Archive for July 10th, 2008

The End Is Near Starbucks Closing 600 Stores

Jul 10th, 2008 | By Kevin | Category: news

With gas prices now at over $4.00 a gallon across the country, it seems people can no longer afford an expensive cup of coffee.  Starbucks is planning to close 600 Starbucks shops in the coming months.
Thanks to the power of Google maps, you can see where the closures are planned and rumured across the country.  [...]



PPC Clicks In UK and Canada Going Up in adCenter

Jul 10th, 2008 | By Kevin | Category: affiliate marketing

The adCenter blog announced that the UK and Canadian ads will now be based on a quality-based algorithm.  This move will most likely drive up PPC costs on Microsoft’s search network.
Previously, one of the methods of increasing affiliate profits were to target searches outside of the US with very little competition for keywords that are [...]



Does Google Really Do Know Evil?

Jul 10th, 2008 | By Kevin | Category: news

Ok, so that was supposed to be “Do No Evil” but maybe that title ha more truth to it. Reading through RSS feeds today, I came across the news of Google’s new virtual world Lively. The premise of the story was Google has an extremely lucrative positionGoogle has an extremely lucrative position [...]