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Country Specific Searches and Paid Search Ads

Country Specific Searches and Paid Search Ads A very interesting featured thread at Search Engine Watch forums named Google places "Dummy Bidders" in Regional Search artificially raise required bids discusses a topic, I believe is very important. The poster says that when he does a search in Google and specifically requests that Google only show results within a certain country (i.e. Australia) it does so, but only on the organic side. It only shows...

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Google BlogSearch PageRank Phenomenon

Google BlogSearch PageRank Phenomenon Last week we had a major Google update named the Jagger Update. That update increased and decreased many site's pagerank including http://blogsearch.google.com/. The question raised in Search Engine Watch forums by Sharon and Roy was, why did Google's BlogSearch page jump from a PR0 to a PR9 in a matter of days? Sharon and Roy say that "Google blog search engine debuted on September 14, 2005" and then they...

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Yahoo Search Marketing Drops $20 Minimum Spend

Yahoo Search Marketing Drops $20 Minimum Spend The following email went out to Yahoo! Search Marketing (Overture) customers; Dear Sponsored Search Advertiser: We’ve listened to your feedback and are happy to announce that we’ve eliminated the $20 monthly minimum spending requirement for Sponsored Search. Previously, all Sponsored Search advertisers were required to spend at least $20 a month in click-through charges. Now, you can choose to spend as much or as little as you like, with no minimum...

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Ask Jeeves Integrates Recipes into Smart Answers

Ask Jeeves Integrates Recipes into Smart Answers Ask Jeeves is calling them tasty cheats, because not only can Ask tell you Final Fantasy PS2 Cheats but also tell you some turkey recipes for one of my favorite holidays. We've partnered with AllRecipes.com in order to provide a powerful Smart Search experience that serves up some of their most popular & highest rated recipes and delivers them right to your fingertips. In...

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Splog Content Thieves Take AdSense Code in Package

Splog Content Thieves Take AdSense Code in Package Stolen content is a major issue, with RSS and people creating scripts to pull your content and dynamically publish it to blogs, the amount of splogs (blogs with stolen content) is incredible. But this is the funniest report of stolen content I have seen in a while. A WebmasterWorld thread reports that someone stole an individual's content and was too lazy to remove the...

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Google Wallet Coming Soon to a Pocket Near Year?

Google Wallet Coming Soon to a Pocket Near Year? Gary has found some speculative evidence that Google Wallet or Some Other Google Payment System Getting Closer to Reality. He told me he isn't sure but he rarely blogs about rumors, so why not (cool guy). In the past week, Google has made a few chages/additions/adjustments to their Robots.txt file disallowing specific directories (content they don't want others to crawl) from being crawled. Last week Google disallowed...

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Yahoo Search Marketing Changing Ad Copy

Yahoo Search Marketing Changing Ad Copy A thread at WebmasterWorld named Does Yahoo Change Your Ad Copy? discusses a annoyance some advertisers are having with YSM (Yahoo! Search Marketing). Basically, the advertiser creates, what they think, creative ad copy and Yahoo! changes the copy without letting the advertiser know. Then Yahoo makes those ads live, without notification of ad copy change to the advertiser. The thread creator reports; A couple of day ago I saw this...

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Google AdWords Customers to Target Specific AdSense Pages (Not Just Sites)

Google AdWords Customers to Target Specific AdSense Pages (Not Just Sites) Reported over at Search Engine Watch Forums, AdWords Now Allows Targeting Ads To Sections Of A Site. That is right, and I am not sure why I haven't seen this before today. I mean, yesterday the InsideAdWords blogged about 25 cent CPMs for Site Targeting but no mention of such accuracy within site targeting. The Google Help section explains

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Some Google AdSense Publishers Must Wait Another Month for Payment

Some Google AdSense Publishers Must Wait Another Month for Payment JenSense reports that AdSense error means many publishers must wait until NEXT payment cycle for August earnings. This is the emails thousands of AdSense publishers received as a notification of the error on Google's part. Hello, Due to an issue with our payment system, your most recent AdSense payment was mailed to an incorrect address. Our system pulled the payee name and address information from...

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Google AdWords Customers Change Login to Google Accounts

Google AdWords Customers Change Login to Google Accounts Smart? Annoyance? Privacy Issues? Easier Management? Just like Orkut, Google AdWords accounts will be migrated into the Google Accounts username/password system. Why are they doing this? Most probably for consolidation, integration and flexibility for its current programs and future developments. Next time you login to your AdWords account, you will notice the following box. There is forum reaction at both WebmasterWorld and

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