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Recent content by clem

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    google ad words problem

    I'm going to assume that your min CPC is larger than the minimum amount required for activation. Check to see whether you have any disapproved ads/keywords. They normally send you an email when they disapprove anything, but it can be easy to miss. If it has been changed recently, you...
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    Adwords - Whos bidding for what?

    As DomainAngel says, don't up your bids too soon. Just because you have the highest bid, it doesn't mean you will be highest up on the listings. This is thanks to the wonderful google invention known as "Quality Score", which is pretty much a black box....basically, the QS depends on the...
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    Heads up - new tool from Yahoo :)

    Apologies if this is in the wrong bit of the forum....I've come across a new tool from Yahoo Answers and thought you guys might like a preview look :) It's not on general release (yet!) but you can see the basic implementation here --> F1 : Formula One Forum - Forumula1.net It seems to have...
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    Dedicated Server Providers in the UK?

    Rackspace drove me nuts with their sales pitch. I requested that they contacted me ONLY by email and yet I had about 10 phonecalls from them at really inconvenient times. I also requested quotes several times via email and they never once sent me a quote through. I chose not to go with them...
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    What's in your pipeline?

    Actually, I'd like to know what people think on this one :) Is it because parking actually makes more money than having a site there, or is it laziness or lack of knowledge? I know someone who owns a really nice xx.com domain which they park. It has massive potential for being developed but...
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    Adsense - the cheek of it!!

    Hi pen, sorry to hear of the problems :( If you don't already, get some sort of analytics running on your site. Monitor your clicks if you can. Google have been known to shut down accounts for fraudulent clicks, even when it isn't necessarily the owners fault. If they do shut off your account...
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    What's in your pipeline?

    On a tangent, and completely off topic....how many people here have their domains as a hobby, and how many have it as an actual job? I've just quit my job to work on my domains (typically, my last week at work, my earnings drop, lol :rolleyes: ) and it's all very scary....still not sure...
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    What's in your pipeline?

    No more buying or parking for me :) Concentrating on development....
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    Any gamers around?

    MyY job used to be playing CS....I used to play CS for up to 18 hours a day. No idea how I managed it, lol! Quake T - very, cool. Used to play against my friends a lot. Always came last, lol These days it's BF2, although I forsee many, many 'lost' hours when NWN2 comes out in a few weeks...
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    Adwords

    Aren't they a parcel company? They probably trademarked the term :rolleyes:
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    adwords tip

    QS is partly based on your whole account and how well the adgroup itself performs. It may well be the first set of keywords that you used were giving your poor QS for whatever reason. However, the second set pushed your QS up, meaning you could bid less across that adgroup ie you could...
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    google adsense

    No, I don't think you can (otherwise everyone would be doing it ;) ) You can, however, filter the ads (ie ban some of them) so if you think a couple are very low paying, you could block them (but bear in mind that these may be the ones people are clicking on, and there's no guarantee that the...
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    Hosting - silly question

    Yes, I can see this as i used to work for a German company in the UK, and our internet used to go out through Germany so I always used to see German ads on parking pages, lol. But, if I go to www.google.co.uk, surely I'm going to know it's the UK Google I'm going to? In which case, even if...
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    Hosting - silly question

    Sorry, bit of a silly question! Someone has just said to me that if I hold a domain with a specific country extension - say .co.fr, and my hosting is based in the UK, that my searches in Google France will be degraded because my hosting provider is in the UK and that I would get better...
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    Adsense click fraud

    I'm naturally cynical.... ;) Do you not think it might be to do (partly) with money? The have to employ someone - that costs money. Plus, they will lose the listing fees. It's easier to just not bother because they make more cash both ways? I guess it helps that they are a monopoly too...I don't...
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