Google Wave – Heading Your Way

May 30th, 2009 IBabel No comments

Google have announced the pending (although as yet undated) lauch of their ‘Wave’ product/platform.
What is Wave?
Well – to quote from Google:
A “wave” is equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

Here’s how it works: In Google Wave you create a wave and [...]

Using Generic Domain Names to Improve PPC Results

April 14th, 2009 IBabel 4 comments

The results of a recent (admittedly small scale but well presented) experiment suggest that an effective way to boost a PPC ad campaign is to acquire relevant on-target generic names to enhance or enforce the ads and get more traffic from them.
The guys at Memorable Domains ran a study which showed that: “All other things being equal [...]

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Domaining: A Useful Interview

April 8th, 2009 IBabel No comments

I thought I’d let you know about this excellent interview on BruceMarler.com with Domainer Aron Meystedt.
http://brucemarler.com/exclusive-interview-with-xfcom-founder-and-professional-domainer-aron-meystedt/
It’s a informative piece which could provide a bit of inspiration for new and experienced domainers. Many of the points Aron makes relate to areas that have been discussed here before, such as:

Development vs Parking
Strategies for getting into domaining
Decline in [...]

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Online Advertising spend up in 2008 – Some Thoughts

April 1st, 2009 IBabel 3 comments

Recent figures show that the 2008 online advertising spend in the US showed an increase of over 10% on 2007, despite the Financial Crisis that was beginning to take hold in the latter part of the year.
2008 US revenue (MOT Worldwide, just the US) came to a record $23.4 billion, surpassing 2007’s record of $21.2 billion [...]

Adsense CTR dropped

March 23rd, 2009 IBabel 2 comments

What’s going on chaps? My Google Adsense CTR has died in the arse.
I know the big G has been making some changes to it’s targetting lately, and introducing the new personalised visitor cookie stuff – but seriously, something bad has happened to the clicks. Early March I was doing just fine, but in the last [...]

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Back From Hols – Upcoming Stuff on IB

January 7th, 2009 IBabel 5 comments

Hi Everyone,
Back from my Christmas and New Year break – spent a lovely couple of weeks over in Queensland (you know it – ‘Beautiful one day, Perfect the next…’). Surf, sea, kayaks, cold beer and all that stuff.
Settling back in now and looking forward to 2009 – a few things coming up over the next [...]

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Google Adsense for Parked Domains

December 17th, 2008 IBabel 2 comments

Google are rolling out their Adsense for Domains product, initally in North America but soon to be worldwide.
What is Adsense for Domains?
This allows Adsense publishers to carry Adsense adverts on undeveloped, or parked domains – thus opening up another income stream that can be managed via your Google account.
Publishers will be able to add and [...]

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Domain Development Q&A

December 13th, 2008 IBabel 2 comments

Well – Darrin emailed me with a question, wanting to know what to do with 3 domains he owns. I thought this was a good opportunity for me to give him a few quick ideas, and also for anyone out there in Babel-Land to make any other suggestions.
Darrin has three domains, NO money and wants [...]

Google Friend Connect Hits The Streets

December 9th, 2008 IBabel 3 comments

A few months back, Google announced that they would be releasing a product that would allow easy integration of Social Networking features within websites and Blogs.
As of 4th December the Beta release of FriendConnect has been unveiled – and Google are accepting signups (to go on a wait-List i believe) for a phased roll out of [...]

Newspaper Blogs – A New Traffic Source

December 3rd, 2008 IBabel 1 comment

Here’s a nice little idea for maybe getting a different audience to come to your Blog or Website.
Plenty of News and Newspaper Websites have areas where you can comment on news, but there are a few that actually let you have your own Blog as well.
For example, the Telegraph and the Independent (both are respected [...]