Infuriating, Addictive, Crazy “Bidding” Sites
Was playing around with new site BigDeal.com, similar to some others like Swoopo.com – it’s an auction site where you pay a small amount ($0.75) for the right to bid in an auction. The price increments by $0.15 and the…
The year in websites: 2009 as the “year of the flog”
It might be a little early for “end of year” trends type posts, but following on Jay Weintraub’s excellent dissection of the flog trend from a few months ago, 2009 may be the year of the affiliate blog website (with…
Google doesn’t like Yahoo! URLs in their Placements
Don’t try to add yahoo.com as a website targeting option in Adwords (placement targeting) or the new Google/Doubleclick exchange. If you try to add yahoo.com to a campaign you will see a screenshot similar to this. Google will allow you…
Cheap is Expensive in online leads (“goedkoop koop, is duur koop”)
A great saying in Afrikaans is “goedkoop koop, is duur koop“, or sometimes shortened to “goedkoop is duur koop” or similar. What it basically says is that buying cheap stuff, is expensive. For the online marketing folk among us, this…