AuctionAds Wins eBay Star Developer Award

MediaWhiz Division AuctionAds Wins eBay Star Developer Award for ''Most Innovative Application-Buyer'' eBay Developers Conference

 June 21, 2007 - NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AuctionAds, a division of MediaWhiz Holdings Inc., today announced it received the eBay Star Developer Award for "Most Innovative Application-Buyer" at the sixth annual eBay Developers Conference. AuctionAds (www.auctionads.com) enables users to monetize their website by displaying live eBay auctions next to their related copy.

"We are honored to accept this prestigious award, which recognizes that AuctionAds is a successful tool for leveraging the lucrative eBay affiliate system, in a way that is easy for publishers to use," stated AuctionAds CTO David Dellanave.

"The eBay Star Developers Awards recognize developers for their innovation and commitment to the eBay platform," said Max Mancini, senior director of disruptive innovation at eBay. "AuctionAds was awarded for its efficiency using innovative caching techniques, allowing it to serve up 30 million impressions a month with only 200,000 API calls, an impressive volume of traffic per API call."

The eBay Developers Conference in Boston brings together more than 500 third-party developers, entrepreneurs and affiliates to meet with technologists and business leaders from eBay, PayPal, ProStores, Shopping.com and Skype.

About AuctionAds

AuctionAds (www,auctionads.com), a division of MediaWhiz Holdings Inc., users to monetize their website by displaying live eBay auctions next to their related copy.

About MediaWhiz

MediaWhiz is a leading online marketing company delivering a fully integrated solution for brand advertisers, direct marketers and publishers by leveraging its suite of marketing services to achieve measurable results. Services include affiliate marketing, lead generation, email marketing, list management, display advertising, text link advertising and search marketing. MediaWhiz delivers more than 3 million monthly leads to over 3,000 advertisers through its database of more than 100 million consumer email addresses and relationships with over 20,000 publishers. Private equity firm Lake Capital first invested in MediaWhiz in August 2005. Through acquisitions and organic growth, MediaWhiz has established its position as a leading provider of integrated marketing. More information on MediaWhiz is available at www,mediawhiz.com.
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Web CEO: Doesn't It Work? Then why...?

Our directory just got the following four submissions from an IP address located in the Ukraine, which just happens to be where the software company that produces WEB CEO Web Site Promotion Software is located:

Title:
Web CEO - Web Site Promotion Software

Description:
Web Promotion Software for Keyword Research, Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Submission, Ranking Check, Link Exchange, and Traffic Analysis

Keywords:
web site promotion search engine marketing website management web traffic analysis search engine optimization

Category: 74

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Title:
Web Ranking Software

Description:
Web Ranking Software by Web CEO. Using this web ranking software, you just select the search engines

Keywords:
web ranking software web ceo website ranking webranking report webranking software  website ranking report free website ranking report

Category: 80

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Title:
Link Popularity Tool

Description:
Link popularity tool by Web CEO, this is now an indisputable part of modern website promotion, helping to save time, effort and to realize web promotion in a process that exhausts all options

Keywords:
link popularity tool increase link popularity link popularity check improve link popularity link popularity tool link popularity checker

Category: 92

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Title:
PhantomaSEO - SEO Softwares Review

Description:
seo software reviews: Know everything about search engine optimization tools and website promotion packages, get webceo, ibp, seo elite and webposition comparison chart

Keywords:
seo software review seo tools seo software packages search engine optimization software website optimization tool website promotion tool keyword research tools

Category: 80

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This last site, PhantomaSEO, was interesting and the first one that I looked at. It offers reviews of SEO software, but I could tell right away that one product seemed much better than the others. At first I was not suspicious and even approved the listing with a little editing. Then I noticed the OTHER submissions and it made we wonder. Sure enough, the IP was from the Ukraine and so is Web CEO and a little more digging confirmed the connection. So PhantomaSEO is just a lame marketing review site to promote WEBCEO....!

 

Is the product really so bad that they have to do this? I think I tried a demo copy a couple of years ago and I thought it was "ok". No replacement for a good SEO consultant, but better than nothing. So why turn to this underhanded, dishonest method of marketing? I have no idea, but this kind of stupid stuff is just going to hurt them now. If nothing else, the IP of the submitter has been banned.

