Archive for June, 2007

Estimating Adsense Revenue

June 29, 2007

I don’t know how accurate the Adsensemeter can be if it extrapolates a sites Adsense revenue earning potential from Alexa data.

It can however provide insight into markets for instance by comparing your site’s Adsense earning potential with that of your competition’s.

Adsensemeter

IP Address Lookup Locator

June 29, 2007

Although this IP Address tool isn’t perfect, it does give a general idea of where an IP address is located.

IP Address Lookup Locator

InStealthMode.com

June 28, 2007

On numerous occasions I have typed in a domain only to be redirected to the site InStealthMode.com.

Today I found them after looking at my content placement report stats in my Google Adwords My Client Center account.

Of all the sites my ads appeared on yesterday, their Domain Ads had by far generated the largest number of impressions. However, Google doesn’t report “Domain Ads” at the domain level like each of the other content partners in my report. I can only assume Domain Ads is also http://www.domainads.com.

Based on the large number of impressions “Domains Ads” generated, they appear to control a large domain portfolio. This leads me to conclude they are a professional domainer.

The InStealthMode.com site promises to launch on July 7, 2007. (07-07-07)

Their WhoIs Record shows Centreville, VA based DreamSeller Inc. – In Stealth Mode as the registrant.

It would be helpful to advertisers for Google Adwords to parse out the domains within parked domain portfolios too when bundling reports of large quantities of impressions under one reseller like Domain Ads.

InStealthMode.com

Microsoft adCenter Advertising

June 27, 2007

Microsoft adCenter advertises its search engine advertising products via Google Adwords.

I wonder how much money Microsoft spends with Google to promote their search engine advertising products?

Microsoft adCenter Google Adwords

Confusion and Ignorance…

June 27, 2007

Are the parents of profit.

The internet is rife with both.

Free Marketing Offer

June 26, 2007

Free has been declared one of the most powerful words in a marketers’ arsenal.

Whether or not to use “free” or not in your marketing communications is often debated.

Although I haven’t tested it yet, I believe a business could offer free dead cats and get a 1% response rate.

I received the following free website marketing analysis from a gentlemen in Sri Lanka this morning.

I would be happy to fulfill his request.

However in order to provide him with a marketing analysis of his web site, he must first have one!

Submitted on Tuesday 6/26/2007 7:58:48 AM
(Free Website Marketability Analysis Request)

Free Website Marketability Analysis Request from:

Company name: jagoda
Contact: 94773295264
Email Address: jagoda@cdl.lk
Phone Number: 94773295264
Address: 34/1 mowbray lane , modara
City: colombo 15
State: colombo
Postal Code: 00000
Country: sri lanka
Website Address: no

Profitable Internet Marketing?

June 26, 2007

I am amazed at some of the comments and inquiries my sites receive.

Lately I have been receiving a slew of email spam for top placement in Google.

However, the following was entered by hand at marketingprinciples.com.

The irony is that the salesman who’s name and company I have changed to protect the guilty, found my site via a search engine!

Submitted on Tuesday 6/26/2007 8:36:31 AM

(Profitable Internet Marketing)

“Joe Blow” sends the following:

Dear Website Owner, If I could get you five times the RELEVANT traffic at a substantially reduced cost would you be interested?

“Acme Optimizers” can place your website on top of the Natural Listings on Google, Yahoo and MSN.

Our Search Engine Optimization team delivers more top rankings than anyone else and we can prove it. We do not use “link farms” or “black hat” methods that Google and the other search engines frown upon and can use to de-list or ban your site.

The techniques are proprietary, involving some valuable closely held trade secrets. Our prices are less than half of what other companies charge.

I would be happy to send you a proposal using the top search phrases for your area of expertise. Please contact me at your convenience so I can start saving you some money.

Please do not hesitate to email or call me if you would like further information.

Sincerely,
“Joe Blow”
Executive Vice President
“Acme Optimizers”
123 Main Street
Anytown, USA 98765
Toll Free: 1-800-Optimizers

joeblow@gmail.com

Profitable Internet Marketing

Innovation: Filling Unidentified & Unmet Needs

June 23, 2007

“Customers don’t always know what they want. The decline in coffee-drinking was due to the fact that most of the coffee people bought was stale and they weren’t enjoying it. Once they tasted ours and experienced what we call “the third place”… a gathering place between home and work where they were treated with respect… they found we were filling a need they didn’t know they had.” Howard Schultz – Starbucks

DisneyPhotoPass.com Two Thumbs Up

June 21, 2007

In a previous post I wrote about how I was unable to access the DisneyPhotoPass.com site.

I have since been able to get in and try the site out.

The service has some neat features I haven’t yet found in the other photography lab sites I have studied.

Although the site still runs a little slow and doesn’t work with my Mac + Firefox, the Disney Photo Pass site appears to be best of breed in the photo marketing industry.

Their most promising feature is the PhotoMovie. You can drag and drop up to one hundred photos into their movie builder and “star” along side a cast of Disney characters.

Disney Photo Pass Upload

Disney Photo Pass Photo Movie

Network Solutions Phone Home

June 21, 2007

Is it any wonder GoDaddy.com is the largest domain registrar?

Today I received the following email offer from Network Solutions after I had already bought my domain names for the day from GoDaddy.

Network Solutions

I am sure there are compelling reasons to pay twice as much to register your domains at Network Solutions than at GoDaddy.

Since Network Solutions hasn’t been able to convey to me exactly what those reasons are, I will continue to register my domains with GoDaddy.

GoDaddy