Archive for October, 2009

A Week of Adwords Testing – Recap

Friday, October 16th, 2009

Last week I started testing some new concepts on Adwords. A week has passed and I wanted to recap what has happened and some things that I have noticed and learned so far. First off, the strategy that I’m testing is to use the content network exclusively. As a result some of the standard SEM [...]

Google Adwords – Another Try

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

Last night I had one of those sleepless nights. I’m sure you have had one of these before – After hearing a great idea your mind starts spinning with the possibilities and there’s no way you’ll be able to sleep. I got excited last night about a new approach to Google Adwords that has just [...]

Random User Agent String Python Script

Monday, October 5th, 2009

This is more of a helpful snippit than a useful program but it can sometimes be useful to have some user agent strings handy for web scraping. Some websites check the user agent string and will filter the results of a request. It’s a very simple way to prevent automated scraping. But it is very [...]