Archive for the 'Web' Category
Deciding When & What Ads To Show
Sunday, July 3rd, 2005
There’s an interesting couple of posts up at Problogger discussing when to display ads, considering that many sites will have 2 types of visitor - regular readers and those coming from search engines.
Nicole Simon suggests that you can partly tell the two types of visitor apart by the time it takes for them to […]
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Pay-Per-Call From Miva
Thursday, June 30th, 2005
Miva is planning Pay-Per-Call for the U.K. according to Clickz (via Threadwatch). Nick at Threadwatch says he wants to see Google and Yahoo entering this market. I also think that it will take one of the big 2 or 3 search companies to embrace pay-per-call before it starts to take off.
Only the big names will […]
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Google Video Search Launched
Monday, June 27th, 2005
Google has been accepting video submissions for a few months now, and has now officially launched its video service. You are required to download a player (VLC open source software, which I’ve used in the past and seems to be a good, lightweight video player).
Having played very briefly with the service, I can’t seem to […]
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More on Pay-Per-Call Advertising
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005
I wrote about a month ago about Pay-Per-Call failing to excite, but a recent report by the Kelsey Group suggests that the market could swell to $4bn by 2009 (via Threadwatch). As Threadwatch says, this may be slightly optimistic, seeing as it has failed to really take off yet, but who knows?
One of the reasons […]
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Google & The Future of Micropayments
Monday, June 20th, 2005
The initial reports / rumours that Google was planning an online payment mechanism to take on the likes of PayPal failed to get me very excited. It sounded like another Google development that was somewhat inevitable but not particularly ground-breaking.
But the more I think about it, the more it seems like a good idea.
Firstly, increased […]
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