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Google Adwords Demographic Bidding

Published January 24, 2008 | By admin

Got an email from Adwords today. It seems that they just opened a beta program where advertisers can bid on specific groups of people.

Demographic bidding is a way to help your ad reach audiences of a certain age or gender. If you want your ads to be seen by women aged 18-24, or people over 55, demographic bidding can help. Demographic bidding is a new feature which is now available to a limited number of AdWords users. Read more... (305 words, 1 image, estimated 1:13 mins reading time)

Posted in Advertising, Adwords, Google, Uncategorized | Tagged Adwords, demographic adwords, Google | 5 Comments

Anyone Ever Have This Happen

Published January 14, 2008 | By admin

Search for something on Google and get this page:

We’re Sorry…
… but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can’t process your request right now.
We’ll restore your access as quickly as possible, so try again soon. In the meantime, if you suspect that your computer or network has been infected, you might want to run a virus checker or spyware remover to make sure that your systems are free of viruses and other spurious software.
We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope we’ll see you again on Google. Read more... (116 words, estimated 28 secs reading time)

Posted in Google | Tagged Google, google errors | 15 Comments

Buy a Google Computer for $199!

Published November 1, 2007 | By admin

Buy a Google Computer for $199!

But who wants a computer than runs Linux, unless it’s a server. I tried dual booting Linux on a PC once. It went OK for a while and then I lost everything on my hard drive. And if you thought finding software to run on a Mac was hard. I thought the word was a Google operating system, not a Linux one with a Google logo slapped on.

Posted in Google | Tagged google computer, google operating system | 1 Comment

The PageRank Crisis and Jedi Mind Control

Published October 30, 2007 | By admin

The title’s a joke. My rank is falling. My rank is falling. If I hear that one more freaking time… Pagerank is nothing. Just a indicator. And I wonder if anyone out there placing so much important and spending so much time whining about Pagerank actually had any drop in traffic. The sites I deal with day in and day out had Pagerank drops this time around. Did the traffic drop? Nope. With some, it even increased. Read more... (487 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)

Posted in Google, Linking | Tagged Google, google pagerank, pagerank update | 1 Comment

Black Hat SEO and Game Theory

Published October 19, 2007 | By admin

I have done a few things in the past to make sites rank that would definitely qualify as being on the black hat side of things. I am done with that now. It’s too much work just to see all my work washed away by a search engine update. And I am not the type to keep trying to beat the search engines just for the sake of saying you can. But, of course that’s not the only reason to resort to spam and trickery. It is also very lucrative, if you can get a handle on it. Read more... (664 words, estimated 2:39 mins reading time)