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Archive for September, 2008

Yahoo! Flippin’ Crazy Man

10x the minimum to get into Yahoo! Product Submit. It used to be $25, but many members are receiving email messages that the minimum is $250. There goes the incentive to take a gamble and try it out. I can understand $50, but this is too high a minimum for the average home seller that […]

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Spring Clean Those AdWords

It’s time to spring clean those AdWords. To improve your score, look at your stats and remove those poor performers. Read more here from AdWordsPro.Sarah…
Tip #6: Account Clean Ups: Improve Quality Score by Removing Poor Keywords - AdWords Basics | Google Groups

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

Yahoo! Does Not Equal Redirect

With Google still gaining market share, Yahoo! had better do better than this to stop the profuse bleeding. Here’s a Webmaster forum thread discussing how Yahoo! is ignoring simple www redirects. What else are they ignoring?
Yahoo ignoring redirect

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Talk Like a Pirate Day

A favorite among geeks….talk like a pirate for a whole day. Check out many of the search engine’s home pages for their celebrations as well as the truly official site below…(not to be confused with the fake official sites).
The Official site for International Talk Like A Pirate Day - September 19

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Quality Score is Live

Google AdWords Quality Score is alive today for many. Log into your campaigns to view if it’s active for you. This tool shows you how Google scores your ad components to help you improve your ad performance….and their bottom line.
Inside AdWords: Quality Score improvements to go live in coming days

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

The Official Future of Search

Peer into my Google crystal ball….tell me the future of search. Marissa Mayer, VP of Google’s Search Products and User Experience posted an article on the official Google blog about the future of search. While there are no big surprises here, it does at least tell us what they think we are going to want. […]

Friday, September 12th, 2008

When Geek meets Not Funny

The new Microsoft commercial get’s points for being really annoying. It isn’t funny and hasn’t any point. What are they trying to sell? Shoes? Club memberships? Personally I never found Seinfeld to be very funny. Kind of like this commercial, I thought the sit-com was annoying and pointless.
The point of this is that this commercial […]

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Google’s New Browser

Is Google going to release a new browser? Here are images of the new browser. Google is stating that they want the browser to just do it’s job and then get out of the way allowing users to focus on the web content.
First Images of Google Chrome

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008