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Past and present Google Adwords customers - check your email! You should be receiving an email notice regarding settlement of the Adwords class action lawsuit for $20 Million. If you were an Adwords customer between January 1, 2002 to February 28, 2009 and your account was charged more than your daily budget you may be eligible for piece of class action.

If you are not a Reseller, you are a member of the Class if: you reside in the United States, have paid Google for advertising pursuant to Google’s AdWords program and either (a) became an AdWords advertiser between June 1, 2005 and February 28, 2009, inclusive, and were charged more than your per day Daily Budget on any day during that time period; or (b) paused your AdWords advertising campaign on any day during the period from January 1, 2002 to February 28, 2009, inclusive, and during the same billing period when your AdWords advertising campaign was paused, were charged more than the product of your per day Daily Budget times the number of days that your AdWords advertising campaign was not paused during that billing period.

The settlement was for $20 million to be distributed between class members who meet the criteria for disbursement.

Pursuant to the settlement described herein, $20,000,000, in a combination of cash and AdWords Credits, have been created for the benefit of the Class. These funds have been placed in an interest-bearing escrow account. A Class member’s distribution from the net Settlement Fund will be determined by a Plan of Allocation to be approved by the Court. An explanation of how each Class member’s distribution will be calculated for purposes of the settlement is set forth in the proposed Plan of Allocation which is summarized in Part VI of this Notice below.

Google has denied any wrongdoing in the case.

Google, while continuing to deny all allegations of wrongdoing or liability, desired to settle and terminate all existing or potential claims against it without in any way acknowledging fault or liability.

The lion’s share is going to the lawyers but there will probably be a lot of other people who get a piece…

Representative Plaintiffs’ Counsel for the Class intend to apply for: attorneys’ fees of not more than $5,000,000, plus a proportionate share of the interest earned on the Settlement Proceeds, for reimbursement of expenses incurred in connection with the prosecution and settlement of this litigation, not to exceed $250,000; and for an incentive compensation award to the two Representative Plaintiffs, not to exceed $20,000 each.

You can get more information about this class action lawsuit at :
http://www.adwordscustomersettlement.com/

So what do you think? Are any of you reading this going to get a big windfall from this class action? Affiliate marketers are bread and butter for Adwords so there would have to be quite a few affiliate marketers in line for their settlement.

         

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In the past I’ve blogged about Using Chitika Premium and Adsense to Create Multiple Revenue Streams and how effective it is to use Google Adsense as the alternate to Chitika Premium. For anyone else who has been exercising this strategy, there’s still no issues with combining the two on a page, it’s just once again - Google in all their inimitable wisdom - has decided to make changes to the way Adsense units are served, once again causing webmasters unnecessary work. Here’s the update from Chitika in case you haven’t seen it…

We are sending you this email because it looks like you are using AdSense as an alternate ad in at least one of your Chitika ads. Because of a change that Google made to how AdSense is served, you will need to make a quick change to your alternate ad setup to ensure that it will display correctly. HERE IS WHAT YOU NEED TO DO TO MAKE SURE YOUR ADSENSE ALTERNATE AD SERVES CORRECTLY: 1. Open the .HTML file that contains your AdSense code with Notepad or any other text editor. 2. Place <html><head></head><body> before your AdSense code and </body></html> after the code - for example: <html><head></head><body> <!–ADSENSE CODE GOES HERE –> </body></html> This will ensure that your AdSense alternate URL will display properly. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us directly, leave a comment on our blog post about this, or post in our forums. Best Regards, The Chitika Team

If you’re still holding out on mixing Adsense with Chitika and you’re watching your Adsense eCPM go down faster than the Titanic, click the Chitika banner below and read the article I linked to at the beginning of this post and try a benchmark test for yourself.

         

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It’s been a while since I was last inked but last week I was hanging out with my friend “Machine Gun” Kelly in Daytona Beach doing some video of him tattooing some other friends and the tattoo bug bit me. I was looking through the mountains of flash art he has and I was going to get a pair or cards, some dice and a lucky shamrock on my shoulder but we found this tiny frog flash art that Kel enlarged and modified to come up with the calf piece seen below…

When it’s complete it will be all the way down to my ankle with some koi fish swimming under the lillypad in Kanagawa style oriental water with ornamental bamboo in the background.

If anybody reading this is in the Central Florida area and you’re looking for a phenomenal tattoo that is a world class piece of artwork, use the contact form on this blog to contact me and I’ll see what I can setup.

If you’re an affiliate who reads this blog and you have a tattoo you’d like to show off, you should check out my fledgling tattoo forum and build a few backlinks while talking about getting inked.

         

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Shoemoney posted this garbage on his *cough* blog today with some cheesy video that I couldn’t be bothered to watch.

Rumors are true. My family and I will be moving to Portland at the beginning of May. My parent company, ShoeMoney Capital, INC. has been aquired by the Hanso Foundation. I feel I express myself better in video then in writing so I made a quick video about what all is going on:

Maybe there’s something in the video I missed but watching a Shoemoney video is less compelling than watching my dog take a crap. It’s no surprise that over 10 “sheeple” have already commented on the post asking Shoemoney how much he sold his company for, congratulating him, etc. Not a one of them bothered to check for this…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanso_Foundation

The Hanso Foundation is a fictional foundation in the Lost television series. It was formed by arms purveyor Alvar Hanso, who turned his attention from “keeping the world safe through the development of sophisticated weapons systems” to focus instead on the development of new technologies to “create a brighter future for all humanity.” Nearly all information about the Foundation is drawn from its Web site, thehansofoundation.org, with further background revealed as part of the alternate reality game, the Lost Experience.

Are the people commenting on Shoemoney’s blog really so stupid that they take everything that Shoemoney says as gospel? Honestly some of the comments I’ve seen there make DigitalPoint look like a Mensa international gathering. It’s almost scary how the people reading his blog react immediately to anything he spews out regardless whether of it’s true or not.

Not to mention Shoemoney can’t even spell “acquired” correctly.

Please note: This article is a part of a new series on this blog called “Trash Talk Tuesday” where every Tuesday, this blog will trash some stupid a$$ crap, expose hipocrisy, confront liars and b!tch-slap spammers and other vile people who make the internet a nasty place.

         

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