EGOL recently made a post on the SEOmoz blog about one of the major shortcomings of Adsense: the lack of a feature to set negative keywords for the contextual ad matching.

Here’s a tip for all the bloggers out there trying to monetize their blogs with Adsense:

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Selecting the right keywords can help give a website a huge boost in visitor traffic. Webmasters who choose the wrong keywords to target often end up with less than desired numbers of visitors.

This screen shot is from a test campaign I ran this week (to see full size versions of screen shots here, click on them). The drilldown on any ad group’s bid or individual keyword bid allows you to project how bids will translate into ad positions and their expected click volumes in the upcoming month. This is just for a single keyword, “interior decorating.”

Yahoo Store aficionado Rob Snell, who speaks and has written about Yahoo’s online marketplace, wants to make sure everyone has converting keywords so they can make lots of cash.

Think of the right keywords as the Open Sesame! of the Internet. Find the exactly right words or phrases, and presto! hoards of traffic will be pulling up to your front door.

The giant Microsoft Corporation has made some inroads the search engine fray since the launch of its new MSN search engine.

The words people type into a search box are not always the words they like to read when they click on the search result. Here’s why.

The fabled tales of successfully tricking search engines into high rankings have given way to a new truth, to achieve decent consistent ranking you cannot engage in tricks but on focused optimization done in a professional ethical manner.

A phrase like “latent semantic indexing” may not ring a bell. Sounds like geek talk. And it is really, it should be “a bunch of keywords you hadn’t thought to optimize” to the lay person.

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By following these steps you will see that most closely guarded secret– the search algorithm. Remember the movie “The Matrix?” The Matrix is there, you just can’t see it. So is the search algorithm.

Advertisers with contextual ads appearing on CNN.com just received a lesson in Negative Keywords 101, courtesy of Hurricane Katrina.

Web site owners need to have realistic expectations when it comes to the world of keyword selection.

In my previous article, I raised the issue that proper keyword research must take into account countries. The reason for that was that the demand for keywords can vary between countries. I gave examples of that fact using the Overture keyword tool.

Ads delivered as part of MSN’s new contextual advertising offering should start hitting MSN search engine result pages in October.

According to inside sources, Microsoft will announce that its new MSN Keywords program will begin beta invitation-only testing in October with 500 advertisers and search engine marketers. Similar to Google’s AdWords program, MSN Keywords will be based on a bidding system.

Microsoft will reportedly begin a test of its ad placement service in the US at MSN Search.

Finding the successful keywords is crucial in order to get not only a lot but the right quality of traffic to the website.

It doesn’t matter what kind of marketing you are involved in.