Google AdSense in Password-Protected Areas?

November 4th, 2006 by Jason No comments »

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: » Read more: Google AdSense in Password-Protected Areas?

MySpace Bans Affiliate Marketing

November 2nd, 2006 by Jason No comments »

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 successful at cashing in on the use of a huge social networking club like MySpace as a marketing platform.

It will also be bad news to the publishers and affiliates of products dealing with marketing on MySpace; these products are rendered irrelevant in an instant.

» Read more: MySpace Bans Affiliate Marketing

Easily Add Podcast to Your Blog and Drive Traffic!

November 2nd, 2006 by Jason No comments »

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, someone asked me about how I implemented the podcast feature that I have on this blog. If you have listened to any of my podcast, it’s not me who is in the podcast. ;)

» Read more: Easily Add Podcast to Your Blog and Drive Traffic!

AdSense for Audio On the Way?

November 1st, 2006 by Jason 1 comment »

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 going through some delays.

» Read more: AdSense for Audio On the Way?

Google Wants Feedback on How to Improve Measuring AdSense Success using Google Analytics

October 31st, 2006 by Jason 2 comments »

If you are both a Google Analytics and Google AdSense user, Google is seeking your feedback on the following:

  1. Which Google Analytics reports do you use most often in conjunction with your AdSense account?
  2. Which reports or metrics would you most like to see added to Google Analytics to help you succeed with AdSense?

Google has created a topic thread in Google Group “Anaytics Help” for users to post their feedback.

» Read more: Google Wants Feedback on How to Improve Measuring AdSense Success using Google Analytics

Free Internet Marketing Training Videos at Marketing-Videos.com

October 30th, 2006 by Jason No comments »

A few days ago, I blogged about free internet marketing videos on Tubetorial.

Well, I found another site offering free internet marketing videos. Check out Greg Rozsa’s Free Internet Marketing Video Training.

» Read more: Free Internet Marketing Training Videos at Marketing-Videos.com

Firefox 2.0 Not Supported by Google AdSense Referrals?

October 30th, 2006 by Jason No comments »

I came across Barry Schwartz’s post saying that the recently released Firefox 2.0 is currently not supported by Google AdSense Firefox Referrals program.

Google AdSense program pays $1 per download of Firefox plus Google Toolbar from a referral. At this time, the referrals program only covers Firefox 1.5. [Update: Google has retired its referrals program in August 2008.]

» Read more: Firefox 2.0 Not Supported by Google AdSense Referrals?

New Google Webmaster Tools

October 29th, 2006 by Jason No comments »

Google has added a few new features in to its webmaster tools.

The new features include:

1) Googlebot activity report

It shows you the following:

  • Number of pages Googlebot has crawled your site per day
  • Number of kilobytes of data Googlebot has downloaded per day
  • Average time it took for Googlebot to download pages.

» Read more: New Google Webmaster Tools

Google Now Indexes URLs Containing “&id=” Parameter

October 29th, 2006 by Jason 4 comments »

It’s now official. Google search indexing algorithm has been updated to index URLs containing the “&id” parameter.

Well, does this mean you should ignore using friendly URLs or permalinks?

» Read more: Google Now Indexes URLs Containing “&id=” Parameter

Free Internet Marketing Videos at Tubetorial

October 28th, 2006 by Jason 2 comments »

Looking for free internet marketing video tutorials? Try Tubetorial.

I took some time to view some of the videos and I have to say that the videos are really engaging and full of educational value.

All of the videos are professionally produced. The mind-mapping presentation techniques that the video publisher used are really effective at conveying internet marketing concepts.

Here’s a sampling of video topics at Tubetorial: » Read more: Free Internet Marketing Videos at Tubetorial

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