Reverse Auctions are a “Hot Topic” in 2009
2009 has been the year of watching every penny we spend. If you could find a way to save on “everything” you normally buy on a daily basis, it would only make sense to do it. Wouldn’t it?
We all know that negotiating with the sales guy at the Apple Store for a better price on that brand new Mac Book Pro or new Ipod is unheard of. What about the lady behind the counter at Home Depot? Tell her you need a $200 gift card, you only want to pay $89, and watch her laugh you out of the store. How many of you have just scrounged nickels an dimes to be able to take the family to a nice dinner? I know I have.
Let me tell you, times have changed. For the first time in history consumers have the power to collectively negotiate the price of products downward. We are not talking about used products coming from private parties on Ebay, these are new name brand, top of the line items with manufacturers warranties.
I found the best reverse auction site is www.shoppingtowin.com . This shopping community concept has been perfected in Europe over a number of years, and finally has been introduced to the US market. My self, my family & friends have received tremendous value by using the shopping community and the reverse auctions.
For example, while writing this article today, this Sunday August 23rd I won a $500 Visa gift card, for $0.00 in the ZERO auctions. Last week I won a $500 smart phone for $0.00 in the ZERO auctions. My wife was able to buy a Laptop computer for approximately $100 below the manufacturer’s sale price in the Express Auction. Finally, the guy that recommended the site to me won a $25,000 2009 Harley Davidson for and a $2000 travel voucher in the Unique Bid Auction for less than $5000. Unlike Costco you don’t have to pay a membership fee.
There are also over 10,000 restaurants in the community. I can immediately and instantly save 60% & sometimes more, by typing in my zip code. I regularly take my wife to dinner and only pay $32 for a $100 meal. It’s an amazing shopping experience.
You can literally save up to 20% per year on everything you already normally purchase from the same stores that you already use and trust. Among them are Vons and Safeway to Guitar Center & Hot Topic. Apple, Best Buy, Kmart, Target, Walmart, Kohl’s, JC Penny, Macys, Saks , Nordstrom & many more . With over 1000 major retailers involved, this is the largest online shopping mall in the nation.
In today’s declining economy, traditional brick and mortar stores are becoming a thing of the past. As an incentive to help these major retailers transition into a bigger presence online and take a bigger step into the world of virtual shopping, they’re actually give you cash back on every purchase. This is cash that you, the consumer, would not be able to get by walking into their physical stores.
Let’s face it, the Ebay excitement is over. You never really know what you are getting, or if the seller on the other end has as much integrity you. Amazon is cool, but they don’t share their income or discounts with the consumer. It is what it is.
This is a novel idea that is teetering on total market acceptance. www.shoppingtowin.com brings fun and excitement, plus a ton of value into your household. All in a free environment that is 100% safe and secure.
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Reverse Auctions a “Hot Topic” in 2009
Thursday, January 21st, 2010Get Goghing with AdSense for search
Saturday, March 21st, 2009A few months ago, we shared a number of AdSense for search optimization tips with you. Here’s the story of one AdSense publisher who recently tried some of these techniques and saw substantial results after making a few small changes.
VanGoghGallery.com is an art resource site that provides information about the life and work of Vincent van Gogh. Site owner Greg Alexander runs the Van Gogh Gallery to educate and share information about the artist, and has also used the site to explore new Internet marketing techniques. Greg joined AdSense in 2007, and although he didn’t know much about the program at first, he found it “a great opportunity to generate some revenue without spending the effort to sell ads.” He also tried other ad providers, “but none of them yielded the results that AdSense did. In addition, AdSense was the only one that provided relevant ads for our visitors.”
To help users navigate through the many pages of the Van Gogh Gallery, Greg added an AdSense for search box to the right column of his pages. By enabling SiteSearch and displaying search results on his own pages, he was able to help users find what they were looking for while staying on his site.
As an optimization experiment, Greg recently moved his search box to the center column of his pages and extended it to twice its original width.
In addition, Greg made slight changes to the search results pages — he removed the borders from the ads and search results, and added a new search box to the search results pages. According to Greg, “altogether, these changes took less than 15 minutes to do.”
After making these updates, Greg noticed a dramatic and immediate increase in the usage of search on the Van Gogh Gallery. He found that “the number of queries performed each day increased 8 to 10 times, and search ad clicks and revenues increased even more.” His search earnings quickly grew from less than a dollar a day to double digits since his optimization test. “Now we frequently receive more search ad clicks than our total number of searches pre-optimization,” says Greg. “I’m still amazed at how simple changes can have such an incredible impact.”
Greg has started using the earnings from his AdSearch optimization efforts to build and host additional websites about other artists. “Ultimately,” Greg says,”we hope to use the earnings to fund research trips to Europe to see the works of the masters and expand the quality of information we offer visitors to our sites.”
Have you also tried our AdSense for search optimization tips and found success? Let us know.
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Happy first birthday, Google Ad Manager
Saturday, March 21st, 2009A year ago today, we announced the beta release of Google Ad Manager, our hosted ad serving and management solution for publishers with small direct sales teams. Over the past year we’ve made Ad Manager widely available to all publishers in 32 languages and introduced many exciting new features, including the ability to preview creatives on your site and recently, free-form targeting and roadblocking. We’ve also made improvements to our forecasting system and to the AdSense price optimization feature in Ad Manager to help publishers maximize the revenue of their advertising inventory, as well as throughout Ad Manager. Now, thousands of publishers in hundreds of countries serve billions of ad impressions each day with Ad Manager, and we’ve heard from them that it has helped them increase revenue, cut serving costs, and save time managing campaigns. We’d like to thank each and every one of you for using Ad Manager, providing us with product feedback, participating in the Ad Manager Forum, and helping us make Ad Manager a better product.
This time of year also marks another important anniversary, Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick, a premier provider of digital marketing technology and services. Our teams have been focused on combining resources to help publishers of all sizes tackle key operational challenges, grow their audiences, and develop new revenue opportunities. Together, we’ve already made significant enhancements to both Google Ad Manager and DART for Publishers, our advertising platform for publishers with larger direct sales teams, and we look forward to bringing you even more exciting innovations in the year to come.
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Adsense Image Upload Plus
Thursday, March 5th, 2009Adsense Image Upload Plus is earn money with Google AdSense scripts.
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Block this way
Saturday, February 28th, 2009When we notice a spike in readers who are interested in a specific topic, we like to address it as soon as we can. There’s been some interest in filtering ads from publisher pages, so here’s a quick refresher on the filtering tools we offer:
Competitive Ad Filter
You can restrict contextually-targeted and placement-targeted ads from appearing on your pages by adding the URL of each ad to your Competitive Ad Filter. After logging in to your account, click the AdSense Setup tab and visit the ‘Competitive Ad Filter’ page. You can also find full instructions and tips for entering in specific URLs in our Help Center. To determine the URL of an ad, try the AdSense Preview Tool or follow these steps. Please keep in mind that it may take several hours for the filter to take effect.
Ad Review Center
The Ad Review Center gives you additional control over the placement-targeted ads that may appear on your pages. Using the Ad Review Center, you can review specific ad groups and advertisers before they appear on your pages, and also block ads by type. You’ll need to opt in to the Ad Review Center at the top of your Competitive Ad Filter page, and then you can begin reviewing ads.
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