I just got this emailed to me and shot over to yahoo answers, not sure if the orginal screen is a fake or not as I can’t reproduce it … but the guy say’s it true..

when I went and did the same search i got the Normal Yahoo ads, I did notice thou when I kept refreshing the 1 - 10 of 159,170 kept jumping around … odd

DaveN

Well a Adsense block I hadn’t seen before with 2 up / down selectors

flash here

Wordpress playing up at the moment :)

DaveN

Let’s face it Google advertising for businesses on the whole has been a huge success, their dominance in the market place can hardly be ignored and as a company their aquisitions get greater each week.

Personally, I feel that contextual advertising is the direction search is taking.  I’m not just talking adsense here, I am talking major advances in technology that feeds the user direct content which companies will pay to Google to distribute. Beyond pop-ups and keyword focus dynamically appearing content will rule the day.

Google News will surely have to play its part in the process too. No longer will it just be a  PR mechanism, the possibilities of monetizing this portal are endless…

So I was reading on seoroundtable that Gmail was hacked, and I laughed until I thought about my Gmail account and how Google made me merge my Adsense and Adwords accounts into that login,

so I though quick check log into Gmail and Check, and I saw this :

Google AdSense: Payment Details Updated !!! What the Fuck !

We are sending this email to let you know that on 01 August 2007,
NOTMYGMAIL@gmail.com changed the form of payment associated with your
AdSense account. If you have any questions about this change, please
contact NOTMYGMAIL@gmail.com directly.

Then I clicked on the more info and the BCC ( btw google thats Blind Carbon Copy) there are 4 more email addresses all linked to My ADWORDS ACCOUNT, So what the fuck is going on.

1) I get an email saying that Google AdSense: Payment Details Updated : which I didn’t do !
2) Gmail BCC actually showed me that my Adsense account details where sent to all the people in my, My Client Centre in adwords, thats not fucking cool, because now my clients no what other clients I’m doing PPC for
3) It wasn’t My Adsense account… Hooray, but why is google sending me the data !!

So is there anyway I can stop this from happening !!

DaveN

Tonight I was testing Mahalo to see how up to date it was with Uk politics, eg ex prime minister Tony Blair, new prime minister Gordon Brown.

First thing I noticed was that Gordon Brown and Gordon Brow returned the same fricking page,
Gordon Brow
Gordon Brown

You really want to sort out your dupe content as those 2 pages alone will cause you issues, god knows how many more there will be for misspellings - I certainly found a few.

But then I noticed the Ads by Google. On the Gordon Brown page I got Gordon Brown style Adsense, but on the Gordon Brow page I got a Prime Minister Brown advert which I thought was pretty amazing that the misspelling was actually pulling Prime Minister Brown ads, until I clicked on the Ads by Google link and I got Adsense for Search, TOS below from the page…

Program policies

The Google AdSense terms and conditions state that search queries must originate from individual human end users inputting data directly into a WebSearch box, and that search results should not be activated from a software application (including toolbars). If you feel that the search results page you landed on was arrived at in violation of these policies, or if you got to this page after doing a search on Google’s own site (www.google.com), please let us know. In addition, if you feel that the search results page you landed on was generated from a website associated with undesirable software (as described in our Software Principles), please let us know.

but even if I clicked a link from the Home Page on Mahalo to the Politics page, which in turn lead me to the Gordon Brown page, and never once did I put into the web search box Gordon Brown or any other search term to trigger Adsense for Search, I still get them. So I ask how come??

Why doesn’t the Adsense section targeting work for me … any why does the Keyword in URL play such a big part !!

Has you may have seen I Have been playing with Adsense on David Naylor, so I have tested the adsense section targeting on the Xbox 360 post below.

The HTML tags to emphasize a page section take the following format:


But look at the results..

Home Page with section targeting around the contents of the Xbox post

when I go the the actual post I get :

so section targeting either doesn’t work, or is stuck a small factor it makes little or no difference at all.

DaveN