I saw a post today on Jeremey Zawodny’s blog and he mentioned that a year after no-follow was introduced and agreed upon by many of the major blog owners, comment spam is as rife as ever and that there has been a change in how people comment. I made a comment on his blog and […]

Many in the SEO and SEM world know that typos and improperly spelled words (wrods) can be a great source of secondary traffic at a cheaper cost from the higher priced, properly spelled word. While one might think of spelling choices that come from a slip of a keyboard, there are actually a range of […]

TechCrunch has posted a list of why Google’s new PPC video ads will not work. Most of it revolves around the fact that there is a higher cost of entry for video ads and that most advertisers would not be interested in them because of the lack of tracking of ROI compared to text ads. […]

So this blog has had a few posts over the past month and I just received the first piece of comment spam. The site had technically been live a bit before that but no blog feature or anything detectable, such as the nice “powered by wordpress” that can be used to find blogs in google […]

So today I received the word that Google Notebook was available for testing. Steve Rubel of MicroPersuasion does not think its as big a hit as Google Trends and TechCruch is not impressed either. Google Trends has more of an “isn’t that cool” factor, but I can see using Google Notebook a lot more on […]

So it appears that the news has been broken today that Yahoo is upgrading their search advertising system to be a little bit more like…Google. In many senses this is likely a good move, given the difficulty and problems many search advertisers (like myself and the people I work with) have had dealing with the […]