Comments on: Marchex, local search and Carmen Electra? http://searchenginetigers.com/2007/06/marchex-local-search-and-carmen-electra.html SEO Consulting, In-House SEO Training, Social Media Insights Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:13:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Las Vegas Condos http://searchenginetigers.com/2007/06/marchex-local-search-and-carmen-electra.html/comment-page-1#comment-124 Las Vegas Condos Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:43:18 +0000 http://searchenginetigers.com/2007/06/marchex-local-search-and-carmen-electra.html#comment-124 Seems to me that they are shooting themselves in the foot. Unrelated ads on a "content" page with the same content found someplace else just seems like a bad idea. The more pages of unique content indexed the better. Seems to me that they are shooting themselves in the foot. Unrelated ads on a “content” page with the same content found someplace else just seems like a bad idea. The more pages of unique content indexed the better.

]]> By: Car Repair » Car Repair June 27, 2007 3:11 pm http://searchenginetigers.com/2007/06/marchex-local-search-and-carmen-electra.html/comment-page-1#comment-57 Car Repair » Car Repair June 27, 2007 3:11 pm Sat, 30 Jun 2007 03:09:20 +0000 http://searchenginetigers.com/2007/06/marchex-local-search-and-carmen-electra.html#comment-57 [...] Marchex, local search and Carmen Electra? ?such as serving up ads for buying homes in Florida on a page about Denver car repair??? Now before anyone says that this must be a quirk on Google?s side, I reached this page by clicking on the ?See sponsored links for: Florida? … [...] [...] Marchex, local search and Carmen Electra? ?such as serving up ads for buying homes in Florida on a page about Denver car repair??? Now before anyone says that this must be a quirk on Google?s side, I reached this page by clicking on the ?See sponsored links for: Florida? … [...]

]]> By: simon heseltine http://searchenginetigers.com/2007/06/marchex-local-search-and-carmen-electra.html/comment-page-1#comment-56 simon heseltine Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:29:51 +0000 http://searchenginetigers.com/2007/06/marchex-local-search-and-carmen-electra.html#comment-56 Indeed. I didn't say that it was necessarily a bad model, and with the scope of the effort you've got to think that they've got a good CM system and a very scalable system. As to whether the pages will be indexed, that was really the point of this piece. They're not currently opening up the 'next' pages, on the sites I looked at, to the crawlers, but they are opening up the home pages with the same content and different ads. I find that to be a curious choice. They have content on the 'next' pages, why not allow that to be spidered as well? Again, this could just be a scalability issue with the release robots.txt files not having been released to production in the correct form yet. Time will tell. Indeed. I didn’t say that it was necessarily a bad model, and with the scope of the effort you’ve got to think that they’ve got a good CM system and a very scalable system. As to whether the pages will be indexed, that was really the point of this piece. They’re not currently opening up the ‘next’ pages, on the sites I looked at, to the crawlers, but they are opening up the home pages with the same content and different ads. I find that to be a curious choice. They have content on the ‘next’ pages, why not allow that to be spidered as well?

Again, this could just be a scalability issue with the release robots.txt files not having been released to production in the correct form yet. Time will tell.

]]> By: oldschool http://searchenginetigers.com/2007/06/marchex-local-search-and-carmen-electra.html/comment-page-1#comment-55 oldschool Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:41:12 +0000 http://searchenginetigers.com/2007/06/marchex-local-search-and-carmen-electra.html#comment-55 Well here's my take on it. If they are serving 1,000,000,000 pages and all with some sort of Ad network monetization, regardless of relevance; let's say that for all of those pages, they get only 1/100% of the people to click once - that gives them 100,000 clicks per day. And let's also say that they only get 0.10 per click. If my math is correct, that would give them a revenue of $10,000 per day or $3.65 million per year. The real questions are what does it take to keep that much content hosted, and will the billion pages be indexed, right? (of course, I am just musing - but it's not a bad model either). I am curious about the Carmen Electra connection, and while I am tempted to offer a humorous reply, it would surely be off colour, so I will just agree with your assessment. Speaking of ad networksI am now testing the Azoogle network, to see if it will produce more than my weak Google AdSense checks. Well here’s my take on it. If they are serving 1,000,000,000 pages and all with some sort of Ad network monetization, regardless of relevance; let’s say that for all of those pages, they get only 1/100% of the people to click once – that gives them 100,000 clicks per day. And let’s also say that they only get 0.10 per click. If my math is correct, that would give them a revenue of $10,000 per day or $3.65 million per year. The real questions are what does it take to keep that much content hosted, and will the billion pages be indexed, right? (of course, I am just musing – but it’s not a bad model either).

I am curious about the Carmen Electra connection, and while I am tempted to offer a humorous reply, it would surely be off colour, so I will just agree with your assessment.

Speaking of ad networksI am now testing the Azoogle network, to see if it will produce more than my weak Google AdSense checks.

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