How Those Sites Looked Like 10 Years Ago
Let us use the time machine and see how those sites kooked like a decade ago. (Click on thumbnails for larger images).
Google
Yahoo
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July 11, 2008
June 27, 2008
Australian Print Ad insults Bulgarians, wins an award
A controversial print ad created by the Australian ad agency M&C Saatchi won the prestigious Silver Lion Award in Cannes this year.
The main title of the ad is “Why you should never buy a shirt tailored by a Bulgarian” and says that Bulgarians are known for having fingers fat as sausages and must not be trusted to make clothing purchases.
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April 9, 2008
Kontera gives you $25 bonus for every new publisher
One of the biggest online ad networks - Kontera offers a bonus of $25 for every newly registered publisher (the person who shows ads on her/his sites) brought by you.
There are some limitations like the one that the new publisher has to make 50k (Kontera guys, sorry, once again) impressions within 60 days after sigh-up.
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March 13, 2008
Google AdWords University in Bulgaria - Impressions
Despite of the PR gaffe with invitations I decided to visit the event held on March, 12th in Hilton Hotel, Sofia. I arrived at about 11.30 when the substantial part of the lectures had begun. To my surprise 99% of the invited were people with a strong experience with Google AdWords. In other words (the words of internet marketing) the target wan not very suitable.
There were lots of technical questions like: “Why aren’t my sales tracked, though I placed conversion tracking code?”, “Where do I put the code? At the beginning or at the end of the page?”, etc. The most interesting were the answers you can’t hear or read anywhere.
Trademarks can be used in a campaign as long as they are not used in ad title or ad description i.e. they can be used only as keywords. If you have a registered trademark in the European Union, you can send an application to Google to include your trademark(s) in a list with keywords that cannot be used as keywords (this can never happen if the registered trademark is in USA). The process can take a month or so and you have to give a lots of documentation.
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March 10, 2008
phpBB 2 - 10 steps for optimization
Although third version of phpBB Olympus was released, there are many webmasters that use the second version. Whith the help mod(ifications) and some help of myself, the second version remains the best free bulletin board systems (IMHO even best than paid forum softwares). Here are the steps that have to be maid, to have fully optimized phpBB forum:
1. We apply the advises from Avoiding Duplicate Content on Index/Home Page article
2. We apply the advises from Avoiding Duplicate Content on Inner Pages article
3. We install Guest Sessions Mod . This mod is not validated by phpBB team but I never experienced problem using it. [read more...]