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Maptastic - Maps, Maps, Maps

Maps are the latest craze. There are hundreds of people using APIs from Google and Yahoo to integrate mapping functionality into their applications and websites. Some of the more popular are CheapGas which shows the best gas prices...

Showing Yahoo Stock Quotes

I hesitated to make this the site of the day but it certainly could have been. Yahoo! Finance released a great little tool yesterday for websites interested in displaying quotes. Not only is it free (which is always a draw - at least...

Firefox's Growing Importance

OneStat.com , a provider of real-time web analytics recently reported that Mozilla Firefox's browsers have a total global usage share of 12.93 percent. The total usage share of Firefox increased 1.14 percent since May 2006. The total...

MySpace: One More Reason To Get On Board

MySpace.com has overtaken Yahoo's e-mail gateway as the single most-visited U.S. Web site, according to Internet traffic measurement firm Hitwise . News Corp.'s popular social networking site accounted for 4.46 percent of all U.S....

Site Of the Day: KickApps

Does Your Website KickApps? KickApps Corporation announced the release of its hosted community solution for websites interested in deploying user-generated video and social networking functionality directly on their Web pages. The...

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Stop Click Fraud, Bid Less

If you know something about economics then you can see why Google's CEO Eric Schmidt's asserted that click fraud is "self-correcting" and that even if instances of fraud were "rampant", eventually the problem would "fix itself". "Eventually...

You Don't Need Photoshop

Need to modify some images on your website and can't afford the to purchase Photoshop? You're not alone - there are lots of decent alternatives that can do just what you need. Here are a few of our favorites. GIMP: GNU Image Manipulation...

PayPerPost - Love or Hate?

There has been more buzz in the past week about PayPerPost.com that anything I've seen in quite a while. In my opinion, it's an extremely fascinating marketing solution, but that's not the concensus. It works in the following way ...

Adwords Landing Page Quality Update

Google Adwords advertisers will continue to see their Quality Score decrease (and higher minimum bid requirements as a result) if the value of their landing pages don't meet Google's landing page and site quality guidelines . Google...

WSM Site Of the Day: Wufoo

Creating forms and managing the data that comes from them can quickly become a nightmare, especially if you're writing all that data into a database, have complex field requirements or need more detailed reporting. When you design...

SURVEY: Microsoft Considers Pay-Per-Percentage?

The buzz is that the folks over in Redmond are considering a method of advertising that is "immune" to both click and impression fraud. In the pay-per-percentage model, an advertiser picks a keyword, e.g. cameras, and purchases (perhaps...

WSM Site Of the Day - ForumMatrix.org

Sometimes forums fit perfectly with your marketing objectives and sometimes they don't. The best uses for forums in my honest opinion is to support actual products. The benefit to starting a forum for you product and service are that...

More Than 14% of Clicks Fraudulent

Outsell, Inc., a market research firm, released a new study claiming that Internet advertisers paid $800 million for fraudulent clicks last year. Not surprisingly, out of the 407 online advertisers surveyed, 27% claim to have reduced...

Article PR - You Need It

You know you need backlinks for good SEO. And you know you need the attention and respect of others to move your business forward in a positive direction, right? Of course you do, but article marketing and generating the elusive "PR...

Affiliate Conversion Rate by Ad Format

Aaron Wall at SEObook has an interesting post this morning about affiliate conversion rate by the type of advertising format. Wall, who determined that "far and away the top converting affiliate format is text links" and that "Once...

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