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SEM

I’ll Gladly Pay You Tuesday for a PPC Keyword Today

May 21, 2007

Back in the not so distant past when I was still wet behind the ears and finding my way, like most newbies I was on the quest for the “perfect PPC keyword”.

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How Small Bloggers Can Affect Big Companies

May 5, 2007

Earlier this week I blogged about how the company running the “the algorithm killed jeeves” campaign dropped the ball by not having done some predictive SEO and PPC. It appears somebody got my message and things have changed.

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Poor Poor Michael Gray

February 22, 2007

According to Google Adwords I’m a pretty poor michael gray

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Dave Pasternack of Did-it.com How to Fix Your Problem

January 29, 2007

The SEO space is a buzz with “SEO is/isn’t Rocket Science” and “SEO is/isn’t like Baking a Cake” and every other silly analogy anyone can come up with. Here’s the thing it’s stupid argument, not worth the effort and really worth polluting your the SERP’s for your name over. Since I offer reputation management as [...]

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Google MFA and No Way Out!

January 28, 2007

I know Werty showed something similar to this at pubcon, but this is as bad as I’ve ever seen it. 12 sponsored ads on a page and almost no way out but to click the ads. Yes I know there are two links in the upper right but well seems a bit like an MFA [...]

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Google’s Policy on No follow and Reviews is Hypocritical and Wrong

January 25, 2007

I’m not exactly sure what caused all this secondary fuss about no-follow and reviews lately but I think it’s time someone pointed out that Google is being extremely hypocritical about the entire thing and using fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) to corral web publishers to their way of thinking.

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Webmasterradio Shameless Self Promotion

January 6, 2007

I was on Greg Niland’s GoodKarma Radioshow earlier this week talking about a whole bunch of things and dropping some hints, tips and tricks. Sorry about not letting you know before hand but it was all very last minute. Listen to or download the podcast from WebmasterRadio

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Taco Bell and E. coli O157:H7

December 19, 2006

Since I live on Long Island in New York where some of the Taco Bell E.Coli 0157:h7 food poisoning incidents have occurred the story has been fairly front of mind for me. However I though it might be interesting to share the SERP with some of you from other spots who don’t get some of [...]

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Removed Site Targeting

December 12, 2006

I know there were a few people who were using site targeting on this blog, and it wasn’t something I had a problem with. However on one of my other websites site targeting was being used so much that my earnings were spiraling downward. Since there is no way to turn of site targeting on [...]

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Shoemoney and Graywolf in Forbes.com

December 7, 2006

Shoemoney rocks the house, but I managed to get in a name drop and few sentences in an article on Google Arbitrage Bitten By The Google Spider – Forbes.com
Critics say the new restrictions have missed the mark, punishing people like Kris Jones who run legitimate Web sites. Search engine marketer Michael Gray says Google’s new [...]

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Adwords Quality Score Interview

November 27, 2006

If you’re interested in reading what I have to say about the adwords quality score check out An Interview With Michael Gray aka Graywolf I gave over on PPC Blog

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Review Me Review

November 12, 2006

So ReviewMe.com launched last week and I have to say I think it’s an excellent idea.

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Bidding on Matt Cutts as a Keyword

October 26, 2006

A few weeks ago Matt Cuts noticed someone was bidding on his name. Being the snarky wise-ass fun loving jovial type I decided to have a little fun. While it wasn’t an especially nice thing to do hopefully I can make up for that by turning this into a learning experience and showing some stats.

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Looking at Search Video News

October 3, 2006

I’ll admit I’m like the people Guy Kawasaki recently talked with I don’t spend a lot of time watching TV. I watch the occasional Mythbusters, American Chopper and animal planet nature documentary, and a few TV show I run some blogs for, so we’re talking about less than 5 hours a week. Since I spend [...]

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Adwords Premium in 4 Hours

September 15, 2006

If anybody told me this I’d say BS but I created some new adwords adgroups this morning and I checked some of them to make sure they are OK and some keywords have already gone into premium positions. I’ve done it in about a week before but a few hours man that’s just crazy!

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Adwords Pricing – Things That Make You Go Hmm…

September 12, 2006

So I’m bidding on a keyword where I’m the only person running an ad. It’s getting between 1,000 and 1,500 searches a day and getting between a 3-4% CTR. I’m a little baffled how they come up with the $0.12 a click figure since there’s no one under me.

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Google Adwords, Phishing and Identity Theft Concerns

September 4, 2006

So I helped friend set up a new adwords account, and they received a letter saying blah blah we’re having a hard time linking your credit card to your address we need you to fax over a copy of the credit card and a form of id like a drivers license (that’s the summary not [...]

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ShoeMoney Net Income Podcast

August 21, 2006

I can’t imagine if you read this blog and haven’t heard of Shoemoney. However if you aren’t listening to his podcast you’re missing out. I can’t listen live because I’ve got some scheduling conflicts but I’m catching up on the podcast archives. My top recommended Shoemoney Net Income Episodes are:

ShoeMoney talks arbitrage, PPC, and affiliates [...]

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Google Adwords and Wide Open Plains

August 15, 2006

So I stumbled across a new keyword this friday and put up new ad on saturday morning. The ad did OK but nothing to get excited about over the weekend. Yesterday the ad totally exploded, which is pretty interesting since it’s not something people would typically be searching/shopping for at work. So this morning I [...]

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Adwords Quality Score – Why It Won’t Roll Back

July 21, 2006

I’ll admit that when I first saw the new adwords quality score I thought they were crazy, they’ll have to roll this thing back, and was not alone in this belief. However after poking ad proding the beast a little I say it’s here to stay.

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