Archive for the ‘Internet Marketing’ Category

Network Solutions Named In Lawsuit

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Recently a class action lawsuit was filed in California against domain registrant, Network Solutions. The lawsuit alleges that the company registers a domain shorty after a person searches for it and then charges the consumer to buy the domain back from them. This practice is what's called "front running." Network Solutions admits ...

Spring Cleaning - Time To Review Your Websites

Friday, January 25th, 2008

It's that time of the year.. we're still in the thick of winter, but Spring isn't far off. Before the really beautiful weather gets here is the perfect time to review your website(s) and assess where improvements can be made. Just like getting underneath the hood of a car and making ...

Interstitial Ads Are Obnoxious, And Don’t Tell Me It’s A “Welcome Screen”

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

I love web ads. Let's get that right out of the way. I'm not a person who hates the idea of advertising on a website. In fact, if it wasn't for web ads, I'd be in deep doggy doo doo when it comes to paying the bills. ...

Adify.com - Another Advertising Venue

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

Yesterday I signed up for another monetization program, Adify.com. This program allows publishers to sell advertising through their network at rates the webmasterEu costumo criar meus toques para vivo usando 2 programas gratuitos. sets, which is a nice feature to have for publishers. So far their code has been installed in ...

Online Advertising Budgets Expected To Surge In 2008

Friday, December 7th, 2007

The future looks bright for online publishing companies. A recent study done by B To B Online found that business to business advertisers are planning on upping the amount of money they spend on online advertising and promotion. The recent survey found that 60.1% of marketers plan to increase ...

Capitalizing On Cheap Internet Marketing Efforts

Friday, October 12th, 2007

The best part about internet marketing is free search engine and social media traffic. It really is remarkable how much free traffic you can get. If you put up interesting content, that is unique to a niche, you'll have no trouble getting visitors from Google. And once ...

Google And Answers.com Add Two Years To Advertising Contract

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

In a recent filing with the SEC Answers.com disclosed that they have extended an advertising agreement with Google for another two years. This means that their mutual agreement will go through January 2010. Answers will share revenues from Adsense, search and other web services that Google provides.

MySpace To Target Advertising In User Profiles

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

MySpace recently announced that they will start using "highly targeted" advertising within user profiles and blogs at the popular social networking site. MySpace started experimenting with "interest targeting" in July, disseminating users likes and dislikes based on the information that is provided (and written about) in their MySpace accounts. With this ...

Microsoft Buys aQuantive In a 6.5 Billion Dollar Deal

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

Big news out of Microsoft today. They just announced their biggest deal ever and are buying online advertising company aQuantive in a 6.5 billion dollar deal. aQuantive will assume responsibility for all of Microsoft's advertising platforms to compete with Google and other online advertising programs. "Today we take a significant ...

Internet Advertising Will Soon Surpass Traditional Newspapers

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

A recent study found that online advertising is expected to surpass traditional newspaper advertising by the year 2011. "We are in the midst of a major shift in the media landscape that is being fueled by changes in technology, end-user behaviors, and the response by brand marketers and communications ...