Frames: An HTML technique that allows two or more pages to display in one browser window.  Many search engines had trouble indexing websites that used frames, generally only seeing the contents of a single frame. When internet connection speeds were a lot slower than they are today, frames also prohibited visitors with slow connections or older software [...]

Visit: Measurement that as been filtered for robotic activity of one or more text and/or graphics downloads from a site without 30 consecutive minutes of inactivity and which can be reasonably attributed to a single browser for a single session. Once again in plain English, a single session of a person coming to a website is a [...]

Happy Independence Day!  You should be out enjoying a parade, a nice BBQ, or some spectacular fireworks!  I’ll forgive you if you’ve chosen to give my innocent blog a quick view amidst all the celebration though ;). A few months ago, Google officially acquired DoubleClick Performics, an affiliate network. This week they’ve rebranded as Google Affiliate [...]

Trusted Feed (also Paid Inclusion): A trusted feed is a fee-based custom crawl service offered by some search engines.  These results appear in the “organic search results” of the engine.  Typically, the fee is based on a “cost per click”, depending on the category of site content. Trusted feeds are well suited for web sites with hundreds [...]

I logged into Commission Junction today to see this: The timing of this is pretty curious, if you ask me.  Right on the heels of Google Affiliate Network and their declaring that they’re 86′ing the referrals.  So what’s up now Calacanis - SEO still bullshit?

AdWords: Google’s text-based advertising system. It is cost-per-click (CPC) advertising and publishers pay only when users click on their ad.  It has cost-control features that can set daily budget and limits. Many businesses use AdWords heavily to improve their rankings in search engines.  Some companies have entire teams devoted to search engine marketing and related search [...]

I posted a couple weeks ago that the kind folks at Affiliate Classroom Live have given me a free pass for the person of my choosing since I’ll be leading a round table discussion during the event.  I’ve decided to have a contest, and as a reminder the deadline is July 7th, next Monday! More details [...]

AdSense: An advertising program run by Google enabling website owners to display text and image advertisements.  Revenue is generated on a pay-per-click basis.  Google uses its search technology to serve ads based on website content and users’ geographical location. AdSense is held as the golden standard of search marketing, above rival search engines Yahoo! and MSN.  There [...]

WordPress boasts an impressive 3,464,799 blogs using their self-publishing service.  Anyone who uses WordPress.org to power their blog like I do know that one of the best features is the ability to import countless plug ins to add different functions to your blog.  One of the greatest ones I’ve found is Twitter Tools. Twitter Tools integrates [...]

The innovative part involves the distribution plan. Google will syndicate the program using its AdSense advertising system to thousands of Web sites that are predetermined to be gathering spots for the Family Guy target audience, typically young men. Instead of placing a static ad on a Web page, Google will place a “Cavalcade” video clip. This [...]