helped the user track advertising trends amongst competitors in Google Adwords. It provided research on search trends, money spent on campaigns, and which campaigns worked, so the user wasn't throwing money out the door. It assisted with the tried and true test, test, test method of spending money on Adwords. Alas, Affiliate Espionage... read more
Jan 8, 2010
Keeping Adsense Legal
I'm not sure if a new inspection crew started working for Google Adsense late last year, but it looks like my websites are getting more attention than they used to. My guess is that my increase in traffic, coupled with high click throughs, raised some sort of a flag. At the end of last year I was notified by Google to remove the large square text ad from the top of my blog posts on my automotive... read more
Dec 8, 2009
Chrome Conspiracy Theory
Maybe it's the fact that AdBlock Plus has started cutting into my profits, maybe it's the fact that I'm starting to like Chrome and faith that it will reach it's full potential, or maybe it's because I watched a 90 movie on the JFK assassination last night. Either way, I'm starting to wonder if the Google Chrome Browser wasn't created to preemptively stop add-ons like AdBlock Plus. Why wouldn't... read more
Sep 2, 2009
When Will Adsense Catch Up
This post is not meant to bash Adsense, nor am I writing it because I've found a better alternative. The point of this post is to illustrate how the advertising marketplace is changing and it appears to be adopting methods to fight ad blindness, yet Adsense ads have remained largely unchanged since day one. I think that there is more money to be earned by publishers and advertisers if Google would... read more
Mar 25, 2009
3 Favorite Features of Google Insights
I just got around to reading the blogpost on InsideAdwords and man, even in a short few days I've really been missing out. The announcement of Google Inisght for Search will be a priceless addition to any CPC campaign user. Hell, I've already picked up a handful of new keywords to add to my Adwords campaign. My initial thoughts are that paid services that are already in this market will quickly... read more
