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RSS Data You Can Use From Pheedo

I'll be speaking with the folks at the Pheedo RSS Advertising network at Ad:tech next week and was looking over their Pheedo Read Spring 2006 Whitepaper, a great whitepaper which reveals some key findings about the current state of...

Upcoming WSM Tradeshows

Just a quick note... the Editorial Staff of Website Services Magazine is putting the finishing touches on our fourth issue which should be arriving in mid-August. Reports from those who have had a sneak preview claim it is the best...

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...

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