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Archive for February, 2007

MSN to Refund Overcharges

If you are advertising with Microsoft Live, they have announced refunds for those accidentally overcharged. I guess they are trying to copy their competitors too closely by making the same mistakes.
adCenter Blog: Advertisers may see high CPC and spend amounts

Monday, February 26th, 2007

Google Adwords Error in CPC Average

If your average cost per click numbers went through the roof recently, it’s a confirmed bug. Don’t panic. Click here instead.
Inside AdWords: Quality Score updates

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

Yahoo! Pipes How To

Yahoo! Pipes is a new RSS mixing service that let’s you blend or mash up different RSS feeds. It can take a bit getting use to. Here’s a great article to get you on your way to using this new and sometimes useful tool.
5 cool ways to use Yahoo! Pipes - franticindustries.

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

Be Picturesque with Google

Submit your photos to Google AdWords and be on their wall of fame. If you are an advertiser with AdWords, send along your photos and you could be rewarded!
Google Adwords - Submit Your Photos

Monday, February 12th, 2007

Social Shopping

Create your wish list online or just put together your favorite places to shop. If you sell online, check out this site!
Wists, top web picks from for all. Wists, social shopping scrapbook, wishlist

Friday, February 9th, 2007

Walk Like a Man, Talk Like a Man, Think Like an Engineer

Here’s a good review article about thinking like a search engineer. Constantly being in the search arena, you do have to step back and think like the engineers that put it all together. All too often people do have one focus and it’s good to step back on put on just one person’s hat. Although […]

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

How to Set Up A Blog

Want a great article on setting up a blog? Why not one where a number of people have chimed in. There is a converstation at Cre8asite with a lot of good information in it.
The most important things to remember about blogs is plan ahead and host on your own domain. In planning, create about 10-15 […]

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

Firefox vs Microsoft Site Compatibility

Not really a suprise, but I’ve just noticed that you cannot use many of the links on the MSN home page if you are using Firefox. I have the latest of both Firefox and IE running on XP Pro. This should bother a number of people. What’s next? Will content in their search engine be […]

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

Backlinks Extended

Google has expanded the information in their link: operator to be a lot more accurate. You can apply filters and even classify information. Behold I give you better information which shall be to all Googlers…oh yea….Christmas may be over, but Google keeps on giving.
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Discover your links

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

Google Analytics Down…Along With Finance

Google Analytics and Finance pages were down. A number of Google services have blacked out over the past few weeks. Perhaps there are a number of changes going on and these are glitches that we see, but it can be irritating when you are trying to accomplish something.
Analytics down today?

Monday, February 5th, 2007