
Ever gone into AdWords and seen stuff you hadn’t seen before? Google likes to keep releasing these features and not telling anyone about them– maybe to keep us on our toes or to use the general public for beta testing?…

We were doing a PPC audit for a home security reseller and noticed that the #1 paid spot has 4 sitelinks below the ad. We’ve always known that you can get up to 8 sitelinks if you’re the #1 search result and…

Some affiliates are losing millions per month, I’m told, as a result of my TechCrunch post. And Shoemoney has not been shy about his willingness to write blog posts for money. If someone is about to ‘topple an industry’ (highly…

Borrell Associates predicts that in 2009 local online advertising will hit $14.2 billion, while 2010 will be only $14.9 billion– a measly 5% increase. I would agree that local online ad dollars are not going to grow in the near term–…

Terry Richards Are you going to be at PubCon?

Between my personal blog and that of BlitzLocal, we’ve gotten about 23,000 hits in the last 24 hours. The TechCrunch Effect is when TechCrunch covers your site, typically on launch day, and brings it down from massive traffic. And you often…

It’s bad enough that there are over 60 million users (including me) wasting real time and real money growing virtual crops to earn virtual points. A new article in TechCrunch blows the doors on an industry that is set to generate…

Dylan Cool page, Dennis. Facebook marketing is definately here to stay.

There are 540 million directories printed in the United States each year. That’s 1.7 directories per person, assuming just over 300 million people living in the US. There is not one “yellow pages” company, so it’s many companies printing many books. The…

This is a guest post by Leigh Hanney, Head of Marketing at RetailMeNot.com and Blogger at semsamurai.com I talk to a lot of people about online marketing, some are super experienced and others are really only just starting out. But so often…

Dennis Yu I'm testing out a new auto-commenting tool that is rules-based. Say something related to "local" or "Facebook" and let's see how it works! Last time it ran out of control (since it commented back on itself), so there are limits now.

(in other words, how to NOT have a blog that gets no traffic) Every few days I go into Google Analytics to see what’s driving traffic to my site. If there’s a sharp spike, it’s usually because of a guest blog…













