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Facebook Value Makes No Sense

other written by Doug Scott

Facebook ad sales worldwide  grew 104% in 2011 but are expected to climb just 52% to $5.8 billion this year and only 21% to $7 billion next year, according to eMarket.

Current profits less than $1 billion

Current Revenues $3.7 billion – $500 million directly from Zynga who runs some games that can be ported to any other platform ( estimates are that the numbers are more due to ads round the games)

Current Valuation $100 billion

Google Plus now a strategic product for Google and growing massively

So a business that is slowing it’s growth and now has a big competitor is valued on a 100/1 ratio

Looks like herd mentallity for investing will be back

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Another bloody post…Panda and Google

Discount Codes, Interesting stuff, SEO written by Doug Scott

Looks like the boys and girls at Searchmetrics have messed up:

This post that has gone everywhere on the web

http://blog.searchmetrics.com/us/2011/04/12/googles-panda-update-rolls-out-to-uk/

States that www.discountvouchers.co.uk has been wiped out by google, well its just not true and here is an image of our organic traffic from Google Analytics to show otherwise:

Seems like Searchmetrics, in a rush to get link love have made a PR disaster…..great links guys, but was it worth it? Makes me wonder what value there is in this data when it has so little effect on a sites traffic.

Anyway here are some independent ranking reports for the voucher sector:

And also the hitwise report

Seems like the guys ate TechWatch are a bit miffed too

http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2011/04/15/searchmetrics-com-are-they-just-making-it-up/comment-page-1/

Doug

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mobilephones.co.uk sells for £91,500

Stupid Domain Things written by Doug Scott

Sold tonight for £91,500 at sedo

sold details

Doug not buying

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Digital Window buys Buy.at

Affiliate Money Grabbers written by Doug Scott

http://blog.affiliatewindow.com/?p=1054

Wow

Wow

Doug

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Affiliate buys Uswitch

Affiliate Money Grabbers written by Doug Scott

Serious shit boys and girls

Neil Hutchinson amemeber of A4U has purchased Uswitch

Well done Neil and all the best

Neil Hutchinson on A4U

Forward

Uswitch Press Release

Is this you Neil????

I know the gossip prices but alas not my place to say, doubt it as the£220 million that it sold in 2006 for, but it was more than a Big Mac

Doug

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Google launches its product comparator for Adwords

Affiliate Money Grabbers, Google written by Doug Scott

Not really looked at it properly yet, but interesting

Adwords Comparison

Doug

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Curious????

Affiliate Money Grabbers, Paid search written by Doug Scott

This is an odd thought going through my head………why don’t people do this??

1. Signup as an affiliate of lastminute.com
2. Resign as an affiliate of all the other travel sites
3. Bid on the brand names of all other travel sites and direct it to Lastminute
4. Some will convert??

Doug being curious?

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Jason and Doug Got to Leicester – Phew

Affiliate Money Grabbers, Fun written by Doug Scott

All day yesterday Jason Baker had to cycle slowly behind Doug, so that I did not stop and so he could admire the view.  We eventually got to Leicester after 40 miles of cycling through some lovely English countryside and some nice back lanes ….as I did not let Jason decide what the route would be.

The cjblog should have some more phots probably with me with less clothes on if their corporate people let it show…if not I will show it….alas I did not get any nudes on Jason. Maybe we should be catwalk models…ha ha ha

Cheers Jason for a great day of fun….can we do it again?…..We need to persuade Carl White that well known Birmingham City fan who is the CEO of Valueclick that he needs to allow his staff to have more paid fun……and not the stuff you used to get upto in amsterdam Carl:):)

Think we need to leap into some hot tubs or something nice Jas:)

Doug with a sore arse.

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Jason Baker of CJ is stupid

Affiliate Money Grabbers, Fun, people you should know, Sport written by Doug Scott

:):)

In collaboration with CJ , Jason Baker is cycling from Liverpool on the west coast to Lowestoft on the east coast of England, 350 miles in total, and having meetings with publishers & agencies along the way. He is doing this next week and you can read about it on the CJ blog http://www.cjblog.co.uk/

He is doing this in aide of the charity Valueclick supports, Kids Company http://www.kidsco.org.uk/about-us

You can sponsor him here

Me being a stupid idiot have agreed to try and cycle with him from Lichfield to Liecester.

MORE HERE

Doug is stupid

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Seeing into Google update future

Google, SEO written by Doug Scott

http://www2.sandbox.google.com

Mr Cutts tells us this is where Google will be showing the new updates as they happen. No big change I can see yet. It’s called Caffeine

Doug

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