http://www.neillemons.com Internet Marketing News & Views Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:59:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just received two emails in two days stating that Google will be doing away with two features and/or conversion measurements --- Pay-per-action Beta and Cross Conversion Tracking. By doing away with the Cross Conversion Tracking, I'm sure they hope you choose to engage more with their products by becoming a ... http://www.neillemons.com/google-adwords-feature-execution-field-which-feature-will-google-kill-next/ I don't typically like to cover Adsense, but this is different. Seth McFarlane has done it a again. What an innovator! To escape the "Taste Police" he is creating an Internet only cartoon series called “Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy.” Google plans to syndicate the program using AdSense on the ... http://www.neillemons.com/seth-mcfarlane-google-adsense/ Back in March the South By Southwest (SXSX) Interactive conference (not to be confused with the music showcase) was a stir with everyone and their mom "Tweeting" on Twitter, the micro-blogging site that allows you to interact with friends and conversations under 140 characters. Although Twitter had been around for ... http://www.neillemons.com/amazoncom-founder-invests-in-twittercom/   The FBI and other government agencies have been using handwriting analysis to profile criminals as well as determine forgery for over 50 years. There are certain attributes that show up to the trained eye that reflect a person's honestly level, whether he or she is self-consciousness, a good diplomat, ... http://www.neillemons.com/does-your-handwriting-predict-your-success-as-a-marketer-president/ When asked about any major blunders over the years, Stan Richards told an interesting tale. A Dallas Morning News Reporter recounted the story. "After 19 hours of travel, he got home, took a shower, put on his 'blue new-business- presentation suit,' jumped in his car and drove to Liquid Paper's ... http://www.neillemons.com/dallas-ad-league-celebrates-100-years/ Today I noticed in one account interface a message that if ignored could radically change how often ads are triggered and for what keywords. I thought they had a similar match type already implemented called "extended match," but this possibly takes the liberty at which Google will trigger your ads ... http://www.neillemons.com/what-is-the-automatic-matching-feature-in-google-adwords/ When Andrew Goodman talks about AdWords I listen. I read his book back in the summer of 2006 and my eyes were opened to many AdWords techniques as well as many direct response advertising principles in which I had forgotten. I look back at my first attempts at Overture ... http://www.neillemons.com/sage-advice-earn-a-good-adwords-quality-score-at-begining/ To combat dwindling advertising revenue and readership due to companies spending their advertising and marketing dollars on the Internet, The Dallas Morning News is now experimenting with giving away a smaller version packed with more graphics, brief stories, and more coupons. I thought they already had the Quick ... http://www.neillemons.com/dallas-morning-news-gives-it-away/ Pre-Wordpress' birth and the critical mass of blogs, Internet Marketing Professionals used many other tactics, one of which was writing value-based informational articles and submitting them to several article directories for online publishers and website owners to repost. This type of article marketing was done for years before blogging. What is ... http://www.neillemons.com/is-article-marketing-dead/ One of the measures of search engine marketing success is getting keyword targeted traffic through organic or natural listings. This is obvious. Being able to see the difference in paid and unpaid traffic is not so obvious to the beginner, but it is where the truth of success comes. ... http://www.neillemons.com/how-to-auto-tag-google-ads-in-analytics/