In my opinion, way too much emphasis is put on the page rank of a site. We own low page rank sites, such as Poker King Blog, that absolute dominate search engine rankings, and high P...
How Much Money Does Google Make from Its Adsense Partners?If you are involved in the Google Adsense program, you probably know by now that Google doesn't disclose the percentage that it pays its publishers. Other programs will declare up front that they take...
Business.com Is Sold for $345 Million DollarsI guess people can finally lay off of Jake Winebaum and Sky Dayton. They were the two people that dished out $7.5 million in cash and company equity for Business.com back in 1999. Everyone made fun of...
Google's Stock Is Getting Close to Its Tipping PointThere is a pretty common phenomenon that takes place with ultra-hot, ultra fast growing tech stocks.
Earnings keep growing exponentially quarter after quarter. With each quarter of growth comes mor...
Pownce Launches, Creates Negative Buzz
The blogosphere was buzzing yesterday after
Pownce.com launched. The founding team consists of Leah Culver, Daniel Burka, Shawn Allen and most not...
Fascinating Interview with James Hong from HotorNot
I was
reading an excellent article today that was posted by James Hong, one of the co-founders of
Is Business.com Worth 400 Million Dollars?
I remember, back in the first web boom, when Business.com was on the market for $7.5 million dollars, I couldn't believe at how overvalued the domain name seemed to be. "Sure it's a ...
My Experiences with AdbriteAdbrite. According to their website, they serve over 614 million impressions per day across almost 30k sites. They boost a pretty impressive list of clients that they work with: Alexa, Break.com and E...
Succeeding In Google Adwords: Keeping it SmallIf you do affiliate marketing in conjunction with PPC advertising, it can be tempting when you first start out just to ram hundreds or even thousands of keywords into each group. The problem is that w...
Terry Semel Out; What Now for Yahoo?A few weeks ago, I was speaking with a friend about Yahoo! This is a company with so much potential, but they just seem like a rudderless ship, floating nowhere as Google continues to increase thei...
Sorry Overture, We Can't Do Business with You Anymore
Overture's steadfast refusal to do ANYTHING about the bunk "partner site" clicks that they serve has resulted in us finally pulling the plug on our ad campaign there (or at least until they make some ...
Increasing Your ROI At Overture
Overture is a funny beast.
I have found that the traffic that actually comes from the Yahoo! search engine converts really, really well. However, Overture doesn't let you opt out of their "partner ...
The Day That Google Started the Web Boom 2.0
When the first web boom came around, there was just so much promise and optimism. People were able to combine artistic and business creativity with the Internet, which made it possibly to connect with...
Google's Purchase of Doubleclick Has Some Far Reaching Implications
Google's $3 billion+ purchase of Doubleclick will have a pretty big impact on the Web economy. Doubleclick used to be a publicly traded company during the first Web boom in the late 90's, which the...
Digg Traffic Versus Google Traffic - Which One Converts Better?
Any web marketer that utilizes social bookmarking as a way of driving traffic to their site has always wondered about just how many Digg users actually click advertisements when they visit. For the...
Adwords Implements Two Changes to How Ads Are Displayed
You may have noticed a couple of days ago that when you search Google, you will notice a change in how the top two Adwords advertisements (those located about the ten free searches) are laid out to...
Google Adsense Updates The Look of Their Advertisements
Darren Rowse posted on his blog several days ago that Google Adsense was going to be rolling out a ...
Google Adwords vs. MSN Adcenter vs. Yahoo Search Marketing - The Pros and Cons of All Three
Google Adwords
Pros - by far the most traffic of any of the three big search engines
-once you develop a high quality score for a keyword, you will own it, regardless...
Google Paid Out $976 Million Dollars to Adsense Partners in Q4 (Gimme, Gimme)
I was just looking over Google's Q4 earnings report and I noticed that Google paid out an enormous $976 million dollars to their Adsense partners in Q4, up from $825 million dollars in the third qu...
