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Likeness is a very popular app in Facebook and key in the effort to turn Facebook into a dating service. The Likeness application has now developed an UNRATED version. However listen to this. The first quiz:

List crimes you are MOST likely to commit first:

• buy drugs
• drive drunk

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Pay per click seems to have significantly changed in the last couple of weeks. If you perform a search for “service” + “location” e.g. “car hire London” and then after a couple of different combinations go back to a generic search such as “service” e.g. “van hire” you will see that the location entered before sticks with you. Works better with specific locations (rather than generic London) so you can have fun drilling down.

Of course this means that Google has made major advancements in the way it is targeting ads to consumers, by second guessing Read more

Social networking or rather socialising site Facebook is going to be encouraging users to make their profiles available in search engines. This is a no-brainer move for Facebook to get a lot more exposure in organic search listings and increase it’s traffic.

However information appearing on Facebook is in many ways a lot more sensitive and personal than on sites such as LinkedIn used to expose one’s resume and build professional connections. So if you don’t want competitors or future employers to be able to easily find you and your friends on Google or other search engines then you need to adjust your privacy settings. Go to Read more

After over 37,000 impressions and total commission of $0.64 I have pulled the plug on ActionAds. The affiliate platform that allows you to earn commission on people being referred to eBay to join the bidding and buy items clearly does not work, to my humble opinion. Time of course will tell and we will see if more affiliates are choosing to pull out.

eBay must be laughing of course as it is driving huge amounts of traffic to the site for very little cost.

Goodbye Action Ads.