June 18, 2007
Google Adwords Promotional Code
What is Google adwords promotional code? Here is a short overview of what it is and how it works. I will give you a link at the end of this post that will give you more detailed information about the Google adwords promotional code.
The Google adwords promotional code is offered to new adwords advertisers only. You are offered an option when signing up for Google adwords to give your Google adwords promotional code if you have one. This is optional.
You get your adwords promotional code by signing up with a service that will handle your adwords campaigns for you. The service may be a company or an individual who will offer you an introductory credit for a certain amount that is generally from $25 to $100 credit for your initial awords campaign.
These services use the adwords promotional code as an incentive to get you to sign on with them.
Google does require these services to be qualified and they must take an exam to become a professional adwords advertiser before they can offer the adwords promotional code to its customers.
If you were wondering what the Google adwords promotional code meant and what it was for. this is the short version. You can find a longer and more detailed explanation of the Google adwords promotional code here.
March 20, 2007
Use a Spam Filter Plug-In On Your Blog
Because of what happened to this blog overnight last night compels me to post this.
If you have a blog and don’t use any kind of spam filtering plug-in you are asking for trouble. I woke up this morning to 102 spams that were caught by spam karma.
The moron who attempted to spam this blog must have been using some sort of submission software because he or she attempted to post a comment to every, one, of the posts in every category on this blog.
If I didn’t have a spam filter in place I would have a serious mess to clean up after because some jerk thought that spamming a blog would be beneficial to his or her marketing approach.
The spammer has absolutely no clue on how to market because he or she didn’t even bother to try to spam a blog that is relevant to the product he or she is promoting. I don’t think that IM and Insurance quotes are real relevant.
Anyway, the point is, if you don’t yet have some kind of spam protection in place get it done right away. There’s no excuse not to. WordPress comes with Akismet so if you have a WordPress blog you don’t even have to find a plug-in for it. You only need to activate it.
Just because you haven’t had a problem with spam to this point doesn’t mean that you never will. At some point in time a spammer will find you. Make sure that you are protected when that happens.







