http://www.sempunch.com Dedicated to Pay Per Click marketing, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & the SEM industry. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:27:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just as I thought my Yahoo experience couldn't get worse, an even more ridiculous thing happened to me yesterday - my entire Yahoo account was put offline and traffic stopped. I simply got the follwoing message in my account:The account sempunch.com [my account number] is not displaying ads as of ... http://www.sempunch.com/yahoo-bugs-deactivate-advertiser-accounts-google-laughs I have been following the most recent "rumors" of change at Yahoo with some skepticism. After Brad Garlinghouse's internal memo, Yahoo announced a radical reorganization, which is supposed to turn the sinking ship around. It is rumored that up to 20% of its workforrce might be layed off - this ... http://www.sempunch.com/yahoo-refuses-to-take-advertiser-money Just read DavidZHawk's post on what he calls the Google Sneeze. It's about time that someone calls out the big search marketing blogs on their poor quality of poosts. Often these blogs just repeat news that is already publicly known or simply unimportant; quality posts grow thin on some of ... http://www.sempunch.com/the-google-sneeze This is good news - last night I received an email from Yahoo with a big headline "The New Sponsored Search Is Now Live!" Finally. After Yahoo hasn't really talked about Panama in their earnings call, they still seem set to roll it out in Q4 of 2006. It appears that ... http://www.sempunch.com/yahoos-panama-finally-live I received the following question the other day, which I would like to discuss in more depth: What is the maximum amount of copies in and AdWords AdGroup? The straight answer is "I don't know." I have never reached a copy limit within the same adgroup. But let me paraphrase the question ... http://www.sempunch.com/ad-text-quantity-vs-quality I have finally finished working on the AOL search data tool that I hinted at in a previous post. I didn't just want to throw out something that queries the AOL user searches and returns a flat list of results, although it is available. The main goal for me to build ... http://www.sempunch.com/new-aol-search-analysis-tool-for-marketers eBay & Google announced a partnership in which Google is the exclusive provider of text-based ads to eBay's international properties. Yahoo has struck a similar deal with eBay in the US, but with the difference that Yahoo will be able to provide image based advertising as well and will support ... http://www.sempunch.com/ebay-teams-up-with-google In a previous post I mentioned the launch of a black hat seo forum. Back then, I didn't give away too much information about the forum itself, because it was new and there wasn't much going on in it. Now that it had some time to attract not only links, ... http://www.sempunch.com/reviewed-black-hat-seo-forum As the folks on TechCrunch already mentioned, Salesforce is integrating AdWords into their product at $300/month. This is a natural step towards integrating CRM products with a growing and very measurable distribution channel such as search. So far it seems that Salesforce integrates with AdWords mainly for reporting purposes, with some ... http://www.sempunch.com/saleforce-to-integrate-with-adwords Ok, I have to admit, it's been a while since my last post...I've been crunching some of the AOL data that was released and will try to throw some simple analysis tool up soon. But enough of this for now... From personal experience and by talking to like-minded, geeky search marketers ... http://www.sempunch.com/7-common-google-adwords-misconceptions