Jupitermedia: Another Sign CAN SPAM Has Failed

Ever hear of Internet.com? Well I just got spammed by the company that is behind it, Jupitermedia Corporation. I got an email from Drew Jenkins whom I first thought was interested in discussing our joining their partner program which includes 130 sites. Well during our phone call, in which Mr. Jenkins admitted the email was unsolicited commercial email (SPAM). It turns out that to join the "Partner" program, you have to pay about $5,000 a month. Sounds like advertising or paid links, but not any kind of "partnership" as I understand the term. The list of partners they have is impressive. I wonder if the partners are aware that the company is using SPAM?

As I mentioned in my follow up message to Mr. Jenkins, if they have to use SPAM to get new "partners", it must mean that their advertising program really doesn't work very well, does it? I am just so shocked that a compay as large as Jupitermedia Corporation would permit employees to use spam in their marketing, but perhaps upper management doesn't know... yet! Here's the email I got:

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-----Original Message-----
From: Drew Jenkins [djenkins@jupitermedia.com]
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 9:46 AM
To: djenkins@jupitermedia.com
Subject: Jupitermedia Commerce Partner Program
Importance: High

Dear Sirs:

I was on your website today and wanted to contact whoever handles your company's online marketing about the Jupitermedia Commerce Partner Program.  We are a network of 130+ B2B websites for web developers/marketers, IT professionals, etc.  Our network gets over 20 million unique monthly visitors each month. 

Please have someone call me at 203-662-2839.

Jupitermedia

Jupitermedia (NASDAQ: JUPM) is the parent company for the Internet.com, Earthweb, Graphics.com and DevX network of over 130+ Websites (www.internet.com ).  These wholly owned and operated properties generate in excess of 350 million page views with over 20 million unique users on a monthly basis. The Web properties offer news, resources, tools and information, downloads etc, to a Business-to-Business IT Management, web developer and professional user base. You can find additional site information and site demographics by visiting http://www.internet.com/mediakit/ and you should also find our commerce Partners page helpful- http://www.jupitermedia.com/partners/

Commerce Partner Program

Our Commerce Partner program launched nine years ago, is set up to direct our user base to our partner's Web site and to encourage them to take action. We do that by offering each of our partners an exclusive "space" that is defined on an INTERNET.COMMERCE navigation bar, which can be viewed on the Commerce Partners page http://www.jupitermedia.com/partners/. The INTERNET.COMMERCE navigation is also found throughout all the Web properties that make up the high page rank JupiterWeb network so it receives very prominent visibility. A typical program is set up to deliver 500,000 banner impressions per month, a minimum of seven million text link impressions per month for the descriptive term best indicating their exclusive offering-business model and also 75,000 skyscraper impressions.  A listing on our partner page with a company profile is also included.  An example of this would be the "domain registration" link we have for our Commerce Partnership with Domain Bank, one of our original partners dating back over nine years. These text links appear in the INTERNET.COMMERCE navigation box appearing on approximately 130+ JupiterWeb properties.

The Commerce Partnerships are  $5000 per month but can be discounted for longer terms that are prepaid. If you are interested in taking it to the next step, please call or let me know via email when you would like to start or if you have any questions. 

Best Regards,
Drew Jenkins
Director, Commerce & Licensing

Jupitermedia Corporation
23 Old Kings Highway South
Darien, CT  06820
203-662-2839 Phone
203-655-9582 Fax

If she were MY domain, I'd....

Today we took a little visit to Reinvent Technology's web site, the company that is owned by Kevin Ham. We were looking for press releases that we could use on our site as content. We first checked Google and were disappointed to find nothing new and actually a lack of any recent news as well.

We need more content because if it all dries up no one will visit our site and well I'm sure you know how depressing THAT would be...

So while there were no press releases or news there, we did notice that they have a list of domains the company owns and we thought our domainer readers would be interested in knowing what they were.

