While revamping a PPC advertising account last week, I discovered the lack of a convenient keyword multiplier. I am sure there is some fancy pants way of combining keyword lists in a spreadsheet application, but I find no fun in writing macros for some piece of software.

I installed the Google Adwords desktop editor because it has a built-in keyword multiplier. It sucks. The Goo’s multiplier only combines three lists at a time, and I wanted four. It also automatically removes keywords that have low Google search volume, so if you are using their tool for any other purpose it is rather useless.

I made my own keyword multiplier, and you can use it, too. Please try it out, and let me know if you find it to be a useful keyword tool.

Keyword Multiplier Features

• Fast, easy and web-based
• Apply PPC match types to result lists
• No uploading your keywords to a third party

Try it yourself!

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I have not written any new posts here in quite some time, but I have not been sitting idle.

More than a year ago, I wrote about some ebay scams that were appearing on craigslist and autotrader. Since then, a few posts on this website have been receiving one to three comments a day. The work moderating these comments grew to be such a burden, that I created a whole scam tracking website to try and handle the traffic. I am still trying to work out the details. The effort I put towards these incoming stories and comments satisfies my desire to contribute to this website, so the result seems to be less new posts.

I am committed to many other old posts, here. I recently updated my hide email code post. This source code helps you publish emails on web pages while shielding the address from most email harvesting robots. The goal is to reduce spam.

Another way to reduce spam that occurs as a result of running websites is blocking the bad robots altogether. I have written a few popular posts on that subject that have inspired some great conversation, and I respond to incoming comments on those posts regularly.

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The world’s largest free email provider is simply unreliable. Sure, most of the user experience is pleasant, but Yahoo bans entire network blocks when it finds a few instances of abuse. Senders receive error messages like this:

421 Message temporarily deferred

Temporary error from SMTP partner: smtp;421 Message temporarily deferred – 4.16.51. Please refer to http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/defer/defer-06.html.

1. the message you attempted to send exhibited characteristics indicative of spam,and/or
2. emails from your network have been generating complaints from Yahoo! Mail users.

The problem with blocking a whole network is clear–blanket banishment harms innocent users. Do not use Yahoo mail for important messages because innocent people out there are being blocked by Yahoo. A few vandals can cause Yahoo to temporarily ban an entire ISP user base.

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