Internet Marketing Notes

I just received an email from Peter Gavin of Text-Link-Ads.com (TLA) notifying that my site (not this one) has been pre-approved at the newly launched Reviewme.com.
The email message goes like this:

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If you’re an AdWords advertiser, there’s an important update that you need to know: 
Google will begin incorporating landing page quality into the Quality Score for your contextually-targeted ads. 

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Here’s a story of how Chris Pearson apparently increased his search engine traffic by 455% in just one month (from September to October).
He made two simple changes:

He ported his blog from MovableType to Wordpress
He based his design code on the Cutline framework

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How much should you be paying or charging per month for a text link ad on your website?
Here’s a list of link price calculators that you might want to try out:

Text Link Ads Link Worth Calculator - Factors in Alexa traffic ranking, link popularity, site theme (see Ken Cheung’s post for comparison chart), links sold, […]

At present, Google AdSense does not support ads in password-protected areas. There is hope however that this limitation or restriction would go away.
According to Dave Taylor, the AdSense team is testing out a new capability called Site Authentication. A colleague of his received this invitation from the AdSense team:

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MySpace is coming down hard on members exploiting it for commercial purposes as highlighted in Allan Gardyne’s latest issue of his newsletter.
So, if you’re considering making money blogging on MySpace, you better now ditch that idea or rather, be very subtle about your marketing endeavor.
This will be bad news for affiliate marketers who had been […]

Podcasting is getting serious attention nowadays but relative to blogs, the podcast sphere is still relatively small by comparison. In a recent seminar that I attended, internet marketing guru Derek Gehl did point out that now is a good time to capitalize on the podcast space as it’s still pretty much a new frontier.
Recently, […]

Wow! Contextual advertising over podcast? Is this a rumor?
A little over month ago, Jennifer Slegg (a.k.a. JenSense) stumbled upon an interesting job posting in Google. The position advertised is for Strategic Partner Development Manager for AdSense for Audio.
Some digging revealed that AdSense for Audio was originally slated for Q3 release, but it’s apparently […]