http://www.arbitragepayperclick.com Arbitrage, PPC, PPL, SEO and more... Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:25:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Is Google is a steamrolling web despot on amphetamines? Trust issues, privacy concerns, foul treatment of partners and Big Brother is shinning through the seams. Hostile Takeover With over three times the search market share of closest competitor Yahoo, Google is careening towards an ever expanding dark empire. Paid search puts them even further ... http://www.arbitragepayperclick.com/2007/08/09/is-google-is-a-steamrolling-web-despot-on-amphetamines-trying-to-implement-webpartheid/ You all have to read that if you are involved in any kind of SEO or Online marketing: http://www.led-digest.com/content/view/1869/172/ If we now have to compete for ranking with the Search Engines themselves, where are we going??? I guess it's time for a virtual riot! What if we all pull our Adwords publicity ... http://www.arbitragepayperclick.com/2007/07/31/is-google-stealing-your-clients-behind-your-back/ Well it looks like Ask.com is going nuts on the advertising budget... 47 million in June only! Well it looks as if they are the biggest arbitrager and that Google is even allowing them to do so. How is it possible? Well I guess you have to be  a Google ... http://www.arbitragepayperclick.com/2007/07/18/is-askcom-doing-adwords-arbitrage-is-google-allowing-to-do-so/ Today I was bored and decided to take The Google Adwords Professional Certification Exam. Wow, it was something... There was 111 questions and 1.5 hours to do it which is kind of enough as I had finished after 65 minutes. I got 84.3% which is not bad considering the efforts that ... http://www.arbitragepayperclick.com/2007/07/16/the-google-adwords-professional-certification-exam/ Is Google bouncing checks now? This is history guys, the 1st Google Adsense NSF check. You can read the whole story here: http://mobilejones.com/2007/07/11/adsense-nonsense-20-google-writes-a-bad-check/ That has to be the funnyest event of the week... enjoy! http://www.arbitragepayperclick.com/2007/07/15/is-google-bouncing-checks-now-this-is-history-guys-the-1st-google-adsense-nsf-check/ Is Matt Cutts running a Unix shell tutorial site? I just had a look at my favorite feed reader (http://www.rssbandit.org/) and just saw a post about a Unix shell session tutorial. Guess what? It was Matt Cutts' blog! I have always been under the impression that this blog was about ... http://www.arbitragepayperclick.com/2007/07/10/is-matt-cutts-running-a-unix-shell-tutorial-site-or-a-blog-about-google-for-webmasters/ This past March, Google has launched a referrals beta to test the feature and iron out some wrinkles. Now that they've finished their testing, they're pleased to announce that referrals 2.0 will soon be available to all AdSense publishers in referrals-supported languages.    While some of you may already be familiar with referrals ... http://www.arbitragepayperclick.com/2007/06/29/referrals-20-launches-to-all-adsense-publishers-across-the-world/ As usual... They are updating again! I really like that part: "We're now requiring AdSense publishers to comply with the spirit of our Page Quality Guidelines. If you're an AdWords advertiser, you might already be familiar with these guidelines, which are intended to provide a better experience for users, advertisers, and ... http://www.arbitragepayperclick.com/2007/06/05/adsensne-policy-updates-and-its-not-even-thursday-what-a-joke/ Yahoo! Search Marketing is rolling out a new feature that I think will help enhance the quality, potentially reduce the cost and increase the value of traffic to you, our advertisers. It’s called quality-based pricing, and it measures the quality of traffic coming from our distribution partners—that is, the web ... http://www.arbitragepayperclick.com/2007/06/05/a-new-yahoo-ypn-pricing-model-rolls-out-today/ Anyone who has seen their web server logs, has seen the Yahoo! crawler come by and leave its mark. It identifies itself as 'Yahoo! Slurp' and its domain is inktomisearch.com. For those of you who follow the search space, you can easily guess that this is one of the last ... http://www.arbitragepayperclick.com/2007/06/01/yahoo-search-crawler-slurp-is-moving-its-url/