Peter Norvig (director of research at Google) compares real-life traffic numbers of several sites with their reach as reported by Alexa. Norvig emphasizes the selection bias introduced by Alexa as a tool preferred by members of hte SEO-industry.
Super Affiliate Marketing Blog gives a 10-step introduction to PPC(pay-per-click)-marketing.
“First Life is a 3D analog world where server-lag doesn’t exist” – join 6 billion users and register at getafirstlife.com! …according to the comments on creator Darren Barefoot’s blog, Linden Labs takes the joke with a wink and grants Darren all rights to proceed the parody…big up!
The Ad Generator produces fake advertising by [...]
Feedvertising offers bloggers – no matter how big their readership (actually the service turns down low-traffic sites) – a free & easy way to sell advertising-space in their RSS-feeds. Feedvertising works without changing the feed-URL, instead ads are inserted into the feed by a plugin extending the blogging-software (currently only Wordpress [self-hosted] is supported, with [...]
Linden Labs just published the august/september issue of their second opinion newsletter. while the newsletter is focused on internal issues and the upcoming closure of the user-forums (not really a great idea, imho), LL also unveils the new official – user-generated – movie-trailer promoting Second Life: “Second Life: Get One”, by Silver and Goldie – [...]
gnomedex-mastermind Chris Pirillo started his very-own personalized web-advertisement-platform earlier this week. after loosing 30 pounds of body-weight , he is now selling ad-words on his chest, starting at 50,- USD. though the offers seriousness might be questioned, this could be your chance to spread your message among the blogosphere! I’m thinking about getting [...]
sure, the ads introduced by apple when launching the mac book pro were kind of original and – to some – funny. to others they appeared to be quite arrogent as well (especially the one regarding viruses, esp. since recent security-warnings regarding mac-os x made clear, that apple’s security-bonus mainly derives from not being in [...]
PayPerPost is a service currently in beta trying to connect advertisers with bloggers seeking for revenue from their blogging-activities. advertisers offer ‘opportunities’ to bloggers, defining the requirements a blog-post has to meet in order to get paid for it (f.e. linking to a product-website, reviewing a product or writing about personal experiences with a product [...]
Carson Systems (makers of DropSend) finally unveiled the core-purpose of their soon-to-be-going-beta web-application Amigo. Amigo basically is a matching-service, connecting newsletter-publishers offering ad-space in their email-newsletters and advertisers looking for a precisely targeted audience. the idea seems to make sense, especially for those publishing to smaller address-pools, who are currently having a hard time to [...]
…to the ongoing criticism on his advertisment-strategy in his latest post on zdnet. while I appreciate the reaction and generally positive tone, I don’t share his believe in the sole power of repetition. at least it’s not working that way, if the repeated ad-block is 6min long. and boring. imho you have to either change [...]
last week, during my vacation in new york city, I was walking uptown 7th avenue, when I noticed a huge landrover-billboard. having been working for austrias major outdoor-advertisment-company for a few years, I still have an eye for exceptional billboards like this, which had 3dimensional structure and the cars headlights were actually working (you can [...]
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