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March 31, 2009

AdWords and Analytics with Kevin Rose (Digg) and Tim Ferriss (4 Hour Work Week)

Filed under: Videos — Tags: , , , , , , — Kris @ 9:38 pm


Tim and Kevin from Glenn McElhose on Vimeo.

This is a brilliant video on some of the cool things you can do to research your marketing using Pay-Per-Click ads.  In fact, you can even name companies or products purely by letting the market show you what name they want.

If you’re not familiar with Kevin Rose or Tim Ferriss, you probably know about them but didn’t realize it.  Kevin Rose is the founder of Digg.com, the leading social bookmarking platform.  Tim Ferriss is the author of “The 4-Hour Work Week”.

It turns out that Tim originally planned to name the book “Drug Dealing for Fun and Profit”, but that got axed while they were setting up distribution arrangements.  (I still don’t understand WHY Wal-Mart had a problem with it…)

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March 25, 2009

Google Debuts New Adwords Interface

Filed under: Articles,News — Tags: , , , , , — Kris @ 9:11 pm

Google recently launched their new Adwords interface at Search Engine Strategies – New York, and it is looking very interesting.

Here is a screenshot that was taken by AccuraCast during the UK pre-launch testing in February of this year.  The campaigns now appear in a left column (similar to Adwords Editor), with the campaign summaries below the chart.

Googles New Adwords Interface

Google's New Adwords Interface

One of the issues that I have always had with the current version of Adwords is that I regularly find myself shuffling back-and-forth, especially when I am writing new ads.  Also, when I am managing large accounts that have many different campaigns, the web-based interface is a bear to deal with.

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