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flyingrose

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Rose is a 53 year old woman from Waxahachie, Texas, USA

Welcome...I've been expecting you.Add to Technorati FavoritesYou may want to click those orange thingies at the very bottom of the page next to the word comments. One subscribes you to whatever I post and the other subsribes you to comments made, I presume by others. I put here what is most important and links to others who do good works.There is much more filed by subject. Use the drop-down box that usually defaults to Entire Blog to find all posts on any particular subject. Please share what you find here with your friends, family, and other networks. Namaste, Rose

  • Google AdWordsAdvisor Answers Questions About CPC Site...

    Rated Nov 11 2007 1 review adwords, contextual advertising, google adwords seroundtable.com

    This type of advertising could convert even better for search if the placements are well targeted.

    From the page: "The Inside AdWords blog announced two changes to site targeting yesterday: placement targeting (targeting precise subsections of websites) and CPC bidding for placement targeting.

    A few questions popped up on forums about the changes this will bring, and AdWordsAdvisor chimed in with a few responses:

    The goal, for example, is that the Google AdWords team is trying to make it simpler for advertisers to "target specific, quality sites and pay per click.""

    Google AdWordsAdvisor Answers Questions About CPC Site Targeting for Contextual Ads
  • Facebook Advertising l Social Ads, Business Pages and...

    Rated Nov 07 2007 3 reviews adwords, search advertising, google adwords, ppc advertising, paid search getelastic.com

    More info on the new Facebook ppc program.

    From the page: "Facebook launched 3 new advertising options for businesses this week: Business Pages, Social Ads and Project Beacon.

    Here's the gist of Tuesday's major announcement and how it impacts online retailers and other businesses:"

    Facebook Advertising l Social Ads, Business Pages and Beacon Marketing | Get Elastic
  • Google Toolbar Is Sick – Now Removed

    Rated Nov 06 2007 4 reviews google, adwords, google adwords andybeard.eu



    I keep saying Google is Broken and many keep telling me I am crazy. I'm telling you it is REALLY broken. One thing many don't realize is it ASSUMES - and you know what happens when we ASSUME - that if no one else logs into anything Google that any searches are YOU.

    To make that clearer, say you visit your sister the Internet newbie who has no Google accounts and while you're there you check your g-mail or Adsense account or whatever. If no one ever logs into anything Google on that account, Google assumes it is STILL YOU.

    Test this for yourself. Log into anything Google. Log out. Maybe even shut down. Take a vacation. Come back. Do some searches and look at your history.

    From the page: "It Is Not Based Upon My Search History

    I have actually just taken screenshots, and the history is probably on my HDD somewhere if I need proof. I am almost always logged into Google when I am searching, unless I am testing something.

    Glancing at the drop down list available from the personal results button, I can see that maybe only 10% of the content I would look on as being relevant to anything I have searched for in the past, and none of it is relevant to my IP address."

    Google Toolbar Is Sick – Now Removed
  • Five Common Paid Search Mistakes That Can Sink Your...

    Rated Nov 06 2007 2 reviews adwords, search advertising, google adwords, ppc advertising, paid search searchengineguide.com



    Jennifer Laycock is a long-time and respected writer and speaker on paid search. I love her choice for Mistake #1. I once told someone they had to decide if they wanted to be famous, make money, or be cheap because in ppc those things are mutually exclusive. He answered all three. Obviously he is now an ex-client.

    Five Common Paid Search Mistakes That Can Sink Your Campaign - Search Engine Guide Blog
  • Search Engine Forums | Talk SEO ... Search...

    Rated Nov 06 2007 1 review adwords, google adwords searchengineforums.com

    Must be my day for things that make me "go" hmmmm

    From the page: "does anyone remember the search engine wars book. it is not a fair environment. it is business. their are ways to serve keyworks in code from the server that you will never be able to detect. a major retailer i worked for did it all of the time.


    some people think that bu using the SE's for marketing they have found a even playing field where the little guy can compete with the big corporations. its just not true


    if your looking for fairness and Scruples in business you can find it at .... um... er....ah...your... ohyeah....you know....??? "

                Search Engine Forums | Talk SEO ... Search Engine Optimization Techniques and Search Engine Marketing Industry Discussion Forums at JimWorld
  • Site Links are Ephemeral

    Rated Nov 06 2007 1 review search, google adwords, google, adwords wolf-howl.com




    From the page: "When I see things like this I have to admit I'm fascinated about the inner workings of the Google Borg - Anybody think they aren't using user/toolbar data? Want to do a nice experiment repeat this search every 15 days and watch for changes.

