Many people have taken advantage of buying traffic through Google Adwords and sending it to a site full of Google Adsense ads. This is not new, and has been done in many other markets for as long as finance has existed. Arbitrage is taking advantage of price discrepancies through a market imbalance. Buy clicks for…
Netpaths does not recommend businesses start and manager their own pay per click campaigns through Google Adwords, Microsoft Adcenter or Yahoo Search Marketing. There are too many pitfalls that belie inexperienced bidders, and like a rookie at a poker table in Las Vegas, you will loose your shirt. An article in the SF Gate compares…
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Pay Per Post the sponsored blogging company has acquired Zookoda, a blog-emailing firm with 10,000 users. The deal is apparently for less than $500,000 and all cash according to PPP CEO Ted Murphy . PPP has generated a lot of controversy for spreading paid blogging, but I think its great for bloggers to be able…
The group that owns many media properties been sold to billionaire Sam Zell. The Tribune Company controls 16 newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and Baltimore Sun, in addition to 26 radio and television stations and other businesses. With past success in real estate, rail cars and container leasing, Mr. Zell has no…
I read Techcrunch fairly often, and enjoy Michael Arrington’s lighthearted reporting of the tech community. He has now created a contest to let readers complain about his writing style and inaccurate predictions. Rather than jumping on the hate train, I’ll counter the Digg mentality with some respect & admiration. TechCrunch was a latecomer to the…
the SEO Proposal It isnt often that a SEO makes huge news, we are normally behind the scenes driving traffic to websites. Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz made a stunning attempt at national recognition by attempting to propose to his girlfriend during the superbowl. His website MySuperProposal.com chronicled the events leading up to the big game…