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Exclusive: Google’s Click Fraud Rate is Less than 2% Google is already filtering more than 98% of invalid clicks, before they show-up in the AdWords console, their goal is to filter 100% and suggestions they are not doing enough are misguiding in their eyes.

(from Fred) SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES INCLUDING MYSPACE and Facebook are driving a bigger portion of traffic to retail sites than a year ago, according to new research by Hitwise. Social sites are driving more than 6% of retail traffic, up from 2.9% in 2005. MySpace alone accounted for about one-third of that traffic. The increase […]

Because only the truly worthy know the first 10 consecutive digits of e. Official Google Blog: Warning: we brake for number theory:

Also from the Chitika blog is 2 case studies of publishers using their eMinimall widget. Includes the TechFresh network and GPSReview. Chitika, Inc. – The Leader in Impulse Merchandising

Magic widget maker, Chitika launches Chitika Sphere: Here you can post public questions, ideas, or general comments. Share knowledge with others and maybe learn a thing or two. Bubbling is already a survey on which performs best: Chitika or Amazon.

(via the Six Apart blog) How to Succeed in 2007 Many of my readers tell me that they love the diversity of the posts I do. They come for the technology and venture capital stuff but enjoy getting to know me through the other stuff. I think this is critical. Blogs need to be real […]

Sometimes when you first install WordPress not all of the right permissions are in place. By default, WordPress upload any files or attachments to posts to a folder called /uploads/ that is located in your /wp-content/ folder. When you first install WordPress, be sure to test file uploading. You might get this error: Unable to […]

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