Google And DoubleClick Deal Finally OK’d – $3.1Billion Deal Goes Through

Google Inc.’s long-anticipated acquisition of online ad service DoubleClick Inc. is expected to turn the Internet search leader into an even more powerful marketing vehicle that’s fueled by better insights about consumers.
We all heard about this deal a while ago and everyone went nuts at the $3,100,000,000 price tag. Well, it’s officially… things went through [...]

Kontera: Possibly The Worst Customer Service

I hate to write negative posts, but this is one that is just frustrating me beyond belief. I originally sent in my application to Kontera sometime last year–before December. I’m not sure if I was accepted because I didn’t receive any e-mails… nothing. I e-mailed customer support… no responses. OK. Forget them then.
A couple months [...]

Two New Google AdSense Updates

In the past two-three days there have been two important Google AdSense updates.
1) OnSite Advertiser sign up has been discontinued.
Our recent findings indicate that the Onsite Advertiser Sign-up feature, which allowed advertisers to sign up for AdWords campaigns on your site, hasn’t been performing as well as we had hoped. We’ve elected to gracefully [...]

Jump For Joy, Widgetbucks Has Paid Some Publishers!

Keeping this post short and sweet, according to the Widgetbucks blog, widgetbucks.blogspot.com, they have actually began to send out payments for October earnings.
Given large holiday snail-mail volumes, please allow for additional time for checks to arrive, especially those sent outside the U.S. Note that only those publishers who earned $50USD or more (including the $25 [...]

WidgetBucks Update : International Publishers Welcomed?

…Going International?
OK. We all know that Widgetbucks doesn’t like international traffic–and banned a bunch of publishers a month or so ago for having tons of international traffic. Wait–did they ban because of international traffic or because ads were placed on websites that weren’t in English? Moving on, it seems that Widgetbucks is [...]