Volume 2 Issue 21 8-31-07

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Table of Contents for this issue.....

1. Authors Comments
2. Q & A, Suggestions and Comments
3. Problems with AdCenter
4. Google Analytics

Author's Comments

Linda and I were discussing the future of Boomer eZine and we feel that now might be the time to change from a weekly publication to a biweekly or monthly publication.

We both are busy in our lives. I am still working full time and the time seems to becoming “fuller”. My day job is fun and challenging so I still enjoy going to work every day.

We wonder how many readers feel overloaded by receiving Boomer eZine weekly. I know that we both are bombarded by information everyday. It is difficult to filter all of it out and decide what is really important.

I have become involved with PPC advertising and my campaigns are successful. This is a great way to make money on the Net. I have always liked the business model, but I did not take the time to get really good at it. Now that I am starting to “get it”, I plan to expand my PPC business.

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Q & A, Suggestions and Comments

In our article about Google Alerts last week, I stated that I received a lot of useless information about SBI since it not only returned information about Site Build It. It also returned information about State Bank of India, an insurance company, a soccer team, etc.

One of our readers (Art) sent me an email that asked why I did not use negative keywords with my alerts. My response is “I did not think of it”.

Here are Art’s suggestions for negative keywords for SBI:

sbi affiliate -india -"bank of india" -soccer -football

Thank you for pointing out that I can use negative keywords to filter out the information. I use negative keywords in my PPC campaigns, but it did not occur to me to use them in the Google Alerts.

For those of you who use Google Alerts and are not using negative keywords, we send our thanks to Art for pointing this out.

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Problems with AdCenter

AdCenter is the easiest of the three PPC operations in which to design campaigns, but it seems to have the most problems with its system.

The best campaign that I have directs the viewer directly to the Amazon page with the product information on it. There is no question about the validity of the information on the page or the relevance of the information. Yet, AdCenter constantly rejects the keyword for having forbidden information on the landing page.

Follow this link to see what I did about this problem.

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Google Analytics

In previous issues we have written about StatCounter.com as a way to gather information about your visitors to your website.

StatCounter.com has various tools to help you determine how long a visitor stayed on your site, what path they followed through your site, how they arrived at your site, etc.

Google Analytics does the same thing, but appears to be much more complete. I am studying it and I have installed it on three of our websites that also have StatCounter.com installed to compare the two tracking systems.

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That wraps up our issue for this week. Until next week, stay tuned.

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