blogherald.com reports that Spam blog creators panicking over spam blog crackdown! Is this the end of spam blogs? well what do you know…

Googles own adsense blog must fall into that google serps and they have over 5000 ibl’s

DaveN

also i notice jensense has a link on there way to go Jen

I called Jason a Tosser last week and said he was breaking Google Adsense TOS..

Well maybe he is maybe he isn’t, So I went on a little undercover exercise, first off I pulled one of his sites apart www.hackaday.com, and these are the results.

Hackday runs 3 ad units and 1 ad link unit completely in the line with Google Adsense TOS. But I still see 6 units sometimes, After 12.3 seconds of investigation I found that what he was doing was using Tribal Fusion to supply ad stock as well, but just like the Google Adsense program you can set up a third party Ad if they don’t have enough stock.

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Ok we did a quick test in the office :

Installed quickly and easily on the linux desktops we use inhouse, but you don’t get the Voip bits . But no Biggie, will play a bit more and see what we can find

DaveN

Google NO… what have you done…

Screen Shot :

So I go to invite a friend and they get :

David Naylor has invited you to sign up for Google Talk so you can talk to each other for free over your computers. Signing up also gives you Gmail, a free Google email account with over 2,000 megabytes of storage.

To accept this invitation and get Google Talk and Gmail, visit:
http://mail.google.com/mail/(secret code bit)

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when checking for click fraud, we run a Click versus SERP script, and found that we were getting clicks from a serp that didn’t contain our URL? This usually is one of our indicators that we had a bot running through our site..

But this time it’s was a totally different problem, at first I thought it was the good old 302 or metarefresh=0 … but No, Ok maybe someone caught onto the 307 … NO..

So a major SE has indexed my site under someone elses url..

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Ok i told you what firefox plugins I used ages ago, one that I left off was
greasemonkey.

The main reason was this is so powerful, it scares me sometimes lol… example when I browse the Search Engines I see This :

Notice this bit :

Come to seoroadshow and I will tell you what they do

Mike Grehan reminded me today about this.
While I was in San Jose one of the guys in the office sent me this :

today after flushing my cookies I get this :

ok two things .. look at the Adwords on the first image ..( better images on my flickr account) they are really off target?? aren’t they

ok so google are testing a “did you mean:” this search but putting them in the middle of the serps, the “Dissatisfied? See results for:” are acutally pulling the top 3 or 4 from that keyword serp.. good or bad ?

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Yer, it has a Nice guest room with it’s own en suite shower room.. so I will be taking booking in a few weeks, once i get the wifi sorted etc .. I think ChrisR has it for the first Month

So if any one wants to buy a House near me .. I have one to sell now , and I could include the 42″ sony plasma and sound system in the master bedroom, cause it will be a right sod to get off the wall .. lol

DaveN