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Google AdWords™ Announcement:
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Improved smart pricing ….
Content network expands to email…
As one door shuts… another opens…
The place for that is http://www.profreedom.com
You can get banners for it at wager profits.
Integrity I doublt it would go that far as long as a profit is not being made from this.
I think we all need to take a deep breath and look at this in perspecitive. This has nothing to do with any recent gov’t activity it has to do with the fact that a company (Yahoo), who over a year ago decided not to be in our industry, bought Ovetrure. As a part of Yahoo they have to abide by their rules.
This is no different when Ebay bought Pay Pal and then they pulled out and we all survived.
My concern is that those players who were pouring tons of cash into Overture will now looking for new places to spend thus driving up advertising costs at these other advertising spots.
I agree the Google will be a winner in their adwords and such, will be interesting to see what MSN is going to do. They don’t like to be told what to do.
Brian
Profreedom has been around for a long time, but hasn’t made much difference.
I’m not talking about passing the buck. I’m saying we need to do something.
I suppose we could put a link to their site in the newsletters and let it go at that…….
Good point, islandman. I haven’t thought of that angle. With overture out of the game, that puts more pressure on the other ppc engines – and that will drive our costs up through higher competition.
But, as Integrity pointed out, one door closes and another one opens. There will be other, search engines – some new – who will be market savy enough to take advantage of overture’s decision, and will move in to capture some of the abandoned market.
By golly, it must be worth millions.
Profreedom in conjunction with lobbying has kept legislation at bay for two years. It has made a HUGE difference.
Lobbying is a non- talked about activity, but let me assure you that without a whole lotta lotta lotta that we would not be here today.
There are a lot of things that go on behind the scenes, and most people do not know about it because it needs to remain behind the scenes.
Organizing further action is always good and I will support it, but I want to state strongly that profreedom does work and a link should be on every website!
If you don’t have one now, you are part of the problem and not the solution.
Profreedom backs lobbying efforts with public opinion and it is a very efficient and effective way to do so. It is designed by professionals who KNOW how to do this without making it look like spam.
I have to make a very strong statement about this here!
Point taken, Dom.
Please allow me to elaborate on my post, as apparently I didn’t state my thoughts very well.
My point was that, although Profreedom may be making a difference, it isn’t able to keep the wolves at bay on its own. We need to step it up and mount a campaign independently of it – or in association with it.
It’s all fine and good and very easy to stick a banner on your site and say you’re doing your part, but I think more needs to be done.
“If you don’t have one now, you are part of the problem and not the solution.” hmmmmmmph!
Please pass the vaseline.
“If you don’t have one now, you are part of the problem and not the solution.” hmmmmmmph!
Please pass the vaseline.
Lololol! It’s not all that bad Janet.
hehe
Nah, I’m just mad at the situation. It’s just not right that any government is trying to control the internet.
It really hits a nerve with me. The internet is supposed to be free and world wide – that’s the wonderful thing about it.
And any bets that paid ads on Yahoo for “young teen sex”, etc., will still be around after April.
It’s just so fuqued! (pardon the french)
Well, what can I say. Of course you are right.
The States are messing things up for everyone – they have no right to do so.
Antigua filed a complaint and won, the British are getting a bit hostile on the matter, and hopefully more countries will join in on this.
It is a stupid thing to do in the first place – there will be no important internet businesses based in the US before long.
The US is cutting itself off from the future, and from a significant revenue stream.
I’ll be adding links to profreedom to my websites tonight. Thanks, Dom!
I have to take it back about Yahoo advertising.
Feeling like a perv, I did a search for porn, teen sex, and something else (I forget), and there were no paid ads.Lots of free listings, but nothing paid.
And, no, I didn’t click on any links.
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Hey J,
Again your last post is right on the money. The PPC’s can all drop us and so can the major US search engines is presure enough by the Gov. to do so. This is my fear and has been all year. The Us Gov. is winning the battle against us without passing a bill. As far as Overture, I could care less as they were always a very arrogant company to deal with. I must say that Yahoo’s regular search results suck the big one to say the least. Again, I guess it is time for me to go back to the drawing board and get down to business. My home remodling project has been such a great distraction and I will be glad when it is finially finished. It’s time to drink several Margarita’s and ponder the future.
I really don’t think we have to worry about MSN dropping gambling-related ads because of outside pressure.
MSN is owned by Microsoft, and they have a strong history of flipping the finger to anyone who tries to take any of their market share.
My guess is that MSN will sieze this opportunity as the gift it is and take as much of the gambling ppc market as they can get – and then some. They’re just now positioning themselves to sweep the search engine world with new software.
If the government decides to take them to court they’ll have a tough fight on their hands.
As for google, I don’t think they’ll cave either. Maybe they’ll modify the .com ads, but they have geographically targeted search sites such as google.ca, so a complete black-out of casino ads seems unlikely.
Judging by my yahoo search for porn sites, Yahoo seems to have ethics about their ppc that the others aren’t constricted by.
Quite some time ago Google announced they were no longer going to accept advertising for online pharmacies. But if you do a search for “online pharmacy” there, you’ll sure see a lot of ads. Wonder what that’s all about?
