Andy Beal reported that Yahoo Search Marketing is no longer supporting it’s keyword tool, known to many Internet marketers still as the Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool.

The tools will be replaced by Yahoo’s new Sponsored Search tool, which I think is only available to active advertisers. However, Yahoo will soon update the keyword data to include search results beginning January 2007, and they will continue to update it from time-to-time. I doubt, however, that the tool will continue to remain an accurate gauge for keyword-based marketing research.

It other words, you may be actually looking at outdated data is you’re still using the Keyword Suggestion tool. A few better alternatives:

• Keyword Elite research tool – I uses this. Comes with all the analysis functions you’ll ever need, highly recommended
• Word Tracker – Use by most people, but only give you raw keyword data
• Keyword Discovery

Take note that all other tools based solely on the Keyword Suggestion tool will also be less effective.

Confused about your personality traits? Need to feel important? On a quest to find the unique you?

Who can you go to for advice.. someone who knows more about you than you do?

Well, Google of course. Silly me, this should have been rather obvious!

With Google Web History, now Google knows more about you than you want to know yourself. In fact, it’s now easier than ever before to put your entire life details in a binary data file in a remote server miles away from home, and leave the tedious management work to someone else.

Ok, maybe I’m exaggerating. But Google says they want to “organize the world’s information” and that’s exactly what they are doing.

According to Google…

With Web History, you’ll be able to:

• View and manage your web activity.
  You know that great web site you saw online and now can’t find? From now on, you can. With Web History, you can view and search across the full text of the pages you’ve visited, including Google searches, web pages, images, videos and news stories. You can also manage your web activity and remove items from your web history at any time.
• Get the search results most relevant to you.
  Web History helps deliver more personalized search results based on what you’ve searched for on Google and which sites you’ve visited. You might not notice a big impact on your search results early on, but they should steadily improve over time as you use Web History.
• Follow interesting trends in your web activity.
  Which sites do you visit frequently? How many searches did you do between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.? Web History can tell you about these and other interesting trends on your web activity.

After checking my own file, I decided it was “safe” enough to show you a sample.

Summary of my Internet activity: [Read more...]

From Clickz, the Top10 keyword searches across categories. This is a good place to see what’s hot in major categories, but it doesn’t cover niche markets.

Read full list here.

During lunch with my friend Melvin Ng, he told me about Google trying to track down paid links. He was referring to the post on Matt Cutt’s blog about reporting paid links to Google.

The question remains as to what Google plans to do with those reports. Will they band services like Text Link Ads, Review Me, etc? How will they determine if a link is paid for? Should I remove my Text Link Ads code and hide in fear of being struck down by The Almighty G?

Google, the Microsoft of the Internet.

I came across this website, where you can buy text links cheap. The cheapest you can go is $1.00. However, as more advertisers are listed, your one dollar text link might get to page 3 or even page 100

The good news is:

1. You can always up your bid and get a higher ranking
2. Anyone else can also help you by bidding for your link

That’s right – someone else can also bid on your link – but who in their right mind would do so

They even give you little red buttons you can out onr your site that leads directly to your listing, and has a label that says “Help Us Improve – Bid Now”

Well… a good link bait no doubt, but if someone clicks on that button on your site and pays your advertising, please let me know.
That aside, it’s still a good deal! I got clos to 8 links for $1.00 and 2 for $5.00. I’ll decide in the future if I want to increase those..

See: DollarLinking.com