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PPC Click Fraud – The Growing Problem

Techcrunch just posted an interesting article on a huge click-fraud operation based in China that confirms my recommendations to clients to restrict their PPC advertising to search engines only, and not their content network. Read in full

TV Advertising Needs More Engagement

As a recent study suggests that online advertising spend has overtaken TV advertising in the UK, one wonders why TV execs have not found more ways to engage their audience to help stem the leakage of advertisers to the web. Read in full

Why Website Owners need a Google Account

Firstly, it’s free; secondly, Google provides a great range of tools for website owners that are available when you sign-up for a Google acount. Read in full

The Value of a Good Domain Name

What’s in a name – apparently a few million these days! The .com domain suffix is still the most popular by a loooong way with 82 million of the 111 million non-country specific domain names (.com, .org, .net, .biz, .info, etc) that have been registered. Read in full

UK Postcode Data

While postal code data has been free to use in the majority countries worlwide, and has spurred the growth of many location-based or location aware applications in those countries, we in the UK are forcedĀ  into costly licensing agreements with the Royal Mail if we wish to utilise postal code data. Read in full

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