So here is the list that we found on  http://www.reinvent.com/domains.html: 

3dAnimation.com
AcousticGuitars.com
Actor.com
AdventureJobs.com
AffiliateMarketing.com
Alcohol.com
Alcoholics.com
ArticleFinder.com
AskQuestions.com
Attorney.com
AutoLocater.com
AutoTrading.com
Awning.com
BabyGifts.com
BabyShowerGames.com
Baptism.com
BarbadosRentals.com
BarCodeScanners.com
BargainHotels.com
Be.com
Beat.com
BestFlights.com
BibleCollege.com
BicyleVacations.com
BioChemistry.com
BoardingSchool.com
Bogota.com
BonAppetite.com
BonBon.com
BrainBusters.com
BridalBouquets.com
BridalDresses.com
BudgetVacations.com
BuyAutos.com
CameraPhone.com
CanadaNews.com
Car.net
CarDecals.com
CarDetailing.com
CardScanner.com
CareerPathways.com
CareerTest.com
CarFinancing.com
CarPaint.com
CarpetDealers.com
CarPhone.com
CarRent.com
CashPayDay.com
CellularPhones.com
CheapScooters.com
CheapTires.com
CheapTravel.com
ChildrenGames.com
ClassmateFinder.com
CollectableDolls.com
ColonialHomes.com
Commercials.com
Consolidate.com
CouponSaver.com
CreditRating.com
CreditReportOnline.com
CrossStich.com
CruiseFinder.com
Cycle.com
Cyprus.org
DesignerDresses.com
Diabetic.org
Dialysis.com
DiscountAuto.com
DiscountCruise.com
DiscountVacation.com
Diseases.com
DogBeds.com
DogKennel.com
DownloadRingtones.com
DownloadSongs.com
DreamAnalysis.com
DrugAddictions.com
DvdCovers.com
ElementarySchool.com
Elyrics.com
EmploySearch.com
Eparty.com
Etextbooks.com
Eticket.com
ExpensiveCars.com
ExtremeGames.com
FaxOnline.com
FicaScore.com
FileShare.com
FlightChecker.com
ForceField.com
Francais.com
FreeHost.com
FreeLegalAdvice.com
FreeMusicVideos.com
FreePhoto.com
FreeTones.com
FreeVideo.com
FunnySongs.com
FurnishedApartments.com
FurniturePatio.com
Garnets.com
GeoThermal.com
GoldMarket.com
GolfInFlorida.com
GolfSwings.com
GospelMusic.com
GroupHomes.com
Hairs.com
HawaiianWedding.com
HawaiiVacationHomes.com
HDTV.com
Headstones.com
HealthCareers.com
HermitCrab.com
HooverDam.com
HouseSeeker.com
IncomeFromHome.com
Infertility.com
InkRefills.com
InMotion.com
Innovations.com
Instrumentals.com
InternetStats.com
Investigator.com
InvitationCards.com
Kalahari.com
KidsVacations.com
LaHotels.com
Laptop.com
LastMinuteTravelDeals.com
LasVegasShowTickets.com
LCD.com
LCDprojector.com
LeatherHandbags.com
LivingRooms.com
LoansForBadCredit.com
Lupus.com
MauiVacationHomes.com
MBAdegree.com
MedicalBracelets.com
MedicalCodes.com
MedicalHealth.com
MedicalHelp.com
Medrx.com
MexicoChat.com
MobileHomeParks.com
ModularHome.com
MontegoBay.com
MortgageCalculators.com
Mother.com
MovieSearch.com
MusicShare.com
MyMeds.com
NaturalRemedies.com
NewCellPhones.com
Notebook.com
NowAndForever.com
NurseFinder.com
NY.org
NYC.org
OnlineBanking.com
OnlineCreditReports.com
OnlineCreditReport.com
OrganicWine.com
Orthotics.com
OverSeaJobs.com
PChardware.com
PeopleSearch.com
PersonalChoice.com
Pharmaceutical.com
PhysicianSearch.com
Planetarium.com
PlayGame.com
Preview.com
Proverbs.com
PublicSchools.com
PuppyTraining.com
QAtester.com
RaceCars.com
Rapture.com
Refurbished.com
Religion.com
Reptile.com
ResumeBuilders.com
RoutePlanner.com
SalesTraining.com
SchoolGrants.com
ScooterDepot.com
SlideShows.com
SecondWorldWar.com
ServiceDogs.com
SevenWonders.com
SevenWondersOfTheWorld.com
Sidekicks.com
Sitcom.com
Skateboard.net
Skins.com
Slapshot.com
SlumberParty.com
SoapOpera.com
SongText.com
SpainHoliday.com
Spanish.com
SpanishTeacher.com
SpanishTranslations.com
Spyware.net
StockAnalysis.com
StorageUnits.com
Streetrods.com
StudentCollegeLoan.com
TahoeAccomodations.com
TanningSalons.com
TestEquipment.com
TheHolyBible.com
TimeShare.org
TrailerHomes.com
TrainingDogs.com
TravelFares.com
TravelLastMinute.com
TravelPlanner.com
TravelShop.com
TubalLigation.com
TummyTucks.com
TypeOnline.com
UnclaimedFunds.com
UsedBikes.com
UsedSUV.com
USmail.com
USweather.com
UtahVacations.com
VacationGetaways.com
Vacuum.org
Venture.com
Vest.com
Vids.com
VirtualLibrary.com
WasteContainers.com
WebPageMaker.com
WebStats.com
WeddingGowns.com
WeddingInvitation.com
WeddingShoes.com
Wire.com
WishingWell.com
WorkUniforms.com

