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Hey Gang,
The start of another work week. Don't you just love it?
If you've been paying attention you might have noticed
there was no issue on the 7th this month. Unfortunately
I had so many things going on I had to pass on getting
it out. I don't think that's happened very often in the
past but sometimes you just run out of time. Hopefully,
you missed me so bad you'll really pay attention to this
issue.
I was reading the paper yesterday and had to chuckle
out loud. OK, maybe I was laughing. There was a story
about how President Bush went out for a bike ride along
with his doctor and members of the Secret Service. The
poor Pres fell off his bike and received scratches and
bruises. The Secret Service offered to give him a ride
by car back to the White House but he refused. What a
guy? OH, and in case you're worried, Bush was wearing
his helmet and mouth guard. You've got to be kidding.
This is what they think is news? Oh boy. I just had to
share this with you. Are you getting a visual? The president
fall down and got boo boo's....call the press.
If you spend any amount of time online and if you're
like me you live on the Net you've heard about Google
bringing back graphic ads. If you run an Adwords Campaign
you can now select to run banner ads along with your text
ads. Of course this has brought up a lot of controversy
but hey, if anyone can make banners fashionable again
it's Google. I think it's great that they're trying to
differentiate themselves from what everyone else is doing.
Hey, this is how Google became such a great search engine
they don't follow the pack they lead it.
Remember when the FTC was asking for your thoughts on
the Can Sp.m Act? Well, if you'd like to read what was
submitted you can here.. http://tinyurl.com/3g9lz
We've had severe thunderstorms off and on all week. My
backyard has become more of a lake then a yard. If you
take "the boys" out to do their business you
slowly start to sink if you stand in one place to long.
Lovely. If April showers bring May flowers what do May
showers bring? If you know fill me in.
Please help - Go to http://AdvancedSurvey
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As always send any comments or suggestions
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Today's contest winner for a free ad in this ezine is:
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1) Marketing News |
Google Offers New Jumpstart Program
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Symantec to buy antispam company Brightmail
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Click Fraud: The Google Killer
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OneStat Confirms Google Position As Top Search
Engine
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CA Senator Introduces Anti-Gmail Bill
http://www.dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot.cgi?article_id=27311
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CAN-SP.M’s Effect on Viral Marketing
http://www.dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot.cgi?article_id=27398
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California Anti-Spyware Bills Pass Committee
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2) Feature Article |
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"Google AdSense Adds New Enhancements for Users"
If you have a website and don't mind displaying ads
that relate to your website's content, you can earn
a decent income with Google AdSense. Every time someone
clicks on one of the ads on your site, you make money.
It's not a bad gig for doing absolutely nothing.
Here are the new enhancements Google has added to the
AdSense program:
1) Channels: It used to be hard to
tell which ad layouts
and webpages were performing the best. Google added
what they call "channels" to make it easy
to track
which ads on which pages of your site are receiving
the
most clicks. To start using channels, you'll need to
set
them up from within your Google control panel and then
paste the code on your webpages. You can set up to 20
channels and deactivate them at will. You can also
assign channels to multiple domains if you run ads on
them, in order to track performance of each. If you
like to
test and track, you'll love using channels.
2) Downloadable Reports: If you want
to easily
track your monthly and daily income, you can download
detailed reports in comma separated values (CSV)
format. These reports can be viewed from within
Microsoft Excel or other spreadsheet programs.
3) Public Service Ads: When Google
can't serve up
targeted ads for your website, PSA's are shown. These
are ads for non-profit organizations. Nothing is paid
for
click thru's on public service ads, so you may wish
not to display them at all. This can be done by using
Alternate Ad Color. By selecting your web page's
background color, the "PSA's" will blend into
the
background instead. You can set different options for
each page of your site or use your own alternate ads
in their place.
4) Framed Pages: If you use frames
within your site
design, you'll want to make sure you select the "framed
page" checkbox. By selecting this option you'll
be
telling Google's spider to gather content from the right
frame, thereby insuring relevant ads are appearing.
5) Image Ads: If you're bored with
serving up plain
text ads, you can now choose to display images as well.
Image ads are just like the text ads, as they are matched
to the content of each page. You cannot run image ads
alone; they are shown in rotation with text ads. If
this
option interests you, there are currently four sizes
available: Banner (468x60), Leaderboard (728x90),
SkyScraper (120x600) and Medium Rectangle (300x250).
It
makes you wonder if Google is trying to make banner
ads
"fashionable" again. At this time, you cannot
track
click thru's from image ads separately from text ad
click thrus. Images are limited to 50K in size and
should not increase your load time too much. If you'd
like to test the waters with image ads, you can select
to display them on only some pages of your site.
Google's Adsense program is loaded with features and
they make it possible for everyone (even the "little
guy") to profit from his website. Once the code
is in
place, you do nothing while your site is quietly
earning an income in the background. Imagine, your web
hosting fees automatically paid each and every month.
Isn't it time your site started paying for its keep?
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4) Sites to Help |
Reciprocal Links
Swapping links with other related quality sites
is a
great way to get a higher ranking with most of the
search engines. But once you find websites to swap
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link alive once the trade is done? As long as you know
all of the url's that should have their link on your
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Having trouble getting your emails thru to AOL
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Read over the email guidelines set forth by AOl so
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Nichebot
Nichebot.com is a free keyword suggestion tool
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