Month: June 2007

  • Amazon – Problems

    Been playing and testing the new contextual links today and now get the following error 🙁  ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved  Both the new contextual and the “optimised” are breaking … I was going to blog today about it.. And this AM its was working a treat.. It took a…

  • adsense get around.

    Â Great new offering from the google adsense guys. Yep round ad frames.. Cool… Its not to far off those cool ads I blogged about before over here, cool adsense ads Anyway time to test some CTR on round ads.. Screen shot from google: http://adsense.blogspot.com/2007/06/we-go-round-and-round.html

  • Word from the US, ebay returns to adwords

    Last week we had a massive buzz about ebay pulling its ads from google adwords.. Well it would seem that the ads are back on.. Of course not all webmaster/marketers are happy with them being back as the number of ad space take is massive.. Many reports say that the ads are back but not…

  • Security issue now fixed on google optimisation proposal reports!

    Monday here again, Well last week I was forwarded a google optimisation report.. Now this is a report manual created by your adwords report with ideas and suggestions for your account to improve targetting your ads.. So being interested in what be G had to say about one of my clients accounts I click on…

  • UK youtube – old man intro cool

     The lauch of uk youtube is here…  Google pushing it today by putting a linky on the google.co.uk homepage.. Screen shot:  I links to the following part of the youtube site (the UK version) Fun video with a old man to promote youtube… http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=d_qBU4fhYlc  ADDED… Someone need to look after the…

  • Amazon’s new contextual links within content!

    Might give this a test… Seems interesting.. Wonder if you can make all the text link up..hmmm After you embed one simple piece of code on your pages, Context Links automatically identify and link relevant phrases within your page content to Amazon products, unlocking new ad inventory and saving you the time from having to…

  • Today is the day for panama!

    Just got the upgrade email … Time to play 🙂 Â Your Account xxxxxxxx Can Now Be Upgraded Dear Advertiser, We wanted to let you know that, starting today 14.06.2007, you can upgrade your account to the new Sponsored Search. In your account, you will notice two buttons – one that will take you to…

  • No more ebay on adwords

    This is one crazy story over @ thread watch.. and WMW googles checkout party here: http://googlecheckout.blogspot.com/2007/06/let-freedom-ring.html  Has been canceled! Google was to promote google checkout at eBay live conference… EBay has pulled all of its paid search ads from Google AdWords network in the U.S in an eyebrow-raising move likely to be interpreted in…

  • Free yahoo webinar

    Just got this from yahoo.. Â Dear Advertiser, We are providing you with a quick and easy way to learn more about the new Yahoo! Search Marketing Sponsored Search account platform. We are offering online webinar training sessions to provide advertisers with information about the new Sponsored Search. The webinar will provide an in-depth overview…