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by Manoj Jasra Bango today published a practical, 'how to' white paper on mobile advertising for agencies and digital marketers who want to move into mobile but need some help. The "Mobile advertising for newbies" white paper provides hints and tips on running mobile advertising campaigns and analyzes the approach and results of three real campaigns.The white paper is available as a free download at www.bango.com/whitepaper and is written by mobile guru Peggy Anne Salz who is chief analyst and publisher of MSearchGroove.com.To give marketers the inside track on how an actual campaign works, Bango created a small-scale mobile site called Mobislim (mobislim.wap.com) which is a light-hearted look at slimming diets. Marketers can also visit the accompanying Mobislim blog (mobislim.wordpress.com) to see the three campaigns cited in the white paper. As the white paper is just the beginning of an ongoing investigation into mobile advertising, details of further ad campaigns will be detai

Hot on the heels of the recently launched MySpace MyAds platform, which lets users easily create their own display ads to run across the social network, Google has decided to go down a similar path with its largely popular AdWords service.read more

I ran into Joe the Plumber this morning. He said he and Joe Six Pack plan to celebrate their newfound fame tonight by gettin’ lit and layin’ pipe. Those guys! Another Joe the Plumber, this one in Amarillo, Texas, is about to score big time with his joetheplumber.com domain. read more

Great Britain is not, according to most accounts, the gambling capital of the world. Nonetheless, the area has received a special nod of sorts as Google is preparing to end a ban on gambling ads.read more

Differences in internet behavior are emerging among men and women, specifically the impact of their online community memberships, frequency of Web surfing, and their diverging reading habits, according to researchers at the USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future.An analysis revealed that one in seven Internet users who visit online communities, such as Facebook, said their online activities are reducing their involvement with offline counterparts "at least somewhat," a response reported by three times as many males (21.5% compared to 7.3% of females).read more

The term "kill switch" isn't too friendly-sounding, and the idea behind it - that some entity can step in and shut things down whenever it pleases - doesn't do much for most people, either. But following the discovery of an Android kill switch, it looks like everything's going okay for Google.read more

Google is making a bigger push with its Google TV Ads and announced on Thursday that it has struck partnership deals with the Harris Corporation, makers of communications equipment and CoreMedia Systems, a direct response advertising company.The Harris Corporation will integrate Google TV Ads into the products it sells to media and communications companies. Harris says the partnership with Google will create a new sales channel for broadcasters, cable networks and cable system operators.read more

Google really has the ball rolling on the controversial Google Book Search project. Reuters is reporting that 20,000 publishers have signed on over the last year, doubling the number of partners that Google has. The company has also added two new library partners over the last year bringing that number up to 29. read more

by Stoney deGeyter This is part 6 of a 12 part series on keyword research. This series will guide you through four distinct phase of the keyword research process, providing you step by step guidelines to help you gather, sort and organize your keywords into an effective marketing campaign. Phase II: Discovering Search Phrases What is a search phrase? Before we go any further, let's discuss the difference between a core term and a search phrase. For the purpose of this document a core term and search phrase are similar in that both will be searched and both can provide potential traffic to your site. Core terms, represent a broader topic while the search phrases are simply core terms with added qualifiers, therefore representing a narrower focus. Both core terms and search phrases will be optimized into your website to drive traffic and hopefully, be instrumental in generating strong conversion rates. In the research process each core term will be used to uncover dozens, if no

Jupitermedia has great assets, a long history and is still run by the founder, Alan Meckler, who built the company from the ground up. As of this writing JUPM is at 45 cents a share, which values the company at only $16.25 million. It appears that there is no rational reason to explain this low valuation except that there are apparently very few investors interested in the stock.read more