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Information About the Class Settlement in the MIVA (FindWhat) & Lycos Click Fraud Case

February 27, 2008

Many of you have received the email below if you advertised with MIVA and/or Lycos in the past. In order to receive advertiser credits for any click fraud you my have paid for during your campaign, you must visit www.PayPerClickSettlement.com and submit your claim by April 11, 2008 to be eligible. Please note that if [...]

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SearchBowl Scandals…

February 27, 2008

Ok, so now that Danny has made the announcement, I admit that Reese Sullivan and I have a bit of a romance going… Rand and I, on the other hand, well, what happens at Skywalker… gets lost in Berkeley… -Jessie

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Matt Cutts On The Hot Seat

February 25, 2008

About Matt Cutts A personal interview of Google’s Matt Cutts from PubCon 2007 in Las Vegas. Instead of the usual shadow boxing — asking tricky SEO questions hoping Matt will slip up and offer some clues about the Google Secret Sauce — we decide to ask question he never hears and learn about Matt Cutts [...]

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Republican Party For Sale At Yahoo

February 22, 2008

Wonder why Yahoo is having so much trouble monetizing their inventory? I was reading a political blog when I noticed this Yahoo’s publisher network advertising the republican party of america at low prices on Yahoo store! We all assume politician’s are corrupt and that votes are for sale, but this perhaps Yahoo has gone to [...]

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Google Gives Valentine’s Day Love to Spammers

January 18, 2008

Google, please stop giving Valentine’s Day love to parasitic marketers! Here are some examples of people who are ranking their SPAM by posting it on crowd sourcing sites like NowPublic.com or free classifieds in Topix. Try a search for Valentine Lingerie and you will find the #4 position taken by A Splog Post on NowPublic.com [...]

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Search Spend Laps Display Advertising

January 5, 2008

Two studies tracking this race conclude that search marketing is lapping the alternatives. Despite all the hype about display advertising and the block buster ad network deals of 2007, search continues to be the high performance engine that is driving online marketing spend. According to GroupM, search will make up 65-70% of the measured online [...]

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Kick Down Doors With Google Alerts

November 13, 2007

I used to spend more time than I care to think about getting through people whose job it was to make influential people people hard to reach. An amazing tool was introduced a few years ago that makes it easy to get around these roadblocks and get invited in the back door. That amazing tool [...]

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Google Reveals Adsense Click Fraud Rate is Above 20%

October 10, 2007

Forbes reported a couple of weeks ago about the latest skirmish over numbers between Google’s Shuman Ghosemajumder and Tom Cutler of Click Forensics. Reporter Andy Greenberg went right to the heart of the discussion by asking Google to address the July 2007 report by Click Forensics. Within online content networks, Click Forensics estimated that more [...]

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Rand, Foo Camp, Word Camp, SciFoo, And… Are you Busy?

August 1, 2007

We are. It’s a summer thing. It’s an SEO thing. It’s a SEARCH thing. Ain’t it grand? Much love to Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz for the kind words after our oh-so-sunny lunch in San Francisco. We dined at Zazie, the best brunch restaurant in San Francisco. It’s one of the rare ones with a sunny, [...]

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Privacy Solution, Step 2– Opt Out

June 18, 2007

Imagine for a moment that we live in the hypothetical world where the search engines allow you to control your own privacy. Imagine we live in a world you are allowed to access search engines using SSL. A world where the search engines allowed you to prevent third party intermediaries from intercepting the content of [...]

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