web marketing
Yahoo! to Launch New Ad Management System: AMP!
AMP! from Yahoo! is more than just a product with a lot of exclamation points. This looks really cool and I can’t wait until they let me give it a try.
Disappointed with ePN
I had really high hopes for eBay’s separation from Commission Junction. For one, it’s usually always better to communicate directly, without a middle man. And that’s all CJ was, a middle man in our way, preventing us from getting our reporting on time. Or so we thought.
In my mind, perhaps I built up the changeover [...]
Zintext vs. Competition (Kontera)
I take my work pretty seriously (stop laughing!!!), so naturally there comes a time to measure up to your competition. For ZinText, that would be other in-text advertising networks like Kontera. So recently I found an average publisher that by chance was running both Zintext and Kontera on the same page. Aside from being a [...]
WTF is myspace doing?
Was just reading about MySpace’s revenue woes on gawker and I was just amazed. Apparently their plan is
an ad network which lets his salespeople sell ads all over the Web, not just on MySpace and other News Corp. sites.The idea is to take what MySpace has learned about its own users and share it with [...]
Google AdSense + DoubleClick = ???
I have always been a big fan of Google’s AdSense product, and I use it on a bunch of my sites. Early on I used other networks like Burst! or Fastclick/Valueclick, and even flirted with doubleclick for a bit. I always felt like I was kind of a sleazy webmaster by running those ads, you [...]
ZinText - Contextual eBay Affiliate Advertising Platform
I have been in the web publishing business for 7 years now, and along the way I have experimented with almost every advertising network available. In terms of traditional web advertising (banner ads, boxes, skyscrapers) I don’t think anyone can really beat Google’s AdSense. I use them exclusively except where we sell direct advertising, which [...]
Wisdom of the Crowds?
I always knew the digg model wasn’t perfect, but here is a great illustration. Before I went to lunch I checked out digg and read a pretty interesting story about how facebook’s model sucks and they don’t serve relative relevant ads because they don’t know anything about us. I came back after lunch and saw [...]
Accidentally Making Fun Stuff
So recently I have been really into promoting eBay’s program and having a lot of fun. We have created a bunch of niche sites and use eBay’s api to get listings. Funny thing happened though, I really started to get addicted to some of these sites. My Dad has always been into real estate and [...]
BANS and the webshit they produce
I’ve been seeing more and more of this so I thought I would chip in my 2 cents. There is a company out there called “build a niche store” or BANS. (No that’s not an affiliate link) They produce software that allows someone with little or no web experience to set up their own “niche [...]
Below a Buck - what happened?
Wow so after I got all excited copying Shoemoney’s Below a Buck idea, it looks like he is making so little from that site he doesn’t even care if it’s up anymore. A quick visit to the site shows an error:
Warning: connect() [function.connect]: Can’t connect to 127.0.0.1:11211, Unknown error (0) in /home/websites/belowabuck/html/config.inc on line 15
Could [...]
