What`s happening with Adwords?

When I lived in San Francisco, they called them "seismic events" – a fancy, less scary word for earthquakes.

Has Google radically changed the rules of the game for Adwords? I`ll be the first to say I don`t know exactly what`s happening, but early reports lead me to think they`re targeting advertisers who are running lead generation web sites…with massive rate increases.

Speculation is not going to answer the question, but maybe collectively we can figure out what`s going on.

If you`re an Adwords advertiser and Google has dramatically changed your deal recently (from booting you off the system to radically increasing your pay per click rate) and you want to add to the common wisdom, describe what happened below.

Most important, what was on your landing page? "Normal" content? Content plus a strong opt-in offer? A page designed exclusively to get opt-ins?

It seems from what I`ve heard so far that Google has targeted pages that are set up soley to get opt-ins.

IF YOU`VE BEEN DIRECTLT EFFECTED, please share your story and maybe a common pattern will emerge… If you haven`t been effected, please don`t post speculations so we can keep the thread clear for factual information. Thanks.

Video on the Internet – The Basics

One of the things we focused on at System 2006 was video on the Internet.

Just in time too…

One Internet video service, YouTube, is reportedly serving over 100 million video downloads per day!

The Age of Internet Video has definitely arrived and between the individual sessions offered by Declan Dunn, Mike Stewart, Howie Jacobson, Martin Wales and me, there was an entire day`s worth of cutting-edge information and insight on the topic.

So what did we conclude?

Two big points…

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A hole in Google’s armor?

Google is the 800 pound gorilla in search – today.

Is there any force which can dislodge it?

 

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Revolutionary Character

Trust.

It may be the single most important word in business.

I just finished an in depth interview with Professor Tamar Fankel of Boston University Law School which I’ll be posting next month.

But you can get a preview here and now…

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