Stay on top of your winners

I have this one affiliate marketing ad that is doing pretty well for me.  I had run it up the flag pole with a few other offers and this one stuck.  It is averaging almost $60.00 EPC and is pretty close to 90% profit each month.  That may not be the baddest boy on the block, but I will sure take it.  All of it’s traffic comes from Microsoft Adcenter.

The problem I realized tonight while going over some of my sites was I have not  stayed on top of my keyword list for this search arbitrage website.  I put one of my main words in the keyword suggestion tool at digitalpoint and found several keywords with decent traffic I wasn’t bidding on.  I had let this bad boy get behind.  A lot of us run many websites and the point of this post is to remind you to take a look back at some of your  good ideas because they could be great ideas.

Undercover Google

Randfish over at seomoz.org had a blog up yesterday talking about early gossip at SES Chicago. One of the rumors making the rounds is Google’s  search quality team has undercover people buying links.  Now my question is this.

If you ask a person buying a link from you if they work for Google, are they required by law to tell you and show you their badge?

Bad boys bad boys.  Whatcha gonna do.  Whatcha gonna do when they come for you.  LOL

Google Fighting Malware

I was listening to some music tonight and having a good ol time when I wanted to look up the lyrics for a song. I typed in my usual one line of lyrics and the artist name in Google and watched as the results poped up. I picked one of the top 3 choices and clicked the link only to be stunned by the response.

Google Fights Malware

Google is now marking sites that contain spyware or malware. Wow, this is big. Censorship issues aside, this is pretty interesting. Google is now checking out sites and will warn you if they contain known malware or spyware. As a Network Admin who is forced to watch his people use IE I am very pleased to see this. The other part of me that fears Google wonders what is next.