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May 04, 2007
In addition to today’s Internet Marketing Monitor coverage, we felt these stories were worth pulling out of the multitude of news items for May 4, 2007:
If you’ve been thinking of trying AuctionAds but haven’t, ProBlogger might be able to entice you into trying the service. If you sign up for a new AuctionAds account using the link on the ProBlogger post you’ll get $5 dropped into your account just for giving it a spin.
The company is already forecasting lower numbers for the rest of the year, though. Why? Because of all the money they’re spending on their strange algorithm marketing campaign. I hate to see them funnel THAT much money into something so fruitless. But at the same time I’m keeping my fingers crossed that I’m wrong.
If you’re one of the video sharing site’s rising independent stars you may be getting a call soon. YouTube plans to start sharing advertising revenue with it’s most popular content-producing users. Now I don’t think this applies to the guy who posts the video that gets watched 40 billion times. They are going to contact and share money with the top content producing members. I think this is a great idea… and not just for YouTube. If you want folks to use your service more, inspire them to by… oh… I dunno… offering them an incentive.
It’s hardly breaking by now (see the conversation at Techmeme). I wanted to pass the news along earlier… I just don’t have anything to add to what’s already been said: Yahoo Photos is old school… Flickr is new school… Yahoo will give people the option to export their photos to other photo-hosting sites if they don’t want to go to Flickr… so on and so forth. The one thing I will say is that I like seeing Yahoo do things like this. They need to thin out the ranks of properties a bit and become a more streamlined entity.
Yesterday I mentioned the Inside AdSense post in which we were reminded that ads close to media and navigation were a no-no. In the post, Google threatened to disable accounts of those who were discovered doing this. But someone in a Google Groups thread noticed that those exact placements are actually recommended on Google’s AdSense optimization page. So, he or she asks… which is it? Good question, Google. SERoundtable has links to all related forum discussions. Have you had your fill of people talking about the Microsoft + Yahoo deal? Matt stands by his assertion that such a deal will never happen. So if you want a break from the typical “oooo” and “aaaaa” related to the story, check out “10 Reasons Why Microsoft Will NEVER Acquire Yahoo” from back in December. A quick scan of your breaking news will confirm that Matt was right. Look at what the Wall Street Journal is saying now - talks have already ended. Oh… and have a great weekend! We’ll be back on Monday!
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