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Hey Guys,
I’m packing up my bags from the Hyatt Santa Clara to go home. I was on a panel at SMXwest and really enjoyed it. I also enjoyed discussing options with numerous software/marketing companies. I will be doing some posts this weekend etc and I hope you guys got a chance to see how I did on my first panel ever here’s a live-blog thing from my panel (I’m not web 2.0 enough for the lingo) http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/016410.html

A Few Things I’m Writing Here To Remind Myself To Blog About:
1. Ihop Till 4am and the guy who ordered a dozen eggs
2. Getting turned down for water because I’m not 21 in vegas
3. Chillin’ At The CXdigital party
4. Being On A Panel

I’m Out
-Harrison

Hey Guys,
I got this E-mail today and it seemed like good news to me!

“Pricing Update:
Minimum Bids will no Longer be Fixed at $.10

Starting in the next several weeks, the minimum bids for a number of Sponsored Search keywords will no longer be fixed at $.10. Your new minimum bids can be lower or higher than $.10. Content Match minimum bids currently will remain at $.10.

This update is intended to align your minimum bids with the value and quality of your keywords. It also is designed to help improve the overall search user experience by rewarding advertisers for better quality with lower entry points into keyword markets.

The amount set as your minimum bid on a keyword in Sponsored Search can vary depending on multiple factors, such as:

• The relevance of your keywords (as measured by the quality of the ads associated with them)
• The number of bidders and bid amounts in the particular keyword market.

A keyword term becomes “active” — switched “on” in the system and eligible for display — when your bid is equal to or greater than your minimum bid. If your bid falls below your minimum, your keyword will not be displayed. You’ll be notified of such changes and will have some time to adjust your bid.

What You Should Do to Prepare
• Get to know your keywords and their value.
Since minimum bids can vary by keyword, it is important to know which keywords work best for your business. Remember, you can check and set your bids at the keyword level. Learn more.

• Improve ad quality to potentially receive lower minimum bids.
Your minimum bids generally take your quality into account. In some instances, higher quality means that you could have a lower minimum bid. Learn more.

• Learn about updates to the account interface.
Become familiar with new tools that can make managing your keywords simpler. Learn more.

For more information on this change, please read our FAQs. ”

A lot of people IM me asking about how to make money and talk about how clicks are too expensive. Although this may not discount clicks in competitive markets you be able to save some money on those long-tail keywords etc! get working guys, and don’t expect to get .03 clicks on the keyword “ringtones” ;), many are already trying lol (not me, I promise).

-Harrison

Hey Everyone,
I will be doing a post about my whole vegas trip when I get home (later today). BUT I just have to say one thing: CX-digital/formerly incentaclick fucking rocks (I’ll tell you more about it later) after hanging out with all the CX-digital crew they are truly awesome!

if you havent signed up you should..

sign up guys they rule…and if you go to the conferences you can goto awesome parties LOL

Hey Guys,
I am not allowed to go to affiliate summit because Shawn Collins of the affiliate summit doesn’t allow people under the age of 21 into the conference or something. I was informed I could gladly attend when I am 21 or if “I Purchase The Conference From Shawn and Missy” (I guess Shawn thought that was funny). Well, right now I am actually sitting in my suite at the venetian (I Really Got A Suite, It’s Kind Of Ridiculous) checking E-mails and optimizing a campaign or too. I came to vegas to have some meetings + see some people who I Really want to chill with. I’ll be sure to take some pic’s of who I meet up with and such.

I will be leaving on Monday morning and If you will be in town until than and want to meet with yours truly shoot me an e-mail @ gevirtzmedia@gmail.com

I’m over blogging and want to finish watching house so,

Later
-Harrison

hey guys,
i got kind of bored

http://www.google.com/search?q=shoemoney&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

lol…sorry? idk
-harrison

P.S. I have failed myself, Shoemoney wins i can’t get first spot LOL (his trademark wins)

Hey Guys,
Here are some pics from my trip to San Francisco for the Myspace Developer Launch Party. I hope you like them; Also - If you want me to send you the presentation that they had e-mail me: gevirtzmedia@gmail.com.

I know the pic’s kind of suck sorry nobody would sit still. Also I’m sure you saw the other post with me and tom.

hey guys,
sitting here in sfo (san francisco) and my flights delayed. I’m just chilling next to the pizza place checking e-mails and making a quick blog post. The party was awesome and I met so many cool people whom I will be doing business with in the near future! I will be showing you guys some pictures and such when i get home since I only have about 5 minutes and uploading etc will take a few.

but i’ll show you guys this one since its already on my myspace

his first names tom, haha!

Hey Guys,
I just thought I would let everybody know that I am going up to San Francisco in a few hours. I will be sure to take pictures of the launch party and all the cool ‘web 2.0′ people I see. The new Myspace/OpenSocial API is something I am going to be working very closely with this next few months as I attempt to ‘go at it’ and make a few really cool applications.

Also, I am looking for (2) expert PHP/MySql Developers who think they will be pretty good with coding up Widgets and Applications for social networks like MySpace. If you think you are up for the challenge E-mail me a portfolio at Gevirtzmedia@gmail.com and I’ll send you an NDA.

-Harrison

Hey Guys,
Last week I saw a contest post on mashable for the myspace development platform launch party in San Francisco tomorrow. I submitted my idea and from the moment I sent it off I had a feeling I was going to go to that party, because my idea rocks

I am really excited to finally use the infrastructure I have established to my advantage and make some pretty sick applications.

This Really Makes Me Happy Since It Truly Shows That Age Doesn’t Matter

I’ll take pics for you guys!

-harrison

ey all,
I am starting to do more keyword stuff than I was the last 2-3months (I found cheap alternate traffic sources which got kind of whored out, I just stuck to it for a while though) and definitely learned my lesson. I hadn’t done keyword stuff for a while and was just trying to be lazy one night and set up a redirect on one of my domains and got to work creating a campaign. After about 4 hours of work a friend of mine instant messaged me, I started telling him how I was working on a campaign etc. After I told him that I had no landing page he virtually stopped dead in his tracks to tell me “Dude! Not Smart!!” This could’ve been my savior but I thought I knew my shit and proceeded. Like 2 hours and 30 minutes after my ads went live i logged on to see if anything had happened, I had like 10 leads with a revenue of like $65.00 or something. I was anticipating see how much I had spent to achieve the $65 in leads so I stayed on my PC for a good hour to see google update, I had spent $133.00 to do $65.00 in revenue :-\, I was glad i had caught it early since I had a 2,500.00/day testing budget set in place, shorty after that I decided I should tweak my ads, keywords, and the keywords on my little meta-refresh page to up the QS a little bit. After working 2 hours on this stupid campaign I uploaded everything into adwords editor expecting a better margin on the campaign.

I went to sleep and in the morning i woke up to see that I had spent $1750.00 to make $900.00 and my ads had all been shut off because of them being direct linking etc.

To prevent this from happening again I have decided that under no circumstances will I not use a landing page on any google campaign I do for now on. Hopefully I can just learn to suck it up and hit up my friend Keeb whenever I am getting a campaign going and get a pimp landing page made. I am also really researching the QS just for personal knowledge; whenever I see anything on it I try to read it and I am always browsing google FAQ etc to see if their is something I don’t know about the marvelous google quality score.

I hope you take my advice and just get a simple landing page to avoid 1. Getting a terrible QS 2. Probably getting your ads shut off and 3. Maybe lose some money

I’m out, its 1:15 am
-Harrison