Cautionary Blog Advertising Tales

September 25th, 2007

BlogsHere are two posts regarding the subject of blog advertising that I found interesting:

David Airey who believes his blog is being penalized by Google in their search results as the result of a few paid links. The item of contention seems to be the lack of “nofollow” on said paid links, implying that his site was giving an SEO benefit to them for cash.

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Conversational Marketing: Just A Band-Aid For Bad Customer Service?

September 13th, 2007

TechnologyHere’s an article about some “new” form of marketing / advertising called “conversational marketing.” I’m not as cynical as the author - I do want to have a conversation with many corporations I buy products from - but most of the time, they don’t seem interested in talking to me.

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YouTube Adds Ads To Videos

August 22nd, 2007

GoogleAlthough Internet video ads generally annoy me, the solution Google has developed for YouTube is quite decent. Check out a YouTube video advertisement in action via this video.

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