Archive for February, 2007
Feb
Adwords Editor making life better
As someone who makes a living by trading time for money (to the horror of self helpers everywhere), anything that saves me time in my work is very high on my list. It not only saves my clients money, it also increases my time available to work on other projects. My inner Dicky Fox says, [...]
Feb
The Manning Update
The Adwords Quality Score update is propogating over the next couple days, as per the Adwords blog we began rolling out improvements to the Quality Score algorithm, which will update the Quality Score for keywords in your account over the next 3 to 4 days…. As a result, you may see the minimum bid for [...]
Feb
Google Pulls a Grossman
You’ve heard nary a complaint from me since the notSuper Bowl about my beloved Bears, but when presented a chance to compare Google to Rex Grossman, I could not turn it down…. Quality Score Update > The Adwords Advisor has confirmed on WMW that what some people are seeing today IS NOT the Quality Score [...]
Feb
Adsense – Quality Score Correlation?
I was wondering, in light of the quality score – minimum bid ‘technical issues’ this week, if anyone had noticed a corresponding jump in their adsense earnings? Meaning, in the last day or so, with the huge jump in minimum bids, has this been passed through to Adsense publishers? Adsense is not my primary source [...]
Feb
Suicide by SLURP
Yahoo Indexes Adwords Tracking URLs One of our SEO’s here pointed out this odd SERP from Yahoo this afternoon. Take a look at results 1 & 3: If you look at the tracking variables, these are clearly Adwords ads that have been indexed by Yahoo. Not only are they indexed, but they rank as #1 [...]
Feb
Who Moved My Panama Cheese?
Some of you are still sorting through the carnage that is your recently converted Panama account trying to figure out where everything went. Hopefully I can save someone the 15 minutes I just wasted hunting around the new interface. How to Delete a Campaign: Yahoo Panama has a 20 campaign limit per account, unless you [...]
Feb
Panama Glitch
I’m a couple days late on this news, but wanted to post it anyway. SEMPunch gave me a heads up to this post with a nice email, and it’s definitely relevant to my readers….in short: SEMPunch used the Panama bulk upload function and then watched as the account was disabled and is unable to be [...]
Feb
YHOO – Buy or Sell?
A friend of mine is a stock analyst out in California. When it comes to money, he’s probably the smartest person I’ve ever met. He almost never loses, at anything. I’ve actually been in Vegas with him when the pit bosses told him to take his money and go home. He was killing them. This [...]
Feb
Yahoo Inventory Tool – I’ll Be Back
Yahoo apparently read my suggestions yesterday and quickly came up with revised strategy for their keyword tool We do have plans to offer a new public keyword research tool, which would be hosted through Yahoo! and available to our API partners. We plan on making this new tool available later this year. So, again, Yahoo [...]