    Site Links are Ephemeral
  • PPC Discussions

    Rated Nov 06 2007 3 reviews search, google adwords, google, adwords ppcdiscussions.com

    Hmmm. Interesting find. Google recently said our belief that they charge advertisers one penny more than the next bidder was a "common misconception" (see wolf-howl.com/google/google-adwords-more-pricing-bs/ [wolf-howl.com/google/google-adwords-more-pricing-bs/] ) so perhaps this is another point we are mistaken on?

    From the page: "Thursday, October 11, 2007 - Google no longer claims AdWords/AdSense doesn't influence the natural results - Was answering a question last night and went to reference a page I've pulled up many times in the past. At one point that page said:

    "Will participation in AdWords or AdSense affect my listing in Google's free search results?
    Google's advertising programs are independent of our search results. Search results display on the left side of our results page; ads appear on the right and in the colored box at the top.

    Participation in an advertising program doesn't positively or negatively affect inclusion or ranking in the Google search results. Inclusion and ranking are free services; we don't accept payment to expedite inclusion or improve a site's ranking for particular keywords. To learn more about how Google ranks pages, please visit google.com/technology/index.html [google.com/technology/index.html] "

    Now that page says:

    "We're sorry, but the information you've requested cannot be found. Please try searching or browsing the Help Center."

    Here's the original page in Archive.org

    Looks like the same fate for the UK help page as well.

    So there you have it, participating in a Google advertising program might ( or might not;-) ) help your natural listings."

    PPC Discussions
  • Conditioning

    Rated Nov 06 2007 1 review marketing, psychology, advertising, google adwords, adwords betabunny.com




    Intermittent reward or punishment has a stronger motivational affect on behavior than consistent reward or punishment. Advertisers, governments, parents, and others who are inconsistent can elicit the most compliance through doing this. (The FEAR of anything is far more influential than the potential punishment and the DREAM (of hitting the lottery for example) is the motivating factor.

    The lottery and slot machines use intermittent rewards to increase and maintain interest in gambling. I propose that this is also what is going on with Google AdWords. You read it here first, folks.

    From the page: "What is Operant Conditioning?

    The basic principal of operant conditioning is simply that the frequency of a behavior will increase if is rewarded, and decrease if it is punished. For instance, a hungry rat in a Skinner box will at first act in a manner that is natural to a hungry rat; e.g., running around the cage, squeaking, trying to escape, etc. If while it is performing these activities, one response - in this case pressing a lever - leads to the reward of securing food, the rat will gradually learn that pressing the lever leads to the reward of food. The behavior will be repeated and thus learned. The behavior that results in the reward becomes especially important to the rat. The same process can be applied to an action that allows the rat to escape from or avoid unpleasant stimuli.

    Another principal of operant conditioning is that once a behavior is learned, the frequency of the reward can be reduced. For the behavior to be learned it may be necessary at first to reinforce every occurrence of the behavior. Once learned, the reinforcements can be provided on an intermittent basis, and over time it is possible to reduce the frequency of rewards and still maintain the behavior. For instance, the number of times the lever has to be pressed to achieve a reward can gradually be increased from each time, to every ten times, to every hundred times, and so on, or the lever may need to be pressed repeatedly for a set period of time to achieve a reward. Behavioral psychologists have spent much time experimenting on what effect various schedules of reward have on behavior."

    Conditioning
  • Secrets Of Google Quality Score Revealed!!! (Not.)
  • Landing Page and Site Quality Guidelines - AdWords Help

    Rated Nov 05 2007 1 review advertising, google adwords, adwords google.com




    Google AdWords Quality Score Landing Page and Site Quality Guidelines. (Duplicate keywords and Google wanting much higher bids will also present you with the "Raise your quality score" message from the AdWords system.)

    Landing Page and Site Quality Guidelines - AdWords Help