Archive for October, 2007

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Paypal down!

Friday, October 5th, 2007

Come on paypal … I really need to working before the w/e…

 

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Online Scams, bbc highlights on dating sites

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

Looking for LOVE ;)

Nop nor me.. hehehee..

Today on breakfast (a news show at no other than breakfast time in the uk) a great topic about online scams kicked off..

The main focus of the article was regarding dating websites… One guy was show on TV who had forked out £12,000 (about $24,000) for a “lady” from a dating site… Now this guy was as dumb as you get to hand over £1 but hey, loads of dumb people out and about (me included durrrrrr)…

An international initiative by SOCA targeting mass marketing scams says £8 million worth of fake cheques have been seized, mainly from operations out of Nigeria. They also uncovered scams connected to online dating sites.

Basicaly men would pretend to be women (still don’t know why men need to do this) and ask for money… The money would be need to fly said woman to said dumb man in the UK.. All info over emails etc…  hmmm..

Anyway said man will not be doing it again BUT in the interview he was all over the dating site(s) again..

If you want £12k his aka “I’ll give you £12k for free just email - 1969″

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/7021705.stm

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ask adverts on tv!

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Over here in the UK we seen a loads of ads from ask.com with yea oldie jeeves to today sort of army,hacker style…

The new ads are being show almost non stop @ prime time in the UK….

According to hitwise ask has a 4.87% market share (April 2007) but with all the advertising its got to increase..

The newest ad which I saw for the first time yesterday show off a search for london… Ask includes the weather, related terms, blogs news… images, wiki and a maps..

The ad then shows the mouse clicking on the london eye…

Its then shows off the “preview” tool..

Right at the end its say its compairs the preview and other tools to a “plain” search like google results…

If the amount of advertising continues ask could soon over take yahoo for the uk search share!

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£75 free adwords voucher with hsbc

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

So I open my post today and at the bottom of my statment from my business account with hsbc I see the word “google”..

Basically if you have a business account with hsbc and not using internet banking then your entered in some prize draw to win £1k plus other prizes (I’ve never won so don’t care about that) but you get a nice £75 adwords voucher..

 I’m glad I’ve never filled the forms out yet to active my online business banking.. :)

HSBC has teamed up with Google to offer all new online business banking customers £75 of free Google AdWords advertising.

This amazing offer is open to all customers including new  business current account or Business Direct customers who register for our Business Internet Banking service from 31 May 2007 and who are not currently registered as a Google AdWords customer.

Google AdWords helps extend the reach of your business to thousands of new potential customers who are searching for the type of goods or services that you supply. You pay only when someone clicks on your advert and visits your site.

So by giving you £75 worth of free Google AdWords advertising, you get £75 worth of free visitors to your site.

 

 

Find out more here

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Improve Your ROI. Reduce your CPC Five by Five. Paid search specialist

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

LOL… This is soooooo funny…

I was just catching up with some blogs this morning and reading about yahoo assist over at searchengineland see here http://searchengineland.com/071002-012729.php 

When I read… An amazing adsense ad..  zoomed in a bit : )

 The ad goes to a “specialist” company called fivebyfive.. Good luck to them ;)

BTW why its SEL using round cornors on ads hmmmm

 

 

 

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