I took a look about a dozen of these domains and I was struck by how pedestrian most of the parking pages were. I didn't see that any were what I would consider optimized and I would have expected that the owner would have these puppies humming with really nice templates and some kind of content.

Perhaps they generate so much income as they are that it's not a concern. None that I saw had any Google PageRank either. I did find one site that had a link to actor.com and it looks like the domain used to have a real site at one point...

If it were my domain I'd... "What would you do daddy, what would you do?"
Well, if it was MY domain, I'd... "What would you do daddy, what would you do?"
Smother that domain in Keywords and Wikipedia re-writes,
And host it on my own.

-With Regrets to Zappa Frank "Brown Shoes Dont Make It"

Ebay AuctionAds Debut Coup?

EBay cancels ads in tiff with Google
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
EBay is one of Google's biggest advertisers. The search engine funnels millions of Web surfers to the auction site. But the two companies have grown ...

EBay threatens to pull ads off Google
MSNBC - USA
Google's retreat came only after Ebay cut some of its advertising spending on the company's search site, in what appeared to be a blunt attempt to warn ...

By now, ebay has to have taken notice of what the company behind AuctionAds has done and started to realize that at least where the content network is concerned, they could do a lot better. If you have not see the ads from AuctionAds yet, they are a cross between the small text ads that you see from Google, and the multi-tabbed ads (Which are cool) from that loser company Chitika (Don't get me started on them. It's enough to say they dropped me and treated me like shit. Try them at your own risk, but do some searches in Google first before you waste your time with them.).

 

AuctionAds are as easy to use as AdSense, but the two nice things are that 1) they include a small image from each auction, which most AdSensers know greatly improves click-through rates, and 2) you can choose the keywords to target the ads to your site. The keyword targeted takes a little extra work that you don't have with contextual ads like Google's, but from what I have seen it pays off. There's no learning curve and if you are not happy with the ads you see you can make some changes. To see a good example of how this works, visit our site: http://www.EbayAuctionAds.com and you can test out the results.

 

I think you have to have considerable site traffic to realize the best results, or a site that gets traffic related to shopping or products. We had positive results right away, but we still have to keep our day job for now. Most site owners are reporting results as good or better than ours so it's worth testing on at least one site for sure.

 

Since Google has been discouraging the use of images placed closed next to AdSense Ads, I can see more people trying AuctionAds, and perhaps in some cases replacing AdSense if the income is there. What I expect to see is Google responding to this new attention to ebay as a revenue generator by allowing advertisers to add small images to be placed next to their ads, OR providing a library of images that advertisers can select from as relating to their products and services.