Category Archives: Google

I was a PPC Pansy. Ooops.

Search Engine Land had a nice, tongue-in-cheek post How To Be A PPC Pansy: 5 Tips To Weaken Your Campaigns
According to this - I was a PPC Pansy for about a week recently as took an expensive keyphrase out of rotation in an AdWords campaign. It was THE keyphrase that we finally got #1 in [...]

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New Google AdWords Snapshot feature?

Jsut logged into some AdWords accounts and noticed something I hadn’t seen before: a new block on the bottom left of the Account Snapshot page with some very handy at a glance information.

Looked all over for more info on this and could never find anything about this.
Is it new? Or have I been missing out [...]

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2 months later: Google Image Search Banner Ads Official

Well, the Google folks have officially announced that Google Image Search is now showing banner ads, a little  something I discovered about two months ago:
 If you’re based in the U.S. you may already have spotted or clicked on the different text and image ads we’re testing on the results pages of Google Image Search.
What’s even [...]

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Banner ads showing in Google Image Results

Maybe I have been living under a rock (or without power for a week due to Gustav), but I don’t remember hearing anything about this.
When did Google start showing banner ads in their results. Saw it once and then took a while to replicate and so far, I’ve only seen it in Chrome.

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Get your piece of the Google Pie (chart)

You’ve got to love those Google developers and that whole 20% time project thing they have going on.
One of the latest free offerings to stroll out of the Google labs is the Google Chart API, a really simple way to generate images of charts to easily embed in your website. Basically, you just set your [...]

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